kansas

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For this land

Meg's prairie diary, book two
2003
Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.

Now it's time to say goodbye

1998
Colin and Justin leave the violence and decay of New York City and settle in a small Kansas village, expecting to live a calm, quiet life, but they soon give up that dream when they find themselves getting caught up in the secrets of the other townspeople.

In cold blood

a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
1965

Sarah, plain & tall (460)

the DVD collection
2000
A trilogy of stories following the life of an uncompromising New England spinster who answers an ad placed by a grieving Kansas widower requesting a kind woman to share his life.

Not without laughter

1995
The coming of age story of an African-American boy in a small Kansas town.

Driving Mr. Albert

a trip across America with Einstein's brain
2000
Michael Paterniti chronicles the experiences he had while transporting Albert Einstein's brain across the United States and discusses how the journey changed the way he viewed the world.

Sarah, plain and tall

Skylark
1999
The sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall: A terrible drought is ravaging the land, and as crops fail and friends leave, the simple fabric of their lives is torn apart by the struggle to survive.

Dove dream

1994
In 1963, having come to live with her young aunt in the Kansas countryside while her parents sort out their problems, a thirteen-year-old Chickasaw Indian girl nicknamed Dovey ponders her past and her future.

Bent Road

2011
Arthur Scott, fearful of the riots in Detroit in 1967, moves his family back to his small Kansas hometown, where the secrets of the past and the truth about his sister Eve's death so many years earlier are still waiting to be revealed.

Hard times on the prairie

adapted from the Little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1998
Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

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