May Board Meeting 5/18
2020-05-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The library’s board meeting for this month will be Monday, May 18th at 6:30 pm.
Here is the link to the Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 589 281 7538
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Annual Meeting
2020-06-06 09:00 - 10:00
We will be having our annual meeting this Saturday in the Community Center gym. Attendees must wear a mask and practice social distancing. We look forward to reopening for curbside pickup soon. Thank you!

Writers Club
2020-07-23 17:30 - 19:00, 2020-07-30 17:30 - 19:00, 2020-08-06 17:30 - 19:00, 2020-08-13 17:30 - 19:00, 2020-08-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States

Monthly Board Meeting
2020-07-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
Alexander Findley Community Library announces its next monthly board meeting. Monday, July 37, 2020 at 6:30 pm. This meeting is open to the public. The meeting will take place in the community center gymnasium which is currently set up for distance meetings. Please remember to wear a mask to the meeting. Once in the gym and seated six feet apart you may remove your mask.

Adult Book Club
2020-07-28 18:30 - 19:30
Welcome back! Join us for discussion of this month’s book, Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. Copies will be coming in over the next week or so, so please just call us to reserve one, and schedule a time for pickup.
We’ll let you know if we’re meeting inside or out.

Children's Summer Reading: Story Time Week 1
2020-08-04 15:00 - 16:00
The first children’s summer reading program is Tuesday, August 4th. Join our guest reader Judy outside by the pavilion at the community center at 3 p.m. This week’s feature story will be The Magic Hat by Mem Fox.
Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. This allows for social distancing. Before or after the story visit the library for your reading log sheet and stickers, and check out some books. Don’t forget to pick up your prepackaged craft activity.

Children's Summer Reading: Story Time Week 2
2020-08-11 15:00 - 16:00
The second children’s summer reading program is Tuesday, August 11th. Join our guest reader Judy outside by the pavilion at the community center at 3 p.m. This week’s feature story will be The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch.
Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. This allows for social distancing. Before or after the story visit the library for your reading log sheet and stickers, and check out some books. Don’t forget to pick up your prepackaged craft activity.

Children's Summer Reading: Story Time Week 3
2020-08-18 15:00 - 16:00
The third children’s summer reading program is Tuesday, August 18th. Join our guest reader Judy outside under the pavilion at the community center at 3 p.m. This week’s feature story will be Lon Po Po by Ed Young.
Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. This allows for social distancing. Before or after the story visit the library for your reading log sheet and stickers, and check out some books. Don’t forget to pick up your prepackaged craft activity.

Monthly Board Meeting
2020-08-24 18:30 - 20:00
This month’s board meeting will be Monday, August 24 from 6:30-8pm.

Children's Summer Reading: Story Time Week 4 - Plus Ice Cream!
2020-08-25 15:00 - 16:00
The fourth and final children’s summer reading program is Tuesday, August 25th. Join our guest reader Judy outside by the pavilion at the community center at 3 p.m. This week’s feature story will be The Mermaid by Jan Brett. We’ll also be having ice cream to celebrate summer reading!
Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. This allows for social distancing. Before or after the story visit the library for your reading log sheet and stickers, and check out some books. Don’t forget to pick up your prepackaged craft activity.

Adult Book Club
2020-08-25 18:30 - 20:00
Join us Tuesday, August 25 at 6:30pm for a discussion of the book The Memory of Water by Karen White. Don’t forget to fill out a review and be entered into our Adult Summer Reading grand prize!

Writers Club - Pizza Celebration!
2020-08-27 17:30 - 19:00 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
Final week! We made it, so let’s eat pizza!

Mini Book Sale!
2020-09-05 09:00 - 15:00

Adult Book Club
2020-09-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
Join us on Tuesday, September 29, at 6:30 for a discussion on this month’s book, Animal Farm by George Orwell.
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned–a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
This is perfect to read during Banned Books Week, September 27-October 3!

Board Meeting
2020-10-26 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-11-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters.
Meetings open to the public. Please wear mask and practice social distancing.

Adult Book Club
2020-10-29 18:30 - 19:30 | Findley Lake Library, 5883 North Rd., findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
Join us on Thursday, October 29, at 6:30 for a discussion on this month’s book, Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link, this year’s NEA Big Read Selection.
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing, and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning The Faery Handbag, in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of The Surfer, whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world.

Adult Book Club
2020-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of this month’s book, News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Copies are available for pick up now! We’re a little early this month because of Thanksgiving.

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd crosses paths with a 10-year-old girl taken by the Kiowa people. Forced to return to her aunt and uncle, Kidd agrees to escort the child across the harsh and unforgiving plains of Texas. However, the long journey soon turns into a fight for survival as the traveling companions encounter danger at every turn—both human and natural.

Kid's Christmas Craft Bag Pickup!
2020-12-12 09:00 - 14:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Adult's Book Club
2020-12-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for our discussion of The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. We’ll be meeting early again this month because of Christmas. Copies are available for pickup now.
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.
Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.
One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.
A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov’s experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.

Closed Today
2021-01-18
Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. See you tomorrow!

Board Meeting
2021-01-25 18:30 - 20:00
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
2021-01-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” January is Turquoise!
Join us for discussion of our latest book, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, on Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 6:30pm.
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

Closed Today
2021-02-15
Closed today for President’s Day. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2021-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” February is Fuchsia!

Join us this month in discussing Lock Every Door by Riley Sager.
As usual, masking and distancing required.
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.
As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story—until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.
Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew’s dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent. (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2021-02-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
