Kansas Notable Books 2011
Our friends at the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) keep a close eye on the Kansas Notable Books award nominations and have added this year’s winners to the NExpress catalog. Below is the list of 2011 winners and you can now place holds on any of these titles by following these links:
- Amy Barickman’s Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion, and Fun
- And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
- Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
- Baking with Friends: Recipes, Tips and Fun Facts for Teaching Kids to Bake
- Bound: A Novel
- Crossing the Tracks
- A Distant Home
- Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State
- Ghost Stories of the New West: From Einstein’s Brain to Geronomo’s Boots (not in the catalog)
- Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
- Moon Over Manifest
- A Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White
- Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward (not in the catalog)
- The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel
- StarCrossed
See NEKLS’s original post about the 2011 Kansas Notable Books, which includes links to Kansas Public Radio interviews with some of the featured authors.
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