Sinclairville Free Library

Closed in Observance of New Year’s Holiday
2026-01-01 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Write Circle (Virtual)
2026-01-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-30 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | VIRTUAL EVENT
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provided 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
2026-01-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering and fun with friends.

Family Night: Blizzard in a Bottle
2026-01-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Family Night
Stories, crafts and fun geared towards families.
Blizzard in a Bottle
Create a winter themed sensory bottle
All materials provided.
Ages 3 & up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child.
This is a drop-in event. Each craft/activity should take around 15 minutes..
Registration Required.

Baby Talk
2026-01-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-28 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 Currently CLOSED Register to be added to our waiting list.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2026-01-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-28 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.
Participate in stories, songs and learning. Craft or take away activity for extended learning.
Registration is Required. Space is Limited.
For ages 2 (toddler) to Preschool.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities available on our Facebook event and the main website page.

Write Spirit
2026-01-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-21 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-28 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to aspiring and accomplished writers.
Group meets virtually. Meeting link will be provided after registration.
Registration is Open.

Poetry Reading with John Brantingham
2026-01-08 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
***EVENT IS CANCELLED***
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community
Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Reading”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

Event cancelled on 1/7/26. Please watch for more poetry programs in the late winter and spring.

Sinclairville Samplers
2026-01-09 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-16 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-23 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2026-01-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans
This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas.
On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach’s father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. “These opals look identical,” he tells them, “but the fire inside each is completely unique—just like the two of you.”
Indeed, the two sisters couldn’t be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until—at their father’s behest—they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their father’s last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident.
Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter , is a story based on her sister’s life. It’s not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story she’s writing is not about her sister, but about herself.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Virtual Book Club
2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Memoir & Autobiography (2019)

The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets—secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in—a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

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

Library Board Meeting
2026-01-28 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.

Family Night: "Gopher" It!
2026-02-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Family Night
Crafts and Fun for Families
“Gopher” It!
Create a paper groundhog. Will he see his shadow?
All materials provided.
Ages 3 & up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child.
This is a drop-in event. Each craft/activity should take around 15 minutes..
Registration Required.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2026-02-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Small, Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Fiction (2016)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?
Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.
With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.

Copies are available through the library system.
Registration is requested. A copy of the book club selection can be reserved during registration.
