Central Kansas Library System

One of Hollywood's greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; in 1945, the Academy Award for her sensational comeback-triumph in Mildred Pierce; and today, a glamorous "double life" as Hollywood star and corporation executive. Richly illustrated with photographs throughout.

A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.

You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can't Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition. Feral House's new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further, including two remarkable nonfiction...

From the halls of Viking warriors to the mighty Parthenon and the deep forests and valleys of early Europe, history is filled with a vast array of rich Mythologies, amazing tales, impossible heroes, and fearsome monsters. Now, this incredible collection sheds light on 3 Mythologies - Norse Mythology, Greek Mythology, and Celtic Mythology - taking you on a journey into the past and unveiling these vibrant legends like never before. From tales of war,...

A meeting that just had to happen! Sherlock Holmes meets the Phantom of the Opera! Dr. Watson, after the recent death of his first wife, is asked to call in Holmes to investigate a mysterious "ghost" who haunts a French opera house. Although Holmes dismisses it as a case needing a spiritualist rather than a consulting detective, he agrees to look into it. Unknown to him, Eric, the tortured ghost of the Opera House will prove to be more than a ghost...

Ayn Rand's classic about the dark future of the great "we", where individuals have no names, no independence and no value, is the prelude to her later masterpieces The Origin and Atlas Throws the World off.

The story of Count Dracula as told by Bram Stoker and now adapted in this comic book graphic novel by award winning comic writer Steven Philip Jones. The journey of Jonathan Harker to Transylvania, the crash of the Demeter, the bloodletting of Lucy Westerna, the brave men who fight to stop the monster and save Mina...all the great parts of the great novel. The most famous of all horror novels is adapted in this graphic novel, which collects the original...

The ancient, mysterious Celtic people left behind little evidence of their way of life, but their vibrant folklore and stories resonate throughout the ages to inspire and intrigue people to this very day. Inside this gripping audiobook, you'll be taken on a journey through time to the legends of the Celtic people, discovering their tales of monsters and heroes in a new light. From the giants and fairies who inhabit the dark and threatening bronze...

A biography of Lyndon Johnson ranging from his birth to his death in 1973. Includes interviews with Lady Bird, John Kenneth Galbraith, J. William Fulbright, Larry O'Brien, Hubert Humphrey, and hundreds of others.

The Crock of Gold (1912), one of three original novels by James Stephens, is a work only a master of fiction and folklore could imagine. Taking up the major philosophical and psychological concerns of the early-twentieth century-over a decade before works by T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, among others, would cement literary Modernism's place in history-Stephens' novel is a groundbreaking and important work. The text centers on the Philosopher...