Sinclairville Free Library

FlyTying
2025-05-12 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Free fly tying instruction for all kids age 8 to 90.
All tools and materials provided for free.
Learn to tie flies you can use to catch the big fish.
Register here or call 716.962.5885

Fly Tying Vise Kits with all needed materials are also available to check out on a valid library card and a signed Checkout Agreement.

Baby Talk
2025-05-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-28 10:30 - 11:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Babies enjoy some time playing with their peers in our Children’s Room. Babies will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading and playing.

For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!

Registration is OPEN
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2025-05-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-06-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Children will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.
For ages 2 years old to preschool.
Participate in stories, songs & fingerplays. Take away craft or activity for extended learning.
Registration is required.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Virtual Write Spirit
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.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-05-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-06-06 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.

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-05-16 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-30 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Local Author Visit: Mindy Nichols Wendell
2025-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
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?
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. She lives in western New York with her husband. Light and Air is Mindy’s debut novel.
Light and Air published by Holiday House (2024) and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
mindynicholswendell.com

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.

Homestead Library Services
2025-05-23 14:30 - 15:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Help with library cards, borrowing/requesting materials, returning materials. Please bring passwords for digital assistance.
Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry.

Open to the public.

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.

Closed in Observance of Memorial Day
2025-05-26

Library Board Meeting
2025-05-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Board Meetings are open to the public.

Meetings are held at the library.

Please see Board of Trustees for more information on our board.

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

CLSC Book Club
2025-05-31 09:00 - 10:15 | 3 Lakes Cafe, 11 S Main Street, Cassadaga, United States
CLSC BOOK CLUB
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is the oldest book club in the US.
This book club will meet in person at 3 Lakes Cafe (located on Main Street in Cassadaga) to discuss books from the CLSC book list.

May’s Book Selection is The Queens of Crime: A Novel 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.

Hosted by Erin Gray in partnership with the Sinclairville Free Library. Copies are available for checkout through the library’s hold process.
For more information on CLSC.

BabyTalk
2025-06-04 10:30 - 11:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-06-04 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

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

Homestead Library Services
2025-06-06 14:30 - 15:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
