[3] In advance of bestselling author Jasper Fforde’s appearance at the Plaza Branch on March 17, 2011 [4], the Kansas City Public Library is giving away two first-edition hardback copies of his new book, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, the latest installment in the Thursday Next series. The Library will give away both books via a random drawing facilitated by Twitter.
[5] In the years before the Civil War, Kansas was a battleground. As Free State forces clashed with pro-slavery marauders from Missouri, a 40-something mother of four from Vermont waged a war of her own. As “Bleeding Kansas [6]” raged around her, Clarina Howard Nichols came into her own as a champion of equal rights for women and blacks.
[8] Kenneth Armitage knows his marmots. Though he spent much of his 40-year academic career at the University of Kansas studying the yellow-bellied marmot or “rockchuck,” he’s enough of an expert on the burrowing beasts that he’s featured [9] in the bonus materials of the 15th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of the hit ‘90s comedy Groundhog Day [10].
[12] The recent release of Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography [13] has set the literary world ablaze. And that excitement was in the air a few weeks ago at the Central Library, when one of the editors of Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 [14], Robert H. Hirst, came to give a presentation before a crowd of nearly 450 “Twainiacs.”
[16] For Garry Kasparov [17], life really does imitate chess. The top-ranked chess player in the world for nearly 22 years, Kasparov retired from international competition in 2005 and took on an even more challenging career. He entered Russian politics and became the leader of the opposition movement, playing democracy’s white against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s black.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/tweet-it-read-it-win-jasper-ffordes-new-book
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/event/jasper-fforde-one-our-thursdays-missing
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/new-biography-frontier-feminist-clarina-howard-nichols-be-discussed-library
[6] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12295#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/interview-ku-s-marmot-man-dr-kenneth-armitage
[9] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193526/
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22groundhog+day%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12054#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/video-night-mark-twain
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/gospel-mark-twain
[14] http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/publications.html
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11376#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/grandmaster-garry
[17] http://www.kasparov.com/
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/grandmaster-garry#comments
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=10
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=7
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=8
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=9
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=12
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=13
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=14
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=15
