Kansas

Nikolai Fyodorov, a young Russian assassin on a mission to punish a turncoat in Alaska's largest city, is instead humiliated by a mysterious gunman. Nikolai is given on chance to redeem himself with a new assignment that will shape the U.S. Senate--and to do it he must go to the windy, hot plains of Kansas. What he finds is a state beset by industrial farming, extreme right-wing politics, and kidnappers who prey on teenage girls. Nikolai confronts the betrayal that led him into the assassin's trade and the price he must pay for his fmaily's past--and he must escape the temptation of love that draws him toward his own death. Leon Unruh grew up in west-central Kansas in a town along the Arkansas River, mowing lawns and digging graves before becoming a newspaperman and eventually the editor at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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A finalist for the 2025 Birdy Poetry Prize, Huascar Medina’s highly anticipated third book of poetry, Protest as Love Poem, is a four-part expression of love through defiant truths and collective survival. An urgent rebuttal to apathy, Protest as Love Poem is a plea for intimate authority and a call for a revolution. It is both political and personal, endearing and indignant—a direct request to feel more, not less, in this present moment. Huascar Medina is a father, poet, and editor living artfully in Topeka, Kansas. He’s the author of three books of poetry, How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press, 2017), Un Mango Grows in Kansas (Spartan Press, 2020), and Protest as Love Poem (Meadowlark Press, 2026). He served as Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2019-2022. His work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, Gasconade Review, Green Mountains Review, KANSAS! Magazine, Latino Book Review, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

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Journal of true Kansas stories.

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The FBI pushes an assassin into a conspiracy where politics and oil mix like money and religion. Kansas native Leon Unruh is the author of Dog of the Afterworld, the first book in this series. He was an editor at newspapers in Austin and Dallas, Texas; Wichita, Kansas; and Anchorage, Alaska. He was later the editor at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Hand quilted and embellished card.

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Hand quilted and embellished card.

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Hand quilted and embellished card.

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Hand quilted and embellished card.

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