Winter Wheat
10 best books like Winter Wheat (Mildred Walker): This Tender Land, Montana 1948, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001, Vermilion Drift, God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, In Open Spaces, The Bartender's Tale, Letters, Something Needs to Change, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
| Author | William Kent Krueger |
| ISBN | 1476749299 |
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
| Author | Larry Watson |
| ISBN | 0671507036 |
The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively, statuesque Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little...
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
| Author | Garrett M. Graff |
| ISBN | 1508295824 |
Audio bonus!
The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This is history at its...
| Author | William Kent Krueger |
| ISBN | 1439153841 |
Some nights, Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death.
William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare, a gun, and a wound in the earth so deep and horrific that it has a name, Vermilion Drift.
When the Department of Energy puts an underground...
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
| Author | Victoria Sweet |
| ISBN | 1594488436 |
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended...
| Author | Russell Rowland |
| ISBN | 0060084340 |
Set in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers:
GeorgeA rising baseball star who mysteriously drowns in the river
JackA World War I veteran who abandons his family only...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 1594487359 |
From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change.
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern...
| Author | Marjorie Pay Hinckley |
| ISBN | 1590383877 |
When Marjorie Pay Hinckley passed away in April 2004, every woman who had ever known her, even merely through reading her books or hearing her speak, felt as if she had lost a friend. Sister Hinckley looked at life with a twinkle in her eye. Her genuine interest in others made them care a little more for each...
Something Needs to Change
| Author | David Platt |
| ISBN | 1788931009 |
Today, my students and I celebrated our annual “Tea with Miss E,” a raffle reward for our fall fundraiser for our school. The student chosen gets to choose a friend to enjoy tea, hot chocolate, treats and conversation with me after school (not to be confused with detention!). This year’s tea was...
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
| Author | Christopher Ingraham |
The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.
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