Book Club
2021-08-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” August is Mimosa!

Join us this month in discussing The Cat Who Went Underground by Lilian Jackson Braun.

If you are not vaccinated, please wear a mask and socially distance.

Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts out ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran’s cabin. But the felines really start throwing catfits when they come across a dead body or two…A serial killer may be right under Koko’s nose, and now this ingenious Siamese must dig deeper to clear poor Qwilleran of suspicion—and dig up the motive for a catastrophic crime. (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2021-08-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-10-04 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-11-22 18:30 - 20:00, 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.

Annual Book Sale at the Water Wheel Outlook!
2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05 | Water Wheel Outlook, Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736

Closed for Labor Day
2021-09-06
Closed for Labor Day. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2021-09-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” September is Sand Dollar!

Join us this month in discussing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

Masking and distancing recommended.

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.
Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.
Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him – allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years.
And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy. (via goodreads)

Closed for Columbus Day
2021-10-11
Closed for Columbus Day. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2021-10-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” October is Emerald!

Join us this month in discussing The House Girl by Tara Conklin.

Masking and distancing recommended.

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York.
Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell.
New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit – if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her?
Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice. (via goodreads)

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2021-10-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Fall Craft Show!
2021-11-06 10:00 - 16:00

Closed for Veterans Day
2021-11-11
Closed today for Veterans Day. See you on Saturday!

Book Club
2021-11-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” November is Violet!
Join us this month in discussing The Game by Laurie King.
Masking and distancing recommended.
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great Game” of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.
When Russell discovers Holmes’s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games aren’t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all…life and death. (via goodreads)

Closed for Thanksgiving
2021-11-25
Closed for Thanksgiving! Enjoy the day! We’ll see you on Saturday.

Book Club
2021-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” December is Red!
Join us this month in discussing Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
Masking and distancing recommended.
Please note: starting now, we will be meeting at 6, instead of 6:30.

Storytime with Mrs. Claus!
2021-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 | 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.

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 | 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
