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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
Report from Engine Co. 82
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (Wisconsin)
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer s Life (South Dakota Biography)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
The Spirit of St. Louis
Old Farm: A History
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values
Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity
Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado (Indiana Biography Series)
The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People (Wisconsin)
Once upon a Farm
The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home (Bur Oak Book)
Badger Bars & Tavern Tales: An Illustrated History of Wisconsin Saloons
When Chores Were Done
Lords of Kilbourn
The Last Farmer: An American Memoir
Old Jules (Third Edition)
It s Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here
Coach Reflections of Indiana Football Legend Dick Dullaghan
Of Time and Place (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother s Life in Politics
Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail
There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln s Indiana Youth
Simon Girty Turncoat Hero
What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts
You Can Go Home Again: Adventures of a Contrary Life (Farming Biography)
The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery
A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition (Shawnee Classics)
Jailhouse Stories: Memories of a Smalltown Sheriff
Growing Up Yooper: Childhood Memories of Michigan s Upper Peninsula
Chief O Neill s Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
Grass of The Earth: Immigrant Life in the Dakota Country (Borealis Books)
The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir
Waiting for Coyote s Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff
Irma: A Chicago Woman s Story, 1871-1966
Baby Richard: A Four-Year-Old Comes Home
Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir
A Country Doctor s Casebook: Tales from the North Woods (Midwest Reflections)
Notre Dame Inspirations: The University s Most Successful Alumni Talk About Life, Spirituality, Football-and Everything Else Under the Dome
The Memoirs of Jean Laffite
Family
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
Prairie Reunion
Hapa Girl: A Memoir
Feels Like Far: A Rancher s Life on the Great Plains
Home and Away: Memior of a Fan
Open Horizons (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story (Plains Histories) (Plains Histories)
Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate (Missouri Biography Series)
Down Home Missouri: When Girls Were Scary and Basketball Was King
Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood
Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood
The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked
John Ireland and the American Catholic Church
Fruitcake Hill: A History and Memoir of Life on The Hill in a Family of 15
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by H
Siege in Lucasville
Sons of the River: A Nebraska Memoir
Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town (Ohio History and Culture)
Freedom s Champion: Elijah Lovejoy
Pig Boy s Wicked Bird: A Memoir
Land of the Burnt Thigh (Borealis Books)
Four Midwestern Sisters Christmas Book
Life on the Mississippi
Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century : Dayton and the Inventing of America (Ohio)
Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
Monkey on a Turntable: Living on Love & Leftovers in Local Radio
Macmillan: The American Grain Family
A Boyhood in the Dustbowl 1926-1934
Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman (Illinois)
Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map (Minnesota)
Safe at Home
Prairie Winter
No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers (Great Lakes Connections: The Civil War)
Minnesota Memories (Minnesota)
And the Wilderness shall Blossom: Henry Benjamin Whipple, Churchman, Educator, Advocate for the Indians
Track Conditions
Dancing the Cows Home: A Wisconsin Girlhood (Midwest Reflections)
Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake
Afton Remembered
Growing Pains: Diaries and Drawings from the Years 1908-1917 (Borealis Books)
Of Time and Place: A Farm in Wisconsin
Death Beyond the Willows
Doc: Memories from a Life in Public Service (Indiana)
Pendergast! (Missouri Biography Series)
Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary
Barefoot in an Oklahoma Sticker Patch: Memories from Childhood in Rural Oklahoma County
Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book)
The Unlikely Celebrity: Bill Sackter s Triumph over Disability
Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm
Saturday Night at the Open Door Cafe
Harvest Journal: Memoir of a Minnesota Farmer, Part II: 1904-1938
The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story
Dakota Boy: A Childhood in Memory
The Farm On Nippersink Creek (American Storytelling)
Hillback to Boggy: A Family Struggles for Survival, During the Great Depression, in a Tent in the Hills of Oklahoma
Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana s Municipal Housekeeper (Midwestern History and Culture)
Ridge Runner
The Gold Rush Widows of Little Falls: A Story Drawn from the Letters of Pamelia and James Fergus
Wisconsin, My Home: The Story of Thurine Oleson as Told to Her Daughter
Way Back in the Hills Book 2: Fesser Goes to College
Crazy Dave (Native Voices)
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies (Bur Oak Book)
Just Like Bob Zimmerman s Blues: Dylan in Minnesota
Section 27: A Century on a Family Farm
Borderland: A Midwest Journal
Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years As a Farm Wife (Midwest Reflections)
Rich in Good Works: Mary M. Emery of Cincinnati (Ohio History and Culture)
The Importance Of Being From Oshkosh: Looking Back At The Great Depression, World War Ii And The Cold War Years
Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman
My Memories
Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills
BUILDERS OF OHIO: BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24
A Hoosier Holiday
Tales from Woodson County
Tata s Tree: A Memoir of Life in the Back of the Yards
My Staggerford Journal
STREET GAMES: Memories of a St. Louis Childhood, The Fifties & Sixties
Growing Up In Missouri and Other Short Stories
The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (Class in America)
Northern Reflections: A Lighthearted Account of Growing up North (Northern Mania!)
Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (African American Life Series)
Soliloquy Of Farmer S Wife: Diary Of Annie Elliott Perrin
Eight Steamboats: Sailing Through the Sixties (Great Lakes Books)
The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record
Growing UP In Indiana: The Culture & Hoosier Hysteria Revisited
Tooty s Corner
James Whitcomb Riley: A Life (Indiana)
Tom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland s Greatest Mayor
Harvest Journal: Memoir of a Minnesota Farmer, Part I: 1846-1903
Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary 1884-88 (Borealis Books)
Halfway Home: A Granddaughters Biography (Midwest Reflections)
Sheep: Life On The South Dakota Range (Borealis Books)
John D. Rockefeller: The Cleveland Years (Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 126)
Pebbles: Memories of a Small-Town Kansas Boy
RFD
Great Chicago Stories: Portraits and Stories
Archie s Way: A Memoir of Friendship and Craftsmanship
Time Has Its Own Terms
Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian (Oklahoma Western Biographies)
Rivers of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered
Northern D Lights: Another Hilarious Account of Growing Up North (Northern Mania!)
This Death by Drowning
Minnesota Memories 2 (Minnesota Memories)
An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators From Illinois 1818-2003
Jackpine Savages
Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
Pigeon Hill: Growing Up Romanian and Mom s Story
A Capital Place: Memories of a Minnesota life
House of Steps: Finding the Path Home
Dakota Dreams: Fannie Sabra Howe s Own Story, 1881-1884
The Man From Waukegan
Northern Passages: Feisty Tales of Growing Up North (Northern Mania!)
Stories from the Round Barn
Crossing Over: Stories of Asian Refugee Christians
The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher
Code of Silence: The Andre Coppage Story
Little Giant: The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert
Trapping the Boundary Waters: A Tenderfoot in the Border Country 1919-1920 (Midwest Reflections)
Interior Places
We Made It Through the Winter: A Memoir of Northern Minnesota Boyhood (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)
The Prairie in Her Eyes: The Breaking and Making of a Dakota Rancher
The Missouri Kid
Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public Hisory
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers And Shakers in Kansas History
The Prairie in Her Eyes (World As Home, The)
Famous Minnesotans: Past and Present
Here s to Your Health
The River Bend: Collected Stories and Anecdotes
A Man s Reach (Minnesota)
OHIO FARM (Ohio)
Second Story Woman: A Memoir of Second Chances
Spinning Through Clouds: Tales from an Early Hoosier Aviator
Pictures of Home: A Memoir of Family and City
Heroes of Ohio: 23 True Tales of Courage and Character
Heroes Among Us: Uncommon Minnesotans
A Little History of My Forest Life: An Indian-White Autobiography
Grandfather Stories: The Family Farm of the 1930 s and 40 s
Green Bay Love Stories and Other Affairs
Keeper of the Delaware Dolls
Alone Among Friends: A Biography of W. Robert Parks
Copper Range Chronicle: A Family and an Era
Twelve Plus Me
Bob s Wisconsin Dairy Friends
A Dollar the Hard Way: Growing Up in Tough Times in the Ozark Foothills
Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross (Missouri Biography)
Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood
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