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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citian June Davis – wife, mother of two, and grandmother of four – epitomizes the character and quiet, often overlooked accomp...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Part of preserving our city’s rich jazz history is caring for the musicians whose inimitable sounds were its essence. Former Kansas City Star columnis...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 25, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining dis...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 b...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempes...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 13, 2017
11:00am
In Person
The latest from the imaginative mind of Daniel Handler, better known as A Series of Unfortunate Events author Lem...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...
Signature Event
Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publ...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 4, 2017
6:30pm
After eight nonfiction books including the 1982 best-seller Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon has turned at age 77 to f...