Upcoming Events

Join us for a Book Review:  Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy.  Reviewer: Eugene Damm, former journalist and past president of FAPL

Join us for a Book Review: These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore.  Reviewer: James Collins, PhD, professor emeritus, University at Albany Anthropology Department Program in Ling

Join us for a Book Review: The Trial, the 1925 German novel by Franz Kafka.  Reviewer:  Joshua Bovee, copy editor and local author. 

Join us for a Book Review: An Afternoon with the ‘Slow Horses,’ Mick Herron's Spy Thriller Series in Books and TV. Reviewer:  John Rowen, former president, Friends of APL. 

Join us for an Illustrator Talk with Marcus Kwame Anderson, Deputy Director of the Underground Railroad Education Center, as he discusses his most recent graphic novel, written with David Walker, Big Jim and t

Join us for an Author Talk with author Avery Irons, prize-winning author—now a local, but born and raised in central Illinois—as she discusses and reads from her recent novel, Belonging to the Air. 

After leaving her marriage, local author Wendy Marech moved to a dilapidated house in the Catskill Mountains.  Built in 1893 and listed on the National Historic Register, the house was halfway to disaster.

Join us for a Book Review of Emmy Noether — Mathematician Extraordinaire, a biography by David E.

Are you curious about reading Manga but have no idea where to start? Do they really read the book backwards?? Come find out what makes Manga so great and leave with the know-how and inspiration on what to read first.

Join us for a Book Review: Coney Island:  The People’s Playground by Michael Immerso.  Reviewer:  Donald “The Soul Man” Hyman, teacher, actor, singer.

Join us for a Book Review: The Sisters, a novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.  Reviewer:  Elissa Kane, a seeker, an organizer, a teacher, & an artist, who has worked in libraries

Join us for a Book Review: The Four Agreements:  A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz.  Reviewer:  Ezra Scott, Jr., MA, MBE, is a native of Niagara Fall

Join us for a Book Review: Why Weren’t We Told?  A Personal Search for the Truth about Our History by Henry Reynolds, a prize-winning Australian historian.  Reviewer:  Tom Ellis

Journeying into Natalya's immigrant past as well as the stories of others, we wander in the fields of war-torn Ukraine, the stones of Guadalajara, and the frigid shores of Halifax during World War II.

Join us for an Author Interview: David Sylvestor, local writer & instructor, will be asked about his 2024 Erie Canal crime novel, Hung Be the Heavens with Scarlet, by

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