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McCray Family novels volume 1
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Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named Christmas, who teaches an entire community a lesson in the transforming power of love and goodwill.
43) Violet
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"For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later, loss returns--her husband killed in a car accident. And so, Kris goes home to the place where she first knew pain--to that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. It's there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief....
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If ever a town institution needed rescuing, it's the beloved Dog and Cow diner. Once it was Henry Adam's social center, now it's in danger of becoming duct-tape central. There are plenty of distractions pulling Bernadine from the task at hand-- including the return of her troublemaking ex-husband, looking for a second chance.
"On the heels of Bring on the Blessings, bestselling author Beverly Jenkins gives readers a second helping of the beautiful...
45) Dandelion fire
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100 cupboards volume 2
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Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
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"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...
47) The river
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River novels volume 1
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“The River is a story that will transform how you see yourself and the world.” —Andy Andrews, New York Times best-selling author of The Noticer, The Traveler’s Gift, and How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
“You were made for The River . . .”
Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high
...48) May B
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Cozy Winter Reads for Middle Grades
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
49) Calico spy
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Undercover ladies volume 3
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English
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"Pinkerton operative Katie Madison s newest case takes her to Calico, Kansas, where two Harvey House restaurant waitresses were murdered in mysterious circumstances. Calico s sheriff, Branch Whitman, has never met a Pink he liked and is stunned to learn the pretty redhead's true identity as she works undercover as a Harvey girl. A tornado hits town, and a past deception puts Branch s eight-year-old-son in danger. Now the Sheriff has no choice but...
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"From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a tender and funny debut novel, set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of an estranged daughter's homecoming"--
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Milagro Street romances volume 2
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"The first time she left Freedom, Kansas, behind, she did it by doing everything right. This time, she'll hide from the large Mexican American family welcoming her home and work in secret to break the curse that's erased her magical life. Only by doing it all wrong can Gillian get herself and her two children away from the ghosts of her hometown by summer's end. Nicky Mendoza is an answer to her prayers. He was the practical solution to the problem...
53) Bound: a novel
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Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of
contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes
hilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth in
Wichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK
(Bind, Torture, and Kill). A story of wayward love and lost memory, of
public and private lives twisting out of control, Bound is Nelson's most accomplished
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Blessings volume 4
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Anyone worried that living in a small town could be boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams, Kansas. From the wealthy divorcée who saved this historic town founded by freed slaves to the romantic entanglements that have set tongues wagging and hearts fluttering, there's plenty to keep the lovably eccentric townsfolk busy. Preston Mays is happy living with his foster parents, but an e-mail from his maternal grandmother is about to change all...
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Culinary Mysteries
Feast on These Books
OBD Reese's Book Club Picks - Adult
Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Picks
Feast on These Books
OBD Reese's Book Club Picks - Adult
Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Picks
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Fannie Flagg meets Elin Hilderbrand in this deliciously charming debut novel about fried chicken, family feuds, and the foibles of the human heart. In the tiny town of Merinac, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to be the restaurant that serves up the best fried chicken in Kansas--and the legendary bad blood between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. But there's one person...
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Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it's worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common in rural Blackwater, Kansas, where crime and overdoses are on the rise, and the small-town police force is consumed with the recent discovery of a child's skull in the woods. Sadie is on her own, delving into the dark corners of a life her brother kept hidden and unearthing more questions than answers....
59) Prairie storm
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Town called Hope volume 3
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English
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An orphaned baby brings evangelist Elijah Book and widow Lily Nolan together.
60) Prairie fire
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Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's ever fought for, everything he's ever loved. He's lost his home, the Confederacy and its goal for a new and vital nation, and now his little nephew, Chipper.
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