Kansas Public Radio (KPR) has posted online a two-part series from KPR Present on the 2011 Kansas Notable Book honorees from the Kansas Center for the Book, part of the State Library of Kansas:
Part One aired 8/28/11: The best new books by Kansans or about Kansas, selected by the Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas. Host Kaye McIntyre talks with seven authors on the 2011 Kansas Notable Books list, including Cheryl Unruh of Emporia, author of Flyover People, and Newbury Award-winner Clare Vanderpool of Wichita, author of Moon over Manifest. Join us at 8:00 pm Sunday evening for the first in this two-part series on this year’s Kansas Notable Books.
Part Two aired 9/4/11: The best new books by Kansans or about Kansas, selected by the Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas. Host Kaye McIntyre talks with eight authors on the 2011 Kansas Notable Books list, including Nancy Pickard of Mission, and Barbara Stuber of Lenexa. Join us at 8:00 pm Sunday evening for the second in this two-part series on this year’s Kansas Notable Books.
Publicity materials for the 2011 Kansas Notable Books selections are also available from the Kansas Center for the Book:
Feel free to reuse this post on your library’s website, if you haven’t recognized the 2011 Kansas Notable Books honorees yet.
The Notable Books List, linked to the titles that are in NExpress:
- 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
Photo Credit: from the Kansas Center for the Book 2011 Kansas Notable Books Publicity Materials.
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