Kansas Notable Books, 2008

The Kansas Center for the Book has announced the Kansas Notable Books list for 2008. To be eligible as a Kansas Notable Book, a book must be:

--About Kansas or written by a Kansas author;

--Of high quality in research and writing; and

--Published in the calendar year prior to the award year.

The books below highlighted by hyperlinks are owned by White Library. We encourage you to check them out for some good reads!

1. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, by Matthew Polly.

2. The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians, Brad Sneed, illustrator.

3. Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond, by Paul Shirley.

4. The Curse of Catunkhamun, by Tim Raglin.

5. The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck.

6. From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White, by Beverley O. Buller.

7. Hellfire Canyon, by Max McCoy.

8. Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West, by Michael L. Johnson.

9. The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, by Albert Goldbarth.

10. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, by David A. Nichols.

11. The Middle of Somewhere, by J. B. Cheaney.

12. The Rest of Her Life, by Laura Moriarty.

13. Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, by Michael J. Everhart.

14. Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey, by Jim Reed.

15. Writing in an Age of Silence, by Sara Paretsky.