All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of more...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show for i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6:30pm
Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
6:30pm
Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fantas...
Signature Event
Monday, March 14, 2016
6:30pm
For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....
Signature Event
Sunday, March 6, 2016
2:00pm
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 28, 2016
1:00pm
Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30pm
Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...