Search the Library

Join the Library at its recently renovated Southeast Branch for a day of community celebration. Visit our space and check out refreshed collect...

Looking for a bold way to redefine the spaces outside your home? Award-winning gardening journalist Ethne Clarke offers a fresh guide – with so...

The University of Notre Dame’s Peter Holland, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Shakespeare, examines the great playwright’s...

Writer and filmmaker Karen Kelleher Bacon explores the enduring global obsession with author Jane Austen, a product of her literary genius, man...

Joaquin Zihuatanejo, one of our country’s most entertaining and compelling poets, discusses and reads from his newest collection of works, Arsonis...

Author Laila Lalami discusses her acclaimed novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Priz...

Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...

Humor, personified by the blundering but likable Mr. Bean, is the focus of the latest installment of the special, intergenerational movie series fo...

The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...

Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...