The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:30pm
In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6:30pm
In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...
Signature Event
Monday, October 14, 2019
6:30pm
We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mallory O’Meara spotlights the history-making but too-long-overlooked creator of one of movies’ most iconic monsters in a d...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...