The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Friday, October 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Noted explorer, anthropologist, and best-selling author Wade Davis illuminates the dangers inherent in challenging the Mount Everest...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 25, 2017
2:00pm
Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining distri...
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...