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Books Published the Week of 12/04/23
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 05, 2023
67 items
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New York Times Notable Books of 2023
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 30, 2023
97 items
1 like
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World AIDS Day
By:
VianneyH_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 30, 2023
15 items
Help destigmatize and learn more about the HIV virus and AIDS with these books and films.
Topic Guide
Drag, Female Impersonation, and Gay Bars
Created on:
Nov 29, 2023
16 items
Drag became a gay bar staple in the 1960s as a shared audience expression of gay sensibility. While often seen as synonymous wi...
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E-Comfort and Joy!
By:
JessieC_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 24, 2023
20 items
Tis the season to rush to the library for all of your favorite Holiday nostalgia to give yourself all the warm and fuzzies! Use...
1 like
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Happy Hanksgiving!
By:
KevinF_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 11, 2023
21 items
This holiday season, feel free to leave off the "T" and celebrate Hanksgiving with KCPL's selection of Tom Hanks film...
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Books Published the Week of 11/6/23
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 08, 2023
76 items
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 2000 - 2009
Created on:
Nov 08, 2023
30 items
Welcome to the Read Across the Decades Challenge with the Kansas City Public Library! Each month, we'll read books set in diffe...
1 like
If You Liked ...
Little Women
By:
KathrynA_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 01, 2023
17 items
Cozy period pieces, strong female leads, romance
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We Are Family!
By:
EmmaG_kcmo
Created on:
Oct 31, 2023
25 items
Join us downstairs and check out our display in the Vault at Central Library this November as we celebrate family, and the movi...
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Books Published the Week of 10/16/23
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Oct 17, 2023
61 items
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Dark and Twisted Fairy-tales
By:
AngelaH_KCMO
Created on:
Oct 12, 2023
14 items
You think you know the stories. I love the twisted tales! This list is on the dark side and maybe not so happily ever after.
5 likes
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The Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time*
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Oct 03, 2023
85 items
*According to Time Magazine
3 likes
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1990 - 1999
Created on:
Oct 02, 2023
39 items
Welcome to the Read Across the Decades Challenge with the Kansas City Public Library! Each month, we'll read books set in diffe...
Topic Guide
Dianne Feinstein: A Legacy of California Firsts
Created on:
Sep 29, 2023
12 items
California's first female Senator, Dianne Feinstein, was also San Francisco's first female mayor. Feinstein entered politics in...
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Books Published the Week of 9/18/2023
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 21, 2023
77 items
Topic Guide
Reading of Jewish Voices
Created on:
Sep 20, 2023
42 items
To celebrate Jewish Voices in Literature, the Kansas City Public Library has gathered books from a wide variety of genres that ...
1 like
General Recommendations
National Book Award Longlist
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 19, 2023
45 items
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and YA Literature. Winners will be announced 11/15/2023
1 like
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Challenge-Banned Books Made Into Movies
By:
EmmaG_kcmo
Created on:
Sep 18, 2023
25 items
Banned Books Week! Join us in the Vault as we celebrate Banned Books Week with a display for movies/tv shows adapted from the m...
5 likes
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What Westport's Kitten Dewey is watching this week September 14 - 21)
By:
LiamR_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 14, 2023
10 items
Meow, my dear pals! I've got a purr-fect week planned ahead. I've heard some exciting things about these movies: "42: Th...
1 like
Topic Guide
Everything Jill Lepore
Created on:
Sep 11, 2023
15 items
Award-winning author, historian, podcast host, and New Yorker staffer Jill Lepore juxtaposes the political and personal in her ...
1 like
General Recommendations
Books Published the Week of 9/4/23
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 06, 2023
68 items
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Documentary vs Mockumentary
By:
KathrynA_KCMO
Created on:
Aug 31, 2023
38 items
Laugh and then learn something with this selection of our collection of mockumentary series/movies and documentaries.
1 like
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Most Assigned Reading with Female Authors
By:
ChinesaR_KCMO
Created on:
Aug 23, 2023
50 items
Less than a third of assigned reading in U.S. colleges is written by a woman. But who are the women authors that are being assi...
6 likes
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Books Published the Week of 8/21/23
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Aug 21, 2023
41 items