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Books & Authors
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansa...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Victoria Christopher Murray discusses her new novel The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil — the story of a couple struggling to find t...
Saturday, June 4, 2011
2:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts the Latino Children’s Book Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2011, and...
Thursday, June 2, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu discusses his new book Whatever Gets You Through the Night, an irreverent and de...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Noted humorist Roy Blount Jr. discusses Alphabetter Juice, the follow up to the critically acclaimed...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
As much an American success story as a story about America itself, the saga of Fred Harvey and the Harvey Houses is a captivating tale of entrepre...
Monday, May 16, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Mariko Nagai shares the sources of inspiration for her new book, Georgic: Stories...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Leo Damrosch discusses his new biography, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America....
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas native and renowned baseball statistician Bill James discusses his new book Popular Crime, an examin...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the waters of Long Island Sound, and disappeared. What happened was...