All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
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...
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Filmmaker Terence O’Malley discusses his new book Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Former Kansas City School District teacher James P. Wilcox discusses Sex, Lies, and the Classroom – a novel...
Thursday, December 1, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Barron H. Lerner – professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University – discusses his new book One for the Ro...
Sunday, November 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their book, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, authors James Leiker and...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Daniel Woodrell discusses his new collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album, in a discussion...