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Mah Jongg Meet-UpDates/Time: 1st & 3rd Friday each month, 1-3pm
Presenter: OFL Staff
Location: Café AreaThis group is for people who want to make friends, have fun, and play this classic tile game. It’s for all levels — beginners through expert! We ask that advanced players be willing to help out novices as needed. Join us and have a good time while playing this age-old game. Library provides 2 sets of Mah Jongg tiles. Participants are welcome to bring their of sets as well. *Play by American Mah Jongg rules. No registration necessary.
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Needlework CraftsDates/Time: Thursdays, 2:00-3:30pm
Presenter: Community Volunteer
Location: Fireplace SeatingThursdays, 2:00-3:30pm. Are you looking for the opportunity to socialize or meet new friends? Join us each week to do all types of needlework, including crocheting, knitting, cross stitch and more. Feel free to come and go as you please. Come out and enjoy an afternoon with us. Led by community volunteer Tina Festa. Recommended for adults and teens | No registration necessary
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Onondaga County Clerk Info SessionDate/Time: Monday, 1/26, 2-4pm
Presenter: Onondaga County Clerk's Office
Location: Foyer / LobbyDrop in to meet with representatives from the Onondaga County Clerk's office. Learn about the many services offered by the County Clerk, how to navigate County services, how to look out for deed fraud, how to access County records, and more. On-site notary services will be available. Veterans may also sign up for the County's Discount Favor Card Program. For adults | No registration required (DROP-IN)
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M.O.S.T. Robotics Challenge Science Fair Date/Time: Saturday, 1/31, 9am-12pm
Presenter: OFL Librarians & The M.O.S.T Over a total of 6 weeks, with the guidance of OFL's Librarians, a group of teens designed, built and tested a prototype device that can help humans observe or explore space. Come check out their finished project and cheer them on at the M.O.S.T.'s Robotics Challenge Science Fair finale! All are welcome! DROP-IN - No registration necessary! This event is free with your admission to the M.O.S.T.
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Android Phones for BeginnersDate/Time: Friday, 1/9, 2:00-3:30pm
Presenter: LiteracyCNY
Location: Community RoomJoin LitercyCNY's Mark Larabee for an introductory look at the Android operating system. In this one session class, you'll learn all about the essential features of Android phones and tablets, including touch-screen gestures, accessing the internet, changing settings, installing apps, and much more. Patrons are encouraged to bring their own Android smartphones or tablets.
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Google Photos: Basics & BeyondDate/Time: Friday, 1/16, 2:00-3:30pm
Presenter: OFL's Digital Services & Technology Librarian
Location: Community Room
Join OFL's Digital Services & Technology Librarian for an in-depth look at Google's photo storage, editing, and sharing platform, Google Photos. Learn how to add, edit, share and organize photos, create slideshows, sync with other photo apps like Apple's Photos app, and much more!
Patrons are encouraged to bring their own laptops or mobile devices with the Google Photos app installed. Please note that a Google account IS required to use Google Photos.
For adults | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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at 2pm & 3pm 45-minute appointments |
Wednesday, 1/14 & 1/28
at 11am, 12pm & 1pm |
Monday, 1/5 at 7pm Fireplace Seating |
Saturday, 1/17 at 2pm Fireplace Seating |
Saturday, 1/24, 11am-1pm Fireplace Seating No registration necessary |
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History RoundtableDates/Time: 2-part series: Tuesday, 1/13 & 1/20, 6:00-7:30pm
Presenter: Community Volunteer- Local retired history professor
Location: Room 222If you are passionate about history, curious about what trends and forces shaped our past, or simply want to learn more about the human enterprise, where it's been, and where it might be going, then this group is for you! audiobook and ebook are available through the Libby app. Presented by local retired history professor.
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Best Offer Wins by Marisa KashinoAfter losing eleven bidding wars in the hyper-competitive D.C. housing market, 37-year-old Margo Miyake becomes dangerously obsessed with securing a "perfect" unlisted home to save her marriage and future. What begins as a desperate search for a suburban dream life spirals into unhinged behavior, including stalking and trespassing to infiltrate the current homeowners' lives. This darkly humorous thriller explores the extreme lengths one woman will go to bypass all-cash competitors and seize a sense of belonging. Through Margo's increasingly erratic tactics, the novel offers a biting critique of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis. |
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Cape Fever by Nadia DavidsThe year is 1920, in a small, unnamed city in a colonial empire. Soraya Matas believes she has found the ideal job as a personal maid to the eccentric Mrs. Hattingh, whose beautiful, decaying home is not far from The Muslim Quarter where Soraya lives with her parents. As Soraya settles into her new role, she discovers that the house is alive with spirits. While Mrs. Hattingh eagerly awaits her son's visit from London, she offers to help Soraya stay in touch with her fiancé Nour by writing him letters on her behalf. So begins a strange weekly meeting where Soraya dictates and Mrs. Hattingh writes--a ritual that binds the two women to one another and eventually threatens the sanity of both. Cape Fever is a masterful blend of gothic themes, folk-tales, and psychological suspense, reminiscent of works by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daphne du Maurier, and Soraya Matas is an unforgettable narrator, whose story of love and grief, is also a chilling exploration of class and the long reach of history. |
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Love Letters for Other People by Shaylin GandhiWhen mathematician Aubrey MacLean's career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown, at least temporarily. But small towns have long memories, and so does she, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart. Nick's life is routine: long shifts at the steel mill, plus a side business writing love letters for other people. It's enough to numb his regrets--until his first love returns, stirring up a past he thought he'd buried. Aubrey is focused on rebuilding her career, until she falls for a man whose love letters feel achingly familiar. But as their connection deepens, so does her sense that she's been here before. The similarities must be a coincidence, right? Because if not, Aubrey may have to choose between the life she's built and the love she left behind.
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No One Aboard by Emy McGuireAt the start of summer, billionaire couple Francis and Lila Cameron set off on their private luxury sailboat to celebrate the high school graduation of their two beloved children. Three weeks later, the Camerons have not been heard from, the captain hasn't responded to radio calls, and the sailboat is found floating off the coast of Florida. Empty. Where are the Camerons? What happened on their trip? And what secrets does the beautiful boat hold? Set over the course of their vacation and in the aftermath of the sailboat's discovery, No One Aboard asks who is more dangerous to a family: a stormy ocean or each other? |
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Silent Bones by Val McDermidScotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt--it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who'd been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he's reappeared, buried under the motorway. It's the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit. But when an allegation of murder surfaces over the supposedly accidental death of a hotel manager, it unearths a series of interlinked puzzles that will test Karen and her team unlike ever before.
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Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor by Christine Kuehn"An amazing and gripping tale, full of suspenseful twists and cinematic details."--New York Times Book Review. A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family's shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. When she asked her seventy-year-old father, Eberhard, what this could possibly be about, he stalled, deflected, demurred, and then wept. He knew this day would come. The Kuehns, a prominent Berlin family, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befallen them. When the daughter of the family, Eberhard's sister, Ruth, met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels at a party, the two hit it off, and they had an affair. But Ruth had a secret--she was half Jewish--and Goebbels found out. Rather than having Ruth killed, Goebbels instead sent the entire Kuehn family to Hawaii, to work as spies half a world away. There, Ruth and her parents established an intricate spy operation from their home, just a few miles down the road from Pearl Harbor, shielding Eberhard from the truth. They passed secrets to the Japanese, leading to the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. After Eberhard's father was arrested and tried for his involvement in planning the assault, Eberhard learned the harsh truth about his family and faced a decision that would change the path of the Kuehn family forever. Jumping back and forth between Christine discovering her family's secret and the untold past of the spies in Germany, Japan, and Hawaii, Family of Spies is fast-paced history at its finest and will rewrite the narrative of December 7, 1941.
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First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands by Curt Stager & David FaddenThrough local indigenous traditions and supporting findings by natural science, authors David Fadden and Curt Stager expose, document, and honor the long human presence in the Adirondacks, helping not only to redefine what it means to be an Adirondacker, but also contributing to a more complete understanding of America itself.
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Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic by Neil SheaAs warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic--a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern problems--is quickly coming undone. While the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the movements of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Iânupiaq elder, look closer and you'll find a new Arctic appearing in its place. Neil Shea blends natural history, anthropology, and travel writing to explore how the beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the lives of people and animals. He sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada's Ellesmere Island and travels with Indigenous hunters in Alaska, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. He tracks dwindling caribou herds across the top of North America, searches for vanished Vikings in Greenland, and visits the front line of the new Cold War rising between Russia and Europe. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many--all still linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and a pure, inimitable light.
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Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art by Helen HiebertPaper artist Helen Hiebert shares 30 unique paper weaving projects with step-by-step instruction and inspirational prompts for developing a daily practice. Combining fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each of the 30 projects in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instruction, and examples of the project, and will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals.
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New Year's
12/31 - Close at 5pm
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Onondaga Free Library
4840 West Seneca Tpk Syracuse, NY 13215
Hours:
Monday 9:00am-8:30pm Tuesday 9:00am-8:30pm Wednesday 9:00am-8:30pm Thursday 9:00am-8:30pm Friday 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm* Sunday CLOSED*Summer Saturday Hours:
3rd Saturday in June through Labor Day Saturday 10:00am-2:00pm
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