All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, February 17, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill discusses his latest book in which he contends President Barack Obama did not write his...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Ken Gormley, dean of the Duquesne University School of Law, discusses one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, the investiga...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Authors Chris Bohjalian and Caroline Leavitt discuss the writing life and their recent books.
Bohjalian will discuss Secrets of Eden, the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Ba...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Best known for his artistic achievements, Michelangelo not only filled hundreds of sheets with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but he also composed h...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 16, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 9, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Political cartoonist Lee Judge discusses his new book The Stuff They Wouldn’t Print, a collection of ca...
Signature Event
Monday, December 6, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Owning a business is the very definition of the American dream for many. Timothy Sandefur discusses his new book The...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 2, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
LaDene Morton, author of the newly released book, The Brookside Story: Shops of Every Necessary Character...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 18, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Donald Worster discusses John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey down the Green and Colorado rivers and his trip through the...