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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...
Signature Event
Monday, October 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Brad Birzer examines the meaning of imagination as understood by Russell Kirk, an acknowledged founder of the modern conservative mov...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...