The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For 15 years, aspiring novelist Walter Kirn was drawn into the fun-house world of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author Victoria Christopher Murray discusses and reads from her novel about three friends whose stable liv...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 5, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. But what are the effects of children on their parents? New York ma...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Bluford, the chief executive officer of Truman Medical Centers, has been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine as on...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton knows the wonders of our oceans and the weird and wondrous creatures that call it home. She also reco...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author Kimberla Lawson Roby discusses and reads from the latest novel in her popular series about the Rev....
Signature Event
Thursday, April 10, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
We’re bombarded with numbers that purport to tell us how our economy is doing and where it is headed. Statistics on unemployment, inflation, and consu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In this year’s Park University Hauptmann Lecture, international policy expert Robert Jervis maintains that though th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...