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Crack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you're in menopause-because you'll be reading this book all at once. Insightful and hilarious, Amber Fraley will keep you on the edge of your chair with this collection of frequently irreverent, sometimes heartfelt, essays about growing up a GenXer in the Midwest. In the style of David Sedaris, Carnival Snackery and Nora McInerney, Bad V...

Crack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you're in menopause-because you'll be reading this book all at once. Insightful and hilarious, Amber Fraley will keep you on the edge of your chair with this collection of frequently irreverent, sometimes heartfelt, essays about growing up a GenXer in the Midwest. In the style of David Sedaris, Carnival Snackery and Nora McInerney, Bad V...

A family traveling to Guatemala to see the Mayan ruins at Tikal encounter "los hombres militarious" and uniformed soldiers. A sightseeing trip in Turkey meets with obstacles, courtesy, and aid from an unexpected source. A visit to the Eiffel Tower ends with eviction by security guards. An idyllic kayaking vacation in Florida turns into an expedition of courage. In addition to tales of modern travels and travails, Hann's stories include the e...

Evan desperately wants to go to the mall with his mother to tell Santa he changed his Christmas wish. When his mother refuses, Evan's frustration leads to breaking a small angel figurine in his room, triggering a magical encounter with the real angel. Join Evan as the life-sized Christmas angel guides him on an adventure to learn the true meaning of Christmas while he experiences Jesus' teachings of love, compassion, and the joy of giving. The...

Evan desperately wants to go to the mall with his mother to tell Santa he changed his Christmas wish. When his mother refuses, Evan's frustration leads to breaking a small angel figurine in his room, triggering a magical encounter with the real angel. Join Evan as the life-sized Christmas angel guides him on an adventure to learn the true meaning of Christmas while he experiences Jesus' teachings of love, compassion, and the joy of giving. The...

THE WRITE BRIDGE JOURNAL In each edition of The Write Bridge readers are encouraged to "mind the gap" as writers and artists with powerful voices explore topics that broaden our thinking. In a 1936 Esquire article entitled "The Crack Up, " author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation-the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...

The Secret of the MAGIC CRYSTAL COMPANION COLORING BOOK. Learn how to draw mermaids, dragons, and other mythical creatures in this fantasy coloring book. An elegant, original, and wonderfully entertaining children's picture book. ~ Susan Bethany, Reviewer's Bookwatch A magic crystal leads three friends on an enchanting adventure. A fairy, a mermaid, and a sorceress make new friends and learn an ancient secret. Alana finds a glowing crystal...

Discover why deer don't like to be lassoed, what it's like to drive down a mountain pass without power steering or power brakes after the engine quits, and learn what can happen when cultures clash in these stories of fun, fear, and folly. David Hann's Bluebirds To Tikal is a travel journal, of sorts. filled with tales of adventure and misadventure from central U.S.A. to central Asia. A family traveling to Guatemala to see the Mayan ruins at...

She's at it again, trying to solve a murder in another famous hotel while avoiding being locked up for the very crime she's investigating. Bribes, fixed races, dirty money and unkempt places. A string of illicit deeds that trails from San Antonio to New Orleans and back again. Be it plane, train or automobile, Sydney will get to the bottom of this case in her own determined style. It's 1953, and detective Sydney Lockhart finds herself solvi...

A gripping, finely crafted read with a cast of compelling characters. High-school friends and rivals, Tenbrook and Pillars, find themselves on opposite sides of a barbed wire fence when one decides to plow and develop the native prairie they hunted together as youths. Gurley lays bare a boiling feud pitting preservationist against developer, working man against moneyed power, and old values against new desires. The Griefmaker digs at the edges...

It's 1953 and reporter Sydney Lockhart and her partner/boyfriend, PI Ralph Dixon, are hobnobbing at a swanky party at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. Before Sydney finishes her first martini, a gunshot sounds, and future gubernatorial candidate, Leland Tatum, is found dead in the Yellow Rose Suite down the hall. With wit and humor, Syndey finds herself embroiled in another hotel murder.Sydney and Dixon have just opened their new detective...

While experimenting with substances in the university library, Kymer is confronted by a ghost from KU's past: Carrie Watson, the librarian who is the library's namesake. Carrie gives Kymer the insect field journal of Flora Ellen Richardson, the first woman to graduate from KU. When Kymer reviews the bug diary, she realizes there's a bee in Flora's journal that's never before been identified by science. A wild ride ensues changing the world of ...

Anderson takes us on a journey to 1950s and 60s Kansas and treats the reader to hometown cooking in her tasty memoir Posts of a Mid-Century Kid. With humor and richly crafted details, she chronicles her mid-century childhood, offering a sampling of another era. This delightful and mischievous memoir advocates coloring vividly outside of the lines!A fun exploration of vintage toys, traditional festivities and personal growth into adulthood when...

Eighteen years after discovering the murdered body of her grandfather in the foyer of the historic Galvez Hotel, reporter Sydney Lockhart returns to Galveston, Texas to cover a story. Instead, she finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery.Something fishy is going on in Galveston, Texas, and Sydney is smack dab in the middle of it when she checks into the historic Galvez Hotel, a place that stirs her most uncomfortable memories. She's there c...

The humorous adventures of four middle-school friends learning life-lessons. A missing painting, three unusual suspects, and a group of inquisitive kids on the trail. Jo and the School's Out Squad follow the tracks to uncover The Mystery of the Blue Dog.Sixth grader Jo Daniels and her friends discover some strange goings-on in their neighborhood. No one seems prepared to stop the trouble except Jo-and she's always in trouble! Jo, Tommy, Betsy,...

The humorous adventures of four middle-school friends learning life-lessons. A missing painting, three unusual suspects, and a group of inquisitive kids on the trail. Jo and the School's Out Squad follow the tracks to uncover The Mystery of the Blue Dog.Sixth grader Jo Daniels and her friends discover some strange goings-on in their neighborhood. No one seems prepared to stop the trouble except Jo-and she's always in trouble! Jo, Tommy, Betsy,...

Reporter Mary Fanning finds the body on the bed, poisoned. Mary Fanning finds the body on the bed in the house next door. Smart, tough and inquisitive, she covers the murder trial as the first woman reporter for the Kansas Daily Tribune. Amid the upheaval of post-Civil War Lawrence, she unravels the diabolical plots and desperate lives that led to three dead bodies and a shocking last act. Did a doctor's brazen affair with his patient's wif...

Perry Shepard's poetry compilation, A Rhythmic Electric Circus of Sound Part 66 (A.R. E.C.O.S Part 66), dives into the many aspects of his insights into human thought and experiences. Presented in a diverse colorful language, the reader is drawn in and compelled to see themselves in new and old ways. "Shepard is a poet who examines the many aspects of what it means to be human. His philosophical writings supply both questions and answers to th...

New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Bodies and Murder! "A fiercely intelligent crime drama as emotionally sharp as it is historically inventive. Krishtalka's prose is powerfully versatile, alternating between the sort of terse, unsentimental phrasing that one would expect from a detective story and poetical elegance."~ Kirkus ReviewsPaleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of peo...

Recommended for art, nature, and science fans! This is a book for art lovers, designers, and art-loving techies everywhere! A coffee-table art book filled with lush art plates that speak to the senses, the fractal images within reflect the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and demonstrate the power of computer-aided design in creating original works of art. In Fractals: Fractal Art, the art of chaos is brilliantly represented by Jack Cl...