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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Agatha Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan discusses her latest mystery, The Wrong Girl, about an i...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. B...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Several hundred spectators in Dealey Plaza witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. Everyone else experienced it thr...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 10, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
During her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, Deborah Shouse explored ways to connect with her and developed new rituals to anchor h...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 9, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Paul Kirkman will present a talk on his most recent publication, Forgotten Tales of Kansas City, a collection of lesser known stories culled from old...
Signature Event
Friday, November 1, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Abuse of consumers by the funeral industry has only worsened in the decades since Jessica Mitford’s landmark expose The American Way of Death...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity?
Panelists Brenda...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
In a 2007 college football season filled with unfathomable twists and turns, Missouri and Kansas—unranked at the start of the season—kept...
Signature Event
Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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