All Library locations will be closed Friday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusad...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book These Truths: A History of the United States, an ambitious look of the origins and evolution...
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...