Ad Astra Books and Coffee House aims to be more than just a beautiful, comfortable, interesting place to hang out, study, and browse and buy books. We aim to become a leading cultural center for regional literature and arts, and a thriving community gathering place. Whether it be a place for live music, author readings, poetry nights, book clubs, film showings, children's theater, etc, our programming and outreach will come to define our larger mission: to keep the torch of the imagination lit and to use it to reveal this place called Kansas and these still unexplored Great Plains.