Adult Books

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Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer.
Anchor / Random House. $7.99 Paperback. ISBN-13:  978-0-307-38851-3
Award-winning mystery/suspense fiction set in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

 

A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan.
Picador USA / Macmillan .$14.00 Trade Paperback.ISBN 13: 978-0-312-42891-4
Historical fiction set in a small town in Wisconsin, mid-1800s. 10th Anniversary Edition

Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton.
HarperCollins Publishers. $14.99 Trade Paperback. ISBN  978-0-06-167323-8.
A rediscovered classic and timeless bestselling novel of family relationships, originally published in 1963. Set on a farm in western Missouri.

Driftless by David Rhodes.
Milkweed Editions / PGW. $16.00 Paperback. ISBN-13:  978-1-57131068-2.
A major American writer has returned after a 30 year silence. Fiction set in rural Wisconsin.


So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz.
Random House. $15.00 Paperback.  ISBN-13: 9780307275493.
Contemporary fiction set in and near Madison, Wisconsin.


River of Heaven by Lee Martin.
Random House. $14.00 Trade Paperback. ISBN-13:  978-0-307-38125-5.
Contemporary fiction set in a small town in the Midwest.

Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
Ecco. 9780061374227. $25.95
This riveting saga of an American family captures the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boy's epic journey into the wild.

Red Knife by William Kent Krueger.
Simon & Schuster. $15.00 paperback. 9781416556756.
A rediscovered classic and timeless bestselling novel of family relationships, originally published in 1963. Set on a farm in western Missouri.

 

So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger.
Grove Press / Grove/Atlantic. $14.00 Trade Paperback. 978-0802144171
A western from the author of Peace Like a River. Told in the easy storytelling style of a folk ballad, outlaw Glendon Hale is on a quest to right his past.

Sun Going Down by Jack Todd.
Simon & Schuster. $1 6.00 Trade Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5049-5
Three generations of the Paint family struggle through 70 years of hardship and heartache on the Western plains.

 


Abbeville by Jack Fuller.
Unbridled Books. $14.95 Trade Paperback. 978-1-932961-90-4.
An intricate saga of the multigenereational Bailey/Schumpeter family of Abbeville, a farming community in central Illinois.