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1) Bent Road
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Description
Billy Cosby, the man convicted of murdering Jody's father, 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.
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Series
100 cupboards volume 1
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Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
4) Gilead
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Series
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
70 p. ; 20 cm.
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
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
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Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
7) Fig
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
483 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
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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...
11) May B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
12) Deadly descent
Author
Series
Lottie Albright mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
417 p. (large print) ; 21 cm.
Description
When false accusations threaten senatorial candidate Hadley's career, secrets whispered to Lottie as editor of the county history books spur a personal search for his aunt's murderer. Will the cold case prove her merits as a deputy-- or endanger her life?
13) Above
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Abducted and locked in an abandoned missile silo by a mad survivalist, a Kansas teen endures loneliness and despair while struggling to raise a baby in isolation before escaping into a world more changed than she anticipated.
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Series
The Amish of Apple Grove volume 2
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Description
Young Amish woman Rachel Switzer comes to 1880s Lawrence, Kansas in pursuit of cowboy Jesse Montgomery, only to be caught in the middle of a temperance riot and mistakenly arrested by sheriff Colin Maddox.
15) Harvest House
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When strange things start happening at night near a new, supposedly haunted, rural attraction, including a creepy man stalking young Indigenous women, Hughie Wolfe and his friends set out to discover the truth in order to protect themselves and their community.
16) For this land
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
107 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighboring commune in 1977.
19) Fallout
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V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August, a young film-maker who has disappeared. The evidence indicates that he has gone to Kansas in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress who wants to film the story of her life. Her search takes V.I. from the military base Emerald was born on, to the farm where she grew up outside a university town, ploughing up past and present-day secrets as she goes. What...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
161 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
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