All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his new book, When the Sirens Were Silent: How the Warning System Failed A Community, award-winning meteorologist...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz is the followup to her international bestseller The Gathering, winn...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...