All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Monday, May 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The world is blowing up, seemingly confronted by a violent new crisis every day: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria, the East-West standoff in...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 7, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived...
Signature Event
Monday, May 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Granted, there are creative lone wolves out there. But history and social psychology tell us that success stems far more often from one-to-one coll...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The importance of libraries continues to grow. More than book repositories, they can serve as bulwarks against some of the most critical challenges...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Thanks to Shakespeare, Julius Caesar’s stabbing is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 B.C., is ev...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Comedian, columnist, broadcaster, and author Colm O’Regan is renowned throughout Ireland for his hilarious standup routines and se...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Barbecue, jazz, Steamboat Arabia, and the Liberty Memorial, you probably know. But a comprehensive list of must-dos in Kansas City and the surround...