All Library locations will be closed Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
7:00pm
In Person
Gary Lezak is one of the most familiar and popular faces on Kansas City television, a six-time Emmy Award winner who has delivered...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2016
6:30pm
Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based F...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
6:30pm
From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing history...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 20, 2016
10:30am
In Person
Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato a...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
6:30pm
Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2016
6:30pm
It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...