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On their first date, a canoe outing in southern Africa, where they both lived, Alexandra Fuller and husband-to-be Charlie Ross wer...

College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...

Kansas City's Shane W. Evans, who has earned national acclaim as the illustrator of more than 30 children's books, joins actress,...

The holiday season is a great time to explore traditional celebrations from other cultures around the world. Learn about holidays in places such as...

Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you. In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s Director of Re...

As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...

Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...

No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...

What is it like to be the son or daughter of an absolute and ruthless dictator? To bear a name – Stalin or Mussolini, Mao or Ceausescu, Qaddafi or...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...