All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Jen Mann is, first, a suburban Johnson County, Kansas, wife and mother of two and, second, a witty, biting writer whose blog,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Two thousand years after his death, the story of the founder of the Roman Empire is one of the most riveting in western history. Caesar Augustus ev...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer found himself simultaneously not beli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The behind-the-scenes lives of African American clergymen and their families make up a major sub-genre of contemporary urban fiction. To date, most...
Signature Event
Friday, August 15, 2014
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The Midwest’s small towns have produced the entrepreneurial likes of Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, and Walt Disney; artists and entertainer...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For 15 years, aspiring novelist Walter Kirn was drawn into the fun-house world of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have bee...