Books set primarily in Kansas or Missouri
Kas. Mo.
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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the ...
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The Ascent
by Adam Plantinga
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Sep 2024
When a high-security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor's daughter are going to have to team up if they're going to escape in this "jaw-dropping, authentic, and absolutely gripping" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling ...
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The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
Paperback: Apr 2024
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for readers of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Donna Everhart, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeannette Walls, and Rita Mae Brown…
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James: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Hardcover: Mar 2024
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...
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Jack
by Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Apr 2021
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
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Heart of Junk
by Luke Geddes
Hardcover: Jan 2020
Paperback: Jan 2021
A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star.
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by Sarah Smarsh
Hardcover: Sep 2018
Paperback: Sep 2019
A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Heartland reveals one woman's experience of working class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening, and topical personal story.
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Savage Country: A Novel
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: Sep 2017
Paperback: Sep 2018
A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency. And the intimate ...
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TransAtlantic: A Novel
by Colum McCann
Hardcover: Jun 2013
Paperback: May 2014
The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.
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The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: Jun 2013
A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.
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A Good American: A Novel
by Alex George
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: Feb 2013
An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.
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The Outlaw Album: Stories
by Daniel Woodrell
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: Oct 2012
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.
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