Filter Results by...
List Type
Creator type
Library
Form/Genre
Topic
Region
Topic Guide
Lunar New Year 2024
Created on:
Feb 05, 2024
24 items
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, an important and festive holiday for many Asian communities, the Kansas City Public Library ha...
1 like
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
KCPL Book Groups: September 2023
Created on:
Sep 06, 2023
16 items
If you're looking for a book group to join, Kansas City Public Library has you covered. Most of our locations have at least one...
1 like
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1980 - 1989
Created on:
Aug 31, 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
Topic Guide
The Importance of Libraries
Created on:
Aug 14, 2023
21 items
Besides granting access to thousands of books, Libraries themselves are often spaces that mold into what a communities needs mo...
1 like
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1970 - 1979
Created on:
Aug 10, 2023
36 items
Welcome to the Read Across the Decades Challenge with the Kansas City Public Library! Each month, we'll read books set in diffe...
2 likes
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1960 - 1969
Created on:
Jun 28, 2023
40 items
Welcome to the Read Across the Decades Challenge with the Kansas City Public Library! Each month, we'll read books set in diffe...
2 likes
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1950 - 1959
Created on:
May 30, 2023
24 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
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1940 - 1949
Created on:
May 02, 2023
29 items
Welcome to the Read Across the Decades Challenge with the Kansas City Public Library! Each month, we'll read books set in diffe...
3 likes
Topic Guide
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Created on:
Apr 26, 2023
40 items
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, when we aknowledge Jewish contributions to American culture, history, and society. Gathe...
2 likes
Topic Guide
The Bond You Didn't Ask For: Happy National Siblings Day!
Created on:
Apr 07, 2023
21 items
National Siblings Day is celebrated on April 10 and to honor that bond you didn't ask for, the sibling bond, the Kansas City Pu...
2 likes
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1930 - 1939
Created on:
Mar 31, 2023
32 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
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Created on:
Mar 28, 2023
52 items
March 31 of each year, we honor International Transgender Day of Visibility. Here at the Kansas City Public Library, we are cel...
Topic Guide
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...
1 like
Topic Guide
Rap & Hip-Hop: The History and Culture
Created on:
Feb 17, 2023
34 items
Rap, which originated in African American communities in New York City is a musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming spee...
Topic Guide
Read Across the Decades: 1910-1919
Created on:
Jan 25, 2023
31 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
Topic Guide
Palentines Day: Honoring the Love For All Your Friends
Created on:
Jan 25, 2023
25 items
Palentines Day, celebrated on February 13, is the time to honor the platonic soul mates in your life! This holiday celebrates t...
Topic Guide
From Text to Screens: Books Becoming Films or TV Shows in 2023
Created on:
Jan 25, 2023
22 items
If you'd like to get a jump start on reading a book before seeing the film or show, the Kansas City Public Library has got you ...
Topic Guide
2023 Lunar New Year: The Year of the Rabbit and Cat
Created on:
Jan 10, 2023
20 items
The Lunar New Year is a tradition celebrated in China and in several East and Southeast Asian countries. This year in 2023 the ...
Topic Guide
Transgender Awareness Week & National Transgender Day of Remembrance
Created on:
Nov 14, 2022
37 items
Between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise t...
1 like
Topic Guide
Noirvember
Created on:
Nov 10, 2022
30 items
Cynical heroes, frequent use of flashbacks, intricate plots filled with deception, corruption, and self-destructive anti-heroes...
2 likes
Topic Guide
Literary Table of Elements
By:
AlishaH_KCMO
Created on:
Oct 17, 2022
72 items
In celebration of National Chemistry Week, October 16 – 22, the Kansas City Public Library has created The Literary Table of El...
Topic Guide
Black Poetry Day 2022
Created on:
Oct 12, 2022
31 items
Black Poetry Day on October 17 honors past and present Black poets. The day celebrates the importance of black heritage and lit...
1 like
Topic Guide
Indigenous Voices
Created on:
Oct 06, 2022
60 items
Learn more about the rich and diverse heritage of fiction, nonfiction, history, poetry, memoir, and more by Indigenous peoples ...
5 likes
Topic Guide
My Dearest Diary
Created on:
Sep 14, 2022
33 items
My Dearest Diary - it has come to my attention that September 22 is “Dear Diary Day”, a day in which we celebrate how writing i...
1 like