All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
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
In Person
It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger,...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Saturday, July 30, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end o...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Many Americans see life in Cuba in black and white terms, as either a David-vs.-Goliath story of survival over nearly 50 years or constant oppressi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They ha...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Derek Cressman has fought for more than 20 years to remove big money from politics, among other things seeking reversal of Citizens U...