All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
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
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The political gulf between them may have been wide, but conservative icon William F. Buckley and the left-wing Norman Mail...
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
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Can a recently announced, 800-room Hyatt hotel, scheduled to open in 2018, boost Kansas City’s convention prospects when it opens? The city has inv...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Matthew Christopher has spent the past decade documenting the ruins of one of the greatest civilizations the world has known: our...
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...