The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Library,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1855-1856, histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of The Library Book, her acclaimed account of most devastating library fire in our country’s history, author...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, discusses his new book Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are...