Due to flooding Mobile Services is canceling all Books to Go deliveries and all afternoon Bookmobile stops for the week of Monday, July 21st.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:30pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 17, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
7:00pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Friday, April 4, 2025
5:30pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 30, 2025
2:00pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 27, 2025
6:00pm
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...