Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bestselling author Candice Millard is the featured guest at the annual Writers for Readers fundraiser dinner on November 20....
Monday, October 27, 2025
Throughout November, discover the rich history, ceremonies, and storytelling traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America at the Library....
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Five poetry collections are shortlisted for the fifth annual Maya Angelou Book Award....
Friday, October 17, 2025
Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City metro area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S. history. A book explore...
Monday, October 6, 2025
Author Adib Khorram talks about the best fries in town and his upcoming interview with novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid at the Heartland Book Festival....
Saturday, October 4, 2025
This year's Banned Books Week theme, "Censorship is So 1984. Read for Your Rights,” echoes extreme censorship of an oppressive regime in '1984.'...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
What did the librarian say to the ghost? Here's your boo-k! And here's your spooky/kooky October Central Youth Services Zine!...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Library leans into Halloween with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightful films, and other creepily cool Library resou...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The annual spooky zine written by Library staff, 'Phantoms of the Library,' is available at the Central Library. ...