First Thursday Fiction Book Group
 

Bring a friend and join us to discuss Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and move with her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.

Our book groups are a fun way to delve deeper into your love of literature by sharing it with others. Refreshments provided. For more information about the group or this month's selection, visit our website or call 444-7820.

 

Sunday NovelTea Fiction Book Group
 

Join us to discuss All the Single Ladies by Dorothea Benton Frank over tea and cookies. In the wake of a remarkable woman's death, three middle-aged women bond over their shared grief while evaluating their own shifting prospects. 

 

For more information about the group or this month's selection, visit our website or call 444-7820 for more information.

 

 

Learn how to start your own business at this one-stop workshop featuring Damian J. Carson from Operation HOPE and a panel of experts in their given fields. Panelists will discuss business plans, location, taxes, licenses, inventory, and marketing. For more information, call 444-7816.

 

Live on the Plaza: Dogwood in Concert
 

Longtime veterans of Birmingham's rock and blues scene reunite to perform newly recorded material. FREE! For more information, call 444-7821.

 

Second Thursday Fiction Book Group
 

Bring a friend and join us to discuss Every Note Played by Lisa Genova. When Richard, a famed concert pianist, loses his ability to play after being diagnosed with ALS, ex-wife Karen, who blames him for her own abandoned performance career, reluctantly becomes his caretaker. 

 

For more information about the group or this month's selection, visit our website or call 444-7820.

 

Friends of Hoover Library Present: Dolores Hydock: In Her Own Fashion
 

Dolores Hydock shares stories about the life of Ninette Griffith, a smart, sassy, elegantly ambitious Birmingham woman, who had an eyebrow-raising love affair (or two) in the 1930s, a high-ranking military husband in the 1940s, a high-profile fashion career in the 1950s, and an opinion on everything. 

 

Tickets to the event are sold out.  Contact The Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 for waiting list information and any questions about the performance.

 

After Hours @ the Plaza: Library Bingo
 

Round up your family and friends to compete for great prizes while playing a classic game with a library twist. Free event and refreshments provided. Call 444-7801 for more information.

 

How to Find Grants
 

Learn to use library resources to find grants for nonprofits and individuals. No reservations required, but seating is limited.  Call 444-7816 for more information.

 

Purl on the Plaza
 

Join old friends and make new ones at this crafty meeting of fiber enthusiasts. We love to see anyone with a portable craft such as knitting, crochet, tatting, or embroidery. For more information about the monthly program, visit our website or call 444-7821.

 

Freedom Summer
 

Join us for a screening of Freedom Summer, a documentary that highlights the efforts by local and outside activists in Mississippi to organize communities and register black voters in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death during the summer of 1964. For more information, visit our website or call 444-7840.

 

Helping Hands
 

Drop in to make newspaper rolls for a local humane society. Teens and adults welcome. Call 444-7840 for more information.

 

Library Closed
 

Insatiable Readers: I'm With the Band
 

Feed your need for nonfiction titles and bookish conversations while you enjoy a cup of coffee. For more information, visit our website or call 444-7840.

 

Crepe Paper Flowering Topiary
 

Create a whimsical tree using crepe paper, buttons, and a variety of other craft materials. Registration is required and class size is limited. Call 444-7840 to sign up, or register online using the links below. FREE!

 

Nonfiction Book Group
 

Join us for a discussion of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre, the story of the Allied invasion of southern Europe and how it was concealed from the Nazis. For more information about the group or this month's selection, visit our website or call 444-7816.

 

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

Let's see how much you remember from the fifth grade! Play with a team or go solo and compete for great prizes.  For more information, call 444-7821.

 

After Hours on the Plaza: Game Nite
 

Team up with your friends and fellow gamers and heed the call of the tabletop! We have a great selection of board games available, but you are welcome to bring your favorite to share. East 59 Vintage Cafe will be open late. For more information, call 444-7821. 

 

Write Club
 

Share your literary works and network with other aspiring writers. Share a five-minute selection and receive feedback from peers. All are welcome. For more information, call 444-7820.

 

Pen & Paper RPG Society
 

Come in for an afternoon of fun as we explore this awesome gaming genre! You'll create larger than life heroes; adventure through dungeons, haunted tombs and forgotten regions of space; and defeat dark elder beings seeking to devour the world. Let us show you an exciting new hobby! No experience needed. For more information, call 444-7820.

 

Monday at the Movies
 

Join us for Going in Style (2017, PG-13, 96 m), starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin. Lifelong buddies decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow when their pension funds become a corporate casualty. 

 

Free admission and refreshments! For more information, visit our website or call 444-7820. 

 

True Crime Book Club
 

Enjoy playing armchair detective? Fascinated by cold cases? This book club is for you! Join us as we discuss Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. For more information, call 444-7748.

 

Vintage Videos
 

A tennis player frames his unfaithful wife for first-degree murder after she inadvertently hinders his plan to kill her in Dial M for Murder (1954). Free admission and refreshments! For more information, call 444-7801.

 

Computer Classes
 

Hoover Library offers free computer classes. All classes are located in the Training Center on the Administration level and registration is required. Visit our website or call 444-7477 to sign up.