All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, August 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A decade ago Ron Tanner and his then-girlfriend (now wife) turned a condemned former fraternity house in Baltimore, Maryland, int...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...
Signature Event
Friday, July 13, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author ReShonda Tate Billingsley discusses and reads from The Secret She Kept, h...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Edwin Marty looks at successful urban farm programs, part of an environmental and social movement that could transform our nat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Legendary CBS anchorman Dan Rather joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversa...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 14, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author James B. Stewart examines America’s perjury epidemic through the cases of Martha Stewart, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bond...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Sid Shachnow discusses his new memoir Hope and Honor, which traces his life from a childhood spent in th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his new book, Philip E. Auerswald envisions an optimistic future in which forward-thinking entrepreneurs emerge from cultures arou...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 31, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
You’re never too old to begin a literary career. At the age of 75 retired pastor Cy Robinson began writing his first novel. Not just...