All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 3, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
What is it like to be the son or daughter of an absolute and ruthless dictator? To bear a name – Stalin or Mussolini, Mao or Ceausescu, Qaddafi or...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The stories seem more prevalent and disturbing today than ever: kids being pushed in one or more sports to the point of burnout before high school,...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 10, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 26, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Two of youth literature’s best-known authors discuss their new books—Daniel Handler’s Why Is This Night Different from A...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Defying dire predictions that they would not survive the turn of the millennium, public libraries continue to thrive. Two out of three Americans vi...