All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Friday, May 12, 2017
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...
Signature Event
Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...
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
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The National Endowment for the Arts affirmed the Kansas City area as a hub for fine poets and poetry late last year, awarding $25,000 creative writing...
Signature Event
Monday, April 10, 2017
6:30pm
Matthew Quirk doesn’t simply write spy thrillers. To the extent he can, he lives them first – in the case of Dead Man Swi...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 9, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families, screening the effervesce...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 8, 2017
2:00pm
This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless enemy...
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
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...