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1) Kansas
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and geography of the state as well as famous citizens and interesting sites.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Overview: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959,...
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Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastated the luxurious mansion of Dr. Debora Green and her husband, Dr. Michael Farrar. Trapped and burned to death in the flames were twelve-year-old Tim and his six-year-old sister Kelly. Lissa, ten, was barely able to leap to safety from the garage roof into the arms of her mother, who was standing outside the house. When Michael Farrar returned to the...
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Language
English
Description
NATIONAL 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 writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture,...
10) Hell's half-acre: the untold story of the Benders, a serial killer family on the American frontier
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took place became known as 'Hells Half-Acre.' When it emerged that...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
With a New Afterword by the Author
Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank...
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Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great...
13) Kansas
Author
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kansas is often referred to as "America's Heartland" or "Midway, U.S.A." This is because it lies in the geographic center of the United States mainland. Learn more in Kansas, one of the titles in the Our American States series.
14) Kansas
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Invite your students to explore the state of Kansas in this comprehensive title! Informative, easy-to-read text draws in reluctant readers, while vibrant, oversized photos showcase the beauty and diversity of this state. Readers journey through Kansas as they learn about its history, cities, land features, animals, industries, famous people, and more! A "Tour Book" spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in Kansas. Other features include a table...
17) Kansas
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the history, geography, people, industries, and other highlights of Kansas.
18) Bitter harvest
Author
Publisher
Pocket Star Book
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Gifted with a brilliant mind, blessed with a beautiful family- and cursed with a destructive madness. In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora Green,a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small-town girl with a genius IQ, she...
Author
Publisher
C&T Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Turn back time with color photos and insightful essays about America's quilting past! Admire one hundred antique quilts and textiles you've never seen before, curated from the remarkable Poos Collection. See elaborate hand piecing and appliqué, signature quilts, wholecloth beauties, and an extraordinary war cover quilt that's the only known example from America. An invaluable resource to America's quilt history, the Poos Collection shares its classic,...
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