All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 27, 2020
6:30pm
Online
At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
6:30pm
Online
Stephanie Powell Watts' first novel is a story about the things in our past that haunt us, that continue to call and constrain us from movin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
6:30pm
Online
A lot of Black kids, Gabriel Bump says, are just trying to live their lives – fall in love, go to school, not do their homework –...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his new book The People, No, Kansas City-born author and political commentator Thomas Frank...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 9, 2020
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
6:30pm
Online
What has made anti-black violence such a predominant feature of life not only in the U.S. but around the world? Why does race seem to color almost...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
6:30pm
Online
Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 21, 2020
6:30pm
Online
We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin...