Our Community Stories

Our Community Stories is a multi-year local oral history project where we collect and organize audio stories and related photographs share from our rich social and cultural history around the Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, Indiana Township, O’Hara Township, and Sharpsburg communities. Check out the website to hear some of these stories and consider contributing your own!

April Book Clubs

¡ Leamos Juntos ! (We Read Together!) | Monday 04/15 @ 7:00pm

Join Diana Morales for a fun way to improve your Spanish! This group will meet virtually on Zoom for a fun book club where you’ll read bilingual picture books together. Each participant will receive a PDF of the book. Learn and chat with others from the comfort of home. Diana will choose some fun picture books with text that will gradually increase in difficulty each month. Each month, you’ll spend some time on vocabulary and verb conjugation and then have an opportunity to discuss the books. Participants should know basic Spanish. Register here

Booked for Lunch | Friday 04/12 @ 12:00pm

This group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 2nd Friday of the month. We read fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, memoirs etc! In April we will be discussing Circe by Madeline Miller. We are now meeting in the Program Room in the lower level of the Library. Copies are available for you at the Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)!  Register here regardless of how you’re participating, you’ll receive the Zoom link if you need it.

Horror Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Wednesday 04/10 @ 7:00

This month we plan to read This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, one of the HWA’s 2024 Summer Scares selection, in which a couple is plagued by strange occurrences after purchasing an Alexa-like device.

Copies will be available at the circulation desk. Zoom is available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.

Memory (Memoir + History) | Wednesday 04/17 @ 6:30pm

DATE CHANGE! Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The new Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you! Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. In April, we will meet a little girl named Viola in a crumbling apartment in Rhode Island who makes her way to the stage in New York City and from there, the world. A deeply reflective memoir, Finding Me will inspire you to pursue creative expression and discover who you were before the world put a label on you. This event occurs after the library is closed so please park in the back lot and use the doors on the far right. Copies are available for you at Cooper-Siegel’s Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! The audiobook version is also available on Libby. Register here.

Evening Book Group | Monday 04/29 @ 7:00

The Evening Book Group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 4th Monday of the month. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right to enter the library. This month we’re reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right. Register here.

Sharpsburg Sleuths Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Tuesday 04/30 @ 7:00

Get a clue with the Sharpsburg Sleuths! We read all mysteries, all the time. A parent dies at a school trivia night, but it may not have been the accident people believed in the domestic thriller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. This group meets in-person in the Fiction Room at the Sharpsburg Branch. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.