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Kansas grants QB Brock Berglund release from scholarship, allowing him to transfer

Washington Post - Jan 28, 2012
The University of Kansas granted quarterback Brock Berglund a release from his scholarship, allowing the freshman from Denver to contact other schools about transferring. Berglund's release came Friday after appearing before the student-athlete appeals ...

Kruger Returns to Kansas State Saturday

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Soonersports.com - Jan 28, 2012
Lon Kruger said if the Kansas State crowd boos his team Saturday in Manhattan, Kan., he probably won't even hear it. Kruger says he's concerning himself with making sure his Sooners get a win, but there's another story, too. It's Kruger's first trip ...

Pressing Questions: The Kansas City Royals

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Yahoo! Sports (blog) - Jan 28, 2012
Kansas City plans on serving up a whole lotta youth, currently standing as the youngest team in MLB, with an average age of under 26 years old. With one of the top farm systems in the league and some promising young talents like Eric Hosmer, ...

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Kansas books

Home Away From Home

by: N. Dao
As nightfall descended on Saigon, Vietnam, the Dao family joined the masses huddled on the floor of a military cargo plane for an immediate evacuation. The year was 1975. The Vietnam War was coming to a bitter end, and just about everybody was desperate to get out of the country.

Nearly two months and two refugee camps later, the Dao family finally arrived in Coffeyville, Kansas where they put down roots for a new life in the Heartland of America. From that day on, the discoveries were many as were the triumphs and travails.
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KIKI AND THE CUCKOO-Competition Children's Book

by: Elizabeth Happy
MAKING THE CASE FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION

If you are tired of bullying, teasing, youth violence, gangs, vandalism, drug abuse, sexual misconduct…

If you are tired of the crisis with our older youth…

If you want to help make a difference one tiny step at a time…

Then this is the eBook for your children ages 5-8.

Read WITH your children, discuss the concept and message…

and know that you are part of the movement sweeping America to bring back our important values by restoring character education in our homes and schools.
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One O'clock Jump: a swing town mystery for the young at heart

by: Lise McClendon
Halfway around the world, war has begun, but for Dorie Lennox, a newly-minted private eye on her first tail, danger is more immediate. The dark streets of Kansas City of 1939 offer swing music, fast cars, gangsters, and the chance to forget about the Depression and her own murky past. But first she must conquer her fears and save a woman on a bridge high above the muddy Missouri. Dorie is thrown into a quickly unraveling scam that offers salvation to few — and misery to plenty — in the high stakes world of machine politics and desperation deals.
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

by: Thomas Frank

From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism

Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic system be made even harsher on the recession's victims and that society's traditional winners receive even grander prizes.
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