The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1982-83, William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, a chronicle of traveling America’s back roads, spent 4...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Mary Roach, designated as “America’s funniest science writer” by The Washington Post, takes us on a tour of the alimentary c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell conducts a public conversat...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book, business management and leadership expert Joel Kurtzman makes the argument that America remains by fa...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 23, 2014
2:00pm
After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lincol...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. B...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Sunday, September 29, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
True...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...