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 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 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 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
News Item Read and Learn with Pride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 7, 2021 Pride Month Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un... Read More
News Item A Little Devil in America: FYI Book Club Selection Is a Rueful Celebration of Black Artistry Monday, April 19, 2021 Book Group Readers Services The latest pick of the Library's FYI Book Group, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, is Hanif Abdurraqib... Read More
News Item Feed the Meter: National Poetry Month at the Library Wednesday, April 14, 2021 National Poetry Month Reading Lists Book Group Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan? The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation... Read More