middle west

After being wrongfully held for months by Homeland Security in his hometown of Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Jesse, who knows little of his true identity, tries to keep a low profile in his new foster home in a small midwestern prairie town but the arrival of an eccentric new girl with seemingly supernatural powers draws him inexorably into a struggle with the terrifying forces of evil.

A series of dramatic monologues, in which inhabitants of the cemetery on the hill overlooking the fictional midwestern town of Spoon River reveal the shocking scandals and tragic secrets of their lives.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult.

Evokes the land, animals, and people of the Middle West in poetic text and illustrations.

Describes what life would be like if you had lived at the same time as Abraham Lincoln.

An examination of place and landscape in literature of the American Midwest, relating Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explaining their approaches.

A series of dramatic monologues, in which inhabitants of the cemetery on the hill overlooking the fictional Midwestern town of Spoon River reveal the shocking scandals and tragic secrets of their lives. Includes an introduction, an afterword, and a bibliography.

Custis, a homeless fugitive from a pornography producer, hits the road with Curl, a child prostitute, and her boyfriend Boobie who has just killed his parents and kidnapped his infant brother, but their quest for a better life meets with little success until Custis makes an unlikely friend.