Five poetry collections are shortlisted for the fifth annual Maya Angelou Book Award....

Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City metro area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S. history. A book explore...

Author Adib Khorram talks about the best fries in town and his upcoming interview with novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid at the Heartland Book Festival....

This year's Banned Books Week theme, "Censorship is So 1984. Read for Your Rights,” echoes extreme censorship of an oppressive regime in '1984.'...

What did the librarian say to the ghost? Here's your boo-k! And here's your spooky/kooky October Central Youth Services Zine!...

The Library leans into Halloween with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightful films, and other creepily cool Library resou...

The annual spooky zine written by Library staff, 'Phantoms of the Library,' is available at the Central Library.  ...

The Southeast Branch is home to the Digital Media Lab and hosts two summer camps each year....

The World Languages Collection on the third floor of the Central Library stocks materials in 17 languages and will travel in the coming months.  ...