The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Library,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1855-1856, histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of The Library Book, her acclaimed account of most devastating library fire in our country’s history, author...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusad...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin separates fiction from sometimes terrifying fact about the seafar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Approaching the 150th anniversary of the original release of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, author Anne Boyd Rioux...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
C.J. Janovy, former editor of The Pitch and now the digital content editor for public radio affiliate KCUR, examines the evo...