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Celebrating the Persistence of Phenomenal Women
By:
ReginaC_KCMO
Created on:
Mar 14, 2024
28 items
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Audie Award Winners and Nominees
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Mar 05, 2024
50 items
Topic Guide
An Evening With Jacqueline Woodson
Created on:
Mar 05, 2024
42 items
When she was young, it bothered – no, angered – Jacqueline Woodson that none of the characters she saw and read about in books ...
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What to Watch: Irish Heritage Month
By:
EmmaG_kcmo
Created on:
Feb 27, 2024
100 items
Celebrate March's Irish Heritage Month! Take a look at these titles that include Irish and Irish American culture! Want to chec...
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Spotlight on Jacqueline Woodson
By:
JessieC_KCMO
Created on:
Feb 26, 2024
33 items
Inspirational author Jacqueline Woodson will be visiting the Kansas City Public Library on Friday, March 8th! The author will j...
1 like
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Black History is America's History
Created on:
Feb 06, 2024
40 items
Picture book biographies and histories that honor Black Americans who made our country a better place while facing racism and i...
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KCPL's Favorite Reads of 2023
Created on:
Dec 28, 2023
73 items
Your Kansas City Public Library staff read A LOT of books this past year! Here's merely a few of their favorites from every gen...
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Wavelength
Created on:
Dec 21, 2023
21 items
Wavelength brings together four prolific abstract artists whose individual works generate vibrating frequencies that hum in con...
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Audio File Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2023
By:
HaleyL_KCMO
Created on:
Dec 19, 2023
33 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
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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...
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
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 ...
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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...
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Not Quite Fall
By:
KathrynA_KCMO
Created on:
Aug 16, 2023
15 items
Movies for when you're not quite ready to fully embrace the autumnal vibes.
Topic Guide
Invited to Life
Created on:
Aug 14, 2023
24 items
This reading list accompanies the exhibition Invited to Life: Finding Hope After the Holocaust, Portraits by B.A. Van Sise, hig...
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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
General Recommendations
Spider-Man Day
By:
SamanthaE_KCMO
Created on:
Jul 27, 2023
21 items
August 1st is Spider-Man Day! Take a look at all the books, movies, comics and more that we have on everyone's favorite arachno...
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Say My Name, Say My Name
Created on:
Jul 13, 2023
27 items
Can't remember the name of a character? Don't worry, these books have characters' full names are right in the title... just so ...
1 like
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Vive La France!
By:
JeanD_KCMO
Created on:
Jul 03, 2023
60 items
July 14 is the Fête Nationale Française - the French National Celebration.
Enjoy these selections which celebrate all thi...
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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
General Recommendations
All Together Now- Elementary Recommendations
Created on:
May 03, 2023
24 items
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May Day
By:
ChinesaR_KCMO
Created on:
May 01, 2023
37 items
May Day is also International Worker's Day, a day in which we honor laborers, labor movements, and the fight for workers’ right...
2 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...
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Shakespeare's Birth/Death Day
By:
KathrynA_KCMO
Created on:
Apr 16, 2023
44 items
Celebrate the Bard with his plays and books about his life!