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Explore History Exchange Ideas Build Community Updated September 2017 CHILDHOOD CLASSICS ....................................... 13 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame WELCOME .......................................................... 4 The TALK Model THE CIVIL WAR ..................................................... 14 A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut THE 1930s ............................................................. 5 March by Geraldine Brooks All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren The March by E. L. Doctorow The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan COMING OF AGE IN RURAL AMERICA .............. 15 Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES .............. 6 Good Land by Bruce Bair The Autobiography of Malcolm X Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall Race Matters by Cornel West COMMUNITY: THE WAY WE LIVE ....................... 16 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Bailey’s Cafe by Gloria Naylor Mama Day by Gloria Naylor AFRICAN EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATION ......... 7 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah What Is the What by Dave Eggers CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION ....................... 17 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Dantica Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros AWARD WINNERS ................................................ 8 Harbor by Lorraine Adams Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Typical American by Gish Jen Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem ENCOUNTERING ASIA ......................................... 18 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR ..................................... 9 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley Waiting by Ha Jin The Englishman in Kansas by Thomas H. Gladstone John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Merrill D. Peterson Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe ENTANGLED WORLD ........................................... 19 Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria Bel Canto by Ann Patchett People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz THE BEST OF THE WEST .................................... 10 Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig O Pioneers! by Willa Cather THE EXILE’S PLACE ............................................ 20 The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Shane by Jack Schaefer The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi BETWEEN FENCES .............................................. 11 Brick Lane by Monica Ali Farewell to Manzanar by J. W. Houston & J. D. Houston Fences by August Wilson FAITH IN FICTION: CHRISTIANITY ..................... 21 The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya The Wire-Cutters by Mollie E. Moore Davis The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin BRITISH CLASSICS .............................................. 12 I Hear the Reaper’s Song by Sara Stambaugh Emma by Jane Austen A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Great Expectations by Charles Dickens FAITH IN FICTION: WORLD FAITHS ................... 22 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat (Islam) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Christianity) Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama (Buddhism) Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (Hinduism) The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham (Judaism) KHC Talk About Literature in Kansas Catalog • Updated September 2017 • 2 FOOD FOR THOUGHT .......................................... 23 NATIVE AMERICAN MYSTERIES ......................... 34 Empire Falls by Richard Russo Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman Miriam’s Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather Secrets of the Tsil Café by Thomas Fox Averill The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel The Shaman Sings by James D. Doss THE GREAT PLAINS SPIRIT ................................ 24 The Bones of Plenty by Lois Hudson ON THE LIGHTER SIDE ........................................ 35 Great Plains by Ian Frazier How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Touching the Fire by Roger Welsch Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton GROWING UP ........................................................ 25 READER’S CHOICE .............................................. 36 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Holes by Louis Sachar The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Life of Pi by Yann Martel My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd THAT’S FUNNY: GROWING UP AMERICAN ................................... 26 BOOKS THAT MAKE US LAUGH ......................... 37 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White The Mammy by Brendan O’Carroll HISPANIC HERITAGE: MOTHERS, SISTERS, & DAUGHTERS ................ 27 TODAY’S MYSTERIES .......................................... 38 Brand New Memory by Elias Miguel Muñoz Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron Esperanza’s Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón Reflex by Dick Francis The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Talking God by Tony Hillerman Where Echoes Live by Marcia Muller THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE .......................... 28 China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston URBAN INDIANS: Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS of the 1990s ....... 39 My Antonia by Willa Cather Bone Game by Louis Owens A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin The Grass Dancer by Susan Power Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie KANSAS AT 150 .................................................... 29 Tracks by Louise Erdrich It Happened in Kansas by Sarah Smarsh Kansas Poems of William Stafford ed. by Denise Low WESTERING .......................................................... 40 Now Let Me Fly by Marcia Cebulska The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird The Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day KANSAS LITERARY HERITAGE .......................... 30 Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart The Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day A Scattered People by Gerald McFarland The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Picnic by William Inge A WOMAN’S PLACE ............................................. 41 Sod and Stubble by John Ise A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Trail of the Spanish Bit by Don Coldsmith The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan A Lost Lady by Willa Cather LITERATURE WITH KANSAS CONNECTIONS ... 31 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes One Soldier’s Story by Bob Dole WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD .......................... 42 The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson by Thomas Fox Averill The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien (Ireland) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Chile) LIVING WITH THE LAND ...................................... 32 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Mexico) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (Senegal) Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Spartina by John Casey WORLD WAR II GENERATION ............................. 43 The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURE AND SOCIETY ...... 33 The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert The Israelis by Donna Rosenthal Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene My Prison, My Home by Haleh Esfandiari When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany TALK SCHOLAR DIRECTORY ............... 44-48 KHC Talk About Literature in Kansas Catalog • Updated September 2017 • 3 WELCOME to