All Library locations will be closed Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.
Books & Authors
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author Linda Rodriguez discusses her debut novel Every Last Secret, a murder mystery in which b...
Sunday, April 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony.
Even as the majestic struc...
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, John Tibbetts looks at the career of fantasy writer Ed...
Saturday, March 3, 2012
7:30pm
In Person
Jewish Community Center
5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park
RSVP: 913.327.8000
Published in 1961, The Phantom Tollbooth w...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Rebecca Solnit offers a guided tour of the Bay Area through her latest book, Infinite City, which reinvents...
Monday, February 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts local author J. Alexander Greenwood for a discussion about the inspiration behind his first n...
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...