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I Did It For You

I Did It For You
  • Author(s): Amy Engel
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in fictional Ludlow, Kansas. A murdered girl. A convicted killer. Justice served… Or is it? It’s been fourteen years since Greer’s older sister Eliza was murdered. Her family has never been the same. Nor has the small town...

MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith

MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
  • Author(s): Nancy Freund
  • Location(s): California, Kansas City, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1970s

The Drue family moves from New York to Small Town, USA in the ’70s, and they may never fully fit in. Thirteen-year-old Sandy’s parents encourage her curiosity, her imagination, and her challenge of social conventions – but not without...

Rapeseed

Rapeseed
  • Author(s): Nancy Freund
  • Location(s): Kansas, London, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A colorful novel of a woman’s self-discovery and family secrets — about moving abroad to finally find her own heart and home. ‘Rapeseed’ is a wonderful coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, an extraordinary woman, and an American family...

The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Boston, Kansas
  • Era(s): 1850s

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857: the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry...

The Roanoke Girls

The Roanoke Girls
  • Author(s): Amy Engel
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood

Beautiful. Rich. Mysterious. The Roanoke girls seem to have it all. But there’s a dark truth about them which is never spoken. Every girl either runs away, or dies. Lane is one of the lucky ones. When she was...

Point, Click, Love

Point, Click, Love
  • Author(s): Molly Shapiro
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

The women of Point, Click, Love might not be from NYC, but they navigate the ups and downs of love, marriage, dating, and children in a way that’s fresh and edgy. Told from four viewpoints in alternating chapters, Shapiro...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Author(s): L Frank Baum
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is the classic story of fantasy that has delighted readers young and old for decades. Dorothy finds herself transplanted to the magical land of Oz when her house is sucked up by a tornado....

Wichita

Wichita
  • Author(s): Thad Ziolkowski
  • Location(s): Wichita
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The novel begins with Lewis’s return to his mother’s home in Wichita, Kan., from New York, where he has just graduated from Columbia. His pompous professor father, Virgil, expects him to attend graduate school, though Lewis is unsure of...

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories
  • Author(s): Don C Becker
  • Location(s): Kansas, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

When nineteen-year-old Constance Connors, the beautiful and carefree Hawaiian-born daughter of an Episcopalian minister, meets a newly graduated West Point cadet, Second Lieutenant Joseph Booker, she’s instantly smitten. But it’s not long before she finds herself pregnant, married, and...

All the Forgivenesses

All the Forgivenesses
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hardinger
  • Location(s): Kentucky, Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): turn of 19th / 20th centuries

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel paints an intimately rendered portrait of one resilient farm family’s challenges and hard-won triumphs–helmed by an unforgettable heroine. Growing up on their...

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