Central Kansas Library System

Gettysburg is a haunted place. The battlefield and many of the Civil War-era buildings that still stand are bursting with stories of ghosts and strange occurrences. Though this book is fiction, it draws sustenance from these real Gettysburg hauntings. When The Drummer Falls will take you on a midnight ride through this hallowed, haunted land. A ride which will take you beyond the mortal and into that which lies beyond.

A copiously illustrated account of the decisions, national leaders, and battles of World War II.

"Syria, 2011: Teenage boys graffiti 'Down with the regime' on a wall. This small act is just one of the many sparks that ignite a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical rule of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. But Assad and his supporters are ruthless: imprisonment, torture, and devastating massacres tear the country apart. Refugees begin to flee Syria in staggering numbers. The unexpected flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries. Desperate...

The conclusion to an alternate history of World War II in which the recurrent battle between the Confederate States of America and the United States reaches a critical point in 1944 with the introduction of a new, devastating, weapon.

In the Southwest during the American Civil War, three men seek a stolen gold shipment. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other.

"In the spring of 1994, more than one million people were murdered in the Rwandan genocide. This is the story of how Immaculee survived certain death, along with seven other women, by hiding in a very small bathroom for more than 3 months. Day after day, for months, the killers would search nearby -- gleefully chanting "kill them big, kill them small, kill them, kill them, kill them all!" With uncommon sincerity, Immaculee shares with us her soul's...

This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer....