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Airball: My Life in Briefs by Lisa Harkrader2006
Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks2006
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy by Thomas Goodrich2006
Deputy Harvey and the Ant Cow Caper by Brad Sneed2006
The great blues by S. H. Semken2006
A Hungry Heart: A Memoir by Gordon Parks2006
In the Small, Small Night by Jane Kurtz2006
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds2006
The Kansas Guidebook for explorers by Marci Penner2006
Maggie Rose and Sass by Eunice Boeve2006
The Moon Butter Route by Max Yoho2006
Oceans of Kansas by Michael J. Everhart2006
Ordinary Genius (Flyover Fiction) by Thomas Fox Averill2006
Wildflowers and grasses of Kansas by Michael John Haddock2006
The youngest brother : on a Kansas wheat farm during the roaring twenties and the great depression by Hugh Snyder2006
Afoot : a tale of the great Dakota turkey drive by George Brandsberg2007
Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner2007
Ballots And Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas by Robert K. Dearment2007
Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie by Jim Hoy2007
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter2007
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History by Virgil W. Dean2007
John Steuart Curry: The Road Home by Alice Bertels2007
Kansas murals : a traveler's guide by Lora Jost2007
Light on Main Street by Rudy Taylor2007
The Loose Change of Wonder by Steven Hind2007
My Little Yellow Taxi by Stephen T. Johnson2007
Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940 by H. Craig Miner2007
Not Afraid of Dogs by Susanna Pitzer2007
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains by William Ashworth2007
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights by Diane Eickhoff2007
Shanghai Shadows by Lois Ruby2007
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard2007
Words of a Prairie Alchemist by Denise Low2007
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly2008
The Boy who was Raised by Librarians by Carla Morris2008
Can I Keep My Jersey? by Paul Shirley2008
The Curse of Catunkhamun by Tim Raglin2008
The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck2008
From Emporia; The Story of William Allen White by Beverley Olson Buller2008
Hellfire Canyon by Max McCoy2008
Hunger for the wild : America's obsession with the untamed West by Michael L. Johnson2008
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 by Albert Goldbarth2008
A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution by David A. Nichols2008
The Middle of Somewhere by J. B. Cheaney2008
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty2008
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep by Michael Everhart2008
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey by Jim Reed2008
Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky2008
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka2009
Artfully Done Across Generations Recipes of Carlene Banks & Friends Art From the Wichita Art Museum by RoxAnn Banks Dicker2009
Burn by Kathleen Johnson2009
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock2009
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce2009
The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots by Bob Gress2009
Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate by Kelly Alexander2009
Kansas Opera Houses, Actors, and Community Events 1855-1925 by Jane Glotfelty Rhoads2009
Making History: Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970: 9 Reproduction Quilt Projects - Historic Notes & Photographs - Dating Your Quilts by Barbara Brackman2009
Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides) by Rolf Potts2009
The Nature of Kansas Lands by Elizabeth Schultz2009
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster2009
The Pizza Hut story by Robert Spector2009
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 by Craig Miner2009
Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests by Richard E. Wood2009
Addie of the Flint Hills : a prairie child during the depression (1915-1935) by Adaline Sorace as told to Deborah Sorace Prutzman2010
The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes by Roderick Townley2010
Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford2010
The Evolution of Shadows by Jason Quinn Malott2010
Ghost Town by Richard W. Jennings2010
A Kansas Year by Mike Blair2010
Lisa's flying electric piano by Kevin Rabas2010
Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson2010
One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book (America by the Numbers) by Devin Scillian2010
Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape2010
Silver Shoes by Paul Miles Schneider2010
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan2010
To the Stars: Kansas Poets of the Ad Astra Poetry Project by Denise Low2010
Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Andrea Warren2010
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin2010
And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger2011
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried2011
Baking with friends : recipes, tips, and fun facts for teaching kids to bake by Sharon P. Davis2011
Bound by Antonya Nelson2011
Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber2011
A Distant Home by George Paris2011
Flyover people : life on the ground in a rectangular state by Cheryl Unruh2011
Ghost stories of the west : from einstein's brain to geronimo's boots by Denise Low2011
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer2011
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool2011
A Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White by Beverley Olson Buller2011
Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward by Lana Wirt Myers2011
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard2011
StarCrossed by Elizabeth C. Bunce2011
Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion and Fun by Amy Barickman2011
8 wonders of kansas guidebook by Marci Penner2012
The Afterlives of Trees by Wyatt Townley2012
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming2012
Bent Road by Lori Roy2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard2012
Doc by Mary Doria Russell2012
The Door in the Forest by Roderick Townley2012
Liar's Moon by Elizabeth C. Bunce2012
My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas by Tracy Seeley2012
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory by James N. Leiker2012
Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure by Kelly Enright2012
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History by Julie Courtwright2012
rode by Thomas Fox Averill2012
Send Me Work: Stories by Katherine Karlin2012
Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts by Matthew Polly2012
The Adventures of Beanboy by Lisa Harkrader2013
Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK by Larry Welch2013
Blackbear Bosin : Keeper of the Indian Spirit (2012) by David Simmonds2013
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty2013
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan2013
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith2013
Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894 by Kevin G. W. Olson2013
A Kansas bestiary by Jake Vail2013
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose2013
This Ecstasy They Call Damnation by Israel Wasserstein2013
Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas by Arnold J. Bauer2013
To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg2013
A Voice for Kanzas by Debra McArthur2013
Wide Open by Larry Bjornson2013
The Yard by Alex Grecian2013
Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau2014
The Black Country by Alex Grecian2014
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border by Jonathan Earle2014
A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter by Marianne Wesson2014
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City by Robert Rebein2014
Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs by Nicole Muchmore2014
Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist by Richard A. Ruddy2014
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride2014
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool2014
Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg2014
Of Grave Concern by Max McCoy2014
Teatime to tailgates : 150 years at the K-State table by Jane Marshall2014
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata2014
The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz2014
Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me - Then Changed My Life for the Better by Andy Marso2014
Ad Astra : 161 Adventurers, Astronauts, Discoverers, Explorers, Pilots, Pioneers, Scientists by Dave Webb2015
Bluebird by Bob Staake2015
A Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel by Thomas Fox Averill2015
Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word & Image by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg2015
The darkest period : the Kanza indians and their last homeland, 1846-1873 by Ronald D. Parks2015
The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad) by Alex Grecian2015
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska by Iralee Barnard2015
Girl in Reverse by Barbara Stuber2015
The Kansas Relays: Track and Field Tradition in the Heartland by Joe D. Schrag2015
Michael Pearce's taste of the Kansas outdoors cookbook by Michael Pearce2015
Music I once could dance to : poems by Roy J. Beckemeyer2015
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning by Julene Bair2015
Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey by James E. Sherow2015
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit by , Ph.D Spurgeon, Ian Michael2015
Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays by Cheryl Unruh2015
Alphabet School by Stephen T. Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
A Bitter Magic by Roderick Townley — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery by Dana Bowman — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas by Andrea Warren — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl by Carolyn Meyer — not in English Common Knowledge2016
For the sake of art : the story of Kansas renaissance by Cynthia Mines — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse (Landmarks) by rosa walston latimer — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State by Jonathan M. Conard — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds by Michael John Haddock — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth by Scott Martelle — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters (True Crime) by Rod Beemer2016
Sun and Moon by Lindsey Yankey — not in English Common Knowledge2016
To Leave a Shadow by Michael D. Graves — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir by William D. Street — not in English Common Knowledge2016
While the Kettle's On by Melissa Fite Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Fast-Food Sonnets by Dennis Etzel — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Ghost Sign by Al Ortolani — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future by Allan Drummond — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard2017
Hurt People by Cote Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860 (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Greg Olson — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes by George Frazier — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Lost and Gone Forever (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad) by Alex Grecian — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Memory of Lemon by Judith Fertig — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography by Jorge Iber — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Never Enough Flamingos (Volume 1) by Janelle Diller — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball by Scott Morrow Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West by Candace Fleming — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century (Iowa and the Midwest Experience) by Julianne Couch — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Bad Kansas: Stories by Becky Mandelbaum — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs by Carol Murray — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Feet of the Messenger by H.C. Palmer — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Fireflies in the Gathering Dark by Maril Crabtree — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Headlights on the Prairie : Essays on Home by Robert Rebein2018
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy by David A. Nichols2018
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941 by Mark Eberle — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Kansas Guidebook 2 for Exploreres by Marci Penner — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity by Grant Snider — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era by Robert K. Sutton — not in English Common Knowledge2018
That Is My Dream!: A picture book of Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation" by Langston Hughes — not in English Common Knowledge2018
To The Stars Through Difficulties: A Novel by Romalyn Tilghman — not in English Common Knowledge2018
American Heart by Laura Moriarty — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Brown Enough (A Tale Of A Mixed-Race Baseball Team Summer Of '56) by Ken Ohm — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Buried in the Suburbs by Jamie Lynn Heller — not in English Common Knowledge2019
The Deepest Roots by Miranda Asebedo — not in English Common Knowledge2019
The diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas settler and Civil War soldier by Reuben Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World by Louis Galambos — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River by Max McCoy — not in English Common Knowledge2019
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Rachel Devlin — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Night Out by Daniel Miyares — not in English Common Knowledge2019
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy — not in English Common Knowledge2019
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden2019
The Pastor Wears a Skirt: Stories of Gender and Ministry by Dorothy Nickel Friesen — not in English Common Knowledge2019
The Saint of Wolves and Butchers by Alex Grecian — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Seafire by Natalie C. Parker — not in English Common Knowledge2019
Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker by Charles H. Warner — not in English Common Knowledge2020
A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Crumbled! by Lisa Harkrader — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement by A. LaFaye — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Headwinds: a memoir by Edna Bell-Pearson — not in English Common Knowledge2020
The Healer's Daughter by Charlotte Hinger — not in English Common Knowledge2020
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters by Allison Lassieur — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Kansas City Chiefs Legends: The Greatest Coaches, Players and Front Office Execs in Chiefs History by Jeff Deters — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Perfect Silhouette by Judith Miller — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills by Rex Buchanan — not in English Common Knowledge2020
The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Steel Tide by Natalie C. Parker — not in English Common Knowledge2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner — not in English Common Knowledge2020
What Color Is Night? by Grant Snider — not in English Common Knowledge2020
Prairie Bachelor: The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement by Lynda Beck Fenwick2021