Sinclairville Free Library

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-03-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-28 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-04 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-11 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-25 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-02 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-16 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-03-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
A Christmas Duet by Debbie Macomber
A solo holiday trip inspires one woman to rediscover her passion—and remember that, sometimes, duets are more fun—in this romantic Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Hailey Morgan’s life has always revolved around music. She once had big dreams of composing her own songs, but the reality of life has led her to working as an assistant high school band teacher in Portland, Oregon. As the holidays approach, Hailey dreads the annual tradition of Christmas with her meddling family, where she’ll have to play nice while dodging their traditional expectations.
When Hailey’s close friend offers her family’s empty cabin for a rejuvenating solo retreat, Hailey finally decides to do something to make herself happy. However, her arrival in small-town Podunk, Washington, is anything but peaceful when she discovers the cabin is occupied by several wild animals. Luckily, Jay, the mayor’s son—who happens to be an incredibly charming former musician—is more than willing to help.
Soon Hailey and Jay are nearly inseparable, chopping down and decorating a Christmas tree, sipping hot cocoa in front of a cozy fire, and best of all, playing music together. Jay’s encouragement and feedback inspire Hailey to believe she might succeed as a songwriter after all. But even in her snow-dusted oasis, family holiday drama still finds Hailey, threatening her newfound peace and confidence, while she realizes Jay might be more than he presents himself to be. Suddenly her Christmas paradise has become a winter storm and Hailey must weather through the challenges to stand up for herself and embrace the holiday spirit.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Virtual Adult Fiction Book Club
2025-03-31 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
Copies of book club title are available thru the library system.
Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Local Author Visit: Walt Pickut
2025-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Walt Pickut, author of The First Counterspy, a book with local connections.
This is a “pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy and counterspy and an American family unwittingly caught in their web.”
Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.
The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat of vengeance against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko, tormented Larry Haas, killed his wife, and subjected his daughter, Kay (the co-author of this book), to decades of nearly fatal harassment.
And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against the backdrop of the home front during World War II.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Women by Kristin Hannah
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-04-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide
“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Poetry Reading
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
To help celebrate National Poetry Month join us for our Poetry Reading. Share your poems or a Poem from Your Pocket.
Participation in Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham is not required.

Virtual Adult Book Club
2025-04-28 20:30 - 21:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?
When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns, a prison. Free of her worried and difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy, family, and the healing power of honey on the children’s ward, where the girls on the floor become her confidantes and sisters. But when Mama suffers a lung hemorrhage, their entire future—and recovery—is thrown into question….
Light and Air deals tenderly and insightfully with isolation, quarantine, found family, and illness. Set in the fully realized world of a 1930s hospital, it offers a tender glimpse into a historical epidemic that has become more relatable than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Halle tries to warm her father’s coldness and learns to trust the girls and women of the hospital, and as she and her mother battle a disease that once paralyzed the country, a profound message of strength, hope, and healing emerges.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
AUTHOR BIO:
Mindy Nichols Wendell writes middle grade historical fiction. Before beginning her writing career, Mindy taught writing and literature at SUNY Fredonia for more than thirty years. In 2019, Mindy received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in western New York with her husband, Steve, a retired elementary school teacher. Light and Air is Mindy’s debut novel. Her second novel, California or Dust, will be out in the spring of 2026.
***AUTHOR VISIT on MONDAY, MAY 19th @ 6:00 pm***

Social Media handles:
Instagram: @mnwendell
Facebook: Mindy Nichols Wendell
Bluesky: @mnwendell.bsky.social

Website:
MindyNicholsWendell.com

Publisher’s link
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738001/light-and-air-by-mindy-nichols-wendell/

Copies of book club title are available thru the library system.
Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Life Story Writing
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is held in person and online. Register to receive online link.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-05-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

Meets Virtually December thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November.

This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-05-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry.
Open to the public.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-21 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-28 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

This group is meeting virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
Welcome to Stanhope – a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery’s family declare her missing.
Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe. And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery’s neighbours become increasingly unhinged.
Who took Avery Wooler?
Nothing will prepare you for the truth.

Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required.

Virtual Adult Book Club
2025-05-22 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women.
London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second-class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.
May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden.
Inspired by a true story in Sayers’ own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.

Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Sparring Partners by John Grisham
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store.
“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.
In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can’t save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request.
The “Sparring Partners” are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself?
By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.
Sparring Partners is book #4 in Jake Brigance series
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Write Circle with CVCS Creative Writing Class (Hybrid)
2025-05-30 08:30 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
