All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Thursday, June 14, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Wander the highways and byways of eastern Kansas and western Missouri, from the Flint Hills to the Ozarks, and you’ll almost inevitably come across...
Thursday, June 7, 2018
7:00pm
In Person
The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...
Monday, May 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...
Thursday, May 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser looks at joblessness among “prime age” men between 25 and 54 and the public policies he says are cr...
Monday, May 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Author Laila Lalami discusses her acclaimed novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Priz...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991, ret...