All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For his latest book Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
6:30pm
The War of 1812 began with much confidence among U.S. leaders.
Thomas Jefferson predicted that the conquest of Canada was “a mere matter of marchin...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2012
2:00pm
Peabody Award-winning radio personality Michael Lasser explores the songs inspired by our town, from “Everything’s Up To Date in Kan...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2:00pm
Jim Chappell has accumulated a treasure trove of sports memorabilia that covers the walls of his restaurant. Dozens of sports persona...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2012
6:30pm
Dennis Domer looks at the evolution of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s interior designs in which every element is intended to be not o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
6:30pm
The grandmothers of today are younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been. And, as photojournalist Pa...
Signature Event
Friday, October 5, 2012
6:30pm
Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) went from satirizing Czechoslovakia’s Communist leaders to become the first president o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 4, 2012
6:30pm
The Kansas City Sprit was in evidence with the 1900 construction of a new convention hall in just 90 days and in how the community has pulled together...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6:30pm
Steve Paul is joined by three of the area writers who contributed to Kansas City Noir, a collection of shor...