THE BOOKS
Truman by David G. McCullough
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Journals of the Expedition by Lewis and Clark, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk, as told to John Neihardt
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Republic by Plato
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Cien Anos de Soledad (100 Years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Children's Stories: 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. Suess, 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. Frank Baum, M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Kansas City Stories, Volume 2 Virgil Thomson, A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 by Virgil Thomson, Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, I Was Right On Time by Buck O'Neil, The O'Donnells by Peggy Sullivan, Independence 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
Kansas City Stories, Volume 1 Kansas City, Missouri; Its History and Its People 1808-1908 by Carrie Westlake Whitney, Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend by William M. Reddig, Goin' to Kansas City by Nathan W. Pearson, Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes, Mr. Anonymous: The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle, Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural History by George Ehrlich, Journeys Through Time: A Young Traveler's Guide to Kansas City's History by Monroe Dodd