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Check out the new library website @ www.tscpl.org
Thoughts on recent reads
The Dead Can Kill Again
Happy 100th Birthday to Louis L'Amour!
Goodbye Arthur C. Clarke
Do the clothes make the man? Or reveal a killer?
Librarians Are Reading...
New Audiobooks
A Plague Unleashed
Irish Eyes are Reading
in warm pastel / artblog 21
This week at your library ... Jane Austen Book Club: Northanger Abbey
New Audiobooks
Biggest Loser Cookbook
Victim or not
Join Us in Celebrating Talking Books Week March 3-March 8, 2008
This week at your library ... Creating the Marketing Plan
Thriller offers a unique method of storytelling
Author William F. Buckley dies
October Boy
forging artnerships / artblog 20
New This Week @ your library, February 26th 2008
This week at your library ... Legal and Registration Requirements for the Small Business
Travelogue Follows in the Steps of Austen
March 2008
connectnow
New Non-Fiction DVD's This Week
The Wild West Retold
i don't get it / artblog 19
New This Week @ your library, February 19th 2008
This week at your library ... Special Film Series -
Capote
Thoughts on Recent Reads
Project Library: Rats!!
Obama Wins Again...at the Grammy Awards
New Non-Fiction DVD's at the Library
Happy Valentines Day!
Dead in the Snow
kansas loses by two / artblog 18
New This Week @ you library, February 12th 2008
This week at your library ... Writing the Business Plan
New Audiobooks
Project Library: Handmade Washcloth
The library welcomes Terry Knowles!
Sizzle and Burn
Something is watching
want vs. need / artblog 17
New This Week @ your library, February 5th 2008
This week at your library ... International Film Series -
Rain/Baran
Read and Discuss:
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
Project Library: Deceptively Delicious
Books and Blogs: What's the Difference?
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: African American Read-In
A Creation Beyond his Control
snowy day / artblog 16
President Truman's daughter dies
New This Week @ your library, January 29th 2008
This week at your library ...
In Her Shoes
book discussion
Thoughts on Recent Reads
Project Library: Magnifiers and Fly Tying
Between the Numbers
The Lone Game Warden
what's next / artblog 15
William Allen White Award Book Review/Anonymous Book Reviews
New This Week @ your library, January 22nd 2008
Library Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
This week at your library ... Look It Up On the Internet computer training class
It's All In a Cover
William Allen White Award Book Review: Princess Academy
Project Library: Handmade Marshmallows
Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair
connectnow
: topeka reads
William Allen White Award Book Review: The Sacrifice
Stained with Death
Baltimore librarian wins Newbery medal for best children's book
New This Week @ your library, January 15th 2008
Lost in the Stacks:
Jesus land: A Memoir
William Allen White Award Book Review/Naked Mole-Rat Letters
This week at your library ...
Madame Bovary
book discussion
Celebrate the New Year with New Audiobooks!
A message to our readers.
William Allen White Award Book Review: The Dr. Dyl Show 2
More plagiarism in the news.
The Almost Moon
is almost a good read.
Blog Tour: Author Susan May Warren
Blood Brothers
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: crime in the stacks
Twist of Magic
Library Videographers Boost William Allen White Nominees' Exposure
New This Week @ your library, January 8th 2008
90 second book review:
Austenland
by Shannon Hale
Kathy suggests ...
Thoughts on Recent Reads from our Staff
Project Library: Fireplace Revitalization
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: guided tours of the library
A commercial parody (about our library!)
The Jane Austen Book Club:
Sense and Sensibility
Library Ninja attack!
Happy Birthday, PaperCuts!
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: February 2008 issue
Book Review:
The Planets
by Dava Sobel
A Murder to Tempt Fate
Best Books of 2007
Library Closed for New Year's
New This Week @ your library, January 2nd 2008
Read and Discuss:
In Her Shoes
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: david j’s teen advisory board has big plans
Library Closed for New Year's Eve
Martha overload!
52 Questions #52!!!!!!!! What was your favorite read of 2007?
60 second book review:
love is a mix tape
Pardon Our Dust: The Media Center has Moved!!
The Best Books You Aren't Reading:
Before I Die
Books on the Big Screen I am Legend
Book Review:
A Version of the Truth
When the Reaper Comes to Town
Library Closed for Christmas
New This Week @ your library, December 26th 2007
Library Closed for Christmas Eve
Have you discovered Pageflakes yet?
52 Questions #51: What books are a part of your holiday traditions?
Latkes? That scream?
Project Library: Gourd Art
Meet Author Tricia Goyer
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: Topeka’s living room
The Darkest Evening of the Year
Another Chance at Life and Murder
Need a quick literary break? Try TwitterLit
New This Week @ your library, December 18th 2007
connectnow
: we've got great friends
Want to Email Santa Claus?
52 Questions #50: What are your Reading Deal-Breakers?
Project Library: Itty Bitty Hats
In Fantasy news...
Local author to have a book signing on Saturday
The Bloody Hand of Justice
Library Closed due to weather.
New This Week @ your library, December 11th 2007
Read and Discuss:
Madame Bovary
Coming up this week: Literature with Lunch Book Discussion
52 Questions #49: What Place from a Book Would You Most Want to Go?
Pardon Our Dust: More Remodeling in Youth Services
Pardon Our Dust: The New Reference Room
2007 Winter Music Festival Schedule
Project Library: Inaugural Post
Elizabeth Hardwick dies at 91.
The Making of a Legend
Happy Hanukkah!
New This Week @ your library, December 4th 2007
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: January 2008 issue
Coming up this week: International Film Series - Joyeux Noel
Today is World AIDS day
52 Questions #48: Do You Have a Special Reading Place?
December Magazines on Display
Pardon Our Dust: The Walls are Coming Down!
Pardon Our Dust: Preschool Computers are moving (and improving)!
Last Minute Studying
Murder Under a Hunter’s Moon
shrinkage / artblog 14
New This Week @ your library, November 27th 2007
Take a trip to the Travel neighborhood!
Don't forget about the Homework Center!
52 Questions # 47: What books are on your Christmas wish list?
Are you
Daring
?
Library Closed for Thanksgiving.
Burn This Book
Pardon Our Dust: The New Desk in the Corner!
Amazon's new wireless reading device: Kindle
New This Week @ your library, November 20th 2007
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: Your library…what matters most?
Coming up this week: Exhibit - The Inspired Line
52 Questions #46: Which fictional family would you like to eat Thanksgiving dinner with?
Where all the women are strong, the men are good looking...
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: Chandler Booktique
Pardon Our Dust: Moving New Books
A Halfling Adventure
New This Week @ your library, November 13th 2007
TSCPL Altered Book Project
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: Party like it's 2008
Library Closed for Veterans Day.
Coming up this week: Literature with Lunch Book Discussion
Norman Mailer dead at 84.
52 Questions #45: Does the Author's Background Matter?
Getting on with
The Rest of Her Life
Come Take a Look at a Holiday Book
A Murder That Takes Nerve
New This Week @ your library, November 6th 2007
Honoring our Veterans November 7, 2007
connectnow
: Holiday Cooking
Coming up this week: International Film Series - Pan's Labyrinth
52 Questions #44: Do You Like to Read about Your Job?
Dedication Ceremony for Genealogy Center
$100,000 Gift Supports 21st Century Genealogy Research
connectnow
: December 2007 issue
National Novel Writing Month is about to begin!
Flu Shot Clinic @ the library - Monday, November 5
Ghost for Sale
Pardon Our Dust: Moving Computers
New This Week @ your library, October 30th 2007
Foreign Films: Who doesn’t like stickers?
connectnow
: New ways to use the library!
Coming up this week: Writer's Workshop
52 Questions #43: Can authors tell you too much about a character?
Meet the Author: Ishmael Beah to speak at Washburn
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: Rembrandt & Dürer: the inspired line
Pardon Our Dust: Hello, New Desk - Goodbye, Old Desk!
Pardon Our Dust: Pulling Cables
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: Friends of the Library Book Sale Results
A Murmur Turns Into a Scream.
Nora Roberts wins Quill Award
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: Silents in the Cathedral
New This Week @ your library, October 23rd 2007
Behind Barbed Wire
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: Pardon Our Dust...Improvements Underway
Pardon Our Dust: new service desk and computer countertops
Bestseller Express - now check out 5 at a time!
Coming up this week: NaNoWriMo Kickoff, How To Write a Novel in 30 Days
52 Questions # 42: What Literary Character Makes the Best Halloween Costume?
Pardon Our Dust - Parking Lot
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: climbing your family tree
Poe's Mysterious Death: The Plot Thickens
Pardon Our Dust: New Furniture Arrives!
How about a scary movie night?
Evil Isolation
New This Week @ your library, October 16th 2007
Rabbit Goes to Kansas Part II: Rabbit's Great Return!
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: Traces Traveling Museum
52 Questions #41: What Old Family Recipes Do You Want to Save?
Pardon our dust: Artistic Rendering
connectnow
: what a beautiful library
Charmed
, I'm sure.
Pardon Our Dust: Community Information on the move!
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
Eric Clapton Autobiography
Austenland
by Shannon Hale
The Spirit You Can Not Escape
Beyond the Musical Avant-Garde
New This Week @ your library, October 9th 2007
Explore the current exhibit in the Sabatini Gallery!
Coming up this week: Creating and Reading blogs class
I Love You, Beth Cooper!
Recently at the library...
52 Questions #40: Speedreading--Yay or Nay?
Pardon Our Dust: Preview of new room layouts
connectnow
: November 2007 issue
Free People Read Freely.
Cast Your Vote for the Quill Book of the Year Now.
Pardon Our Dust: Electricians prepare us for more change!
funny books full of lies
Outside In
Library Card contest - Congratulations to over 125 winners!
A Quest in a Nightmare
New This Week @ your library, October 2nd 2007
What We're Reading
Are you Tawdry?
Coming up this week: International Film Series: Shaun of the Dead
52 Questions #39: What Do You Keep in the Car to Read...Just in Case?
Author Lisa Bergren stops by on her Blog Tour
Wrap yourself in something cozy this fall.
A community of knitters
Book Club:
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
Pardon Our Dust - The Big Move begins…
Paying the Price
New This Week @ your library, September 25th 2007
Pardon Our Dust - Change is Coming!
Authors want to give you prizes!
52 Questions # 38: What Five Books Should Everyone Read at least Once?
How to advertise a library
Libraries Attract Record Crowds!
The Shock Doctrine
: a video review by Alfonso Cuaron
You are invited to help us develop our new Digital Branch
Not In Kansas Anymore
connectnow
: Bill Snyder speaks!
Lost in the Stacks:
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
The Hunt Has Begun
An Uncommon Story
New This Week @ your library, September 18th 2007
Robert Jordan dead at 58.
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
Coming up this week: African American Writers Book Discussion Group
52 Questions #37: In 2017 Libraries Will Be....
Fall From Grace Documentary Showing in KC
Local Author Judith Miller to hold a Booksigning event
Get
Fitted
.
connectnow
: Tamora Pierce
A Mortician on the Case
Lost in the Stacks:
Seminary Boy
by John Cornwell
New This Week @ your library, September 11th 2007
60 second book review:
at knit's end: meditations for women who knit too much
52 Questions #36: Do Looks Matter in an Author?
Author Madeline L'Engle dies
Making
Eye Contact
Book Review:
The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Agnes and the Hitman
connectnow
: Your gift speaks volumes
The Justice of the Mistress
New This Week @ your library September 4th 2007
60 second video book review:
life on the refrigerator door
The Library is Closed for Labor Day.
For Your Listening Pleasure: New Audiobooks
52 Questions #35: What Book Do You Most Wish Was True?
connectnow
: October 2007 issue
Thoughts on Recent Reads
Bare feet, home-grown tomatos and down comforters.
Check out this crafty book:
Felt It! Stitch It! Fabulous!
by Katheryn Tidwell Bieber
Grown-ups can read William Allen White nominated books too!
Someone Wants This Diva Dead
New This Week @ your library, August 28th 2007
60 second book review: confessions of a Jane Austen addict
Counting Opinions Survey 2007
52 Questions #34: Do you want your favorite series to die with the author?
Best Books of 2007 (so far)...
PC Magazine names Top 100 Classic Websites
Are you
Buying It
?
Poet and short story writer Grace Paley dead at 84.
Public Computers UNAVAILABLE next Tuesday and Wednesday
New Genealogy Materials
How do you measure up to other readers?
The brutals are back
New software means fair and equal access to library computers!
New This Week @ your library, August 21st 2007
Trip Planning Made Easy: New Travel Bags Added to the Library's Travel Collection
Joe Posnanski at the library
connectnow: summer reading's over? not when you read with a friend
Check it out: Overbooked
52 Questions #33: Hardbacks vs. Paperbacks
More New Audiobooks
Having a Judy Blume moment.
Check this out:
The Seventeen Traditions
by Ralph Nader
connectnow: budget— are you kidding? I’m a student
The resort is murder
What book got you hooked on reading?
New This Week @ your library, August 14th 2007
Christian Fiction Award Winners
connectnow: Baseball's heart and soul
Rerunning Film Noir
52 Questions #32: Should listening to the audio version count as reading a book?
Have you read a good movie lately?
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter and the Never-ending Book Discussion.
Word Trivia: depending on what IS is...
connectnow: Top 10 reasons the library is your best personal research tool
Spider Aliens
Calling Christian Fiction Fans: Meet Author Deborah Raney
New This Week @ your library, August 7th 2007
connectnow: big moves in the news
52 Questions #31: Should authors use famous dead people as characters?
Book review: A life winds down in alphabetical order
Taking a stab at motherhood.
Novellas; or, the curse of the quick read
connectnow: September 2007 issue
Murders old and new
New This Week @ your library, July 31st 2007
Happy Birthday, Harry Potter!
Author Marilyn Johnson visited TSCPL
2007 Adult Summer Reading Winners!
On this day: 1981 - Charles and Diana wed
52 Questions #30: What Do You Think of Author Collaborations?
Summer Reading has come to a close!
The Best Books You Aren't Reading:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Have you read a YALSA lately?
Catch a cat by its tail
New This Week @ your library July 24th, 2007
Summer Reading on the sidewalk
New Harry Potter book sells 1.2 million copies on the first day
52 Questions # 29: Do You Find Readers More Attractive?
One week remains to get your summer reading logs in!
The final countdown is on for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
!
Meet our Newest Audiobooks
It’s a fiesta!
Are We Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Walking between worlds
New This Week @ your library July 17th, 2007
"The End User: Byte-sized e-books
Think you want to be a librarian?
Michael Chabon's
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
52 Questions #28: What Do You Think of Celebrities Turned Authors?
Two weeks of summer reading left! How much can you read?
Stephanie Plum is at it again!
Did someone say Harry Potter?
5 Topeka librarians nominated!
If Public Libraries Didn't Exist, Could You Start One Today?
Fear is timeless
connectnow: Express yourself!
Library magazine
connectnow
is a featured column!
New This Week @ your library, July 10th, 2007
Read This Book: How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
Check out our Xbox games!
The Cult of the Amateur
by Andrew Keen
52 Questions #27: Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday, What do you think?
Only 3 weeks of Adult Summer Reading left!
Librarians on the Loose! ALA @ D.C.
Ray Bradbury interview to be rebroadcast on KANU
Library Closed for July 4th.
The power of scent
Check this out--local author featured in Lawrence Journal World
New This Week @ your library, July 3rd, 2007
August connectnow magazine available now!
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:July 2007 connectnow magazine
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: Very Small Objects: Lost as Found
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: The Dead Beat
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: Harry Potter's Final Exam
Culinary Cuttings: Easy dinners for busy families.
iPhone: the library in your pocket?
52 Questions # 26: Do You Judge a Book by It's Cover?
New Audiobooks
Blogs to Books!
Manhunting
The Library Fix
by Garrison Keillor
The darkness is real
Making reading a community thing.
New This Week @ your library, June 26th, 2007
Mysteries of the Book Depository REVEALED!
Strange Tribe
by John Hemingway - a read not for the timid
52 Questions #25: What do you think about adults reading books written for children?
A book in the same time it takes to drink an espresso.
Three Fates
Robots!
In pursuit of the truth
That's Sir Salman Rushdie to you.
Chihuly is on
Fire
!
Music junkie? Check out
SkreemR
online!
52 Questions #24: Who is the most memorable father you have met in a book?
Nuns with guns.
Ruth Bell Graham dies at 87
Lost in the Stacks:
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
New non-fiction DVD’s
Don’t play in the cemetery
KU librarian publishes online book of artists
Deja Blog or, I think I've seen this blog before...
OpenOffice for everyone!
Check out
The Little Book of Plagiarism
by Richard A. Posner
The woman behind Zane.
MaryJane's Stitching Room
by MaryJane Butters
52 Questions #23: Who is the best mother you've ever met in a book?
2007 Topeka Sports Hall of Fame inductees announced!
The Best Books You Aren't Reading:
Twisted
Ignite Your Imagination: READ!
What's
Better Than Chocolate
?
King Arthur in the Wild West
Oprah's latest pick:
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Gina Millsap speaks about the Banned Books Walking Tour
New This Week @ your library, June 5th, 2007
Author Mark Harris dead at 84.
Ask Ray Bradbury a Question
Meet our newest audiobooks
Read This Book: Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Thoughts on Recent Reads: A dad, a neighbor, a princess and a PK.
Mark your calendars for Sept. 29 - Roadtrip to Washington D.C. for the 2007 National Book Festival!
52 Questions #22: What book would you choose to save?
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: June 2007 connectnow magazine
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: Ignite Your Imagination - Adult Summer Reading
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: Covers Blown: Art Quilts
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: Lucy, You Got Some 'Splainin To Do
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: Dangerous Reading - Banned Books
Two Great Summer Reads: a TSCPL Podcast
New Magazine Reading Room is OPEN
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Evil beyond the grave.
New This Week @ your library, May 29th, 2007
Book burning a thing of the past? Apparently not.
Library closed for Memorial Day.
Libraries using Netflix to get more movie titles!
52 Questions #21: What's your favorite John Wayne movie?
Here comes the
Sun
.
Book Review: The Harrowing: A Ghost Story
A Quest within a quest
New This Week @ your library, May 22nd, 2007
Join the club! (book club, that is…)
Shrink Lit?
Video Book Review: The Friday Night Knitting Club
In case you missed it: KC Literary Festival 2007!
52 Questions #20: What's your reading pet peeve?
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
author dead.
Friday Trivia Fun - The Plot Thickens
New Non-Fiction DVD Titles For May
Videos from the Big Read Kickoff
National Low Vision Support Group Internet Conference for May: Update on Research and Treatments
The Big Read has begun!
Do your bibliographies for class quickly in MLA, APA or Chicago Manual of Style format!
Scary springtime horror books
New This Week @ your library, May 15th, 2007
Nebula award winners announced!
Happy Mother's Day!
52 Questions #19: If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?
Maureen Johnson is DANGEROUS!: a TSCPL Podcast
Hollywood Librarian
coming to a library near you!
The library is on
FIRE!
Between Trapezes
New book from Kirk Douglas.
Help a Kansas library in need!
Secrets that bind
Matthew Polly, Kung Fu and a monk or two.
New This Week @ your library, May 8th, 2007
Lost Steinbeck writings found
June 2007 connectnow magazine
Meet our newest audiobooks
52 Questions # 18: What's on your summer reading list?
The Best Books You Aren't Reading:
Elsewhere
A Visit from Valentino Achak Deng
Save the book review!
Classic Science Fiction Trivia
El Día De Los Niños - El Día De Los Libros
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: May 2007 connectnow magazine
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: When You've Got Questions - Get Answers
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: Listen In: Audiobooks
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: See What's New at the Booktique
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: Kansas Authors @ your library
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: From a Genie to an ELF - Red Carpet Services
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: The Big Read:
Fahrenheit 451
New This Week @ your library, May 1st, 2007
Banned in Iran
Lost Boy of Sudan Valentino Achak Deng to speak at TSCPL
Everyone's talking about Trivia Night!
Winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize!
Iron Crotch Kung Fu: a TSCPL Podcast
52 Questions # 17: What is your favorite book to movie adaptation?
National Symphony Orchestra
Cool Crafters Crochet
Neil Gaiman reads from
Fragile Things
Please Read...
Stoner
by John Williams
Pulitzer winning writer Halberstam dies in car crash.
Zombie NYC
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix--international movie trailer!
Bestseller Express
Free video tutorials for everyone!
52 Questions #16: Share Your Favorite Book Series
For Your Listening Pleasure: New Audiobooks
Express your love of books!
Genealogy is moving!
Beware of the librarians!
Please Read...
The Pesthouse
by Jim Crace
Ray Bradbury wins special citation from the Pulitzer board.
New This Week @ your library, April 17th, 2007
Take a trip to old time Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs
A Dream of Power
Pulitzers in the categories of fiction and nonfiction announced!
Pardon Our Dust! - Improvements to our Library
Are you ready for the latest Tolkien?
Kansas Library Association - Annual Tri-Conference
Don't forget taxes are due Tuesday, April 17!
52 Questions #15: Share Your Favorite Libary Memory!
A eulogy for Kurt Vonnegut.
So it goes...author Kurt Vonnegut is gone.
Edible Book Festival
In case you missed it: Susan Wittig Albert
New This Week @ your library, April 10th, 2007
New Magazines at your library
Meet our Newest Audiobooks
Twin killings
Urban Fiction - it's hot!
Nebula Awards Preliminary Nominees!
Magazines you can check out from the library!
52 Questions #14: Share your favorite poet or poem
April is National Poetry Month!
The Eyre Affair
: Video Book Review
Pet Food Resources
Lies! All lies!
New This Week @ your library, April 3rd, 2007
A prickly end
Book Group in the Cube: Video Book Review
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: April 2007 connectnow magazine
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: Eating your words
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: A Volunteer's Story
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: International Films in Topeka
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: Why poetry is important
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: Book your Trip with us
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: What matters most to teens at the library
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new May 2007 issue available!
Send your pals an April Fool's overdue library book notice
52 Questions #13: Have You Ever Been "Hoaxed" by a Book?
What if Barbie Had a Book Club?: Video Book Review
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
On
The Road
with Oprah's latest pick.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
covers revealed!
New This Week @ your library: March 27th, 2007
A Deadly Game
Reading and Discussing
In Cold Blood
Teddy Bear Tunes and Tales @ your library
Loudlit free downloadable books!
A library in the desert?
52 Questions #12: Who do you like to listen to?