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Third Monday Book Club

Join us the third Monday of each month to discuss books, characters, or whatever. The Third Monday Book club meets at 7:00 pm.

August – Leaving Whiskey Bend by Dorothy Garlock

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Missouri Staycation?

Planning a Missouri staycation? Here is what you can find to do without leaving the state. Check out these travel guidebooks:

Weird Missouri: your travel guide to the Show Me State’s local legends and best kept secrets – what local villains are from Missouri, can you solve an ancient Missouri mystery? Lots and lots of illustrated pages of places most tourists do not dare to go!

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My Library: Joan

What are you doing at the library today?  Working!  I am putting books on hold to fill Teacher Assistant requests. We can help teachers supplement their classroom books with items from our library system.

How long have you worked at the library? I have worked here 5 ½ years. I started as a sub and now am working half-time.

What is the best part of your job? Working with the customers and the staff.

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How To Escape The Highway Patrol: An Interview With Joe Posnanski

Since 1996, Joe Posnanski has sweetened the dulling pain of thousands of Kansas City sports fans.

His columns at the Kansas City Star, single-handedly ushered me through two of the darkest eras in Kansas City sports: the Tony Pena Jr./Angel Berroa fiasco and the post-Saleaumua decline of the Chiefs.

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Life or Something Like it in a Nuclear Bunker

Eli & Eddy Yanakakis were having their ninth birthday party when their father urges the family to seek refuge in their nuclear fallout shelter.  This is it; apocalypse starts now.

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Book Bundles

Is your child a fan of Dora and Diego?  Is she obsessed with bunnies?  Does he love books about tractors?

Next time you visit the Blue Springs South branch, take a look at our book bundles in the Children's section.  A book bundle is a small collection of four or five books with the same topic, characters, or authors, packaged together and ready for check out.  Designed to make it easy to find several children’s books on a singular interest, these bundles are refreshed with various themes regularly.

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HAPPY 121ST BIRTHDAY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER!

How many of you remember watching Perry Mason on television?

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You Scream, I Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream

Happy July! We are one month closer to our moving back home date and July is National Ice Cream Month.

Our Literature and Lemonade kids made homemade ice cream. it was yummy. As promised, here are some fast facts and the recipe for can ice cream.

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Vacation Time

Summer means two things in the library world – the Summer Reading Program and vacations. If you’re headed out of town this July or August – and you’re worried that the book you’ve had on the holds list since January is going to come in while you’re out of town – and be gone before you get back… don’t panic! You can ‘suspend’ your hold while you’re out of town! This will hold your place in line.

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Andrea's Top Five Awesome Books

Check out her list...

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