Community Bookshelf - Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage

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UNDERCONSTRUCTION

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

http://www.kclibrary.org/community-bookshelf

  1. 1.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  2. 2.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  3. 3.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  4. 4.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. 5.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White
  6. 6.
  7. 7.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  8. 8.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  9. 9.
    O Pioneers! (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Willa Cather
  10. 10.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  11. 11.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  12. 12.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  14. 14.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  15. 15.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  16. 16.
    The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
    by Langston Hughes
  17. 17.
    Truman
    by David McCullough
  18. 18.
    The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
    by Meriwether Lewis
  19. 19.
  21. 21.
    Goodnight Moon
    by Margaret Wise Brown
  23. 23.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne
  25. 25.
    What a Wonderful World (Jean Karl Books)
    by George David Weiss
  26. 26.
    Little House on the Prairie (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  27. 27.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum
  28. 28.
    M.C. Higgins, the Great
    by Virginia Hamilton
  30. 30.
    Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
    by Evan S. Connell
  31. 31.
    I Was Right On Time
    by Buck O'neil
  32. 32.
    Independence Avenue
    by Eileen, Bluestone Sherman
  33. 33.
    Stella Louella's Runaway Book
    by Lisa Campbell Ernst
  34. 34.
    PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country
    by William Least Heat-Moon
  35. 35.
    Messages From My Father: A Memoir
    by Calvin Trillin
  36. 36.
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    The O' Donnells
    by Peggy Sullivan
  37. 37.
    Goin' to Kansas City (Music in American Life)
    by Nathan W. Pearson
  38. 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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