Frank Carlson Library

Members of the Concordia, Kansas, community were invited to write original poems and essays on the topic "What Kansas means to me." The work residents of Cloud County, Kansas, and those with connections to the area are included.

"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

The literature of Halloween began in a time when poets, playwrights, and storytellers told tales inspired by fear of fate, the unknown, and the inexplicable--stories about dead souls and otherworldly creatures who drifted through the dark only on Halloween, when the spirit world seemed close enough to touch. This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth...

This first collected edition of the poems of one of the greatest American poets also includes his book of essays, The Necessary Angel, and some 50 previously uncollected prose pieces, together with aphorisms and selections from his notebooks, journals, and correspondence that have been newly edited from manuscript sources