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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubm...
Signature Event
Online
Two years before a partisan duel over charges of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the issue exploded – in actuality – in the wake of a c...
Signature Event
Online
Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...
Signature Event
Online
Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...
Signature Event
Online
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast....
Signature Event
Online
Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...
Signature Event
Online
The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....
Signature Event
Online
What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday...