All Library locations will be closed Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Author Pete Dulin is joined by the Library’s director of programming and marketing Steven Woolfolk, and represent...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. and Raymond Doswell of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discuss the early struggles and now-growing impact of Latinos on...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
History books cast William Clark as a wilderness-braving, 1800s action hero, a partner with Meriwether Lewis in the nearly two-and-a-half-year expl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling author and screenwriter Chris Enss—born and raised in Norborne, Missouri—specializes in stories of the me...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Community experts and local teens conduct workshops on activism and empowerment. Among the speakers: Dawson Barrett, an assistant his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Surveys show that the percentage of Americans with libertarian leanings—preferring to maximize individual rights and minimize the role of gov...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Economics needn’t be shrouded in byzantine theory and mathematical formulas. In a discussion of his new book Popular Economics: What th...
Signature Event
Friday, June 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough explores the lives, trials, and ultimate triumph of aviation pioneers...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin grew up watching Bob Hope’s movies and followed the comedian’s rise to multim...