Kansas City Stories, Volume 1
One volume in the group bookshelf records these titles on its spine:
- Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People 1808-1908 via Carrie Westlake Whitney
- Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend by William M. Reddig
- Goin' to Kansas City by Nathan W. Pearson
- Ranch: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes
- Mr. Mysterious: The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle
- Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural History by George Ehrlich
- Ventures 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 group bookshelf records these titles on its spine:
- Virgil Thomson, A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 by Virgil Thomson
- Mrs. Span by Evan S. Connell
- I Was Right On Time by Buck O'Neil
- The O'Donnells by Peggy Sullivan
- Freedom 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
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
This telling parody of military administration is one of the twentieth century's most obscurely comic works of American writing. Set in the end months of World War II in an American aircraft squadron off Italy, Catch-22 is the narrative of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is wild eyed and irate in light of the fact that a huge number of individuals he hasn't even met continue attempting to kill him.
Youngsters' Stories
One volume in the group bookshelf records the accompanying youngsters' 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. Seuss
- 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. Straightforward Baum
- M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Quiet Spring
by Rachel Carson
Initially distributed in 1962, Silent Spring alarmed an expansive group of onlookers to the ecological and human threats of aimless utilization of pesticides, prodding progressive changes in the laws influencing our air, land, and water.
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
A fantastic novel of the Nebraska prairie, O Pioneers! is the account of Alexandra Bergson, the little girl of Swedish settler ranchers, whose commitment to the area supports her against the hardships and enduring of prairie life.
Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
by Gabriel García Márquez
A thick wilderness of enchantment and abstract energy pulls perusers in and overwhelms them with its extravagance and excellence. The 1982 champ of the Nobel Prize for Literature takes after the historical backdrop of a few eras in the town of Macondo, and the interests, musings, and myths of a maze of individuals, related and not.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston's darling exemplary - a standout amongst the most imperative American books of the twentieth century- - takes after the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a lady who was hitched three times and had been strove for the homicide of one of her spouses operating at a profit town of Eaton, Florida.
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Initially distributed in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is an exemplary novel set later on when books prohibited by a totalitarian administration are smoldered. The legend, a book burner, abruptly finds that books are fragile living creature and blood thoughts that shout out noiselessly when put to the light.
The Republic
by Plato
Plato's fantastic work of political thought.
Enterprises of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
This genuine American fantastic, notwithstanding exciting perusers for eras, has characterized the first-individual novel in America, and keeps on requesting study, rouse veneration, and blend discussion.
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
Composed amid the brilliant period of Chinese reasoning, and made somewhat in exposition and halfway in verse, the Tao Te Ching is unquestionably the most laconic and prudent of the world's incredible religious writings. In a progression of short, significant sections it explains the thought of the Tao, or the Way - a thought that in its moral, commonsense, and profound measurements has ended up vital to the life of China's development.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
Spreading over five decades and containing 868 sonnets, this grand volume is the complete testing of an essayist who has been known as the artist laureate of African America- - and maybe our most noteworthy prevalent artist since Walt Whitman.
Dark Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by Black Elk, as advised to John Neihardt
Dark Elk Speaks is the effective and uplifting story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his kin amid the earth shattering sundown years of the nineteenth century, as advised to recognized artist, author, and pundit Neihardt in 1930.
Undetectable Man
by Ralph Ellison
Undetectable Man is a breakthrough in American writing, a book that has kept on connecting with perusers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an obscure author, it stayed on the success list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and set up Ralph Ellison as one of the key journalists of the century. The anonymous storyteller of the novel depicts experiencing childhood in a dark group in the South, going to a Negro school from which he is removed, moving to New York and turning into the boss representative of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," and withdrawing in the midst of viciousness and disarray to the cellar sanctuary of the Invisible Man he envisions himself to be.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Legal advisor Atticus Finch shields the genuine mockingbird of Harper Lee's fantastic, Puliter Prize-winning novel- - a dark man accused of the assault of a white lady. Through the eyes of Atticus' youngsters, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee investigates with rich cleverness and unanswering genuineness the nonsensicalness of grown-up states of mind toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.
Diaries of the Expedition
by Lewis and Clark
President Thomas Jefferson considered the Corps of Discovery to go up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westbound along conceivable waterway courses to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark drove the campaign of 1804-6. Along the way they filled many scratch pad pages with perceptions of the topography, Indian tribes, and normal history of the trans-Mississippi West.
Unfaltering Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
Ambrose recounts the remarkable story of a standout amongst the most bold endeavors in U.S. history- - the trek of Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark over the uncharted domain of the American west.
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's epic experience of Middle Earth.
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Dickens' excellent story of the French Revolution enlivens a period of dread and injustice, and annals a starving individuals who ascend in free for all and hate to topple a degenerate and debauched administration.
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
One of the classics of kids' writing, this broadly read story happens on a ranch in Maine and concerns a pig named Wilbur and his dedicated companion Charlotte, the arachnid who figures out how to spare his life by composing words in her web.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet was the first dramatization in English to give full terrible pride on the desolations of energetic adoration. The lyricism that reveres their passing checked commitment has made the darlings unbelievable in each dialect that has a writing.
Truman
by David G. McCullough
This Pulitzer Prize-winning life story of an unprecedented president, Harry Truman, delineates the man who brought the nation decidedly into the twentieth century. Drawing from archival materials and broad meetings, McCullough annals Truman's life, however it is Truman's development as a conclusive and certain president that structures the heart of this.
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