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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Sunday, October 16, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Kansans Osa and Martin Johnson became world-renowned adventurers and filmmakers who recorded their daring travels an...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, drap...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Cricket buff Martin Rowe, co-author of Right Off the Bat, explains the parallel and occasionally intertw...
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2011
3:00pm
In Person
The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansas, that i...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Victoria Christopher Murray discusses her new novel The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil — the story of a couple struggling to find t...