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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, April 6, 2017
6:30pm
Online
In Person
A year after admonishing Democrats in his book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? – an insightful prelude...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Blizzard of 1949¬actually a series of storms that began late in ’48¬remains the stuff of legend. From Kansas to the Canadian border, an area ne...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Michelle Boisseau’s fifth book of poems, Among the Gorgons, makes “graceful and unexpected leaps from personal to mythic,...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Louise Nevelson is considered one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, known for her pioneering assemblages and monumental...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
While at sea in April and May 1945, immediately following his liberation from nearly three years of Japanese captivity, David L. Hardee put his exp...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Dodge City, Kansas, still conjures images of the wild and unruly West: streets lined with saloons and brothels and a populace thick with gunmen, ho...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Francine Prose describes herself as a “sentence person” – a best-selling author, reviewer, distinguished writer in residence at Ba...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Irish immigrants were the first large ethnic group to settle in Kansas City and literally helped carve out its skyline, cutting roads into the lime...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more...