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Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 13, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
In a special presentation as part of the Library’s yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, NPR’s Ari Shapiro – host of the award-winning news magazine...
Activity
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Join us as this book group will share a variety of inspirational, informational, mystery, and fiction books that will entertain and spark conversat...
Activity
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
5:00pm
In Person
4th-6th graders, join us for snacks, new friends, and great books! This month is all about protecting our environment. Choose...
Activity
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
12:00pm
In Person
A lively mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres.
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Signature Event
Sunday, July 7, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Although little remembered today, Robert Boatright was one of the greatest con men of the early 20th century. Historian Kimberly Harper shares Boatrig...
Signature Event
Friday, July 12, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Activity
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
12:00pm
In Person
A lively mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres....
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...