Catalog Search Results
1) Inescapable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
CBA best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer captivated millions with her emotionally moving gem Waiting for Summer's Return-a CBD Top-Twenty Fiction. Set in 1936 Kansas, Where Willows Grow transports listeners to America's drought-stricken heartland as the hopes and dreams of hardworking farmers blow away with the wind. As pregnant Anna Mae and her husband Harley struggle to feed their growing family, Harley travels 100 miles to build a WPA monument....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
On the night of the decade's worst blizzard, a local farm boy discovers the naked body of a beautiful young woman in the snow. Seventeen years later, the Virgin of Small Plains has become a local myth. Strange miracles have visited those who faithfully tend to her grave and Small Plains becomes a haven for those hoping the Virgin will cure them. But soon strange and sinister events unfold. What really happened seventeen years ago? And why are some...
4) Fallout
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star, but long-simmering racial tensions stir up more mysteries as the body count rises.
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Kingdom falls prey to a serial killer, Callie needs to uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
8) Kansas
Author
Series
Fire of grace volume 2
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Midwest family drama series about a talented group of strangers who come together to help Freddy Bland a documentary." -- Amazon.com.
9) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. A summer getaway in Montana for Dave Robicheaux's family and friends is violently shattered by the arrival of serial killer and prison escapee Asa Surrette. He avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned in his home state of Kansas. But when Robicheaux's...
11) Dandelion fire
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Author
Series
Unexpected brides volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
The Bliss Creek Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Carl returns to their small Amish community, Emma must choose between her childhood love and Thomas, the strong, quiet widower who always seems to be underfoot.
14) First dawn
Author
Series
Freedom's path volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A saga of two families that portrays the harsh circumstances and intense courage displayed by African-American sharecroppers and Caucasian men as they formed the towns of Nicodemus and Hill City in the western Kansas prairie during the late nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a small Kansas farm in 1890, Christina Willems lovingly shepherds a group of displaced individuals who have come to see the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor as their home. But when a kitchen fire leaves the house uninhabitable, she must find shelter for all in her care, scattering her dear "family." Christina is forced to approach Levi Johnson, a reclusive mill owner, to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. Levi agrees with reluctance,...
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring her nursing abilities home and care for their ailing mother....
17) Katy's new world
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.
18) The house
Author
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.
20) Katy's debate
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.
In MnLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Plum Creek Library System can be requested from other MnLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.