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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Signature Event
Thursday, November 3, 2016
7:00pm
In Person
Historian Peter Cozzens offers an evenhanded look at that bloody struggle between whites and Native Americans, drawing from...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
It was the plight of women in Afghanistan, where the oversight of morality extends to the imprisonment of rape victims for extramarital sex, that m...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
It wasn’t only the length of the sentence that disturbed Carine Mardorossian when a judge in June handed a former Stanford Univers...
Signature Event
Monday, October 17, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Midwest’s Latino population has risen rapidly in the past 20 years, both in urban and rural areas. As elsewhere in the country, the shift in de...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Professional photographer and local historian Bruce Mathews and Steve Noll, executive director of the Jackson County...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Religious zealotry plagues the world today, extremists avowing that they have all the truth, all the wisdom, all the divine favor.
Actual...
Signature Event
Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...