Fort Scott Public Library

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Adults May 2020

Click here to see the complete list in our catalog and to place holds.

Nonfiction

Waking the witch: reflections on women, magic, and power by Pam Grossman
Scatterbrain: how the mind’s mistakes make humans creative, innovative, and successful by Henning Beck
Be healed: a guide to encountering the powerful love of Jesus in your life by Bob Schuchts
Initiated: memoir of a witch by Amanda Yates Garcia
Seeing gender: an illustrated guide to identity and expression by Iris Gottlieb
Wilmington’s lie: the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy by David Zucchino
She came to slay: the life and times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Sharenthood: why we should think before we talk about our kids online by Leah A Plunkett
The ultimate retirement guide for 50+: winning strategies to make your money last a lifetime by Suze Orman
Napkin finance: build your wealth in 30 seconds or less by Tina Hay
The oath and the office: a guide to the Constitution for future presidents by Corey Lang Brettschneider
The Toni Morrison book club by Juda Bennett
Gender and our brains: how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds by Gina Rippon
Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong With the Fit52 Life by Carrie Underwood
Running with Sherman: the donkey with the heart of a hero by Christopher McDougall
The carnivore diet by Shawn Baker
The step-by-step Instant Pot cookbook by Jeffrey Eisner
Holiday jubilee: classic & kitschy festivities and fun party recipes by Charles Phoenix
Cookies: irresistibly easy recipes for any occasion
Bigger bolder baking by Gemma Stafford
Threads of life: a history of the world through the eye of a needle by Clare Hunter
Taste of Home handmade Christmas
One skein crochet by Ellen Gormley
The big goodbye: Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson
Exactly as you are: the life and faith of Mister Rogers by Shea Tuttle
How I became the fittest woman on earth by Tia-Clair Toomey
The Cloudbuster Nine: the untold story of Ted Williams and the baseball team that helped win World War II by Anne R Keene
For the love of books: stories of literary lives, banned books, author feuds, extraordinary characters, and more by Graham Tarrant
The best American poetry, 2019
The dog went over the mountain: travels with Albie, an American journey by Peter Zheutlin
Soaring to glory: a Tuskegee airman’s firsthand account of WWII by Philip Handleman
Indestructible: the unforgettable memoir of a marine hero at the battle of Iwo Jima by Jack Lucas
Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe by Kathy Lee Peiss
A castle in wartime: one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis by Catherine Bailey
Thank you for my service by Mat Best
Hymns of the Republic: the story of the final year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne
Searching for black Confederates: the Civil War’s most persistent myth by Kevin M Levin
The Lincoln conspiracy: the secret plot to kill America’s 16th president–and why it failed by Brad Meltzer
The house of Kennedy by James Patterson

Fiction

Hello, summer by Mary Kay Andrews
Walk the wire by David Baldacci
A girl named Anna by Lizzy Barber
The scent keeper by Erica Bauermeister
The red lotus by Chris Bohjalian
Long range by C. J. Box
The girls with no names by Serena Burdick
Sunrise on Half Moon Bay by Robyn Carr
Fair warning by Michael Connelly
Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler
The goodbye man by Jeffery Deaver
A week at the shore by Barbara Delinsky
A forgotten murder by Jude Deveraux
The monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Camino winds by John Grisham
Royal holiday by Jasmine Guillory
The library of the unwritten by A. J. Hackwith
The children in the lake by Mark Edward Hall
Perfect little children by Sophie Hannah
The kill club by Wendy Heard
Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
Hidden Salem by Kay Hooper
Serotonin  by Michel Houellebecq
Simon the fiddler by Paulette Jiles
The happy ever after playlist by Abby Jimenez
The book of longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Someone like you by Karen Kingsbury
If it bleeds by Stephen King
Devoted by Dean Koontz
The mirror & the light by Hilary Mantel
The poison garden by Alex Marwood
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
It’s not all downhill from here by Terry McMillan
Fearless by Fern Michaels
Truth and justice by Fern Michaels
On Ocean Boulevard by Mary Alice Monroe
Family for beginners by Sarah Morgan
One perfect summer by Brenda Novak
The 20th victim by James Patterson
Revenge by James Patterson
Texas outlaw by James Patterson
Amish Protector by Marta Perry
Close up by Amanda Quick
Tuesday Mooney talks to ghosts by Kate Racculia
A conspiracy of bones by Kathy Reichs
Hideaway by Nora Roberts
Oppo by Tom Rosenstiel
Miss Julia knows a thing or two by Ann B Ross
Chosen ones by Veronica Roth
Masked prey by John Sandford
Little eyes by Samanta Schweblin
Lizzie’s heart by Susan Lantz Simpson
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hid from our eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The wedding dress by Danielle Steel
The last trial by Scott Turow
Man of the year by Caroline Louise Walker
The dead girls club by Damien Angelica Walters
Death on the beach by Carl Weber
Big summer by Jennifer Weiner
Have you seen me? by Kate White
Relentless by Shawn Wilson
Hit list by Stuart Woods
Bombshell by Stuart Woods

Christian Fiction

Standoff by Patricia Bradley
The farm stand by Amy Clipston
On a coastal breeze by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Amish generations by Kathleen Fuller
The trustworthy one by Shelley Shepard Gray
Being known by Robin Jones Gunn
The traitor’s pawn by Lisa Harris
Carolina breeze by Denise Hunter
Dead end by Nancy Mehl
Secrets of my heart by Tracie Peterson
Flight risk by Cara C Putman
Unveiling the past by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Dead heat by Susan Sleeman
Dead center by Susan Sleeman
The Lost lieutenant by Erica Vetsch
The best we’ve been by Beth K Vogt
Silent shadows by Natalie Walters
Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson
The Englisch daughter by Cindy Woodsmall

Mystery

The secrets of bones by Kylie Logan
Robert B. Parker’s Grudge match by Mike Lupica
One fatal flaw by Anne Perry
Sorry for the dead by Nicola Upson

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Gamechanger by L. X. Beckett
The future of another timeline by Annalee Newitz
Anyone by Charles Soule
Dead astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

Western Fiction

Tangled times by Irene Bennett Brown
The great Texas dance by Mark C Jackson
A good day for a massacre by William W Johnstone
Coyote’s people by Andrew McBride
The marshal and the mystical mountain by C. M. Wendelboe

Large print fiction

Long range by C. J. Box
Sunrise on Half Moon Bay by Robyn Carr
A forgotten murder by Jude Deveraux
The big finish by Brooke Fossey
Camino winds by John Grisham
A bad day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
The mirror & the light by Hilary Mantel
The Darwin affair by Timothy Mason
The cactus league by Emily Nemens
The 20th victim by James Patterson
Close up by Amanda Quick
A conspiracy of bones by Kathy Reichs
Masked prey by John Sandford
The wedding dressa novel by Danielle Steel
A hundred suns by Karin Tanabe
All too human by Karen Wills
Hit list by Stuart Woods
Rough seas by Sherryl Woods
Hit list by Stuart Woods

Large print mystery

Poppy Redfern and the midnight murders by Tessa Arlen
A deadly feast by Lucy Burdette
Something read, something dead by Eva Gates
A curio killing by Mary Ellen Hughes
Tell me no lies by Shelley Noble
One fatal flaw by Anne Perry
The stolen gold affair by Bill Pronzini

Large print western

Gunpowder express by Brett Cogburn
Blood-soaked earth by W. Michael Farmer
Arapaho summer by Kinley Roby

Library Information

  • About the Library
    • Hours
    • Contact Us
    • History of the library
  • Adult Programming
    • Adult Coloring
    • The Fort Scott Book Club
  • How To (login to your account, find an eBook, place a hold…)
    • Log in to SEKnFind
    • Log in to the Sunflower eLibrary
    • Log in to the Kansas Library eCard resources
    • Change your password in SEKnFind
    • Change your messaging preferences in SEKnFind
    • Place a Hold in SEKnFind
  • Kids
    • Easy Browser
    • Maker Mondays
    • Weekly Story Time
    • 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
  • Kids April 2019
  • Library Newsletter
  • Library Policies
    • Events Room Policy
    • Inclement Weather/Library Staffing Policy
    • Materials Selection Policy
    • Overdue, Unreturned, Lost, or Damaged Items
    • Patron Dress Code
    • Public Use Computers, Internet Access, and Internet Safety
  • LibraryCon 2019
  • Marvelous Mondays
  • New Adult Materials
    • Adults August 2020
    • Adults July 2020
    • Adults June 2020
    • Adults March 2020
    • Adults May 2020
  • New Teen and Young Adult Materials
  • Rotation Books Available At Fort Scott Public Library
    • Fiction
    • Large Print
    • Nonfiction
    • Westerns
    • Young Adult
  • Summer Reading
    • Youth Summer Reading Program 2020: Imagine Your Story
    • 2018 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
    • 2017 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
    • 2016 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
  • Summer Reading Easy Browser
  • Teen Spot
  • Youth Summer Reading 2021

State and Federal Government

  • IRS
  • Kansas Dept. of Revenue
  • Kansas Legislature
  • State of Kansas

Local Government

  • Bourbon County
  • City of Fort Scott

Local Media

  • 103.9 KOMB FM
  • Fort Scott Biz
  • The Fort Scott Tribune

Education

  • Adult Higher Education Accessible Degrees Initiative
  • Fort Scott Community College
  • Fort Scott USD 234
  • Kansas Parent Information Resource Center
  • Uniontown USD 235

Local Interest

  • Bourbon County Historical Preservation Association
  • Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Fort Scott Convention & Visitors Bureau
  • Fort Scott National Historic Site
  • Gordon Parks Museum
  • Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes
  • Old Fort Genealogical Society and Library

Events in the Fort Scott area

  • Bourbon County Fair
  • Good Old Days
  • Pioneer Harvest Fiesta

Web resources

  • Census
  • Dropbox
  • Google
  • Kansas Advocates for Better Care
  • Kansas Digital Newspapers (Open Access)
  • Kansas State Historical Society Digital Content (Valid Kansas Drivers License or State ID required)
  • MSN
  • Online databases available through the State Library of Kansas
  • Safehouse Crisis Center
  • Sunflower eLibrary (Overdrive ebooks and audiobooks)
  • Wind Energy
  • Yahoo

Library Links

  • American Library Association
  • Kansas Library Card Login
  • Library of Congress
  • SEKnFind Patron Catalog
  • Southeast Kansas Library System
  • State Library of Kansas

Library Information

  • About the Library
    • Hours
    • Contact Us
    • History of the library
  • Adult Programming
    • Adult Coloring
    • The Fort Scott Book Club
  • How To (login to your account, find an eBook, place a hold…)
    • Log in to SEKnFind
    • Log in to the Sunflower eLibrary
    • Log in to the Kansas Library eCard resources
    • Change your password in SEKnFind
    • Change your messaging preferences in SEKnFind
    • Place a Hold in SEKnFind
  • Kids
    • Easy Browser
    • Maker Mondays
    • Weekly Story Time
    • 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
  • Kids April 2019
  • Library Newsletter
  • Library Policies
    • Events Room Policy
    • Inclement Weather/Library Staffing Policy
    • Materials Selection Policy
    • Overdue, Unreturned, Lost, or Damaged Items
    • Patron Dress Code
    • Public Use Computers, Internet Access, and Internet Safety
  • LibraryCon 2019
  • Marvelous Mondays
  • New Adult Materials
    • Adults August 2020
    • Adults July 2020
    • Adults June 2020
    • Adults March 2020
    • Adults May 2020
  • New Teen and Young Adult Materials
  • Rotation Books Available At Fort Scott Public Library
    • Fiction
    • Large Print
    • Nonfiction
    • Westerns
    • Young Adult
  • Summer Reading
    • Youth Summer Reading Program 2020: Imagine Your Story
    • 2018 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
    • 2017 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
    • 2016 Adult Summer Reading Challenge Results
  • Summer Reading Easy Browser
  • Teen Spot
  • Youth Summer Reading 2021

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