Upcoming Events

[Adults] Read this month's book before our meeting and join us (virtually) for a lively discussion.

Roaming Readers is a monthly walking group where you are invited to bring your headphones and listen to your audiobook or chat about a book your recently read.

Join us as we review: Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. Reviewer:  Robert Williams-Taylor, PhD student in English, U at Albany, SUNY. 

Join us for an Author Talk: Mary Armao McCarthy, writer of creative nonfiction & poetry, discusses & reads from her memoir written with Kevin McCarthy: Our Time in Morocco: A Story of Love, War, Travel, & Discovery. 

[For adults] **New Date and Location** Silent Book Clubs are popping up nationally and APL has started our own chapter! Bring a book to Albany Institute of History & Art.

[For Adults] Watch a recording of this past author talk with us at the Pine Hills Branch with fellow attendees.

[Adults] Let me be perfectly queer, this is an all-inclusive, LGBT+ book club. This book club reads fiction and non-fiction books that center around queer ideas, stories, and experiences. 

Join us as we review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund.

Bring an appetite for sizzling drama as we discuss New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, The Pairing. 

[Ages 4-8] Join us with Barbara Lukas from WMHT to learn All About Dinosaurs and make some dinosaur fossil impressions to take home! Plus, you can take the book!

Registration is required as supplies and space are limited.

[For youth, ages 9-14.] Read this month's book before our meeting and join us (virtually) for a fun discussion!

August's book selection is 5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior by Mark & Alexis Siegel.

[18+] This is an all-inclusive book club for those who like to take their time reading. 

This book club reads fiction and non-fiction books that center around unique ideas, stories, and experiences.

Join us as we review: Mayor Erastus Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma by Paul Grondahl.  Reviewer: Mary A. Rosch, operations manager for Discover Albany and volunteer with FFAPL and other organizations. 

[For ages 4-8] Join along with Barbara Lukas from WMHT as we read Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, watch the Barn Dance! story, and make an owl headpiece. Everyone goes home with a copy of Big Red Barn!

[Ages 4-8] Join us for My First Book Club! This program is for children who have graduated from Storytime and are starting to read more on their own.

Join us for a Book Review: Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life by Dan Nadel.  Reviewer: David Brickman, photographer & FFAPL treasurer. 

[All Ages] Roaming Readers is a monthly walking group where you are invited to bring your headphones and listen to your audiobook or chat about a book your recently read.

[For Ages 4-8] Become a member of our weekly book club! Parents will recieve support and guidance on early literacy practices, incuding how to support their readers at home.

Join us for a Book Review: Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley.  Reviewer: Nancy Dover, retired from the NYS Department of Health & former treasurer,

[For Ages 4-8] Become a member of our weekly book club! Parents will recieve support and guidance on early literacy practices, incuding how to support their readers at home.