Central Kansas Library System

"On November 3, 2015, a crowd of 800,000 Royals fans peacefully gathered in the heart of Kansas City to welcome home their world champions. Grab your crown, head downtown, and experience this inspirational celebration through the eyes of a little one who believes"--Back cover.

Young Daniel Boone Trewick, caught with a young woman, flees Missouri believing he has killed the girl's father in a fight. He joins a freighting outfit on the Santa Fe Trail, and in Taos he meets Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Meanwhile in California, Juan Medina, a young vaquero in trouble for consorting with the ranch owner's daughter, is framed and jailed. After the ladrones...

Twisted Secrets, the second book of the "twisted trilogy," begins with an event that shatters TV newswoman Sydney Lawrence. Returning to her father's horse farm, Sydney seeks sanctuary with her adopted Iranian daughter, Lydia. But Ali Hassan, a notorious arms dealer, locates them in Kentucky and abducts Lydia. Sydney turns to the only man wo can find them, a former member of the IRA, a mysterious man, Kerry Donavan. Together they journey first...

An anthology of the works of Mark Twain including the complete texts of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn", selections from his travel and humorous sketches, and excerpts from lesser-known novels. Texts are taken from first editions and include the original illustrations.

"Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often. Babe is also a dreamer, something he shares in common with...