All Library locations will be closed Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, June 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...
Signature Event
Friday, June 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 8, 2019
11:00am
In Person
The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrat...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 6, 2019
7:00pm
In Person
The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a disc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satis...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Library,...