All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Many historians have written about the Watergate conspiracy. But can a novelist throw new light on this traumatic moment in American political hist...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow...
Signature Event
Monday, February 27, 2012
6:30pm
Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...
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...