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Palentines Day: Honoring the Love For All Your Friends
Created on:
Jan 25, 2023
19 items
Palentines Day, celebrated on February 13, is the time to honor the platonic soul mates in your life! This holiday celebrates t...
Top Picks
Best of 2022
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HollyW_KCMO
HollyW_KCMO
Created on:
Jan 21, 2023
9 items
Of the books published in 2022, these were best I read. Presented in no particular order with notes about why I liked them.
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1900-1909
Created on:
Jan 12, 2023
14 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
Appreciate a Dragon Day : January 16
Created on:
Jan 10, 2023
20 items
Appreciate a Dragon Day is held each year on January 16 to celebrate literacy and honor some of our favorite dragons in books a...
General Recommendations
Manga pt 2
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RUIZ_KCMO
RUIZ_KCMO
Created on:
Jan 05, 2023
100 items
Continuation of Manga pt1.
Also, "Suggest a Purchase" can be used for a Manga that is not in our systems.
2 likes
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New Books, New Year! Books published the week of 1/2/23
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HaleyL_KCMO
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Jan 05, 2023
28 items
Genre Guide
More Murder Mysteries for Fans of Benoit Blanc
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HelenL_KCMO
HelenL_KCMO
Created on:
Jan 04, 2023
15 items
Finished Glass Onion? Well here's some more YA mysteries from the Central Library Teen Room!
General Recommendations
First in a Series
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JessieC_KCMO
JessieC_KCMO
Created on:
Jan 03, 2023
22 items
Ready to start something new? Try one of these first titles in a number of popular book series.
General Recommendations
Books Like Taylor Swift's Debut Album
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SuzanneS_KCMO
SuzanneS_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 27, 2022
28 items
Do you remember listening to Taylor Swift for the first time? We’ve collected books that will give you the same feelings – all ...
General Recommendations
Books Published the Week of 12/19/2022
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HaleyL_KCMO
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 19, 2022
18 items
General Recommendations
Celebrate Science Fiction Day
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JessieC_KCMO
JessieC_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 19, 2022
20 items
January 2nd is Science Fiction Day! Try something new with one of these popular Sci-Fi novels published in the past couple of y...
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Give It a Listen
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JessieC_KCMO
JessieC_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 18, 2022
16 items
Got a long road trip coming up? Never listened to an audiobook and want to give it a try? These excellent narrators and storie...
General Recommendations
Historical Fiction Not Set During World War II
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KathrynA_KCMO
KathrynA_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 17, 2022
28 items
The historical fiction market seems to be saturated with books set during World War II. Check out some that aren't.
6 likes
General Recommendations
Men who looked cold so we gave them clothes
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KarlaM_KCMO
KarlaM_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 16, 2022
12 items
General Recommendations
Female Sleuths
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HollyW_KCMO
HollyW_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 15, 2022
16 items
Women conducting amateur murder investigations
2 likes
Top Picks
#LibFaves22: Top Ten Books I Read This Year
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KaiteS_KCMO
KaiteS_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 14, 2022
13 items
For the past 11 years librarians across the nation have been posting on Twitter & Instagram their top 10 books published th...
General Recommendations
Books Under 200 Pages to Help Finish Your 2022 Reading Goal
Created on:
Dec 13, 2022
29 items
We're near the final stretch of 2022 - have you finished your Reading Goal yet? To hopefully help, the Kansas City Public Libra...
1 like
General Recommendations
Hanukkah 2022: December 18-26
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HaleyL_KCMO
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 12, 2022
25 items
Hanukkah 2022 begins at nightfall on December 18th and ends at nightfall on December 26th. Hanukkah is the 8-day Jewish Festiva...
General Recommendations
Reading Discworld: Where To Begin?
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DevonM_KCMO
DevonM_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 10, 2022
15 items
A guide introducing you to the late Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld. With so many titles in this beloved franchise publis...
1 like
General Recommendations
Returning To Neverland: Peter Pan in Adaptation
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DevonM_KCMO
DevonM_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 09, 2022
6 items
In January of 2022 I embarked on a quest to read as many adaptations of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories as I could get my hands...
Genre Guide
Absurdity!
Created on:
Dec 07, 2022
38 items
Gobbledygook. Flummoxed. Wamble. Kibitzer. Does this all sound like a bunch of Piffle to you? It sure is! Please enjoy this lis...
Top Picks
NPR: 2022 Books We Love
Created on:
Dec 06, 2022
50 items
National Public Radio, NPR, released the books that they loved that were published in 2022. There are over 400 titles! To help ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Manga pt 1
By:
RUIZ_KCMO
RUIZ_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 06, 2022
100 items
Because you can't just look up Manga.
Also, "Suggest a Purchase" can be used if there's a manga you would like to read.
7 likes
General Recommendations
Books Published the Week of 12/05/2022
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 06, 2022
50 items
General Recommendations
Dark Academia
By:
HollyW_KCMO
HollyW_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 27, 2022
20 items
Novels that take place at a school, explore dark themes, and frequently include secret societies.
1 like
