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Celebrating National Poetry Month! |
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Poetry ContestDates: Wednesday, 4/1 - Thursday, 4/30Express yourself through poetry! Submit an original poem to be entered to win a prize bundle. 4 winners, 1 in each of the following age groups: - Kids in grades K-4
- Tweens in grades 5-8
- Teens in grades 9-12
- Adults, ages 18+
Entry forms are available online starting April 1st.
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Poetry Open Mic NightDate/Time: Monday, 4/13, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Presenter: OFL Staff
Location: Community Room
Unleash your inner poet! We welcome all levels of poets to share their original work as well as poetry lovers to recite some of their favorites. Connect with the community, gain stage experience and enjoy an evening of diverse and inspiring poetry.
Recommended for adults | Registration requested
All poetry enthusiasts are encouraged to attend- Only those planning on doing a reading are asked to register. Depending on registrations, readings may be limited on time.
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CNY Soldiers for Freedom: Black, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Comrades in ArmsDate/Time: Saturday, 3/28, 2:00-3:30pm
Presenter: CNY History Players
Location: Community RoomThis moving play reveals the untold stories of a local Union regiment where men of vastly different faiths and backgrounds found unity in a shared struggle for freedom and the future of the United States. Featuring period-accurate songs and anthems. Ideal for both history enthusiasts and lovers of music alike. For adults & teens (14+) | Registration requested
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Service Project SaturdayDate/Time: Saturday, 4/4 at 2:30pm
Presenter: OFL Staff
Location: Community RoomJoin us for a monthly service project to help our community!
This month, we are celebrating Earth Day by making native seed packets for our patrons. For families of all ages! | No registration required
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Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge Spring MigrationDate/Time: Monday, 4/6, 9am-11am
Presenter: Peter Saracino, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Naturalist
Location: OFFSITE: Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (3395 US-20, Seneca Falls, NY 13148)Witness one of the great spectacles of the natural world: the spring geese and waterfowl migration at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Watch as tens of thousands of geese, ducks, and birds of prey stop over at Montezuma on their way north to their summer breeding grounds.
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Author Event: Listen to Your Heart Song by Caron GrossmanDate/Time: Thursday, 4/9 at 6:30pm
Location: Community RoomGrossman recounts her survival of a heart attack to shed light on how heart disease uniquely and often subtly manifests in women. Drawing on her professional background as a nurse and her personal journey of resilience, Grossman transforms her experience into an empowering resource that teaches readers to recognize life-saving symptoms. Beyond medical advocacy, the memoir explores themes of grief and transformation, reflecting her multifaceted expertise as a coach and breathwork facilitator. Ultimately, the book serves as both a vital health guide and an inspiring testament to the power of pursuing wholeness after a life-altering event.Recommended for adults | Registration requested
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Presenter: Katie St. Laurent
Location: Community Room
Learn about the beautiful practice of writing pysanky, traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs! Pysanky are made using a stylus to apply melted wax, then dyed with vivid colors. Learn about the symbolism of the colors and motifs and the history of this ancient art form, and write your own pysanka! All materials will be provided, including eggs.
For teens (ages 14+) and adults | REGISTRATION REQUIREDSponsored by the Friends of OFL |
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For all ages! No registration necessary |
For all ages! No registration necessary |
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Fireplace SeatingLed by Community Volunteer |
Cafe OR Community Room Self-directed |
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- Wednesdays, 4/8 & 4/22 at 11am, 12pm & 1pm
- Wednesdays, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22 & 4/29 at 2pm & 3pm
Presenter: OFL's Tech Librarian or a Community Volunteer
Location: Room 218
The tech gurus are in and ready to help! Sign up for 1-on-1 appointments to learn new computer/tech skills. |
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Monday, 4/6 at 7pm Fireplace Seating |
Saturday, 4/18 at 2pm Fireplace Seating |
Saturday, 4/18, 11am-1pm Fireplace Seating No registration necessary |
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History RoundtableDates/Time: 2-part series: Tuesdays, 4/21 & 4/28, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Presenter: Community Volunteer- Local retired history professor
Location: Community Room
Join OFL's History Roundtable for a lively and thought-provoking discussion of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King.
If 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!
For adults | REGISTRATION REQUIRED- registering for one session registers you for both sessions.
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New York Times Bestselling Author
New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, returns with a sweeping tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh--rewriting both of their legacies forever. The dual stories of Lady Evelyn Herbert in the 1920s and the ancient Pharaoh Hatshepsut, two visionary women whose legacies were nearly erased by history. As Evelyn assists in the famous discovery of King Tut’s tomb, she becomes obsessed with uncovering Hatshepsut’s secret burial site while fighting to keep Egyptian artifacts in their rightful home. Facing rising political tensions and personal danger, Evelyn must ultimately choose between upholding her father’s reputation or forging her own path as a historical trailblazer. Marie Benedict’s novel weaves a tale of high adventure and intrigue, highlighting how both women defied the expectations of their eras to change the world forever. |
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The Gardeners' Club by Marnie RichesGardening is dirty work--but should it be deadly? When a corpse turns up in the community greenhouse, Gill Swanley discovers her new hobby might be more dangerous than she imagined. When Gill Swanley decides to take up gardening to fight a bad case of midlife malaise, she never expected it to become quite such a dangerous hobby. Pushing herself to get out there, Gill picks herself up the secateurs and joins the Bromley Botanists. Here she finds a seven-strong group whose main agenda is how to win the coveted Golden Trowel for best community club of the year. But when a dead body turns up in the community greenhouse, they suddenly have more serious matters to consider than victory. They must uncover whether their arch-rivals, Croydon, are taking things to another level or whether someone more dangerous is targeting their rag tag group. Can they dig up the truth before someone else is left pushing up the daisies?
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Hard Times by Jeff BoydBuddy Mack has been caught in the middle of two worlds at war. As an English teacher at a South Side, Chicago, high school lauded for its football team, but at risk in every other way, he tries to instill a love of literature. While all of his students face challenges, he's especially concerned with a trio of boys who test him to no end but are full of promise and heart: Zeke, the football star; Truth, the sweet-talking charmer; and Dontell, Buddy's most promising student. At home, his wife, Chrissy, a successful corporate lawyer, is ready to upgrade to a big house on the North Side and start a family, but Buddy's torn over the implications. And the closest person he has in his life to talk to is Chrissy's little brother, Curtis, a corrupt Chicago cop. When the two worlds collide in a shocking moment that rocks the school, Buddy has to choose a side and fight for all he holds dear. Hard Times takes stock of what it means to be there for your people whether you want to or not and unflinchingly confronts the American Dream--a moving, engrossing, and necessary read.
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The Night We Metby Abby JimenezIn everyone's life, there's a split-second decision that can change everything... For Larissa, it came when choosing who to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she'd met the perfect man. She and Chris are great friends, co-parenting a slightly unhinged rescue Yorkie, sharing their favorite books, and judging bread (pumpernickel for the win!). For the first time amid all her side hustles to scrape by, things finally feel easy. But she didn't choose Chris to drive her home all those months ago-she went with his best friend, and he became her boyfriend. All Chris wants is for Larissa to be happy. Standing by on the sidelines is slowly killing him, but making a move would destroy someone else. How can something that feels so right be absolutely impossible?
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This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany CrumBenny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different against-all-odds survival story, gleefully finding the weird, life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy's experience with severe narcolepsy, they've been the best friends everyone wants to befriend - and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy's husband Xander, they've built a lucrative empire. The problem is, their next survival story may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy and Xander's one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the couple's disappearance is the incomplete, previously-unseen first draft of Joy's memoir. Benny is desperate to find them, even when the police soon zero in on him as their prime suspect. Millions of devoted listeners think they know the real Benny and Joy. But as the hours tick by, and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could guess the secrets their favorite famous BFFs have hidden from the world - and from each other.
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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team by A. M. GittlitzMetropolitans is for Mets fans, New York partisans, and everyone interested in the Mobius strip dynamic of sports and politics, the history of the national game, or the beautiful contradiction of baseball itself: a middle-class game owned by billionaires, in which the players--like the spectators--look to traverse the diamond and ultimately safely escape its many dangers. Along the way, A.M. Gittlitz re-introduces us to an eccentric cast of Metsian characters: Joan Payson, the first woman to buy a Major League Baseball team; a young Tom Seaver with an interest in progressive politics; and the contentious but beloved Mike Piazza. Gittlitz leads us through baseball's amateur beginnings to the Mets' first heady World Series on the heels of the Civil Rights and anti-war movements that many Mets players participated in. He guides us to the bad boy years, the exploitative development of farm academies in developing nations, and their inglorious purchase by a new breed of capitalist--even after which they remained lovable losers. Metropolitans brilliantly shows us that sports have long been a site of political struggle, rousing class consciousness, and animating fights for racial equality. From purportedly calming riots in '69 to producing some of the greatest chokes in sporting history, from integration to desperate labor struggle against franchise owners, Metropolitans makes a deeply humane and convincing argument for the fascinating singularity of the New York Mets--and why they are not just the team of the counterculture, the freaks, and the losers, but the beloved team of anyone with a beating heart.
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How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries by David George HaskellExplores how flowers are not merely aesthetic wonders but revolutionary biological forces that fundamentally reshaped Earth's ecosystems. By reinventing plant sexuality and fostering cooperative partnerships with animals, flowering plants catalyzed the evolution of diverse habitats like rainforests and even paved the way for human existence. The book combines lyrical prose with scientific research to illustrate our deep-seated dependence on flowers for food, culture, and environmental resilience. Ultimately, Haskell argues that understanding the creative power of the floral world is essential for navigating our planet's future.
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Judy Blume: A Life by Mark OppenheimerThis multidimensional biography offers a definitive look at the life of Judy Blume, the revolutionary author who redefined young adult literature with her frank and candid storytelling. Through exclusive interviews and access to her personal archives, the book explores Blume’s complex journey from a 1950s upbringing to her status as a global literary icon and champion of free speech. Oppenheimer peels back the curtain on her private struggles, including her varied marriages and personal heartaches, to reveal the "real woman" behind the beloved classics. Ultimately, it serves as an inspiring tribute to a writer whose work has touched millions of lives for over five decades.
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World Cup Fever: A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments by Simon KuperThe story of how soccer has transformed the world--as seen through nine World Cups--by one of our most talented writers on the sport. The World Cup is the biggest sporting spectacle on Earth--a chance every four years for the greatest players to win international glory, and a month-long media event that's watched by an audience of billions. But the tournament has changed beyond recognition since the inaugural event in Montevideo, Uruguay, in July 1930. What was once a semi-professional meeting beset by haphazard play has evolved to become a game of multinational buyouts, dubious ethics, and questionable aims--and the new era of soccer has much to tell us about the globalized world. Simon Kuper is among the vanishingly small number of writers who have attended every World Cup since 1990.
World Cup Fever is his journey to find the heart of soccer, through the nine tournaments he's experienced first-hand--from watching matches in half-empty stands during Italia 1990 (a tournament that at times felt like a village fete) to witnessing the French triumph at home in 1998; South Africa's national dream in 2010; and the troubling legacy of Qatar in 2022. Told on the pitch, in the stands, in the pubs, and on the streets, this is the story of how soccer has changed the world.
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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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