Jerry Apps

• Mar-2000
• / General Fiction
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Text and photographs focus on rural objects of the past and how they were used, including kitchen stoves, windmills, threshing machines, and mail-order catalogs, as well as phenomena such as taverns, country stores, and county fairs....

• May-2002
• / Historical
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• May-2002
• / Historical
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• Nov-2003
• / Historical
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Plum Falls, New York, 1840s: Dismissed from Harvard Divinity School for his liberal views, Increase Joseph Link arrives home with a heavy heart. He gives up his dream of becoming a minister to settle for life on the farm, until the day he is struck b...

• May-2008
• / Historical
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In 1955, Andy Meyer, a young farmer and manager of the pickle factory in Link Lake, Wisconsin, and his fellow farmers are confronted by the arrival of the powerful H. H. Harlow Pickle Company, which uses heavy-handed tactics to force the locals to do...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm.     Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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The fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.        As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost his job as agricultu...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper’s national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career -- just as the paper’s finances may lead to its closure.    ...

• Apr-2013
• / Historical
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Told through the correspondence between the young narrator and his grandmother, Letters from Hillside Farm provides a glimpse of life during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Young George moves from Cleveland, Ohio to a farm in central Wisconsi...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the small Ames County village of Link Lake, events quickly escalate to a crisis. Business leader Marilyn Jones of the Link Lake Economic Development Council heads the pro-mine forces, citin...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the ...

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction
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In this eminently readable story, Jerry Apps delves into the heart of small-town America. Reckoning with timely problems and opinions that divide us, he shows us the power in restoring our relationships with nature and our communities....

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction
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Billy Steiner, 16, is trying to decide what to do after high school, when so many adults seem to have predetermined this for him. Bill's search for answers is complicated when he encounters the mysterious happenings of the Wild Oak. Stories from the ...

• May-2022
• / General Fiction
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Bill Steiner, a farm boy, has just completed his first year of studies at the University of Wisconsin. To return to college in the fall, he knows he needs extra money. He takes a job at a pea cannery where he manages a small group of men. One of them...