Central Library will close early Thursday, November 6 at 1:00 p.m. & all other locations will close at 2:30 p.m. for an all staff event.
Great War | Great Read
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              Wednesday, October 15, 2014 
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          It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...
        
      
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              Sunday, October 12, 2014 
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          Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a...
        
      
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              Wednesday, October 8, 2014 
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          What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I?
In Dark Inva...
        
      
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              Friday, October 3, 2014 
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          Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...
        
      
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              Wednesday, August 20, 2014 
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          Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...
        
      
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              Sunday, August 17, 2014 
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          Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
        
      
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              Wednesday, August 13, 2014 
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          At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
        
      
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              Wednesday, August 6, 2014 
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          The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...
        
      