The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
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In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of...
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Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast....
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Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...
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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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Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The legendary F...
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By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...
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Saturday, November 13, 2021
10:00am
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Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn about more about 50 public, priva...
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Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...
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Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...
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Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...