Alexander Findley Community Library

Storytime with Mrs. Claus!
2021-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library

Closed for Christmas
2021-12-23
Closed for Christmas observance. See you Monday!

Closed for Christmas!
2021-12-25
We will be closed today for Christmas. We wish all our patrons a very merry and safe holiday season!

Author Talk: Isaiah Rashad II
2022-01-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as author Isaiah Rashad II discusses his new book, Homicide of a Rat. After the discussion, there will be a Q&A session.
Summary: What is right and what is wrong? In this modern society of uncertainty these questions are answered through the real life stories of murder, deception and betrayal from the view of a gang member, united states Army soldier of war and Police Officer. And, you may just discover that what you believe to be wrong, may just be right.

Bio: Isaiah is a former gang member, who rose to become a United States Army Soldier of war, Police Officer and College Assistant Professor, turned author. Isaiah holds a Masters of Divinity in Global Leadership, BS; Christian Ministry in Counseling; BS; Global and Cultural Studies, AS; Research and Investigations. Isaiah is the author of several books, including Man’s Search For Peace, which was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Contender.

Masks are required for this event.

Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2022-01-17 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2022-01-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for our first book of 2022! We will be discussing Martin Sixsmith’s book Philomena. Then we will watch the movie (it’s been a while since we’ve done that)! Please wear a mask.

When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother.
A gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.

Board Meeting
2022-01-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters.
Meetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated, wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Drawing for Sweetest Pet Valentine's Day Contest
2022-02-14 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Now through February 14th, submit a pic of your pet here or bring a copy in to the library. Drawing held at 1pm today!

Book Club
2022-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month, we will be discussing Matt Haig’s book The Midnight Library. Please wear a mask.

Summary
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. (via goodreads)

Closed Monday for Presidents' Day
2022-02-21 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’re closed today in honor of Presidents’ Day. We will see you tomorrow!

1000 HRS Outside Activity: Snow Painting!
2022-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
UPDATE! 2/19 was too windy and cold, so we postponed Snow Painting until Saturday, Feb 26th! Thanks!

Board Meeting
2022-02-28 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-03-28 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-04-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-05-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters.
Meetings are open to the public. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Book Club
2022-03-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, March 17th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Please wear a mask and maintain distancing. 🙂
Summary
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.
A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.” (via goodreads)

Easter Party!
2022-04-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Closed Saturday for Easter
2022-04-16 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for Easter weekend. We will see you on Monday!

Book Club
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, April 21th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange. Please wear a mask and maintain distancing. 🙂
Summary
When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions.
Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets—secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward, together. (via goodreads)

Earth Day Celebration!
2022-04-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Spring Craft Show at the Fire Hall!
2022-05-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Fire hall, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, 14736, United States

Spring Craft Show at the Fire Hall!
2022-05-07 10:00 - 16:00

Book Club
2022-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, May 19th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. 🙂
Summary
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. (via goodreads)

Closed Monday for Memorial Day
2022-05-30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for Memorial Day. We will see you on Tuesday!

Annual Meeting
2022-06-11 09:00 - 22:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will hold their Annual Meeting in the Young at Heart Room at 9am to discuss library matters and hold elections.
Meetings are open to the public.

Book Club
2022-06-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, June 16th at 6pm for a discussion of this month’s book, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. 🙂
Summary
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. (via goodreads)

Closed Monday for Juneteenth
2022-06-20
We are closed today for Juneteenth. See you on Tuesday!

SRP Registration DUE!
2022-06-30 13:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Please have your Summer Reading Registration forms turned in by today, so we can start to get things ready to go in July. Thank you!

Author Talk: Isaiah Rashad
2022-06-30 13:30 - 15:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us from 1:30-3:30 in the Young at Heart room as author Isaiah Rashad returns to discuss his latest work and answer your questions. There’s plenty of engaging conversation to be had!

Closed Monday for July 4th
2022-07-04 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for July 4th. See you tomorrow!
