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 An Incredible Year: 07/08 Jayhawks - : The 2008 Kansas Jayhawks brought home the school’s first national championship in 20 years. Led by head coach Bill Self and stars Brandon Rush and Mario Chalmers, the Big 12 conference champions lost only three games all season.
In the NCAA tournament, the Jayhawks breezed through the first three...
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 Unstoppable: The Kansas Jayhawks' Journey to the NCAA Title - : Relive all of the action of one of the greatest seasons ever for KU's basketball Jayhawks! Using the extensive, award-winning sports coverage of The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star Books presents "Unstoppable: The Kansas Jayhawks' Journey to the NCAA Title." The book includes 96 pages of game-to-game...
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 Mugging of Kiel Opera House, The: Civic Regress - : This is the story of a historic building in St. Louis that has survived the wrecking ball, but has not been reopened due to many reasons which are visited here. Called 'unsurpassed in America' by The Metropolitan Opera's General-Director, when it opened in 1934, Kiel Opera House silently survives on...
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 Route 66 in St. Louis - : In 1926, highway planners laid out a ribbon of roadways connecting the nation. One of the most important wove its way across eight states, from the cities of the heartland to golden California.
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck calls it “the Mother Road.” Route 66 has become a legend, celebrated...
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 St. Louis Cardinals: Yesterday & Today - : The St. Louis Cardinals have given their devoted fans countless thrilling moments throughout their glorious history. From their early years as the St. Louis Brown Stockings in the latter decades of the 19th century through their ups and downs in the 20th century to their amazing championship run in...
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 White Ghost in China: A Lost American In China - : Ben Stillwater went to China to make his fortune, buying into the country's manufacturing millenial gold rush, but what began as a quest for successful business became a personal search for his own soul. With the mafia hot on his heels, a million-dollar business deal hanging in the balance after a lead...
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 Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Challenge, The - : Designed to give St. Louis Cardinal fans the four things they most want in a quiz book:
1.) pleasure;
2.) a worthy challenge;
3.) an opportunity to learn something new about the game they love; and
4.) the assurance that they are in the company of quiz masters who know their stuff.
Assembled...
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 2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl - : Propelled by Temple's record-setting performance and strong defensive effort, Missouri captured their 12th victory of the season, the most wins in a season in school history. The official Fox Sports Cotton Bowl DVD inclused the commercial-free games as well as special bonus features ans is a great addition...
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 Sportsmans Park: The Players, the Fans & the Game - : SPORTSMAN’S PARK LIVES AGAIN!
Never-before Published Pictures of the Park that Made St. Louis The Baseball Town of America.
“Is it any wonder that when I go back to St. Louis to visit, I find a way to once more follow my yellow brick road? It takes me to Grand and Dodier, the magical spot that...
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 Fiddler's Ghost - : In 1951 Steve Clark accepts a teaching job in a one-room school in the Missouri Ozarks and moves with his pregnant wife Lacey to the colorful backwoods community of Indian Glade. There they are surrounded by Ozark characters who are absorbed with old customs and beliefs and school children who speak...
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 Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage - : “Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage,” is a new book about successful marriages and relationships by Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz. The doctors conducted research on more than 15,000 years of successful marriages across cultures and continents, providing a refreshing and...
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 Route 66 Quick Reference Encyclopedia - : With this handy reference, novices and seasoned roadies have quick and easy access to essential information about this famous highway. Providing a list of important terms accompanied by descriptive articles and illustrations, the guide details the route's history—including the origin of the slogan "Get...
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 See You in the Funny Papers: The Rich Tradition of St. Louis Cartooning - : St. Louis is a funny town. Cartoonwise, that is. Different theories abound, but the Gateway to the West has been unusually starcrossed with some of the most talented and famous cartoonists this country has ever produced.
Under the umbrella term “cartoonist,” these talents are classified as comic-strip...
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 Then Pinkel Said to Smith: The Best Missouri Tigers Stories Ever Told - : The University of Missouri Tigers football program has a history that spans more than 100 years Known simply as MIZZOU to their legions of fans, the program is once again emerging as a powerhouse within the Big 12 Conference. There is no better place to be on a fall afternoon than Faurot Field at Memorial...
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 Roots of Tennis, The: Blue Bloods to Blue Collars - : How did a landlocked city with bad weather contribute so much to the development of tennis? Beginning as a game for the elite of both coasts, a unique, particular series of circumstances formed The Roots of Tennis. Mr. Eggmann is the writer and archivist for the St. Louis Tennis Hall of Fame.
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 Kansas City Then & Now 3 - : Until the 21st century, Kansas City grew outward, gobbling up farms and fields and converting them to stores and shops and subdivisions. Now, the city is also looking to its roots, building a new buzz near the place where it all began - downtown. What better time to take another look at where we've...
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 I Grew Up in the Ozarks: A Love Story - : A chronological collection of creative non-fiction personal essays and several poems that portray a woman facing events and ideas that had been remote or ignored. It's the classic initiation theme found in literature … but the woman isn't a teenager. The book includes 40 balck & white Ozark nature...
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 Missouri Legendes: Famous People from the Show Me State - : Brad Pitt. Payne Stewart. Josephine Baker. Walter Cronkite. Thomas Pendergast. George Washington Carver. What do these icons have in common? They were all born and raised in the Show Me State.
In Missouri Legends, a fun yet informative new book by TV and radio broadcaster John Brown, well-known...
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 St. Louis Hills: The Reedy Community Series - : Originally marketed as “country living in the city” by developer Cyrus Crane Willmore, St. Louis Hills remains an idyllic, slow-paced suburb within the city of St. Louis. The neighborhood has maintained its charm, as well as its small businesses—a meat market, a barbershop, and a frozen custard stand.
With...
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 St. Louis Hockey Fan Word Search - : The St. Louis Hockey Fan Word Search is packed with word-search puzzles containing St. Louis Blues players throughout history. Creative puzzles abound. Find your favorites in puzzles like In the Beginning, Blues Brothers, and A Tip of the Hat Trick.
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 Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri's Cookbook Heritage - : This treasure trove of anecdotes and nuggets of historical information about cookery in the Show-Me State draws from more than 150 publications to reveal Missouri's cookbook heritage and to deliver a generous sampling of recipes. The Fishers scoured libraries and historical societies to find handwritten...
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St. Louis Baby Boomers - : A look back at growing up in St. Louis in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Whether you read Prom Magazine or cruised down Lindbergh, shopped for bell bottoms at Colonel Day’s and for your records at Peaches, this book is sure to bring back memories of the teen years of St. Louis area Baby Boomers, as recorded...
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St. Louis Crime Stories - : Some of the nation’s most gripping crime stories have roots in the St. Louis area. Complete case histories of these compelling crime stories from the archives of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cases featured include the National Supermarket slayings, St. Louis’ notorious Mob bombings, and most recently,...
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 Best of St. Louis, The - : An ongoing series of images in which Jim Trotter strives to show Saint Louis in its best light.
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 Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories - : Growing up, Rolland Love roamed the Ozark Mountains, floated its rivers, and provided food for the family. "We grew vegetables, hunted game, and enjoyed the rivers' bounty," he says. "We were self-sufficient. And there was no need to travel, we already lived in paradise."
You'll find: -Fried Sweet...
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 Ozark Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, and Monsters - : Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings...
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 Ioway in Missouri, The - : Although their ancestors came from the Great Lakes region and they now live in several Midwestern states, the Ioway (Baxoje) people claim a rich history in Missouri dating back to the eighteenth century. Living alongside white settlers while retaining their traditional way of life, the tribe eventually...
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 Bissell Point - : In the early 1800s, river pilots coming downriver discovered that landing a boat on the western bank of the Mississippi River at St. Louis was a dangerous proposition. Stone ledges and a swift current led to the demise of many a boat. River pilots used the Bissell Mansion as a marker to warn them that...
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 Smiling Through the Tears… Through the Eyes of a Mother - : "This book was written about what I went through with my daughter's cancer and everything else going on then. It is based on a poem I wrote called "A Cancer Child's Mother." I wrote this in hopes of helping other parents know they are no alone when it comes to how you feel when taking care of a seriously...
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 Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley, The: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri - : Acknowledged as a significant figure in the history of women on the early western frontier, Mary Easton Sibley may be little known to many modern readers. Yet she was involved in most of the important events in nineteenth-century Missouri, pursued and practiced educational innovations, and founded a...
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 Backroads & Byways of Missouri: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions - : This book is for those who didn't know that grape vines in Missouri changed the wine industry in France, or that the worst earthquake in American history also occurred in the same state, or that more Civil War battles were fought on Missouri soil than any other border state. If you prefer two-lane black...
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 Missouri Wildflowers, 6th Ed. - : The sixth edition of Denison’s classic work makes identifying common Missouri wildflowers easy. Its numerous color photographs are arranged by flower color and blooming time. Plant characteristics, habitat and range are provided.
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 Missouri: An Illustrated History - : Known as “The Gateway to the West,” Missouri was a departure point for Westward-bound settlers and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Later, Missouri was where Mark Twain launched his steamboating career and the legendary outlaw Jesse James completed his first train robbery.
Missouri: An Illustrated...
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 Guide to Missouri Vegetable Gardening - : The Guide to Missouri Vegetable Gardening is perfect for beginning and expert gardeners who want terrific vegetable, herb, fruit, and nut gardens in Missouri. Easy-to-use guide tells you when to plant, where to plant, and how to plant. Includes helpful charts with information on the number of days...
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 Missouri Lawn Guide - : The Missouri Lawn Guide takes the mystery out of lawn care and maintenance. The book describes how to properly plant, fertilize and water as well as recommendations on how to address the inevitable lawn problems.
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 Life is but a Dream - : "None of us are perfect. . . Most of us have done or been subject to things we are not proud of. I learned at the age of 10 that by writing down what I was feeling and putting it into poetry, it would help me to deal with things on the inside that I may not show on the outside. My poems are about happy...
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 At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey toward Civil Rights - : While America is familiar with the modern civil rights movement begun in the 1950s, little has been published about black families throughout the country who had been fighting segregation in their local communities for decades. Their everyday battles (both individual and institutional) built the foundation...
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 Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture - : Covers various topics and techniques for implementing a Service Oriented Architecture on the OpenVMS platform using ACMS, the languages covered in "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" and Java. The primary focus of the book is porting FMS based business applications...
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 Illinois Lawn Guide - : The Illinois Lawn Guide takes the mystery out of lawn care and maintenance. The book describes how to properly plant, fertilize and water as well as recommendations on how to address the inevitable lawn problems.
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 Guide to Illinois Vegetable Gardening - : The Guide to Illinois Vegetable Gardening is perfect for beginning and expert gardeners who want terrific vegetable, herb, fruit, and nut gardens in Illinois. Easy-to-use guide tells you when to plant, where to plant, and how to plant. Includes helpful charts with information on the number of days...
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 Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers - : The destructive power of nature has always been a source of fear and fascination, and never more so than now, when climate change and extreme weather conditions are constantly in the news. Across the central United States, the infamous storms of Tornado Alley are fueled by the collision of cold fronts...
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 Ghostly Tales of Iowa - : From friendly spirits to those less willing to share their haunts, these Iowa ghosts leave houses crackling with unexplained phenomena.
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 Ghosthunting Illinois (The Haunted Heartland) - : Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and light a candle as you join author John Kachuba on a guided tour of Illinois’s most terrifyingly haunted places. Your hair-raising journey will take you to:
• Old State Capital, Springfield — Lincoln lay in state here before his burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery....
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 Illinois Trivia: Weird, Wacky, Wild - : “America’s Most American State,” Illinois is considered the most average state according to Census Bureau data analysis by the Associated Press. Illinois is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters:
• The first pickup...
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 Illinois Road Guide to Haunted Locations, The - : Your road guide for finding haunted bridges, caves, cemeteries, elevators, gyms, historic homes, hotels, inns, mansions, monuments, museums, railroad tracks, restaurants, roads, schools, studios, theaters, trees, woods, and much, much more. Where to go to possibly . . .
* Enter the “Gates of Hell”...
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 Iowa Road Guide to Haunted Locations, The - : Your road guide for finding haunted bridges, caves, cemeteries, elevators, gyms, historic homes, hotels, inns, mansions, monuments, museums, railroad tracks, restaurants, roads, schools, studios, theaters, trees, woods, and much, much more. Where to go to possibly . . .
* See possessed statues...
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 South Dakota Road Guide to Haunted Locations, The - : Your road guide for finding haunted bridges, caves, cemeteries, elevators, gyms, historic homes, hotels, inns, mansions, monuments, museums, railroad tracks, restaurants, roads, schools, studios, theaters, trees, woods, and much, much more. Where to go to possibly . . .
* See the apparition of Seth...
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 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago 2nd edition - : Focusing on the Chicago area’s urban and rural areas and everything in between, this book features classic hikes at such lovely spots as Starved Rock State Park, as well as gems like the LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area in northwestern Indiana. Extensive key-at-a-glance information makes it a snap to...
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 BBQ Bash: The Be-All, End-All Party Guide, from Barefoot to Black Tie - : Any party with Karen Adler and Judith Fertig at the helm is bound to be a success. With 100 creative, delicious recipes for entertaining with the grill or smoker, BBQ Bash is the key to partying with a touch of panache, from casual backyard get-togethers to more elaborate “black-tie” barbecues.
The...
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 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech - : The 8th Ranked Kansas Jayhawks crowned a historic season by earning their first BCS Bowl victory after defeating the number 3 Virginia Tech Hokies 24-21 in the FedEx Orange Bowl. The Jayhawks were the nation's highest-scoring offense this season at 44 points per game; however, it was their defense that...
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 2007 Kansas Football: A Season in Review - : The 2007 Kansas Jayhawks football season is one that will be remembered and celebrated for many years to by the Jayhawk nation! The 2007 Jayhawk Football campaign was highlighted by the first 12 win season in school history, the first BCS game by a Jayhawk Football team and National Coach of the Year...
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 Lunchmeat & Life Lessons: Sharing a Butcher's Wisdom - : John Bichelmeyer, who raised his 10 kids in Shawnee, Kansas, dispensed much more than ground beef and bacon to his customers. A man with only an eighth-grade education, he offered rare wisdom and compassion to his clientele, friends and family that came from the heart. Now, his daughter, Mary B. Lucas,...
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 St. Louis Cardinals 101: My First Team-Board-Book - : This is required reading for every Cardinals fan! From Enos Slaughter's "Mad Dash" in 1946 to the 2006 World Series championship, you'll share all the memories and "Go Crazy" with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing baseball and share...
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 Chicago Cubs 101: My First Team-Board-BookTM - : This is required reading for every Cubs fan! From the 'friendly confines' of Wrigley Field to the legendary Ernie Banks, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing baseball and share your passion for America's...
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 Chicago White Sox 101: My First Team-Board-BookTM - : This is required reading for every White Sox fan! From the 'Hitless Wonders' of 1906 to the championship team of 2005 and the majesty of the World Series Championship Trophy, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about...
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 Illinois Fighting Illini 123: My First Counting Book - : This is the required firsst counting book for every fan of the Fighting Illini! You'll be teaching the kids their numbers and counting while enjoying all the excitement from the Illibuck trophy to '1000 thousands of loyal fans cheering for our team.'
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Iowa Hawkeyes 123: My First Counting Book - : This is the required firsst counting book for every future Hawkeye! You'll be teaching the kids their numbers and counting while enjoying all the excitement from Herky to '20 homecoming badges.'
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 University of Oklahoma 101: My First Text-Board-BookTM - : This is required reading for every future Sooner! From the beauty of Bizzell Memorial Library to the competition of the Red River Rivalry, you'll share all the memories and traditions with the RUF/NEKS and the next generation.
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Diehard Fan's Guide to Sooner Football, The - : Boomer Sooner! This is THE indeispensable guide that every fan of Oklahoma Sooner football must have. Fans will be riveted by never-before published stories about some of the legendary figures in the winning tradition of Sooner football_from Bud Wilkinson to Barry Switzer to Bob Stoops. Also included...
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Ultimate Cubs Companion: A Complete Statistical and Reference Guide - : The Ultimate Cubs Companion is a new and updated encyclopedia with all the information every Cubs fan will want. If its statistics you want, we’ve got ‘em. From batting registers to pitching registers, from fielding stats to base-running stats, this book provides the statistics (year by year and career)...
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 Chicago Cubs: Yesterday & Today - : Beautiful Wrigley Field is where baseball history comes alive! Wrigley is home to the storied Chicago Cubs and their millions of faithful followers. And though the W Flag (signifying a Cub win) hasn't flown as often as fans would like in recent years, they still love their Cubbies. Read about long-ago...
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Cubs Forever: Memories from the Men Who Lived Them - : For the past 60 years, the Chicago Cubs and WGN-TV have combined to bring a long-running, real-life serial program of joy, frustration, and passion to Chicago and a national cable audience. The WGN/Cubs relationship is unparalleled in the sports world, and the Cubs have been transformed into America's...
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 Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick - : Buried for years in family files, this important firsthand Civil War account of Franklin Dick's experiences as Union assistant adjutant general and Missouri provost marshal general gives a new view of politics, power, and divided loyalties in the state of Missouri. It is filled with the intrigue and...
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 Thomas Ewing Jr: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General - : An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William Tecumseh...
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 Making of a Southerner, The: William Barclay Napton’s Private Civil War - : Drawn from incomparable personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from voluminous professional and family correspondence, Napton’s life story offers a thoughtful and important perspective on the key issues and events that turned this northerner first into an avowed pro-slavery ideologue and...
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 Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864–1901, The - : Whether slaves or free men, African Americans were generally excluded from military service until Emancipation. Many Americans know the story of the United States Colored Troops, who broke racial barriers in Civil War combat, and of the “buffalo soldiers,” who served in the West after that conflict,...
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 All the Horses That He'd Rode: Presenting & Sharing Life in the West - : "Dary Poulin and Charlie Hunt have masterfully captured the spirit and the essence of life in the West." South Dakota Congressman, John Thune "Theodore Roosevelt said "Ours was the glory of work and the joy of living." This marvelous book offers us not only glory and joy, but warmth, love, beauty,...
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 Ghost Towns of Idaho: The Search for El Dorado - : This is the third book in a series about ghost towns hunting in the American West. It combines the descriptions and histories of ghost towns from all over Idaho along with the authors adventure and travel stories while visiting these sites.
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