Central Kansas Library System

A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her crippled daughter to be married.

A classic story of survival.

The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

A touching story of a young boy who gives his sister a Christmas wish.

Johnny Fraser, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in North Carolina, goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and has adventures on both sides of the Atlantic.

A classic story of compassion.

An underprivileged boy is determined to guess the amount of money in and thereby win a jug of silver coins so that he can do something very special for his sister.