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!

February Book Clubs

Cooks and Books | Thursday 02/13 @ 7:00pm

Join your fellow cookbook-obsessed-peeps as we read, cook, chat and EAT! We’ll meet once a month on the 2nd Thursday from 7-8:30 PM. Each month, we’ll read the same cook book or choose a common ingredient or cuisine. We’ll each cook something to share and gather to eat and talk!

This month we’re cooking from Magnolia Table: Volume 3: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines. Register here

Booked for Lunch | Friday 02/14 @ 12:00pm 

This group meets in person on the 2nd Friday of the month. We read fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, memoirs etc!

Horror Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Wednesday 02/12 @ 7:00

This month’s theme is Haunted Locations. We’re reading Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes, in which a disgraced Arctic explorer returns to the site of his crew’s demise and discovers eerie occurrences.  Register here.

Tome Raiders Book Club (Nonfiction) | Wednesday 02/19 @ 6:30pm

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Tome Raiders Book Club is for you! This month we’re reading Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw by Eddie Ndopu. It is a powerful memoir of defying odds and living boldly. Diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, Ndopu became a global disability rights activist and one of the first disabled students at Oxford University. His story offers an inspiring perspective on resilience, ambition, and the limitless potential of the human spirit.

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 02/24 @ 7:00pm

This long-standing monthly book group is always looking for new members! We read mostly adult fiction and have a great time learning what we liked and didn’t like about each month’s book. Stop in or call the library to get a copy of the current month’s book. In February we’re reading American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard. Stop in to get a copy of the book. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right.

Sharpsburg Sleuths Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Tuesday 02/25 @ 7:00 

Get a clue with the Sharpsburg Sleuths! We read all mysteries, all the time.

This month we’re reading the darkly comic domestic thriller The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale. Register here.

This group meets in-person in the Fiction Room at the Sharpsburg Branch. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually.