All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Books & Authors
Signature Event
Monday, March 29, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee discusses his career and the writing life as part of the Writers at Work seri...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 25, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Leigh Rubin discusses his new book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a collection of the best cartoo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Fiction writer and UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey will discuss her work in a conversation with Angel...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Author Roy Morris explains how Samuel Clemens’ six-year journey from Missouri to Hawaii – with lengthy stopovers in Virginia Cit...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 18, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Tasha Alexander is the author of four Victorian-era historical mysteries following the career of Lady Emily Ashton, whose exploits...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 4, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Mark Lee Gardner discusses his new book about one of the most thrilling manhunts in Wild West history, lawman Pat Garrett’s purs...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Demetria Martinez will discuss her journey as a renowned author, lecturer, activist, and columnist.
Among Martinez’s most notabl...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
A 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award winner from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, poet Carter Revard will discuss his prolifi...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 25, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City Star television critic Aaron Barnhart discusses his new book Tasteland, a look back...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 25, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
Author and political activist Charles Hardy discusses his book Cowboy in Caracas: A North American Memoir of Venezue...