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301) The settlers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to posper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strenth from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors.
303) May Day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2018
Language
English
Description
The not-so-proud owner of a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, Minneapolitan Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake. She almost immediately lands two part-time jobs in her new town, one at the library and another at the local newspaper. When her jobs bring her in contact with Jeff, the ultimate sexy nerd, she starts to wonder if she's finally made a good decision.
And then Jeff turns up dead between the library's...
304) Shadow girl
Author
Series
An Afton Tangler thriller volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that's just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can't save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler,...
305) Rough country: (CD)
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the third installment of John Sandford's Virgil Flowers series, a long-needed fishing trip gets interrupted when Flowers receives a call to investigate a murder at a nearby women-only resort in northern Minnesota. As he inquires about the woman's death, Flowers uncovers a shocking web of jealousy and deceit.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. He's wrong. It's a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if your're keeping count) when the phone rings. It's Lucas Davenport. There's a body in Stillwater, two shots to the head, found near a veterans' memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth....
307) The last letter home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
311) Dead to you
Author
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In southern Minnesota, a young man murders a local farmer, drops the body into a grain bin, and then calls the sheriff to report the 'accident.' Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down. The next day the boy is found hanging in his cell. Virgil suspects foul play, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy - a series of crimes of such monstrosity that even he has difficulty...
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