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From the New York Times bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series comes “a gripping contemporary novel…of fear and conflict in heartland America” (Publishers Weekly).
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
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Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely-white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper...
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A trio of desperate convicts, has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls, who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. The killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met.
5) Mrs. Bridge
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Bridge series (Evan S. Connell) volume 1
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National Book Award Finalist
The basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
“A perfect novel . . . economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the lives of a wealthy family in 1930s Kansas through the eyes of its matriarch (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author).
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate...
The basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
“A perfect novel . . . economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the lives of a wealthy family in 1930s Kansas through the eyes of its matriarch (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author).
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate...
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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...
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Amish of Apple Grove volume 1
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Kansas,1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's...
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A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.
10) With song
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Dolan brothers series volume 3
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Molly barely noticed the sedan that pulled up in front of her family's store. Minutes later, a hail of bullets rained down on her parents. Hod Dolan, the federal agent knows she can identify the gunmen, and soon proposes a trap that uses Molly as bait.
11) Prairie rose
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Practical reasons bring together two people desperate for, yet terrified of love. When their prairie life threatens to spin out of control, faith is their only hope, and their only chance at finding love.
12) Kansas troubles
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
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After a whirlwind marriage to San Celina Police Chief Gabe Ortiz, Benni Harper is excited to visit her Kansas hometown. At a rowdy backyard barbecue, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country singer with a promising future—and a fascinating past. Once, Tyler had lived the simple Amish life. Now she's determined to make it on her own selling her exquisite handmade quilts. But Tyler's gifts—and her life—are cut short when she's murdered. Out...
13) A heart made new
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Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who is struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman and her two-year-old daughter show up in Bliss Creek, Annie tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world can't change the ache in Annie's heart ... or help her forget...
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"1884-Several years earlier, young Rebecca Switzer lost her heart to Jesse Montgomery, a rugged but dissolute cowboy on a dusty cattle trail near the Amish settlement of Apple Grove. Now she is grown up, and when she hears one day that he has been spotted nearby, her desire is plain and simple: She must see him. Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can leave law enforcement and follow his dream of starting a church. When a lovely woman,...
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It's been four years since Carl left. Four years since he left the small Amish community for the English world. And in four years, Emma's heart has only begun to heal. Now, with the unexpected death of her parents, Emma is plunged back into despair and confusion which is only compounded by Carl's return. She's supposed to be in love with him...so why can't she keep her mind off Thomas, the strong, quiet widower?
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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.
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"Professional advice columnist turned caf̌ manager and amateur sleuth Sissy Yoder is adjusting to life in her parents' small but not-so-sleepy former hometown of Yoder, Kansas, where family is plentiful, the tomatoes are "to die for"--and murder is often in season . . .Twenty-something Sissy Yoder never imagined herself running her Aunt Bethel's caf̌, but her help is needed, so she's making a go of it. And she must admit that life in tiny Yoder...
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1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request that the three children go live with "Aunt Neva." Neva's heart is shattered; she wants nothing more...
20) Just visiting
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Reagan Forrester wants out - out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas. Victoria Reyes wants in--in to a fashion design program and a sorority, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn't go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won't stand out for being Mexican. One thing the polar-opposite best friends do agree on is that wherever they...