Central Kansas Library System

"A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, The Ocean at the End of the Laneis told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when...

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with...

A tale set in a world in which technological advances have been suppressed finds particle physicist Jon Grady helping to innovate a device capable of reflecting gravity only to be targeted by a shadowy organization from the future.

"Bring the pixelated adventure of Minecraft to life with this unofficial cookbook featuring 30 recipes from the world of your favorite video game! Featuring 30 recipes for all difficulty levels, this is the perfect guide for an afternoon of cooking with kids under adult supervision. Whether you're making food for a Minecraft-themed party, or your gamer likes to cook, The Unofficial Minecraft Cookbook has something for everyone. Recipes include: Square...

An illustrated introduction to what the seasons are, why and when they change, and how they affect plants, animals, and peopl

"When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend, bombs are dropped. The war ends soon after, but not for...

Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for "The New York Review of Books," "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times Book Review" have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" ("Poets & Writers"). In "Waiting for the Barbarians," he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays--each one glinting with "verve and sparkle," "acumen and passion"--A wide range of subjects, from "Avatar" to the poems...

"The Native American story is as diverse and unique as each individual and as powerful as a common community connected by adversity, wisdom, spirituality, and destiny. Indigenous people are working to connect to their roots, counter stereotypes, and highlight the important contributions made by the nation's original inhabitants"--