Invisible Wounds of War: Writing Through Injury

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Brian Turner, Rita Brock, George Dent
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein

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Jamie Bernstein, David Charles Abell
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Neighborhoods First

Chuck Marohn Making a Great City
Chuck Marohn
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Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case

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J. Patrick O'Connor
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Kursk 1943: The Soviets Strike Back

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Jonathan M. House
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Mommy, Please Don't Go to Work!

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Rhiannon Ally, Mike Marusarz
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Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin and the ’63 March on Washington

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Clarence Lang, Walter Naegle
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Home Truth

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Jessica Lenahan, Nicole Portnov
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Not a Crime to Be Poor

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Peter Edelman
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The Art of Science

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Tyler Thrasher
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

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Anne Boyd Rioux
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Legacy: Spirit of the Black Panthers

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Jermaine Thomas, Lyle Gibson, Jacquey Valentine
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No Place Like Home

C.J. Janovy
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Open Spaces 2018: KC’s Ambitious ‘Arts Experience’

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Dan Cameron
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Will Eisner: The Father of Graphic Novels

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Denis Kitchen
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A Perfectly Good Guitar: Musicians on Their Favorite Instruments

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The Harvey Girls' Multicultural Workforce

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Michaeline Chance-Reay
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It Finally Happened Here

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Joel P. Rhodes
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Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

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Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, Sahm Venter
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A Look Back at Rockville: Great Moments in Kansas City Concerts

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Tim Finn
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A Girl Stands at the Door

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Rachel Devlin
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Rendezvous With Oblivion

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Thomas Frank
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American Eden

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Victoria Johnson
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Lucile Bluford: Her National Closeup

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Sheila Brooks
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