All Library locations will be closed Sunday, April 20, for Easter.
Books & Authors
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
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Australian motivational speaker and personal trainer M.D. “Dorsal” Finn discusses his book, The Vulture Perspective...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry series, poet Ada Limón presents This Big Fake World...
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
Sunday, June 26, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Gardening expert Ethne Clarke discusses her book Hidcote: The Making of...
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...