Event List

Join us for a Book Review: Mona’s Eyes, a novel by the French art historian Thomas Schlesser.  Reviewer:  Roger Green, MLS, business librarian, retired from the NY Small Busines

Join us for a Book Review: The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics by Michael T.

Join us and local poet, Caitlin Conlon, as she shares some of her poems from her recently published collection, Burning the Ghost

Join us for an Author Talk:  David Ricci, from the Berkshires, discusses & reads from his book of photographs, Hunter Gatherer: Salvaged Stories of American Culture, with text by

Join us for an Author Talk with Jessica Treadway, Albany native & child patron of the Pine Hills Branch, discusses & reads from her short story collection, I Felt My Life with Both My Hands.

[for ages 5+ and their caregivers] For Mental Health Awareness month, join us in collaboration with Noteworthy Resources for a book talk and resources about mental health.

Join us for a Book Review: The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover’s Adventures by Josh Hanagarne.  Reviewer:  John Edvalson, APL librarian. 

Join us for a Book Review | The Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller.  Reviewer:  Charles Hailer, Empire State Fellow with the NYS Urban

Join us for a Book Review | The Fear and the Fury: Bernie Goetz, the Reagan ‘80s, and the Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson.  Reviewer: James Collins, PhD, Prof.

Join us for a Book Review | The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto.  Reviewer:  John Hamm

Join us for an Illustrator Talk | Marcus Kwame Anderson, Deputy Director, Underground Railroad Education Center, discusses his most recent graphic novel, written with David Walker, Big Jim and the White Boy: An America

Join us for a Book Review | The Gift of Fear: Survival Signs That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker.  Reviewer:  David Guistina, “Morning Edition” anchor & senior

Join us for Book Reviews | Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart and The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U. S.

Join us for an Author Talk | Molly Dunn discusses & reads from her psychological thriller, The Circuitry We Share.