All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 17, 2011
6:30pm
Author Daniel Woodrell discusses his new collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album, in a discussion led...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, and a military veteran whose experiences flying missions over France during Wo...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2011
3:00pm
In Person
The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansas, that i...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Victoria Christopher Murray discusses her new novel The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil — the story of a couple struggling to find t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Deb Olin Unferth discusses her new memoir about the year she spent in Central America looking for a revolution to help “foment...
Signature Event
Monday, December 6, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Owning a business is the very definition of the American dream for many. Timothy Sandefur discusses his new book The...