Protect Your Pets in the Summer
Summer sun and heat can be very hard on your pets. Learn how to protect them.
On the Shelf: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
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Simple Discoveries
shade gardens
Everyone that I know has to deal with some shade in their garden. I do but I don’t really know what plants to use in a shade garden. I have some hosta and astilbes and they are doing really well. But I would like to grow something else that has beautiful color. Well, on August [...]
Shawnee County Sports Hall of Fame
Topeka and Shawnee County boasts an impressive list of sports greats with roots in the area. The Shawnee County Sports Hall of Fame was created to honor men and women of excellence. The Library is the permanent home for all the placques honoring the Hall of Fame inductees.
2011 Newbery Medal Winner Clare Vanderpool
Wichita author Clare Vanderpool won the 2011 John Newbery Medal for children’s literature for her first book, Moon Over Manifest. The Newbery is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author who has made the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Vanderpool will share stories about the joy of writing and [...]
The Wedding Neighborhood is Engaging
Brides-to-be, grooms-to-be, parents, hosts and friends – whatever your role in a wedding – we want you to know about all the useful books and DVDs in our new Wedding Neighborhood. For your convenience we’ve created neighborhoods where related materials are housed together in one area, creating an engaging hub of inquiry and activity that [...]
Zombies from the inside out in the The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
A third of the human population has died, and within ten years humanity will be extinct. Desperate, an isolated medical laboratory known as the crypt has been established to research ANSD or zombiism. There is no going back for the doctors at the crypt – there is only the cure or death.
