All Library locations will be closed Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, October 8, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Robert Wallace, the former director of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service, discusses his new book Spycraft: The S...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, discusses the rise in po...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts Robert Hemenway for a discussion called Jump at the Sun: The Life of Zora Neale Hur...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts poet Heid Erdrich for a talk and reading from her latest poetry collection Nati...
Signature Event
Friday, September 25, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Former United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser will keynote the Missouri Poetry Society’s Convention with a presentation on...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 24, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Sara Paretsky discusses the latest installment in her V.I. Warshawski mystery series on Thursday...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Joseph O’Neill discusses his new novel Netherland on Tuesday, September 22...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2009
9:00pm
In Person
Author Tracy Daugherty discusses Hiding Man, his new biography of Donald Barthelme, on Thursday...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Thomas Frank, the author of the bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, presents the revised paperback edition of hi...
Signature Event
Monday, September 14, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Author Tom Vanderbilt discusses his new book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do on Monday...