Cultural Region/Heartland
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By: Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The most famous true crime novel of all time “chills the blood and exercises the intelligence” (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745580
- Language: English
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By: Douglas Preston
Still Life with Crows
$10.99Mass Market PaperboundAdd to cartWhen a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse — either way, no one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground… [more below]- Series: Agent Pendergast #4
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1455582905
- Language: English
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By: Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “powerful and poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 1400033837
- Language: English
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By: Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
$25.99HardcoverRead moreRay Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal wor
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0380977265
- Language: English
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The Weight of Silence
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartMasterfully written and beautifully told, Heather Gudenkauf’s debut is a stunning novel of family devotion, honesty and regret that will linger long after the last page is turned.
It happens quietly o… [more below]
- Author: Gudenkauf, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 077832740X
- Language: English
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct t… [more below]
- Author: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0553384244
- Language: English
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By: Dallas, Sandra
Someplace to Call Home
$15.95HardcoverRead more2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List. 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award (tied for 1st place). In 1933, what’s left of the Turner family–twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers–finds itse… [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1585364142
- Language: English
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By: Kraus, Daniel
Rotters
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters.
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It’s tr… [more below]- Author: Kraus, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0385738587
- Language: English
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By: Pohlen, Jerome
Oddball Iowa: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
$16.99PaperbackRead moreThis zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and th… [more below]
- Series: Oddball
- Author: Pohlen, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556525648
- Language: English
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The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective on Our Past and Future
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Hamilton, Neil D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1948509334
- Language: English
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By: Brenner, Barbara
Wagon Wheels
$5.99PaperbackRead moreBased on a true story, Wagon Wheels tells a powerful and overlooked story of the country’s post-Civil War era.
Formerly enslaved Ed Muldie and his family travel to Kansas in 1878 to claim land under th
- Series: I Can Read History Book
- Author: Brenner, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 1984
- ISBN10: 0064440524
- Language: English
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By: Hesse, Karen
Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)
$19.99HardcoverAdd to cartAcclaimed author Karen Hesse’s Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.
“Dust piles up like snow across the prairi… [more below]
- Author: Hesse, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0590360809
- Language: English
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Osage Life and Legends
$12.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe Osage who were the principal native inhabitants of the Ozarks were often described as the most handsome of the Native Amerians, tall, proud and humble.They were once one of the most powerful and w… [more below]
- Author: Liebert, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0879611693
- Language: English
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By: Spiller, Harry
Murder in the Heartland: Book One
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen-Southern Illinois–deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live … [more below]
- Series: Murder in the Heartland #1
- Author: Spiller, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: January 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1596527978
- Language: English
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By: Hall, John G.
Kom League Remembered
$31.99HardcoverAdd to cartThe late 1940s and early 1950s was the Golden Age for minor league baseball. The National Pastime thrived in small town America with hundreds of professional teams in over 50 leagues playing at every … [more below]
- Author: Hall, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1531619010
- Language: English
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By: Cowan, David
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
$23.93PaperbackAdd to cartThe story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account…a tale of terr… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Cowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 156663217X
- Language: English
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By: Frank, Thomas
What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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By: Copeland, Lara
Historic Photos of Kansas City
$42.99HardcoverAdd to cartBy the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Copeland, Lara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1683369181
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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By: Kreidler, Mark
Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartSomewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high scho
- Author: Kreidler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0060823194
- Language: English
















