Twain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TWAGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: April Asbury, a lovely young nurse, has just arrived in town when her car breaks down and she meets Joe Jones, a "natural-born flirt" who offers to help her. April is plucky, pretty and smart, and Joe soon finds himself falling for her, though he struggles to shed his playboy image. Meanwhile, the town doctor, Todd Forbes, wades into troublesome romantic territory when he falls for a woman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARVaughan, Robert
Summary: "Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VAUWhitaker, Chris
Summary: "1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys father, a veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERGarlock, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: Sunset, Missouri, 1954. In postwar America, young widow Clara Sinclair finds her life changed by daring stranger Drake McCoy's unexpected kindness. Can their love survive the vicious, unseen enemy that is closing in fast?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: "There is nothing better than Dorothy Garlock at her best". -Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author A brand new novel from New York Times bestselling author Dorothy Garlock, the Voice of America's Heartland"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GARSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Seventeen years after being separated from her brother and sister when they were adopted by different families in Missouri, Maelle, the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants, continues to search for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAWCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COMAlexander, Hannah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALEGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: Julir Joners knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A reponsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARAgee, Jonis.
Summary: After arriving at the family estate of her husband Clement Ducharme, pregnant bride seventeen-year-old Hedie Rails learns through old diaries of the dark side of the Ducharme legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGEJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHWheeler, Richard S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEWheeler, Richard S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W WHEChamplin, Tim
Summary: A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain’s novels, while they finally conclude he’s a traveler from a future time. He agrees to accompany them as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Champlin 2017Lynch, Sean
Summary: "DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Lynch 2022Woolard, Jim R.
Summary: "Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021