Ormsbee, Kathryn.
Summary: Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighbouring commune in 1977. Slater, Kansas is a small town where not much seems to happen. Stella dreams of being a space engineer. After Stella's mom dies by suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ORMParetsky, Sara
Summary: While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ParetskyBrowder, Catherine
Summary: "1992. Tyler Manning-- high school teacher, part-time farmer, bachelor of 38--is planning his first day of summer vacation when a strange car approaches his Kansas farmhouse. By the time the battered Ford departs, Tyler is holding a three-week-old infant. The baby's father is his estranged brother. Woven throughout the narrative of May Manning's upbringing--assisted by long-time neighbors and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regal House Publishing 2023
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Summary: Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LYNLevithan, David
Summary: "A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVMcAlpine, Gordon
Summary: Accused of murder after going missing for four days and returning with tales of a fantastical land, a young Dorothy must convince a psychologist of her innocence in 1896 Kansas, in a retelling of The Wizard of Oz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCADundee, Wayne D.
Summary: "Wayne Dundee's straight-shootin', hard-ridin' fan favorite is back in the saddle again, hell bent for leather on getting justice. Arriving on horseback at a railroad watering station where he means to briefly rest and hopefully find some refreshment before moving on, Lone McGantry tangles with a pair of rowdy cowboys who are up to no good. No sooner is that resolved than a train arrives after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "A decade before the legendary Gunfight at OK Corral, there was a much bloodier showdown with a much bigger body count -- and Wichita Herald reporter Cindy Bagwell was there to see it all. At first, the fledgling journalist had no idea why her boss would send her to what hardly even passes for a town. But Texans, including trail boss Gary Hardee and his sons, are bringing longhorns to Kansas....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "The three Dragon Speakers have once again been separated, and worse--the Great Dragon has been split into three parts after the Dark Sun. Can the pandas unite to challenge the golden monkeys who want to rule the Kingdom? Or will infighting and a mysterious killer stop their quest in its tracks?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HUNReid, Kiley
Summary: It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REICranor, Eli
Summary: "Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone's throw away from the trailer park where they've lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Ariel and Tomah have lived in the city's intertribal housing complex all their lives. But for both of them, this Dagwaagin (Autumn) season is different than any before. From his bench outside the front door of his building, Tomah watches his community move around him. He is better at making people laugh than he is at schoolwork, but often it feels like his neighbor Ariel is the only one who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC QUIFerry, Beth
Summary: "With the utmost care, brothers and professional movers Tiny and Pete will move anything anywhere because they know that nothing is too small or too light to wrap up tight and treat just right. But during their biggest move yet, a young panda's pet turtle goes missing and even the brothers' efforts might not be enough to save the day"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Introduces readers to Blossom, Mulan's panda, telling the story of how she became Mulan's friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: "It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024