The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...
Signature Event
Friday, June 14, 2019
6:30pm
What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, discusses his new book Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book These Truths: A History of the United States, an ambitious look of the origins and evolution...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new biography Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father...