Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2024-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of October’s book, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
Summary:

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.(via Goodreads)

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2024-10-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Author Talk
2024-11-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2024-11-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah.
Summary:
“Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.
In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-12-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library from 3-5pm for Arts & Crafts for Grownups. We’ll be making little pine cone Christmas trees in tiny terra cotta pots!

Book Club
2024-12-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.
Summary:
“Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?” (via Goodreads)

Christmas Storytime + Party!
2024-12-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-01-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of the first book of the new year, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
Summary:
“Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-02-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of February’s book, How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley.
Summary:
“A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.” (via goodreads)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Snow Volcanoes!
2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of March’s book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Summary:
“In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.
Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.” (via Goodreads)

Ag. Lit. Storytime!
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Mud Play Day!
2025-03-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Grownups
2025-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Easter Shindig
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Earth Day Celebration and Plantstravaganza!
2025-04-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:00
Join us for a discussion of May’s book, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker.
Summary:
“1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.” (via Goodreads)

Sidewalk Chalk Play Day!
2025-05-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-06-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of June’s book, Now Is Not The Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson.
Summary:
“From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart.
Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge—famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband—gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she’s so carefully built?
A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not The Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.” (via Goodreads)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Flower Art Play Day!
2025-06-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll try our hand at flower pounding! We’ll also be pressing flowers so you can take them home for later use! Plus snacks. Open to all ages. If it rains, we’ll simply move the activity inside.

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll learn about animal rehabilitation with Cheryl Burns.

Saturday Storytime: Butterflies!
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for the first Storytime of Summer Reading! We’ll be reading a story (or two), then doing butterfly crafts and having a snack!

Free Art Time!
2025-07-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library Saturdays during Summer Reading, from 12-1:30pm for Free Art Time! This is a chance for kiddos who signed up for Summer Reading to work on the crafts and activities on their Station Challenge sheets. If you didn’t sign up, or are on the CCLS Road Trip, you can still play and make art with the supplies we provide. We want to turn the library into a lovely art gallery this summer, so we need your help! You can leave things to work on the following Saturday, too, so be sure to put you name on all your work.

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-16 11:00 - 11:30
Tammy and Ledger from The K9 Complex will be here to teach us about agility training.

Author Talk: Joan Wahl
2025-07-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion with author Joan Wahl. She’ll tell us about her writing journey, and discuss her books as well. Books will also be available for purchase.

Joan Wahl, a romantic at heart, draws inspiration from her idyllic seventeen-year marriage and her rich cultural background to craft captivating love stories. A passionate traveler and avid reader, she finds her muse in diverse locations from Nashville to Maine.
With a life steeped in love and adventure, Joan brings authenticity and warmth to her romances, inviting readers to escape into stories that celebrate the enduring power of true love.

About Falling for Autumn:
When Autumn enters into a marriage of convenience to widower Spencer Sullivan, she never anticipates falling for him and his three children. As pretense transforms into genuine connection, secrets and misunderstandings drive them apart. Against Nashville’s country music backdrop, can one grand romantic gesture reunite them? This heartwarming story explores second chances and the healing journey of a blended family. With emotional depth and compelling characters, “Falling for Autumn” captivates readers who believe in overcoming obstacles for true love.

Book Club
2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of July’s book, Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris.
Summary:
“Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.” (via Goodreads)
