Upcoming Library Programs

While we can't gather at the library just yet, we can still deliver programs for you to enjoy at home.

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Programs for Adults

Virtual Book Clubs

WNY Goodreads Book Club

To join in the discussion, visit to the club page here: 
WNY Goodreads Book Club
Click on a title to link to May selections in our catalog and reserve your copy.
Fiction:
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
     Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.
     "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realize they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it. 

Nonfiction:
A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently?

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Hoopla Book Club

The Hoopla Book Club spotlights one book per quarter, available as an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla. Visit the club page here: 
​Hoopla Book Club ​​

April - June 2021:
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with Libertie, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself.

Coming of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more to music than science, feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else—is there really only one way to have an autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, who can pass, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it—for herself and for generations to come.

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Programs for Children and Families

Wednesday Mornings @ 10:30 am on Facebook Live
We invite you to join our special Facebook group just for families with young children (NFPL Storytime Families), where each week we share a program filled with stories, songs, movement, and all sorts of early literacy fun! Join from the Niagara Falls Public Library Facebook page, or use this direct link: https://bit.ly/2ZZUi6z

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Free Take & Make Kits 
Stop by our creativity cart and grab something fun to take home with you! Featured kit for May 2021:

• Rainstick Kit from Explore and More Children's Museum

We also have a few leftovers from previous months - available while supplies last!

• Elephant and Piggie Kit
• New Kid Kit
• Dogman Kit
• Where the Wild Things Are Kit
• Rangoli Kit