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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.

When Billy Crosby, who was arrested for killing Jody Linder's parents in 1986, is released from prison by his son a lawyer, the two return to Rose, Kansas, where Jody works as a teacher, forcing the Linder family to confront the truth of what had happened twenty-three years earlier.

Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers.

Cape Bluff Elementary School hosts a talent show and a ballerina, comedian, rapper, singer, and rock musician enter, but no one knows which kid will win.

Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Following a dying man's last request, thirteen-year-old Maud helps the man's fianc e homestead his claim on the Kansas prairie in 1870.

Living after the Civil War on a Kansas homestead with his stern stepfather, thirteen-year-old Caleb raises a beloved colt and becomes involved in General Custer's raids on the Cheyenne.

The author examines the reasons for the conservative revolution that has taken place in his home state of Kansas, charging that conservatives have used cultural outrage to blur the thinking of blue-collar workers on economic issues.

In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.