All Library locations will be closed Sunday, April 20, for Easter.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
11:00am
Online
While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
6:00pm
Online
Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...
Signature Event
Monday, October 11, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...
Signature Event
Monday, September 13, 2021
6:30pm
Online
“Everything can’t be the most important thing.” Using her own stories, KSHB-TV evening anchor Dia Wall imparts this and many other...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 26, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Award-winning author and social justice scholar Dr. Monique W. Morris joins Kansas City Public Schools’ Dr. Lateshia Woodley...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Alarmed by the racial and socioeconomic barriers inherent in education and the profound impact on Black children and communities of color, ...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 12, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join.
When the Hous...
Signature Event
Monday, July 26, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Inger Burnett-Zeigler counts herself among the many today who wear the badge of strong Black woman with honor. All too often, the estee...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
6:30pm
Online
The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered a simple truth about our buying habits: We’re capable of reining in our vanity and impulse shopping, our compulsion...