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A Village Looks Ahead: Reviving a Town, Rekindling a Spirit

A Village Looks Ahead: Reviving a Town, Rekindling a Spirit

Apps, Jerry

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Series: Ames County Novel, Book 11

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ISBN10: 1967311943
ISBN13: 9781967311941
Publisher: Little Creek Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
When a flood uncovers a 1940 bank bag in the library basement, Link Lake must decide what--and who--it's willing to save.

In A Village Looks Ahead, a small Wisconsin town wrestles with change as two efforts collide: a library writing class unearths the community's buried past while the mayor's Planning Commission pushes boldly toward self-reliance--food, power, and a future by design.

Old mysteries resurface (including that long-whispered 1940 robbery), and new pressures mount: WLLK--The Voice of Reason--fans debate on the airwaves, a recall election splits neighbors, and a tornado drives families into the library's storm shelter.

Through it all, librarian Jackie Jo Jensen and Mayor Jon Jessup ask a defining question: can a place honor what it was while becoming what it needs to be? As one townsman says, When we forget our histories, we forget who we are.

A warm, timely novel of memory, grit, and the everyday heroism of a community choosing its next chapter.

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