News Item Longtime NPR Host Meets ‘Best Strangers in the World,’ Our Latest Book Club Selection Monday, April 22, 2024 FYI Book Group 150th Anniversary NPR's Ari Shapiro is the author of this season's FYI Book Club selection.... Read More
News Item Memories of ‘The Wiz,’ and Coming of Age Inspire This Award-Winning Poetry Collection Thursday, February 29, 2024 FYI Book Group Book Discussion Book Group Maya Angelou Book Award Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner.... Read More
News Item Look (and Do) Good: Get a Library-Themed Charlie Hustle Tee Monday, October 16, 2023 Partnerships The Kansas City Public Library again is partnering with Charlie Hustle as part of the apparel company’s popular Communi-Tees program,... Read More
News Item FYI Book Group: WWI disfigured soldiers’ faces. Here’s the surgeon who pioneered a better life for them Monday, July 3, 2023 Book Group In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception. They “often caused feelings... Read More
News Item Library, Nonprofit Strawberry Week Partner on Flowvember Donation Drive Thursday, October 20, 2022 Partnerships The Library and local nonprofit Strawberry Week join for this year's Flowvember donation drive, collecting menstruation products ... Read More
News Item Mayukh Sen Spotlights the Stories, Struggles of Immigrant Women Who Helped Make American Food Cuisine What It Is Wednesday, February 23, 2022 FYI Book Group In his new book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, James Beard Award-winning food writer Mayukh Sen expl... Read More
News Item Library Partners with Barrier Babes for 'Flowvember' Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Library Services Partnerships The Library began a partnership in October with Barrier Babes, a local nonprofit that will deliver 1,... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club Spotlights Girly Drinks and Women’s Underappreciated Influence on Our Alcohol Culture Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Book Group Signature Events Want a read on the progress women are making in society, on where they once stood or stand now in their centuries-long struggle for equal access and o... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club: He writes the rhythms of Kansas City and Black experience in ‘Blue Beat Syncopation’ Monday, July 26, 2021 Readers Services Book Group Summer Reading Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t... Read More
News Item Commemorating Juneteenth Thursday, June 17, 2021 Juneteenth Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Black History Established as a general holiday in 2021, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans on June 19, 1865, following... Read More