The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity?
Panelists Brenda...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
8:00am
In Person
Kansas City’s self-described “bean baron” Danny O’Neill discusses the founding and continued success of The Roasterie...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
The Big Read brings author Marilynne Robinson to Kansas City on Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts A Conversation with Tobias Wolff, author of the Kansas City Big Read select...