Central Kansas Library System

After years of turmoil, Virginia Lewis is finally satisfied with her life. God has blessed her with the love of her husband Jonathan and four wonderful children, one of which is the daughter of her wayward childhood friend Jenny. Ten-year-old Mindy has grown into a healthy, faith-filled child and a full-fledged member of the Lewis family. But when a desperate Jenny arrives to reclaim her daughter, Virginia and Jonathan find themselves in a battle...

Looking to bust a vicious cartel operating south of the border, DEA agent Rodrigo Ramirez goes undercover as an itinerant laborer on Gloryanne Barnes's truck farm in Jacobsville. Young, fiercely independent and determined to provide work for the immigrants and their families, Gloryanne is unaware of the danger surrounding her.

In post-World War II Mississippi, two families, one white and one black, struggle to survive in the Jim Crow south. "In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land....

To Jonathan, Mary was a loving mate, helping him to reap the rich harvest from the land. To Aaron, she was a dear friend. But then Jonathan asked of his brother what he could ask of no other man.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...

Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials.

"Hang on to your land!" Julene Bair took her father's words to heart as a young girl. Even though she left Kansas as soon as she could for adventures in San Francisco and the Mojave Desert, she knew how much hard work and sacrifice her parents and grandparents had put into building her family's large farm. Hanging onto it would be her solemn obligation. When Julene inherited a share of the farm years later, however, honoring that wish no longer seemed...

The author relates the history of a small farm, forty acres in northeast Kansas purchased by the author and her husband in 1976. The book begins with the days when the land was part of the Delaware Indian Reserve, from 1830 to 1868, through the 1920s, when the farm was sold by the German immigrant family who had established it, to the present day. The farm today has returned to its roots as a diverse family farm, part also of the organic, sustainable,...