Books tagged: midwest life

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Invaders from Mars and Other Tales of Youthful Angst    by Jeffrey Miller
Price: $3.99 USD. 41810 words. Published on January 15, 2011. .

Journey back in time to a small Midwest town in the 1960s and experience adolescent and coming of age angst at a junior high dance, Saturday matinees, part time jobs and carnivals while saving the town from Martian invaders. Set against the historical backdrop and the cultural and social turbulence of the 1960s, Invaders from Mars is a bittersweet, heartwarming and nostalgic look back in time.
Reboot    by Carl Rauscher
Price: $2.99 USD. 85760 words. Published on March 13, 2011. .

Oscar Ridell is a hero to most towns he visits as he travels west, paying for room and board by restoring equipment fried by the Pulse. Few guess he's part of a national recovery effort; fewer still that their hero is a reformed alcoholic, haunted by the voices of his estranged wife and child.
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.”
Butt-washing Funny    by William Butler
Price: Free! 20120 words. Published on November 1, 2011. .

A collection of Midwest and Southern short stories and jokes by the author.
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.
Cream From Butterflies    by Candace Hennekens
Price: $6.99 USD. 102240 words. Published on March 22, 2012. .

This is a personal story that reveals life in the mid-twentieth century that is mainly peaceful, mostly prosperous, when Americans dreamed big and dreams came true. And on a smaller scale, the story of how a writer can be formed: by commitment to a diary. The writer's five year diary written between 1959 and 1963 is included between essays about growing up in a small Wisconsin town.
My Father's House: a novel    by Todd Saville
Price: $2.99 USD. 68110 words. Published on August 3, 2012. .

Cole Jansen, a young career-minded businessman, estranged from his family. Rachel Miller, a faith-filled Amish woman with secrets and dreams, dedicated to hers. A chance encounter. An unlikely romance. An improbable love...all leading to crucial decisions of character, faith and sacrifice. My Father’s House, a love story of truth and tragedy that will touch your heart and warm your soul.
Tales From The Loon Town Cafe    by Dennis Frahmann
Price: $7.99 USD. 128090 words. Published on February 20, 2013. .

It’s the go-go 1980s when journalist Wally Pearson gets mugged in Times Square. It’s a jolt that prompts him to throw away his career and open a cafe in his small hometown. Little does he know that in doing so he’s about to get entrapped in the collision of fame, fortune, ambition and love in the northwoods of Wisconsin—all tempered with more than a little delusion.