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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new biography Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin separates fiction from sometimes terrifying fact about the seafar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Drawing from her poignant new memoir – one of 10 nonfiction works on the longlist for a 2018 National Book Award – Sarah Smarsh discu...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century, Rutgers Uni...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Rhiannon Ally, the Emmy-winning evening news anchor for Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, 41 Action News, discusses her newly released children’s book, ins...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Georgetown University’s Peter Edelma...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Approaching the 150th anniversary of the original release of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, author Anne Boyd Rioux...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
C.J. Janovy, former editor of The Pitch and now the digital content editor for public radio affiliate KCUR, examines the evo...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 22, 2018
3:00pm
In Person
From four different prisons over 27 years of confinement, Nelson Mandela penned a multitude of letters to prison authorities, government officials, co...