All Library locations will be closing early at 5 p.m. Tuesday, December 31 and remain closed Wednesday, January 1, for New Year's.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Jay Nordlinger has gained a reputation for open-mindedness in writing about politics, foreign affairs, and the arts, among other subj...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2023
3:00pm
Online
In Person
Drawing from his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, University of Connecticut history professor...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...