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Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous collection, Kansas becomes a state of mind as Mandelbaum’s characters struggle to define their relationship to home and what it means to stay or leave, to hold on or let go. When a desperate woman finds herself on a date with a rugged man she has nothing...
Author
Publisher
Coal City Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of well-crafted poems lays bare the truths known by those who've labored in the fast-food industry. Dennis deftly illustrates what tolls the turbo delivery of food exacts from young people--for whom it is often first employment. Those smiling faces, who query "May I help you," hold back the question "Will you help me?" Each poem leaves the reader more aware that the cost of fast-food does not include what has been paid in history....
Author
Publisher
Woodley Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Buried in the Suburbs easily turns over rocks that many might argue are too cumbersome to hoist. Right smack out of the gate Jamie is unwilling to blithely coexist with "our little / automatic robots / that allow us to / remain oblivious." This is a useful stubbornness, as we shamble about in a world where the things we've made have outsourced our good fortune: luck is of no consequence when we can open an app to pinpoint the arrival of rain or, quite...
Author
Publisher
Local Gems Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Rabas continues his quest for universal truths in his latest collection of poetry and fiction, Late for Cymbal Line. Rabas displays characteristic honesty as he shares his life encounters with music, literature, romance, and family"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Spartan Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The idea for writing one poem a day for 100 days emerged slowly. In March, as we sheltered in place, I discovered that putting poems on Facebook allowed me to communicate with an immediacy that I usually only enjoyed at public readings. It tasted like bacon, like strong coffee. Naively, I thought 30 days would cover the worst of the pandemic. As I considered shutting down my daily posts, returning to sending poems out to small presses, I experienced...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Part historical fiction, part memoir, this novel takes place over a 10-week period in the summer of 1956 in a small town in the mid-west. It is based on a true story of the social and athletic achievements of an eleven-man mixed-race baseball team, seven African-American, three Hispanics, and one Caucasian. Under the leadership of an aging charismatic African-American manager, the Brown Bombers tolerate the nearness of racism as part of the price...
10) Manhattan mysteries: stories of the "Little Apple" written to celebrate the "small town" mystery
Publisher
KS Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Ernest Garcia was born and raised in Garden City, the grandson of Mexican immigrants. After graduating from KU, Garcia served in the Marine Corps and worked in various government positions. He saw combat in Iraq during both wars, worked for Bob Dole and Ronald Reagan, and finished out his career by leading the Kansas Highway Patrol. This biography, written by Garcia's cousin, tells a story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be a Kansan....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence,...
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border--a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends political, military,...
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