The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 4, 2017
6:30pm
After eight nonfiction books including the 1982 best-seller Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon has turned at age 77 to f...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 6, 2017
6:30pm
Online
In Person
A year after admonishing Democrats in his book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? – an insightful prelude...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2016
6:30pm
Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
6:30pm
With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based Femi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
6:30pm
From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing history...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 20, 2016
10:30am
Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...