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Expand Your Shelf: Read a Book That Won an Award

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Expand Your Shelf: Read a Book That Won an Award

Expand Your Shelf and check out these books that were deemed award-worthy!

Welcome to our seasonal videocast where Scott, Angie, and Andrew will share what they’ve been reading, answer customer questions, and share topics of interest they wish to discuss. This video contains adult, teen, and kid titles.

Revisit and Rediscover: Young Adult Favorites for Grown-Ups

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Revisit and Rediscover: Young Adult Favorites for Grown-Ups

Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series came out almost 20 years ago and it's finally getting it's time on the screen. If you read that series in the aughts, you might remember some of these other series and stand-alones from the same time that deserve a revisit.

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Browse New & Forthcoming Books

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Browse the Shelves Online

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InterLibrary Loan

Use our InterLibrary Loan service, WorldCat, to access materials owned by libraries outside of MCPL.

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eBooks

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Read Local Authors

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Read Local Authors

Submit your work to our READLocal collection during the month of June! Find a curated list of books written by authors who live in the Kansas City area.