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Save the Date!
Support Kanawha County Public Library at the 8th annual A Tisket, A Tasket, A Literary Basket Auction.
Saturday, April 5 at 6 p.m. at the Columbia Gas Auditorium
presented by The Friends of The Library Foundation
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WV Reads 150 Plus: A New Year and A New Challenge
We’re continuing this popular reading challenge in 2014. Form your team of any size and read a minimum of 151 books between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2014. Download the registration form and take it to your local KCPL location to receive your book log and get started. For more information, visit any KCPL location.
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On June 20, 1863, West Virginia became a state, and 2013 marks its 150th birthday. To help celebrate the sesquicentennial we have prepared this reading map to help you explore the vast richness of the Mountain State.
Use this reading map with materials for all ages - adults, teens, and children - to explore.
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Adult Winter Viewing Club, January 2 – March 31, 2014
This VIEWING challenge invites you to enjoy some of the FREE movies that KCPL has to offer. In addition to feature and family films, we have foreign, performing arts, documentary, instructional and West Virginia films. We also have many of your favorite television shows and series. Register for the program at any KCPL location. A drawing will be held each month to win a copy of the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and other prizes, provided by The Friends of The Library Foundation. Guidelines for the program are available here.
back to page menuCreated Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle - January 27 – March 6, 2014
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Kanawha County Public Library will offer a series of screenings and discussion forums centered around four films chronicling the history of the civil rights movement. These powerful films, Slavery by Another Name, Freedom Riders, The Loving Story and The Abolitionists, include dramatic scenes of incidents in the 150-year effort to achieve equal rights for all. Freedom Riders received an Emmy in 2012, and The Loving Story and The Abolitionists have been nominated for Emmys in 2013. Film screenings will be followed by a film discussion on a separate evening.
The Created Equal film set is made possible through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. A complete list of film screening and discussion dates and locations can be found here.
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Novelist
The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas
(Playaway) As you eagerly wait for news of the seventh episode of Star Wars (with glee or dread - we ain't judgin'), catch up with the your friends in the Alliance with this radio drama starring Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, John Lithgow, Billy Dee Williams, Edward Asner. Bonus: all three dramas are on one Playaway - no CDs to lose!
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NoveList Plus K-8 provides information about fiction and nonfiction titles for grades K-8 as well as advisory, teaching and learning materials for readers and teachers.