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What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...

Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and...

Slavery isn’t just a sin of the past. Today, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization estimates that more than 40 million victims of h...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrat...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a disc...

Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, explorati...

Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...

Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History C...

William Shakespeare’s seminal play? It’s difficult if not impossible to choose among the Bard’s many masterpieces, but Romeo and Juliet...