Central Kansas Library System

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series.... Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her future has expanded in exciting new directions--a...

For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death! A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town -- and the black gold beneath it. And Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...

Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.

Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life - again. But on her way out of town, she dropped her cell phone and caused a three-car pileup. For her crime, she was sentenced to four months of community service with none other than the policeman she'd had words with at the reception escorting her to and from work.

When a determined heir moves to block a wealthy woman's attempt to include her newly discovered grandson in her will, it is up to well-intentioned ghost Bailey Ruth Raeburn to protect a little boy, foil a murderer, and save Christmas.

In Catlin County, Oklahoma, sheriff Sam Titus and his photographer Nicky investigate cattle rustling and murder.