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Women's History Month
By:
EvaL_KCMO
Created on:
Mar 01, 2024
28 items
A collection of books featuring women in science, sports, and literature.
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Challenged - Banned Books
By:
KellyB_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 18, 2023
25 items
The library also has DVDs adapted from these challenged and banned books.
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Read Across the Decades: 1920 - 1929
Created on:
Mar 07, 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...
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Black Banned Books
By:
JasmineS_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 20, 2022
48 items
In honor of Banned Books Week, here are some amazing banned books by Black authors talking about all that is the black experience.
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Go Ahead, Read a Banned Book!
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 19, 2022
72 items
"The ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different tit...
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Readin O' the Green
By:
AlishaH_KCMO
Created on:
Mar 14, 2022
22 items
Don’t get caught not wearing green this St. Patrick’s Day! Use the great loophole of carrying around a book with a green cover!
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The Books the Goddard School in Kansas Wants Removed
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Nov 10, 2021
27 items
From KCUR.Org "Jaime Prothro, Wichita’s director of libraries, said there’s an increase in challenges to library purchases...
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Banned Books Top 10 from 2018-2020
By:
DaveJ_KCMO
Created on:
Sep 20, 2021
26 items
A list of the top 10 banned books compiled from the ALA from 2018-2020.
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Celebra-Reads
By:
AlishaH_KCMO
Created on:
Jul 05, 2021
80 items
Books celebrities have recommended or talked highly of
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Can't read this: Banned Books Week
Created on:
Sep 24, 2020
56 items
Banned Books Week was established in September of 1982 to highlight current and historical attempts to censor books in librarie...
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National Read a Book Day
Created on:
Sep 06, 2020
41 items
For National Read a Book Day, here are some books you can read (or listen to) in a day.
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Mother's Day eTreats
Created on:
May 09, 2020
15 items
We’ve gathered some tasty morsels just in time for Mother's Day. Because we’re not able to get out and about yet, all these del...
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Noname's Book Club Picks
Created on:
Jan 10, 2020
85 items
Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” T...
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Toni Morrison: A Life in/of/about/for words
Created on:
Aug 06, 2019
35 items
One of the most decorated writers of the 20th century, Toni Morrison's works are mainstays of book clubs, compelling adaptation...
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Weird Books by Women
By:
FlanneryC_KCMO
Created on:
Mar 02, 2018
15 items
Dark, transgressive, and experimental books by women, featuring bad moms, bad nannies, and true crime.
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Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters
By:
MaijaM_KCMO
Created on:
May 02, 2017
23 items
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Read the Rainbow: Authors of Color
Created on:
Jan 19, 2017
15 items
A Winter Reading Bingo suggested titles list of just a sampling of authors of color to expand your reading horizons!
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