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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...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 18, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Donald Worster discusses John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey down the Green and Colorado rivers and his trip through the...
Signature Event
Monday, November 8, 2010
6:30pm
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Writers at Work series with an appearance by National Book Award winner an...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by local actor...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 20, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling Life of Pi author, Yann Martel, discusses his latest novel, Beatrice and Virgil,...