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1) Gilead
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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2023 Reading Challenge: A Reese, Jenna, Oprah, or Good Morning America Book Club Pick
2024 Reading Challenge: Book where the main character is over 50
2024 Reading Challenge: Book where the main character is over 50
Description
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The town of Lawrence in the Kaw River Valley in Kansas, two families the Grelliers and the Schapens have farmed the land for over one hundred and fifty years. Both families barely tolerate each other because the Schapens who belong to a fundamentalist church believes the Grelliers are godless heathens. Into this atmosphere comes Gina Haring, a Wiccan and a lesbian, who is the catalyst for a series of events that ends in tragedy and death.
5) Pay dirt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
Author
Series
Susan Wren mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
9) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse — either way, no one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.
11) A cold Christmas
Author
Series
Susan Wren mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
12) Up in smoke
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
14) The talent show
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
Author
Series
The Amish of Apple Grove volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After being robbed while traveling to visit relatives, Emma Switzer and her family are stranded on the prairie. When cowboy Luke Carson encounters them in a Kansas trading settlement, Emma knows that he is the answer to their prayers for help.
16) May B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
17) The key to love
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking is romance, so she creates a lovelock wall right outside her Parisian-style bakery in the middle of Kansas. When a love-scorned travel writer arrives in town, things start to heat up-in and out of the kitchen"--
Author
Series
Blessings volume 1
Language
English
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2024 Reading Challenge: Book where the main character is over 50
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When a post-Reconstruction African-American community succumbs to a desperate need for funds and purpose, its mayor puts the small town up for sale and finds a buyer in Bernardine Brown, who believes the town's sale to be a sign from God.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly who their town's benevolence society should help first: quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Though Konrad may be struggling, he doesn't want anyone telling him what his sons need. Or what he needs. But God, indeed, knows best. Will the competing agendas of Alexandertol's...
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