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Shelf Life: A Big Read Storytelling Event

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:30pm
Plaza Branch
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Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on som...
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Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century

Sunday, April 27, 2025 2:00pm
Central Library
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In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...
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'Free for All: Inside the Public Library'

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 6:00pm
Plaza Branch
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A public library’s mission is simple but powerful: to be a place anyone can enter, free of charge, and encounter a universe of ideas and resources. Th...
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Maya Angelou Book Award Winner

Thursday, April 17, 2025 6:00pm
Plaza Branch
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Jamel Brinkley discusses his 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award winner, Witness: Stories. The 10 stories, set in New York City, question what it means to be...
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'Sitting Pretty': A Big Read Conversation

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 7:00pm
Central Library
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Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...
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Coven: A Graphic Novel Adventure

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6:00pm
Plaza Branch
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St. Louis-based author Soman Chainani talks about Coven, a standalone adventure based on the story of the witch coven in his bestselling School for Go...
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Big Read Storytime with Rebekah Taussig

Friday, April 4, 2025 5:30pm
Plaza Branch
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Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...
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The Role of French Women

The Role of French Women in the Founding of Kansas City

Sunday, March 30, 2025 2:00pm
Central Library
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The role of women in Kansas City’s development is often overlooked. Kathy Krause, professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri-Kansas Cit...
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Live + Local: Kansas City Musician Showcase

Thursday, March 27, 2025 6:00pm
Central Library
In Person
NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest offers unsigned bands a chance to play a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Live + Local, a partnersh...
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Red Scare

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

Thursday, March 20, 2025 6:00pm
Plaza Branch
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Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...
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