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Topeka, KS-
June 22, 2008
 It is with great pride that we announce our list of 2008
Kansas Notable Books! This list compiles some of the best writing about or by Kansans in the preceding year. A committee of the Kansas Center For the Book is responsible for identifying the titles to forward to the State Librarian for final
decision. This year’s Kansas Notable Books selection committee included representatives from academic, public and regional libraries, authors, booksellers, publishers, and the media.
The Kansas Notable Book authors will be honored at a reception hosted by the State Library of Kansas late this summer, and again at an evening
reception at the Reading Festival in Lawrence on September 27, 2008.
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The alphabetical list by title of the 2008 Kansas Notable Books follow:
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.
Thank you again for your support of the Kansas Center for the Book!
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2008 Notable Book Selection Guide
 2008
Kansas Notable Books List
by Roy Bird, Director, Kansas Center for the Book
On June 22, three newspapers ran exclusive feature stories announcing the Kansas Center for the Book’s 2008 Kansas Notable Books List. The Kansas City
Star , the Wichita Eagle and the Topeka Capitol-Journal ran exclusives following email announcements to KCFB Affiliates and on Kanlib-L. This third annual roll of honor includes fiction, nonfiction, adult and children’s books, each of which was published
during 2007 and identified as outstanding for different reasons.
A committee of the KCFB identified the titles and submitted them to the State Librarian, Christie P. Brandau, for final decision. The 2008 Kansas
Notable Book advisory committee included representatives from academic, public and regional libraries, authors, booksellers, publishers, and the media. Press releases went out across the state to other daily and weekly newspapers on June 23. The news
release is available on this, the State Library of Kansas, website under News. More about the Notable Books project can be viewed on the Kansas Center for the Book website at
www.kcfb.info.
The authors of the 15 Kansas Notable Books will be honored at a reception hosted by the State Library of Kansas late this summer and again at an
evening gala at the River City Reading Festival in Lawrence on September 26.
Begun in 2005, with the first titles announced in 2006, the Kansas Notable Books List has quickly become a highly respected honor among the state’s
writers, and the project was singled out along with others in the citation for KCFB’s 2008 Boorstin Center for the Book Award, the highest accolade a state center for the book can receive. Authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians have featured
Notable Books in presentations, displays, and literary events around the state. Authors of Notable Books have appeared at many venues in the state as well.
The 2008 Kansas Notable Books List continues to raise awareness of the great activity in the state’s literary community. |
