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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller.
At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart....
At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart....
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.
Author
Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 3
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric, race-to-the-finish mystery"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Language
English
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NPR Best Fiction - 2021
Read Alikes for Fans of Liane Moriarty
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
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Read Alikes for Fans of Liane Moriarty
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
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Description
"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
7) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the...
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Language
English
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Description
"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor...
10) A home for Lydia
Author
Series
Pebble Creek Amish volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aaron Troyer simply wants to farm like his father and grandfather before him. But instead he finds himself overseeing the family's small group of guest cabins nestled along the banks of Pebble Creek. That also means he must work with the cabins' housekeeper, Lydia Fisher. Lydia is the most outspoken Amish woman Aaron has ever met, and she has strong opinions about how the guest cabins are to be run. She also desperately needs this job. Though sparks...
11) Sweet as honey
Author
Series
Honeybee sisters volume 1
Publisher
Zebra
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Though she has blossomed into a beauty, Lily Christner doesn't really believe it. Deep down, she still feels like a lonely, gawky teenager. Maybe that's why she's all but promised herself to Paul Glick, the one boy who never teased her in her awkward girlhood--unlike Dan Kanagy, whose creative name-calling left her in tears many a time. Now he's back in town after two years away--and being surprisingly sweet, suspiciously attentive--and making Lily...
14) Skin River
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape his dark past by working as a tavern keeper in a small Wisconsin town, Buddy Bayes stumbles into a brutal missing-persons case and makes a wrongful conclusion that has disturbing consequences.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Preparing for a dangerous snowstorm in rural Wisconsin, sheriff Paul Summers finds his efforts hampered by the arrival of a mysterious group of criminals, a suspicious disappearance, rumors of cult activity, and the murder of a former lover.
Author
Series
Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill volume 1
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this first book in a series set in Huckleberry Hill, Wisconsin, two octogenarian Amish folks try their hands at matchmaking, pairing the quiet and gentle Moses Zimmerman with the tall and sturdy Lia Shetler.
17) The recipe box
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Grace Holm-D'Angelo is at her wit's end, trying to create a new life from broken pieces. Newly divorced, she is navigating suddenly becoming a single mother to her fourteen-year-old daughter. Emma, resentful about being uprooted from Chicago to LA and still reeling from the divorce, is generally giving her mother a hard time. Then Grace's best friend, Leeza, succumbs to breast cancer after a long battle, and Grace realizes that you don't get a second...
Author
Language
English
Description
"By the award-winning author of Something Wild, a gripping portrait of a tumultuous, consuming relationship between a young woman and a recovering addict When Leah Kempler meets Charlie Nelson in line at the grocery store, their attraction is immediate and intense. Charlie, with his big feelings and grand proclamations of love, captivates her completely. But there are peculiarities of his life—he’s older than her but lives with his parents;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting cryptids-creatures whose existence is rumored but never proven to be real....
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