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Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths.
2) Left behind
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Airline captain Rayford Steele goes in search of his family and answers to how billions of people just disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Anthony family, on the run from their alcoholic husband and father, leaves Minneapolis for the small town of Mills River, Ill. But they've barely begun to acclimate when sassy old lady Tillie Monroe shows up at their doorstep explaining that the house once belonged to her and her late husband.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother and their friends declare war on the elderly men of Green Town, IL, in an effort to stop the clock on top of the courthouse building, believing that in doing so, they could hold onto their youth and the last days of summer. Doug and his friends find themselves equally matched by town elder and school board member, Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain, and his elderly cohorts.
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from...
8) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Series
Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The Yada Yada girls get caught in the lies we all tend to believe about ourselves, God, each other, and life"--Provided by publisher.
12) Oblivion
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
13) Digging up love
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When a dinosaur bone discovery brings together baker Alisha Blake and paleontologist Quentin Harris in her rural Illinois hometown, both Alisha and Quentin must weigh their future plans against their budding relationship."--Provided by publisher.
14) The decision
Author
Series
Prairie State friends volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Moving from Pennsylvania, finding rewarding work, and leaving heartbreak behind is the best decision Jonah ever made. But is he ready to consider love again when he meets Elaine Schrock? Will his scarred heart mend when she chooses family loyalty over love?
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more...
Author
Series
Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the thick of the holiday season, God gives the Yada Yadas an unforgettable celebration."--Page 4 of cover.
17) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.
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