On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
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Signature Event
Thursday, September 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City is awash in red as the Chiefs approach a new season of super-sized possibilities. But have they cut corners on player character? Whither b...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
One of a very few completely handwritten and illuminated Bibles produced since the invention of the printing press, The Saint John’s Bi...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Irish-born comedian David Nihill looks at how stand-up comedy principles can be applied to public speaking, drawing from his book...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re all writers now through email, texts, Facebook posts, and countless other avenues. Drawing from her new book Writing to Persuade:...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What do we make – what does their home state of Kansas make – of Charles and David Koch? Business reporter Christopher Leonard exa...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 22, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Michael Kranish, an investigative political reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the 2016 best-seller Tr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Identity, University of North Dakota historia...
Signature Event
Friday, August 16, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
Neighbors from the Red Planet arrive under a pretense of peace, but it soon becomes clear their real intent is to colonize and conquer. Maybe vaporizi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Writer and director Doug Roland joins in a screening and discussion of his groundbreaking short film Feeling Through...