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2) Bent Road
Author
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.
4) Wagon wheels
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper and Row
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume Book 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Light of the World, sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux's daughter Alafair about possible other crimes committed by Surette, the killer escapes from a prison transport van and heads to Montana-where an unsuspecting Dave happens to have gone to take...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
13) Dark places
Author
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
14) Pay dirt
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, and is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems -- and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn - a sinister...
19) Anna was here
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Nickel family reunite when fourth-grader Anna, her Mom and Dad, and four-year-old sister Isabella relocate to Oakwood, Kansas.
20) Bound: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Oliver, young wife and older entrepreneurial husband, are negotiating their difference in age and a plethora of well-concealed secrets. Oliver, now in his sixties, is a serial adulterer and has just fallen giddily in love yet again. Catherine, seemingly placid and content, has ghosts of a past she scarcely remembers. When Catherine's long-forgotten high school friend dies and leaves Catherine the guardian of her teenage daughter, that...
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