Annually the L. W. Nixon Library collection is further enriched by the new books that are donated. These are memorial books, honoring a loved one who has passed away, or gift books, commemorating a special event in the life of a family member or friend.
To arrange to place a memorial or gift book with the L. W. Nixon Library, please contact the library by e-mail at lwnixon@butlercc.edu or phone El Dorado (316)322-3234, Wichita/metro area(316)733-3234.
From: Butler Community College
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Keith Burdine, Father of Rita Luna - What Goes On: Selected and New Poems, 1995-2009.
Dr. Rodney Cox - former Butler President, Husband of Joyce Faye Cox - Three Cups of Tea.
Loraine Ekis, Mother-in-law of Diana Van Dyke - The Secret of the Old Clock - Nancy Drew - 80th Anniversary Edition.
Elsy Escalante, Sister of Nelson Escalante - The Whale: in Search of the Giants of the Sea.
Russ Griffith, Step-father of Sonja Milbourn - The Greatest Manuals in Sports.
Rebecca Kitch, Sister of Bob Ramsey - The Encyclopedia of Writing & Illustrating Children's Books.
Rea Newlin, Mother of Cindy Bond - The Power of Half.
Dick Pearce, Husband of Norma Pearce - Hunger for the Wild.
Glen Sandefur, Uncle of Dr. Leann Ellis - The Hawk and the Dove.
Mandi Thornburg, Niece of Mike Schweigert - Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer.
Gail Tackett-Gwinup, Sister-in-Law and Aunt of Doug Gwinup & Rhonda Gwinup - Love is the Higher Law.
Janice Webster, Stepmother of Allen Webster - Plant-driven Design: Creating Gardens
Fred Hiser, Father of Rod Hiser - Lifeline for Money Misfortunes: How to overcome Life's Greatest Challenges.
Leanne Bietch, Sister-in-Law of Mary Spoon - Reading in the Brain.
George Fahnestock, Husband of Dee Ann Fahnestock - The Best Plays, theater Yearbook 2007-2008.
Lloyd McGinley, Father of Jared McGinley - Justin: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Phil Hudson, Brother of Cindy McGraw - The "Beagle" Letters of Charles Darwin.
Isabelle Ferrell, Mother of Pete Ferrell - The Real Wizard of Oz: the Life & Times of L. Frank Braum.-
Clifford Stone, Father of Sam Stone & Sue Hunter - The Remains of Company D: a Story of the Great War.
Melvin Clark, Father of Sheryl Hayes - One Citizen's Constitution: an Annotated Guide.
Bill Craft, Father-in-law of Connie Craft - A Journey Through Literary America.
Rick Fresh, Husband of Gina Austin-Fresh - This is Not the Story You Think it is.
Fannie Elizabeth Pringle, Mother of Buford Pringle - Lincoln at Peoria: the Turning Point.
Betty Weber, Mother-in-law of Ron Newlin - Mrs. Adams in winter: a journey in the last days of Napoleon.
Herbert Lowrance, Father-on-law of Pat Lowrance - The Male Brain.
Carol McAdoo, Sister of Connie Langhofer - Pastry: Savory & Sweet.
Clyde Hiebert, Husband of Betty Hiebert - Little Pink House.
Pauline Wetta, Mother of Linda Waplehurst - Empire of Liberty.
Diana Walker, Sister of Jim Edwards - China's Megatrends.
Ron Lee Langhofer, Brother & Brother-in-law of Connie Langhofer & Jan Jack - Pulitzer: a Life in Politics Print and Power
Shirley Hogeboom, Wife of Albert Hogoboom - The Box from Braunau : in Search of my Father's War.
Dr. Wendell Waldie, Father of Jana Garrison - The Language of Life.
Charles Lucien Gray III, Brother of Dorothy Gray - Not Without Hope .
Bob Conners, Husband of Willa Conners - Appetite for America.
Forrest Webster, Father of Allen Webster - Instinctive Parenting.
Louise Adams, Mother of Felix Adams - Helping College Students Find Purpose.
Melissa Ann (Towne) Shild, Sister of Daughter-in law Connie Craft - Borrowed Names... Poems
Franklin Blansatt, Step-father of Willena Beemer - One more theory about Happiness.
Vivian Kate Ragsdale, Granddaughter of Rex Wilson - Toys Go Out.
Virginia Ann Price, Sister-in-law of Donna Whiteside - Sauces Cookbook.
Mac Hay, Father of Kim Murry - Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.
Patricia Dunfee, Mother of Thomas Diener - Whole Grain Baking.
Ric Speers, Father of Rachelle Wertenberger - Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time.
Roy Wallert, Father of Teresa Thompson - Ozma of Oz.
Gene Tetrick, Father-in-law of Mandy Tetrick - The Modern Century.
Charles Van Dever, Father-in-law of Teri Van Dever - The American Civil War.
Gladys White, Grandmother of Teri Van Dever - Do One Nice Thing.
Darlene Peterson, Wife of Jerry Peterson - Tennesee Williams: Plays 1937-1955.
Oral Taylor, Husband of Glenda Taylor - Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress.
Dorothy Mack, Mother of Valerie and Tom Mack - A Kansas Year.
Janice Hanna, Wife of Bill Hanna - Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl.
Bill Allen, Father-in-law of Kirsten Allen - The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift & America’s Finest Hour.
Jim Hittle, former Trustee of Butler Community College Husband of Bonnie Hittle - Hero Found.
Tony Engelbrecht, Father of Ron Engelbrecht - Crisis on campus: a Bold Plan of Reforming Our Colleges and Universities.
Bob Taylor, Father of Mitch Taylor - Theodore Roosevelt’s History of the United States.
Judy Badway, Mother of Nick Badway - The Story of Graphic Design.
Vivian “Jean” Domann, Mother of Janice Jones - Saving Leonardo.
Dale Whiteside, Husband of Donna Whiteside - The Baseball Codes.
Stacy Runion, Brother of Rhonda Landsverk - One Million Things.
Margaret Buress Hunnicutt, Mother of Susan Balman - The Children’s Book.
Mary Carol Barlow, Mother of Martha Enlow - Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
Arnold Frederking, Father of Laura Hamlin - Churchill's Empire.
Joseph Glotzbach, Husband of Carol Glotzbach - They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine.
Virginia Cyphers, Grandmother of Amy Cyphers - Storyteller: the Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl.
Marie Schultz, Mother of Verda Converse - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
Don Feller, Husband of Mary Feller - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.
George Laham, Sr., Father of George Laham - The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Rolly Dean Boucher, The brother of Milford Boucher - Five steps for overcoming fear and self-doubt.
Bonnie Hatch, the grandmother of Micaela Ayers - Old farm.
Mike Vietti, the brother of Ray & Jackie Vietti - A Secret gift: history of the great depression.
Danny Steinkamp, the father of Shane & Jennifer Steinkamp and Chad and Eslie Steinkamp - The Price of altruism: George Price and the search for the origins of kindness
From: Don Koke
In Memory of William H. Walker Choreographing Identities.
From: Eleanor Crank's Family
Eleanor Crank - Painting Miniatures
Watercolor in Bloom
Watercolor Fast and Loose
Painting More Than the Eye Can See
Learn to Paint
Intimate Landscape
Frames and Framing
Decorative Gilding
Gilding and Lacquering
The Encyclopedia Of Picture Framing Techniques
The New Creative Artist
How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself
Learn to Paint Birds in Watercolour
Painting Watercolor Portraits that Glow
The Ultimate Stencil Book
Recipes For Surfaces
Making & Decorating Your Own Paper
Marble Designs
Painted Furniture Decorating Ideas & Projects
Looking at Indian Art of The Northwest Coast
Chiefly Feasts
Spirit and Ancestor
Celtic Motifs
Royal Tombs of Sipan
Altered Books Workshop
Mediaeval Folk in Painting
The Craft of Paper Cutting
Paper Creations
Czars
Treasures of The Kazakh Steppes
Sticks and Stones (Series, New Crafts)
Tinwork (Series, New Crafts)
Animals: A Picture Sourcebook
Watercolor Secrets
Passionate Brushstrokes
Rediscovering Paper Mache
From: Sheryle Dunbar
In Memory of Lance Heilmann - Roget's International Thesaurus
In Memory of David Kuttler - The Printed Picture.
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Dr. Vietti - The Sandbox Investment. Sarge.
The Octopus & the Orangutan.
Ann Hall, Butler Student - Organizational Theory: Design and Change.
Managerial Economics.
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 8th Edition.
Marketing Management.
Warren R. Cozby, Jr. - Nuts & Bolts of Space Colonization.
Wade Harvey & Delbert Harvey - It's all about Choice.
Bill Langley - The American Crow and the Common Raven.
Collecting and Preparing Study Specimen of Vertebrates.
David Coryell - The Taken Trilogy.
The Annals of the Heechee.
Phil Speary - Advancing student learning outcomes in Community & Technical colleges.
Fred Torneden - The Christian expression: discover one another in Jesus Christ.
Jim Edwards - Harnessing America's wasted talent.
Matt Webster - Dogma.
Jay & Silent Bob strikes back.
Tropic thunder.
Reservoir dogs.
The 40 year old virgin.
Lethal weapon: director's cut.
Clerks:10th anniversary ed.
Chasing Amy.
The Hangover.
Desperado.
IN HONOR OF TITLE
From: Library Staff
Dr. Leann & Randy Ellis - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
From: June Costin
Elizabeth & Ralph F.de Bedts - Recent American History, Vol. 1 & 2
Raphael Semmes: the Philosophical Mariner.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings.
From: Charles K. Steiner, Executive Director of Wichita Art Museum
The 75th Anniversary of the Wichita Art Museum Wichita Art Museum: 75 Years of American Art.
From: Rachel Ayers
Chris Jensen - Mirror, Mirror
From: Sonja Sommers - Milbourn
Judy Louis – Griffith, By her daughter Sonja Milbourn - Augusta’s Journal
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From: Mike Wotawa
Marianne Koke - Woodie Guthrie Art Works Festival - A film by Murray Lerner- Filmed at the Newport Folk Festival
Very Early Joan
Joan Baez Joan Baez Vol. 2
Joan Baez Bowling Green
Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger
Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan
Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show
Classic Bluegrass from 1956 to 1962 Vol. 8
The Unsung Father of Country Music
Ernest V. Stoneman Recollections
Judy Collins
The Very Best of Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton Live at Newport
Joan Baez Gone from Danger
Joan Baez Legacy
Doc Watson and David Holt
Jefferson Starship presents: Jefferson's Tree of Liberty
Best of Flatt & Scruggs TV show: classic bluegrass from 1956-1962