Kansas Notable Books 2017-2006 (by title)

Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2012 8 Wonders of Kansas! Guidebook Marci Penner 2015 999 Kansas Characters : Ad Astra, a Biographical Series Dave Webb, et al 2010 Addie of the Flint Hills: A Prairie Child During the Depression Adaline Sorace, D. Prutzman 2013 Adventures of Beanboy, The Lisa Harkrader 2007 Afoot: A Tale of the Great Dakota Turkey Drive George Brandsberg 2012 Afterlives of Trees, The Wyatt Townley 2006 Airball: My Life in Briefs L.D. Harkrader 2016 Alphabet School Stephen T. Johnson 2009 Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator Shelley Tanaka 2012 Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Candace Fleming 2008 American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch Matthew Polly 2011 Amy Barickman's Vintage Notions Amy Barickman 2011 And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado Bonar Menninger 2007 Angle of Yaw Ben Lerner Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality 2011 Empire That Civilized the Wild West Stepher Fried 2009 Artfully Done : Across Generations Roxann Banks Dicker 2011 Baking With Friends: Recipes, Tips, and Fun Facts for Teaching Kids to Bake Sharon Davis, Charlene Patton 2007 Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas Robert K. DeArment 2012 Bent Road: A Novel Lori Roy 2013 Beyond Cold blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK Larry Welch 2014 Biting Through the Skin Nina Mukerjee Furstenau 2016 Bitter Magic, A Roderick Townley 2014 Black Country, The Alex Grecian 2013 Blackbear Bosin: Keeper of the Indian Spirit David Simmonds 2014 Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri Jonathan Earle, Diane Mutti-Burke 2010 Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes, The Roderick Townley 2015 Bluebird Lindsey Yankey 2016 Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery Dana Bowman 2011 Bound Antonya Nelson 2016 Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas, The Andrea Warren 2008 Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians, The Brad Sneed, illustrator 2009 Burn Kathleen Johnson Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball 2008 Vagabond Paul Shirley 2006 Capote in Kansas: A Drawn Novel Ande Parks Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2015 Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel, A Thomas Fox Averill 2010 Carter Finally Gets It Brent Crawford 2013 Chaperone, The Laura Moriarty Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age 2009 of Flimflam Pope Brock 2015 Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, S. Locke 2011 Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2009 Curse Dark As Gold, A Elizabeth C. Bunce 2008 Curse of Catunkhamun, The Tim Raglin 2006 Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy, The Thomas Goodrich 2015 Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873, The Ronald D. Parks 2014 Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter, A Marianne Wesson 2006 Deputy Harvey and the Ant Cow Caper Brad Sneed 2012 Destiny of the Republic : a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Candice Millard 2015 Devil's Workshop: A Novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, The Alex Grecian 2016 Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl Carolyn Meyer 2011 Distant Home, A George Paris 2012 Doc: A Novel Mary Doria Russell 2012 Door in the Forest, The Roderick Tosnley 2014 Dragging Wyatt Earp Robert Rebein 2013 Dust Bowl: an Illustrated History, The Dayton Duncan 2014 Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs Nicole Muchmore 2013 Ecstacy They Call Damnation: Poems, The Israel Wasserstein 2014 Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist Richard A. Ruddy 2013 Eisenhower in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith 2010 Evolution of Shadows, The Jason Quinn Malott 2008 Farther Shore, The Matthew Eck 2017 Fast-Food Sonnets Dennis Etzel Jr. 2015 Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska Iralee Barnard 2007 Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales From the Tallgrass Prairie James Hoy 2011 Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State Cheryl Unruh 2016 For the Sake of Art: The Story of a Kansas Renaissance Cynthia Mines 2008 From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White Beverley O. Buller 2013 Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894 Kevin G. W. Olson 2017 Ghost Sign: Poems from White Buffalo Al Ortolani, et al Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2011 Ghost Stories of the New West: From Einstein's Brain to Geronimo's Boots Denise Low 2010 Ghost Town Richard W. Jennings 2015 Girl in Reverse Barbara Stuber 2014 Good Lord Bird, The James McBride 2006 Great Blues, The Steve Semken 2017 Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future Allan Drummond 2009 Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots, The Bob Gress, Pete Janzen 2016 Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse Rosa Walston Latimer 2008 Hellfire Canyon Max McCoy 2017 Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill Candice Millard Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer 2009 Who Chronicled How America Ate Kelly Alexander, Cynthia Harris 2008 Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West Michael L. Johnson 2006 Hungry Heart: A Memoir, A Gordon Parks 2017 Hurt People: A Novel Cote Smith 2007 I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You Ally Carter 2006 In the Small, Small Night Jane Kurtz 2017 Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860 Greg Olson 2007 John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas Virgil Dean 2006 John Brown, Abolitionist David S. Reynolds 2007 John Steuart Curry: The Road Home Alice Bertels 2013 Kansas Bestiary, A Jake Vail, Doug Hitt, Lisa Grossman 2006 Kansas Guidebook for Explorers, The Marci Penner 2007 Kansas Murals: A Traveler's Guide Lora Jost, Dave Loewenstein 2009 Kansas Opera Houses: Actors and Community Events 1855-1925 Jane Glotfelty Rhoads 2015 Kansas Relays: Track and Field Tradition in the Heartland, The Joe D. Schrag 2016 Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State Jonathan Conard, Kristin Conard 2016 Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds Michael John Haddock, et al 2010 Kansas Year, A Mike Blair 2008 Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, The Albert Goldbarth 2017 Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes, The George Frazier 2012 Liar's Moon Elizabeth C Bunce 2011 Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project Jack Mayer 2007 Light on Main Street: Storytelling by a Country Newspaper Editor Rudy Taylor 2010 Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano Kevin Rabas 2007 Loose Change of Wonder, The Steven Hind Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2017 Lost and Gone Forever: A Novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad Alex Grecian Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John 2016 Wilkes Booth, The Scott Martelle 2006 Maggie Rose and Sass Eunice Boeve 2009 Making History: Quilts & Fabric From 1890-1970 Barbara Brackman Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade As a Postmodern 2009 Travel Writer Rolf Potts 2008 Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, A David A. Nichols 2013 May B: A Novel Caroline Starr Rose 2017 Memory of Lemon: A Novel, The Judith Fertig 2015 Michael Pearce's Taste of the Kansas Outdoors Cookbook Michael Pearce 2008 Middle of Somewhere, The J. B. Cheaney 2017 Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography Jorge Iber 2006 Moon Butter Route, The Max Yoho 2011 Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool 2015 Music I Once Could Dance To Roy J. Beckemeyer 2007 My Little Yellow Taxi Stephen T Johnson 2012 My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas Tracy Seeley 2009 Nature of Kansas Lands, The Beverley Worster 2014 Navigating Early Clare Vanderpool 2014 Needle in the Bone Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg 2017 Nest of Hornets, A Robert Krenzel 2017 Never Enough Flamingos Janelle Diller 2007 Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940 Craig Miner 2012 Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, The Ramon Powers, James N Leiker 2007 Not Afraid of Dogs Susanna Pitzer 2010 Nothing Right: Short Stories Antonya Nelson 2016 Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters Rod Beemer 2006 Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea Michael J. Everhart 2014 Of Grave Concern Max McCoy 2007 Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains William Ashworth 2015 Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning, The Julene Bair 2010 One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book Devin Scillian, Corey Scillian 2006 Ordinary Genius Thomas Fox Averill 2012 Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure Kelly Enright 2010 Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains With the Smith Center Redmen Joe Drape Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2009 Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, A Donald Worster 2017 Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball Scott Morrow Johnson 2009 Pizza Hut Story, The Robert Spector 2012 Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History Julie Courtwright 2011 Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White, A Beverley O. Buller 2011 Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward Lana Wirt Myers 2017 Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West Candace Fleming Railroad Empire Across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward 2015 Journey James E. Sherow, John Charlton 2008 Rest of Her Life, The Laura Moriarty Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's 2007 Rights Diane Eickhoff 2012 Rode Thomas Fox Averill 2011 Scent of Rain and Lightning, The Nancy Pickard 2008 Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep Michael J. Everhart 2009 Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 Craig Miner 2012 Send Me Work: Stories Katherine Karlin 2007 Shanghai Shadows Lois Ruby 2010 Silver Shoes Paul Miles Schneider 2017 Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century, The Julianne Couch Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African 2015 American Combat Unit Ian Michael Spurgeon 2011 Star Crossed Elizabeth C Bunce 2008 Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey Jim Reed 2010 Storm in the Barn, The Matt Phelan 2016 Sun and Moon Lindsey Yankey 2009 Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests Richard E. Wood Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: an Odyssey in Mixed 2012 Martial Arts Matthew Polly 2014 Teatime to Tailgates: 150 Years at the K-State Table Jane P. Marshall 2014 Thing About Luck, The Cynthia Kadohata 2014 Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's, The Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz 2013 Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas Arnold J. Bauer 2016 To Leave a Shadow Michael D. Graves 2013 To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed) 2010 To the Stars: Kansas Poets of the Ad Astra Poetry Project Denise Low Ordered Cost Year Title Author 2016 Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir William D. Street 2010 Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg Andrea Warren 2007 Virgin of Small Plains, The Nancy Pickard 2013 Voice for Kanzas, A Debra McArthur 2015 Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays Cheryl Unruh 2016 While the Kettle's On Melissa Fite Johnson 2013 Wide Open Larry Bjornson 2006 Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide Michael John Haddock 2007 Words of a Prairie Alchemist Denise Low 2014 Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me Andy Marso 2008 Writing in an Age of Silence Sara Paretsky 2013 Yard, The Alex Grecian 2010 Years of Dust Albert Marrin Youngest Brother: On a Kansas Wheat Farm During the Roaring Twenties and the Great 2006 Depression, The C. Hugh Snyder TOTAL $300 limit for supplemental grant, partial book costs allowed. Invoices/Receipts must be submitted with this checklist New purchases within calendar year 2018 only Only the actual cost of the book will be reimbursed, any shipping costs, sales tax and/or protective book covers are the responsibility of individual recipient library.