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Riley Fisher volume 1
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North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Young, E.
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Young, E.
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"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Palmer, A.
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Palmer, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Palmer, A.
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Palmer, A.
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Palmer, A.
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Palmer, A.
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"Reeling from a breakup with his almost-fiancée, the narrator of Andrew Palmer's first novel returns to his hometown in Iowa to house-sit for a family friend. There, a chance flick of the TV remote and a correspondence with an old grad school classmate plunge him into unlikely twin obsessions: the reality TV show The Bachelor and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman. As his heart begins to mend, his fixation with each deepens and calcifies,...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Bahr, D.
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Bahr, D.
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"Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen mannequins and the river to keep him company, Rigby begins to spiral from the bizarre to the threatening. As a year of drought gives way to a season of squalls, a girl is found trembling on the side of the road, claiming her boyfriend was murdered. The nearby town of Oscar turns their suspicions toward Sellers. Local Sheriff Amos...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Nissen, T.
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Nissen, T.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Nissen, T.
1 available
Nissen, T.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Nissen, T.
1 available
Nissen, T.
1 available
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After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Kalish, M.
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B Kalish, M.
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South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Kalish, M.
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B Kalish, M.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
B Kalish, M.
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B Kalish, M.
1 available
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North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
B Kalish, M.
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B Kalish, M.
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
647.95 M443
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647.95 M443
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
647.95 M443
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647.95 M443
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Forest Ave. Library - Cooking - Adult
647.95 M443
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647.95 M443
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"Iowa History one plate at a time... With Italian steakhouses, the Younkers Tea Room and Stella's Blue Sky Diner, Des Moines's culinary history is tantalizingly diverse. It's filled with colorful characters like bootlegger/'millionaire bus boy' Babe Bisignano, a buxom bar owner named Ruthie and future president of the United States Ronald Reagan. The savory details reveal deeper stories of race relations, women's rights, Iowa Caucus politics, the...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
305.23 B
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305.23 B
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
920 W361
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920 W361
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
920 W361
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920 W361
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
920 W361
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920 W361
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We the interwoven brings us the stories of three Americans -- three Iowans -- whose families have found home in the heartland over the past two generations. This collection brings together a variety of genres, including nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, to represent their unique experiences and amalgamation of influences , from the coast of Azerbaijan to the border towns of Mexico to the archipelago of the Philippines. These stories reflect who they...
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Central Library - Iowa Browsing Collection - 2nd Floor
917.77 B
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917.77 B
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Iowa is home to rolling hills, beautiful state parks, lush cornfields, and architecture that is unique to the state. With more than a dozen scenic highways & byways, and with 100 Things to Do in Iowa Before You Die as your guide, your next road trip will be an epic one for the record books. Did you know that you can stay in the last known hotel in the world designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Mason City? Hop on the Historic Hills Scenic Byway in southeast...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Howard, B.
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B Howard, B.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Howard, B.
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B Howard, B.
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Beth Howard always dreamed of circumnavigating the planet; not to tick off a list of tourist sites, but to immerse herself in the culture of each country by making pie with local residents. Pie had healed her grief after her husband's death, so why not use it to heal the world and promote peace? Hauling her rolling pin from New Zealand to Australia, Thailand to India, Lebanon to Greece, Switzerland to Germany and Hungary, Howard uses America's iconic...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Staniforth, N.
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B Staniforth, N.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Staniforth, N.
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B Staniforth, N.
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"An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life. Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't have to be about sequins and smoke machines--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astonishment. But...
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
647.95 B227
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647.95 B227
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"From relish trays and Old Fashioned cocktails to prime rib and fried fish, supper clubs are a quintessential part of midwestern dining culture. In Iowa, hundreds of supper clubs once dotted the state's rural highways and biways, serving as havens for hungry travelers and community gathering places for small towns. Opened in 1912, the lighthouse Inn Supper Club in Cedar Rapids is one of Iowa's oldest supper clubs. In their heyday, Iowa Supper Clubs...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Smiley, J.
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Smiley, J.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Smiley, J.
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Smiley, J.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Smiley, J.
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Smiley, J.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Smiley, J.
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Smiley, J.
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Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a triangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm.
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Central Library - Travel
917.7 C
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917.7 C
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
917.7 C
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917.7 C
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"The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to the Chinese American Museum, Clampitt...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
920 W361w
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920 W361w
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
920 W361w
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920 W361w
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
920 W361w
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920 W361w
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"At six years old, Antonia Rivera crossed the border from Mexico with nothing but the doll in her hands. Ajla Dizdarević's family brought traditions across the ocean after leaving a home torn apart by the Bosnian War. Sarah Elgatian's grandmother played cards and spoke of a country her Armenian-American grandchild had never known. Hieu Pham couldn't relate to all of her mother's Vietnamese traditions, but when she became a mother herself, everything...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Taylor, B.
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Taylor, B.
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Taylor, B.
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Taylor, B.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Taylor, B.
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Taylor, B.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Taylor, B.
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Taylor, B.
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During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends preparing for an uncertain future head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives--a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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On June 1, 2017, six people were killed at a Burger City franchise off I-80 near Jonny, Iowa. It was the bizarre and gruesome conclusion to nine months of alleged paranormal activity at the fast-food joint-events popularly known as "the Burger City Poltergeist."