Books tagged: midwest fiction

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Lavender    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2620 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 25, 2011. .

A small town in the Midwest is about to be transformed by a strip-mining conglomerate, and a professor at the local high school has called three of his former students to persuade the town to reject the change. When the first two go down in defeat, it's up to a sports writer who left the town years ago and is riddled with doubts. But sometimes the town itself provides inspiration...
Possum Trot    by J. Harley McIlrath
Price: $8.99 USD. 39670 words. Published on May 19, 2011. .

The pieces in this collection form a lament for a way of life mostly gone. “The family farm is dead. Did you know?” says one character within. “E.B. White writes Charlotte’s Web today, it takes place in a hog confinement. Imagine Wilbur living in a concentration camp for pigs.”
Prince Crossing - a Christian novel    by JoHannah Reardon
Price: $4.99 USD. 60470 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .

Vicki, a wealthy city-bred woman, is horrified when her husband, James, accepts a pastorate in a small, dying town called Prince Crossing. Not only is she in culture shock, but she must deal with the pressures of being a pastor’s wife who is desperately trying to get her husband’s attention when everyone else wants it. Will it be too much? Will she lose her focus and her faith?
Stan by Me    by TRAY TOWLES
Price: $1.99 USD. 54210 words. Published on November 24, 2011. .

"CARPE DIEM! IDIOT." Follow Ollie Schurtz as he ventures back to his hometown of Havendale, Missouri for a Christmas holiday he won't soon forget. After losing his job and nearly being killed by his father, Ollie bends the ear of his childhood friend, Stan Tubbs. The two recall what it was like to grow up in Midwestern America during the 1940’s and 1950’s.