The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
As the latest wave of infections wanes, how...
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Two years before a partisan duel over charges of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the issue exploded – in actuality – in the wake of a c...
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Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...
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Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...
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Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl...
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Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...
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What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday, w...
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While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...
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Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...
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Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...