Cranberry Red: A Novel is the fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series. Portraying the twenty-first century challenges of agriculture, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present. As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost his job as agricultural agent for Ames County and is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne Uni..
Night Sisters, a book by Sarah Rath, is a tale of suspense and romance dealing with spiritualism, mediums, and mysterious happenings. During a visit to a spiritualist camp, the main character, Nell Grendon, learns about spirit meduimship. Her intuitive talents lead to her spontaneously channeling an actress from the 1920's, which results in interes..
Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm. Through the story of the Starkweather family’s changing fortunes, and each generation’s very different relationship with the farm and the land, Blue Shadows Farm is in some ways the narrative of all farmers and the increasingly difficult challenge..
The Typewriter Satyr is a book by Dwight Allen. This novel is set in the city of Midvale in the heart of Wisconsin in the early 2000's. The Typewriter Satyr is a story of the everyday life situations of a variety of colorful characters and how they intertwine. One of the main characters, Oliver Poole, has a typewriter repair shop, a dying trade. Ro..
In Love with Jerzy Kosinski, a novel by Agate Nesaule, is a story of courage, persistence, love and forgiveness. Latvian-born Anna Duja, the main character, escapes confinement in a Russian displaced persons camp and comes to America only to find herself eventually in the confining environment of a manipulative husband. Inspired by Polish-Jewish em..
