Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation In Gasconade County, Missouri -- once called the meth capital of the world -- Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong, there is a consequence....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Julie Ellis traded her high-stress life as an antiquities bounty hunter in the big city for the slower pace of Missouri wine country, she expected to find peace and tranquility among the beautiful rolling hills-not murder and mayhem. As the new innkeeper of the Quilt Haus Inn, Julie breathes a sigh of relief when preparations for their first quilting murder mystery weekend are finally complete. The props are set, the scripts are ready, and each...
24) Going home
Author
Series
Brides of Webster County volume no. 1
Language
English
Description
Faith Stutzman Andrews left her Missouri Amish community ten years ago to pursue her career as a comedian. Now widowed, Faith shows up on her parents' doorstep with her six-year-old daughter in tow. Will the lure of the English world prove too strong for Faith, or will she discover that home is where her heart is? Confirmed bachelor Noah Hertzler often bakes desserts that he gives to others, attaching verses of Scripture to each culinary delight in...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tucked along the back roads of Missouri is a peaceful Amish community, home to four women who are struggling with their faith. Barbara has been widowed with four children to raise and no one to run the family business. Faith has a career among the world, but wants her daughter to be raised with her Amish family. Melinda wants to be a vet and an Amish, but she can't have both. Allison's upbringing as a tomboy hasn't prepared her to become a proper...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house- holds and their female kin who provided logistical support in many forms. Whether noted fighters like Frank James, William Clarke Quantrill, and "Bloody...
27) One night
Author
Language
English
Description
An explosive rivalry between two deejays puts the careers of comedic Carrie Jamison and conservative Kyle Harris on the line after their manager demands that they make up or get out, and when they begin making amends, an unexpected relationship flourishes.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin® Superromance brings you a collection of four new novels, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes: PLAIN REFUGE by Janice Kay Johnson Rebecca Holt knows she should've gone straight to the police with the evidence she found incriminating her ex in murder, but two attempts on her life send her and her young son deep into...
29) The ascent
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go--and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An account of Springfield, Missouri, population 1,500-and the epic struggle between the Union and Confederacy to control it.
During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughout the early part of the war to occupy its strategic position. The Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek in August of 1861 gave the...
31) Rubout
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author of the Dead-End Job mysteries -- a gritty series featuring a no-nonsense female journalist who follows her stories wherever they may lead ... especially if they lead to big trouble. St. Louis City Gazette columnist Francesca Vierling has scored a ticket to the Leather and Lace Bikers' Society Ball, one of the highlights of the social calendar. The organizers of the ball would prefer the event be considered...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, reignited a long-smoldering movement for justice, with many St. Louis-area clergy stepping up to support the emerging young leaders of today's Civil Rights Movement. Seminary professor Leah Gunning Francis was among the activists, and her interviews with more than two dozen faith leaders and with the new movement's organizers take us behind the scenes of the continuing protests. Ferguson and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Jewish Mexican American author chronicles his family's tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture in this candid, inspiring memoir.
The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos E. Cortés grew up wedged between cultures. He grew up "straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn't quite ready." His request...
Author
Language
English
Description
For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify "the boy in the woods," a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet. Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him, Frank's eight siblings...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author of the Dead-End Job mysteries -- a gritty series featuring a no-nonsense female journalist who follows her stories wherever they may lead ... especially if they lead to big trouble. Francesca Vierling is always on the lookout for new fodder for her human-interest column in the St. Louis City Gazette . So she couldn't be happier when a story unfolds in her own neighborhood. The grand -- if slightly run-down...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A loving mother. A teenage killer. On a crisp December day in 1963, Nancy Zanone left her young son and daughter playing in the backyard while she went inside to check the laundry. She never came back. A troubled teen prowling for unlocked doors along Chippewa in South St. Louis surprised her in the kitchen and stabbed her to death. Despite Joseph Arbeiter's confession and hard evidence, he was freed on a technicality. In response, Zanone's family...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in history tore a path of destruction more than 200 miles long across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The giant tornado demolished several towns and killed hundreds of people. Will you take shelter in your basement or try to outrun the tornado in your new Model T car? Do you stay inside your school or risk running to your church to take shelter there? Will you ignore the storm like your father says or get...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
100 great sports debates for each city - from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fans - the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit in Boston, Chicago and New York. The best debates for rabid fans The Best Sports Arguments gives each city or region all the best arguments of their hometown teams, with expert answers from top sports media figures. In fact, the Best Sports Arguments...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the St. Louis, Missouri, mother who murdered her two sons--and nearly killed her daughter. Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter suffered a near-fatal mishap when a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Darkness descends over St. Louis, a city already rocked by the Great Depression. More and more people are disappearing, and some have turned up dead. A sinister secret society is putting forward their plan known as "The Winnowing," designed to wipe out those they consider "undesirable."After Stanley and Hazel foil the diabolical plans of Charles Chouteau, they become instant celebrities. Hazel is thrust into the role of debutante, and risks loses...
Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Main Library Alliance members might be available in other libraries across New Jersey. You can search JerseyCat and place a request for the item to be sent to your library.
If your library doesn't permit JerseyCat requests or the item can't be found, you can also contact your library for assistance.Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request