The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 bega...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempest a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...
Signature Event
Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The National Endowment for the Arts affirmed the Kansas City area as a hub for fine poets and poetry late last year, awarding $25,000 creative writing...
Signature Event
Monday, April 10, 2017
6:30pm
Matthew Quirk doesn’t simply write spy thrillers. To the extent he can, he lives them first – in the case of Dead Man Swi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...