Geographic Orientation/Kansas
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In Cold Blood
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The most famous true crime novel of all time “chills the blood and exercises the intelligence” (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745580
- Language: English
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Still Life with Crows
$10.99 Add to cartWhen a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse — either way, no one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground… [more below]- Series: Agent Pendergast #4
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1455582905
- Language: English
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation.
The instant New York Times bestseller Dodg- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160561
- Language: English
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The Amelia Six: An Amelia Earhart Mystery
$18.99 Read more“A cozy whodunit that cheerfully affirms girls’ and women’s contributions to aerospace.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Comparisons with Nancy Drew and Sammy Keyes come to mind, but this satisfying mystery seems m… [more below]- Author: Gray, Kristin L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1534418857
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Add to cartColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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Best Garden Plants for Kansas
$16.95 Add to cartThis practical, inspiring book will take the guesswork out of choosing the right plants for your yard. Gardeners all over Kansas will find this a useful guide when selecting a wide range of garden pla… [more below]
- Series: Best Garden Plants For…
- Author: Calovich, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 12 2007
- ISBN10: 9768200324
- Language: English
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The Thing about Luck
$16.99 Read moreThe winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck–which is exactly what Summer must d… [more below]
- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1416918825
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels
$5.99 Read moreBased on a true story, Wagon Wheels tells a powerful and overlooked story of the country’s post-Civil War era.
Formerly enslaved Ed Muldie and his family travel to Kansas in 1878 to claim land under th
- Series: I Can Read History Book
- Author: Brenner, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 1984
- ISBN10: 0064440524
- Language: English
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Steal Away Home
$7.99 Add to cartWhen Dana uncovers a skeleton hidden in the wall of her home, she also uncovers a dark secret that stretches back years.
When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family’- Series: Aladdin Historical Fiction
- Author: Ruby, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0689824351
- Language: English
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The Thing about Luck
$8.99 Add to cartThere is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck–which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this winner of the National Book Award by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.
Summer k- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03, 2014
- ISBN10: 1442474653
- Language: English
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Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman’s Tale of Life on the Prairie
$11.95 Add to cartRead the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. This historical fiction is based … [more below]
- Series: Butter in the Well
- Author: Hubalek, Linda K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1886652007
- Language: English
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Kom League Remembered
$31.99 Add to cartThe late 1940s and early 1950s was the Golden Age for minor league baseball. The National Pastime thrived in small town America with hundreds of professional teams in over 50 leagues playing at every … [more below]
- Author: Hall, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1531619010
- Language: English
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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Pioneer Women
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “… [more below]
- Author: Stratton, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0671447483
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Kansas City
$42.99 Add to cartBy the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Copeland, Lara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1683369181
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$16.95 Add to cartThe definitive collection of Kansas’s odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Kansas residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
- Series: Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
- Author: Grout, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0762758635
- Language: English
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
$19.99 Add to cart“A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post
A stunning portrait of Charli
- Author: Crouch, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062005618
- Language: English
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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
$25.00 Add to cartA dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. histo
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470325151
- Language: English
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
$49.95 Add to cartIf you want an interesting look at railroading plus the social, financial, and political times over 130 years of America, consider this well-researched and documented book.–Stan Moore, Denver Posse o
- Author: Bryant Jr, Keith L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496214102
- Language: English
