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First Thursday Book Discussion
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Dulcimer Workshop With Karen Mueller
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Craft Supply Swap
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No-Excuse Absentee Voting for April 8 Election
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Using Google Drive
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Poetry Crafts for Teens
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Online Author Talk With the Smithsonian’s Matthew Fleming
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Paper Crafting
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Jeremy Facknitz Concert
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Living With Alzheimer’s for Early-Stage Care Partners
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Staff Picks
Reading recommendations from the library's collection.
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Spring Into Romance
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New Nonfiction – March 2025
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Women Write Classics
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Amazing Books by Black Authors
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For the Kid Scientist
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2024 Tunes
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Good Neighbors
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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From Our Blogs
Book and activity ideas for all ages.
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Brian Smith is a Columbia, MO author whose debut book is “Tiger Style: Eight Steps to Create a Winning Culture.” The book details the Tiger Style philosophy which is designed to instill a sense of purpose, resilience, and a winning mindset in businesses, schools and teams. Smith has developed Tiger Style as the head coach of … Read more
AdultsPosted April 2
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At the Daniel Boone Regional Library, since the early winter months, you voted on 16 of our most popular young adult books. Each week in March, teens voted to narrow down the list of contenders until a single title emerged as the Mid-Missouri teen book champion! Each round of voting entered teens for a … Read more
TeensPosted March 31
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Today, March 31, is “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Everyone is welcome in the library – today and always! To celebrate, we are amplifying transgender books, characters and authors! Here are some of our new favorites! … Read more
TeensPosted March 31
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A medley of rainy and sunny stories and songs, inspired by the strange weather of Makoto Shinkai’s “Weathering With You.”
In 2020 I went and saw the seriously gorgeous film “Weathering With You” and sort of figured I wouldn’t catch it in theaters again. And then Ragtag Cinema brought the movie back to Columbia … Read more
AdultsPosted March 28
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You don’t have to be a woman to be angry with the current state of…*gestures vaguely at everything* As we come to the end of Women’s History Month and you’d like some feminine rage and empowered girls to carry you through, check out some of the titles below. … Read more
TeensPosted March 26
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I’m excited to start planning a trip to Tibilisi, Georgia this summer, and I’m wanting to learn a bit of the country’s language before I travel. To study more popular languages, such as Spanish or French, Daniel Boone Regional Library provides materials in various formats to learn, such as books, eBooks and audiobooks. For Georgian, … Read more
AdultsPosted March 26
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Sourdough bread is a slightly sour type of bread risen by a fermentation process of yeast, water and flour. It is a very versatile process that produces quite a range of breads and cakes. What I bring to you in this article is a mixture of bread cookbooks, and a lot of them contain recipes … Read more
AdultsPosted March 24
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“Just For The Summer” is about a traveling nurse named Emma who feels that she has a curse: every man that she dates ends up finding “the one” once they break up with her. Through Reddit, she meets a man named Justin, who has gone viral for having the same problem. They make a deal … Read more
AdultsPosted March 21
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