All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Manuel Munoz sets his first novel, What You See in the Dark, in 1950s Bakersfield, California, where life begins to imitate art once a fam...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
7:00pm
In Person
Three authors with more than 50 published books between them sit down for a candid discussion of the publishing industry on Wednesday...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Acclaimed Purdue University historian and biographer Randy Roberts discusses the life and career of boxing icon Joe Louis...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 24, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discusses his latest book, Death of the Liberal Class.
A lucid and d...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 17, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Jasper Fforde helps celebrate the 2011 Winter Reading season with a discussion of One o...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author and illustrator Phoebe Eloise Unterman discusses her children’s book...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
This evocative and moving novel by Paula McLain captures a period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable figures— Ern...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Deb Olin Unferth discusses her new memoir about the year she spent in Central America looking for a revolution to help “foment...
Signature Event
Monday, February 28, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Described as “an invaluable resource” by both authors and publishers, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry talk ab...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City native Robert Mnookin, the Samuel Williston professor of law at Harvard, draws on a variety of real-life examples to illustrate how we sho...