Medicine Creek, Kansas. In a town where nothing changes, where Main Street is a two-block stretch of old and dusty businesses, a peculiar and ghastly murder has taken place. The body was mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Cool-eyed and smooth FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to discover a ...
Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--Senator Edward Kennedy.
Liberal journalist Thomas Frank turns his witty and insightful pen on this nation's gradual drift to the right over the last 30 years of the 20th century, asking "Why?" The conservative movement, once the bastion of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and protected interests now appears to be the people's party, the party of populism, and Frank wants ...
Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ...
Parker tries his hand at the Western genre in this tale of Wyatt Earp's passion for the beautiful Josie Marcus--who, unfortunately, is the moll of dangerous, smooth-talking Sheriff Johnny Behan.
This "unofficial" (i.e. unbiased) assessment of Disney World, updated for 2002, offers concise descriptions of its various theme parks, along with area hotels, for the visitor.
Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ...
This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ...
In this memoir, a Sioux American Indian who has been in federal prison since 1977 for killing two FBI agents proclaims his innocence, describes life behind bars, and discusses several issues pertaining to American Indian politics.
The all-black town of Henry Adams, Kansas, is in dire financial straits. To save the town, the mayor puts it up for sale--on the Internet! But they know nothing about the new owner. Will this be the death of Henry Adams--or its rebirth?
Veronica Sparks is hitting the road! She has practically memorized "Seize the Way: Ten Weeks to SuperSize Your Life! "and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world! Well, someday. For now she's hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather at the wheel and her hyperactive little brother in the ...
Evelyn Bucknow is highly intelligent, not pretty, and determined not to sink into the sea of loserhood that her relatives swim in. It's the 1980s, and her grandfather is a bigot, her grandmother is a mindless Reaganite, her single mother gets pregnant by her boss and produces a retarded child, and the boy Evelyn loves falls for her prettier best ...
Narrated by Dan Dye, co-owner of the Three Dog Bakery in Kansas City, this small book tells the true story of his canine inspiration, Gracie. Gracie is a Great Dane whose physical limitations could not contain her inimitable spirit, and who provided just the inspiration that two men needed to start a business.
England-born Emmaline Bradford pledged her life to Geoffrey Garrett and then bid him farewell when he sailed to America. Although Geoffrey anticipated only a short separation, several years passed before he was able to send for Emmaline. By then the fiery flame of her youthful love had all but died. Shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas ...
Never before has there been such a detailed portrait of women's courage. Here are the stories of wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders and circuit riders. And their recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, Indian raids, cowboy shootouts, blizzards and more. Photos.
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. The only problem is he can't play the game. But coach has a plan for Kirby and the supremely untalented seventh-grade team. It involves the guys playing only in their briefs. An entertaining first novel.--"Booklist."
Bill McKibben has called this book "the deepest map anyone ever made of an American place"--a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains. It takes the author--by car, on foot, and in mind--into the core of our continent and backward and forward through a brilliant spectrum of time and place. There is no ...
All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family. Widower Peter ...
In 1917, America's most brazen young con man arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. Quackbuster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business. This work offers a marvelous portrait of an audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.
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