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Big Read 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
12:00pm
In Person
A lively mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres.
Big Read 2025 is supported in part by The National Endowment for the...
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:30pm
Online
In Person
Writer and director David Wayne Reed brings back Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025, a free, city-wide readi...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
7:00pm
Online
In Person
Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...
April 15, 2025
- June 28, 2025
John Buice, known as Johnny B, was a beloved, long-term resident artist at Imagine That!, an arts-based day program for individuals with developmental...
Friday, April 4, 2025
5:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:00pm
In Person
From action to comedy, romance to mystery, Fantastic Voyages explores fiction books based on the theme of adventure.
Big Read 20...
Saturday, March 29, 2025
1:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Public Library are relaunching the FYI Book Club as the KC Pop-Up Book Group. The KC Pop-Up Book...
Saturday, March 15, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
Join a community of like-minded readers for engaging discussions of great fiction as part of Trailblazers.
Big Read 2025 is supp...