Five minutes after his birth, Johnny Kaw is over six feet tall and still growing. When he outgrows his crib and even their town, his parents decide to move west where 'little' Johnny can have plenty of room to play. After the family crosses the wide Missouri River to Kansas, Johnny sits down to play with his dog. His bottom ends up making the valley where his family will settle. And when Johnny clears stones from a field so his father can plow, he...

Sheriff English also known as Englishman is preparing for a bitter re-election campaign as the radical religious right is out to unseat him as sheriff of Benteen County, Kansas. But when his deputy runs into a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir, things get even more complicated. To make matters worse, his brother, Mad Dog, a born-again Cheyenne, and his two daughters return home worried about his safety. But all of this is nothing compared...

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When a Kansas Episcopal reverend dies during a confirmation service, twin sisters Josie and Lottie combine their efforts in psychology and law enforcement to investigate the reverend's past, the visiting Bishop, and the centuries-long rivalry that may have caused her death.

The best-selling author of Alice's Tulips and other popular novels, Sandra Dallas exhibits a well-honed talent for evoking the past. In The Persian Pickle Club, Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a new member-and then must turn to each other for support when a startling secret comes to light.

Kansas Undersheriff Lottie Albright uses her resources as historical society director to investigate a murder at a livestock feedyard, and finds herself under the wing of a powerful family of homesteaders who may hold the key to solving the case.

Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.

Half-Cheyenne shaman Mad Dog attends Yaqui tribal Easter ceremonies in Tucson, Arizona, where he is framed for the murder of a local policeman, while back in Kansas, Sheriff English investigates the bombing of Mad Dog's home.

When his brother Mad Dog is accused of murdering local reverend Peter Simms, Kansas sheriff English investigates and uncovers an ugly truth about the Simms family.