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Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
2) Gilead
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
Author
Series
Mad Dog and Englishman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Mad Dog and Englishman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fending for herself in the wake of a chronically unemployed, dysfunctional mother, ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow experiences feelings of confinement in their small Midwestern town and suffers the heartache of a first love.
9) Love overdue
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After a spring fling gone wrong, DJ changes to a conservative look and scuttles away to Kansas to work at a small-town library, only to have her landlady try to fix her up with the very man that precipitated her flight.
10) Bent Road
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 4
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the farm community of Medicine Creek, Kansas, is terrorized by a series of disturbing murders, FBI agent Pendergast discovers a link between a moonshine operation and an unsolved killing from more than 150 years earlier.
13) Yi ai Jilie
Author
Series
Man bu wen xue volume 7
Publisher
Man bu wen hua
Pub. Date
2014
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Trying to rebuild her life in Kansas without her fugitive ex-husband, Lily Brown is thrust into a killer's crosshairs when her tween son breaks into a storage unit and finds photos and news clippings about five long-missing girls.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The man convicted of murdering Jody's father, Billy Cosby, is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. Crosby has been granted a new trial, thanks in large part to the efforts of his son, Collin, a lawyer who has spent most of his life trying to prove his father's innocence. As Jody revisits old wounds, startling revelations compel her to uncover the dangerous truth about her family's tragic past.
16) Fallout
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star, but long-simmering racial tensions stir up more mysteries as the body count rises.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow knows how to do a lot, but when her mom dies after a young illness, Bertie finds herself in charge of four younger siblings and struggling to keep the family together.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Merinac, Kansas. Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best friend chicken in the state. The legendary feud between the owners-- the Moores and the Pogociellos-- has caught widow Amanda Moore in the middle. She had worked for her mom at Mimi's before marrying Frank Pogociello and working for Frannie's. When she convinces Food Wars, a reality-TV competition, to cover the feud, Amanda and her sister Mae must...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a tender and funny debut novel, set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of an estranged daughter's homecoming"--
20) Meant to be
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister until Kelly is firmly established. Kelly is studying to become a veterinarian. She plans to marry her childhood sweetheart and eventually take over his father's veterinary...
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