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Shoeless Joe

1991
Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him "If you build it, he will come." Driven by this vision, he turns part of his field into a baseball stadium where the ghosts of famous baseball players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, come to play.

Shoeless Joe (6 audiocassettes, 9 hr.)

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1991
Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him "If you build it, he will come." Driven by this vision, he turns part of his field into a baseball stadium where the ghosts of famous baseball players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, come to play.

Dagmar Schultz and the powers of darkness

1992
Dagmar makes a deal with Edgar, the only warlock in New Berlin, Iowa: she will convince Aunt Gretchen to go out with him if he will use his powers to make James Mann fall in love with her.

The fall of Alice K.

2012
A seventeen-year-old star student and gifted athlete hides the painful truths about her private life, including a failing family farm, her mother's growing apocalyptic fears, the institutionalization of her special-needs sister, and her romance with the son of Hmong immigrants.

Stranded

2010
When Kelly Louise and her mother move to Heaven, Iowa, to live with her grandmother and cousin, she learns a terrible secret about a baby recently left to die in a corn field and must decide whether or not to tell the truth.

The growing season

1982
Eleven-year-old Marie, living on her family's farm in Iowa, learns to face and overcome Depression poverty, family problems, and her own childhood fears.

Iowa

2003
Photographs and easy-to-follow text provide a brief introduction to the history, geography, government, economy, and people of the state of Iowa.

Dream's end

two Iowa brothers in the Civil War
1998
Chronicles the experiences Andrew and Barney Brayman had while they were fighting in the Civil War and discusses how their enlistment affected their town and family.

The case of the bad-luck bike ride across Iowa

2001
Cody Smith receives an anonymous warning just before starting a bike ride across Iowa, which forces his family to worry about his safety, and Cody to doubt his own decision to participate.

Tyrone's story

2003
Eighteen-year-old Tyrone Larson ponders the events of his life that led to his part in the death of a high school friend from a drug overdose.

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