Upcoming Events

Join us for an Author Talk: Roselee Blooston, author of four other books, both memoir & stories, discusses & reads from her book of personal essays, Including the Periphery. 

Join us for a Book Review: The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence.  Reviewer:  Jonathan Skinner, PhD, retired statistician & amateur c

[UPDATED PRESENTER] Join us for a Book Review: Nadja by André Breton.  Reviewer:  Dan Wilcox, peace activist & noted local poet.

 Join us for an Author Talk with author James Preller, writer of many children’s books, as he discusses and reads from his book, Shaken. 

 Join us for an Author Talk with author Michael Neagle, professor of history at Nichols College, as he discusses and reads from his book, Chasing Bandits:  America’s Long War on Terror. 

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.