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The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...

Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...

Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...

Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...

Best-selling author and screenwriter Chris Enss—born and raised in Norborne, Missouri—specializes in stories of the me...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s...

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

You'll enjoy this light-hearted romp through deceit, larceny and murder as one of the eight murder suspects in our live "Clue" game. We'll enjoy s...