Community Bookshelf - Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage

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**UNDER CONSTRUCTION

22 physical books are represented on the exterior of the Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage. The following three are collections of books:

Kansas City Stories, Volume 1
One volume in the community bookshelf lists these titles on its spine:

  • Kansas City, Missouri; Its History and Its People 1808-1908 by Carrie Westlake Whitney (rare and out-of-print)
  • Tom’s Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend by William M. Reddig (out-of-print)
  • Goin’ to Kansas City by Nathan W. Pearson
  • Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes
  • Mr. Anonymous: The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle
  • Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural History by George Ehrlich
  • Journeys Through Time: A Young Traveler’s Guide to Kansas City’s History by Monroe Dodd

Kansas City Stories, Volume 2
The second volume of KC Stories in the community bookshelf lists these titles on its spine:

  • Virgil Thomson, A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 by Virgil Thomson
  • Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
  • I Was Right On Time by Buck O’Neil
  • The O’Donnells by Peggy Sullivan (out of print)
  • Independence Avenue by Eileen Bluestone
  • Stella Louella’s Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
  • PrairyErth (A Deep Map) by William Least Heat-Moon
  • Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin

Children’s Stories
One volume in the community bookshelf lists the following children’s stories on its spine:

  • Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
  • Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
  • Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
  • What a Wonderful World by George Weiss and Bob Thiele
  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

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  1. 1.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  2. 2.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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  3. 3.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  4. 4.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  5. 5.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  7. 7.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  8. 8.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  9. 9.
    O Pioneers! (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  10. 10.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  11. 11.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  12. 12.
    Republic, The (Plato) (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  13. 14.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  14. 15.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  15. 16.
    The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
    by Langston Hughes

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  16. 17.
    Truman
    by David McCullough

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  17. 18.
    The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
    by Meriwether Lewis

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  18. 19.
    Black Elk Speaks
    by John G. Neihardt

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  19. 21.
    Goodnight Moon, 60th Anniversary Edition
    by Margaret Wise Brown

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  20. 23.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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  21. 25.
    What a Wonderful World (Jean Karl Books)
    by George David Weiss

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  22. 26.
    Little House on the Prairie (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  23. 27.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum

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  24. 28.
    M.C. Higgins, the Great
    by Virginia Hamilton

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  25. 29.
    The Virgil Thomson Reader: Selected Writings 1924-1984
    by R. Kostelanetz

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  26. 30.
    Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
    by Evan S. Connell

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  27. 31.
    I Was Right On Time
    by Buck O'neil

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  28. 32.
    Independence Avenue
    by Eileen, Bluestone Sherman

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  29. 33.
    Stella Louella's Runaway Book

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  30. 34.
    PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country
    by William Least Heat-Moon

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  31. 35.
    Messages From My Father
    by Calvin Trillin

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  32. 36.
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    The O' Donnells
    by Peggy Sullivan

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  33. 37.
    Goin' to Kansas City (Music in American Life)
    by Nathan W. Pearson

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  34. 38.
    Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
    by Richard Rhodes

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Created by tknowlton on Jul 15, 2009.
 

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