The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
6:30pm
Slavery isn’t just a sin of the past. Today, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization estimates that more than 40 million victims of huma...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 8, 2019
11:00am
The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrators...
Signature Event
Friday, May 31, 2019
6:00pm
Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, explorati...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
6:30pm
The number of human trafficking victims is staggering, reaching into the hundreds of thousands in the United States and tens of millions worldwide. Wh...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6:30pm
Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 12, 2019
2:00pm
William Shakespeare’s seminal play? It’s difficult if not impossible to choose among the Bard’s many masterpieces, but Romeo and Juliet...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time magazine, among others,...