Author Talk: Isaiah Rashad
2022-06-30 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | 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!

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2022-07-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as we make some fun and easy frames out of mat board, then decorate the frame however you want. Bring a picture you’ve been wanting to have framed!

Saturday Storytime
2022-07-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Every Saturday in July and August, we’ll have Storytime at 11am. Come for a story read by the fabulous Judy Hunt, stay for a craft and/or activity! Some of the Saturdays, there will be a StoryWalk on the Nature Trail behind the Mina Community Center where our library is located. On those days, we’ll have Storytime on the trail (weather permitting).

Book Club
2022-07-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of this month’s book Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah.
Summary
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.
The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.
Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?
Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars. (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2022-07-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-08-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-09-26 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-11-28 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.

Class: Getting Started with Libby
2022-07-28 13:30 - 14:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as we welcome Megan Disbro, the Digital Services Librarian for the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System. She will get you up to speed on everything you need to know to get started with Libby, and get you on your way to enjoying popular ebooks and audiobooks on your device. Attendees are entered to win a Samsung tablet! (Must be present to win.)

Final Collaborative Wednesday: Mood Jars!
2022-08-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Today is our last Collaborative Wednesday with the Clymer-French Creek Free Library and the Clymer-Findley Lake Summer Recreation Program. We will be making mood jars!

Many thanks to everyone who participated this year! We learned a lot, and can’t wait to show off our crafts.

Arts & Crafts for Adults!
2022-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Come on down and paint a decorative bird house! Don’t worry if you’re not crafty! We just want people to try something new and have some fun.

Book Club
2022-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of this month’s book We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker.
Summary
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released.
Duchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother, Star, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright, but recently that light has dimmed, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess―her clothes are torn, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together.
A fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you, loved ones will leave you, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in, arms wide closed.
Chris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how, in the end, love―in all its different guises―wins. (via goodreads)

Closed Monday for Labor Day
2022-09-05 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed today for Labor Day. See you on Tuesday!

Arts and Crafts for Adults
2022-09-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Coming soon!

Book Club
2022-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for this month’s discussion of The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.
Summary:
Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.
Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.
One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose – selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.
In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate – and not everyone will survive. (via goodreads)

Closed for Indigenous Peoples' Day
2022-10-10 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed today for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. See you tomorrow!

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2022-10-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as we make a fun (and maybe spooky?) cat using cardboard, paint, beans, and yarn.

Book Club
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’re reading a really big book, so in order to give our Book Clubbers plenty of time, we will not be meeting in October. Instead we will meet on next on Tuesday, November 15th at 6pm. See you there!

Fall Craft Show!
2022-11-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Fire hall, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, 14736, United States

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2022-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us at 3pm for a craft! This month, we’ll be playing with pine cones!

Book Club
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
It was a beast of a book, but we’re finally ready to discuss it. Join us tonight at 6pm!

Closed for Thanksgiving
2022-11-24 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed for Thanksgiving. See you on Saturday!
