Sayre Public Library

Next Chapter Book Club
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Sayre Public Library, 122 S Elmer Ave, Sayre, PA, 18840, United States
We are excited to announce our new book club for adults with developmental disabilities in partnership with the Bradford Wyoming County Literacy Program! Join us each Thursday morning at 11:00 a.m. from November 6 to December 18 (with the exception of Thanksgiving, November 27) as we read, socialize, and explore the world through books. All are welcome regardless of reading level.
For any questions, feel free to call us at 570-888-2256, email Stacey at smooney@sayrepl.org, or stop by the Library. Registration forms for the club can also be found at the Library. We can’t wait to read with you!

Children's Story Time: Holidays
2025-12-10 10:30 - 11:30
Join us for stories, songs, and fun every Wednesday morning at our Children’s Story Time! Our youth services librarian will lead children through a series of stories, activities, crafts, and more in an effort to help build critical early literacy and social skills. No registration is required.
This week, our theme is Holidays!

The Ink Drinkers Book Club: Comfort & Joy
2025-12-08 17:00 - 18:30
Our monthly book club will be reading Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah. Ask for a copy at the circulation desk. No registration required.

Teen Reading Lounge
2025-12-07 15:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-16 15:00 - 16:30
Area youth ages 12-18 are invited to join in to speak up and make an impact on their lives and their community through reading, discussion, and participation in the humanities. We are now a Youth Led Humanities site, which means youth are supported as they take the lead in deciding on programming and activities for the group.

Friday Tech Help
2025-12-05 10:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-21 10:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-14 10:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-07 10:00 - 23:00
Let our staff assist you with tech issues and computer help. Bring in a device, a tech problem, or a question and we will assist you! Tech Help runs on a first come, first served basis.

Bookish Holiday Decor Craft Night
2025-12-04 17:00 - 19:30
Join us during the Sayre Business Association’s Christmas Stroll for an evening of festive crafting for all ages! Stop in the Library from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 4th, to make some beautiful and bookish holiday decor from used book pages. All materials will be provided.

Children's Story Time: Christmas Birds
2025-12-03 10:30 - 11:30
Join us for stories, songs, and fun every Wednesday morning at our Children’s Story Time! Our youth services librarian will lead children through a series of stories, activities, crafts, and more in an effort to help build critical early literacy and social skills. No registration is required.
This week, our theme is Christmas Birds! Join us for some fun stories about birds and Christmas trees!

Advanced Tech Time with Tim Clines
2025-12-03 10:00 - 11:00
Bring your laptop or device and Tim Clines will be available to answer questions you may have about apps, accounts, operating systems, or any other tech related situation that has you stumped! Tim joins us every first Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. to help support additional tech needs you may have.

LSC Virtual Author Talk: Sue Hincenbergs
2025-12-02 14:00 - 15:00
Registration:
LSC | Register | Sayre Public Library (libraryc.org)
Description:
Buckle up for a wild ride and join us as we sit down for an online chat with debut author Sue Hincenbergs to discuss her novel The Retirement Plan, in which murder is the name of the game. When the only thing standing between three best friends and a sunny beachfront retirement condo are their husbands, what ensues is a diabolical plan to collect on their spouses’ life insurance policies.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong, and their dreams of beachfront condos and a sunny, carefree retirement vanish. The golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.
But when one husband dies in a freak accident, the other three women are shocked to see his widow rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida. In the aftermath, the women discover that their husbands have identical, seven-figure life insurance policies. A new dream forms, and this time, it involves a hitman. Meanwhile, their husbands have a secret retirement plan of their own.
You won’t want to miss this darkly humorous debut by Sue Hincenbergs, filled with both laugh-out-loud and genuinely tense moments as our headstrong wives pursue their dream retirement at all costs. Register today to take part in the fun!
About the Author: Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs ranging from sitcoms to lifestyle. She oversaw the content on two national daily shows, including Canada’s longest running morning show before turning her talents to live music specials, and eventually to writing. Sue lives in Toronto with her (very much alive) husband, her scruffy, middle-aged rescue dog Kramer, and the rooms full of the stuff her three sons left behind when they moved out.

CLOSED for Thanksgiving
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-28
Sayre Public Library will be closed Thursday, November 27, and Friday, November 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will re-open Saturday, November 29, at 8:30 a.m.

Children's Story Time: Squirrels
2025-11-26 10:30 - 11:30
Join us for stories, songs, and fun every Wednesday morning at our Children’s Story Time! Our youth services librarian will lead children through a series of stories, activities, crafts, and more in an effort to help build critical early literacy and social skills. No registration is required.
This week, our theme for Story Time is Squirrels!

Book Sale
2025-11-22
Stock your shelves at our book sale! Join us on Saturday, November 22nd, for our book sale! Shop gently used books, CDs, and DVDs, and fill up a bag for just $3! We’ve got something for everyone, and all proceeds benefit the library.

Children's Story Time: Leaves
2025-11-19 10:30 - 11:30
Join us for stories, songs, and fun every Wednesday morning at our Children’s Story Time! Our youth services librarian will lead children through a series of stories, activities, crafts, and more in an effort to help build critical early literacy and social skills. No registration is required.
This week, our theme for Story Time is Leaves!

Slow Stitching: Open Stitch
2025-11-18 17:00 - 19:00
Bring your current fiber arts project and come stitch with us! Join us as we craft, socialize, and enjoy light refreshments. Sewist Linda Politi will be on hand to offer advice if needed!

LSC Virtual Author Talk: Charles Duhigg
2025-11-18 14:00 - 15:00
Registration:
LSC | Register | Sayre Public Library (libraryc.org)
Description:
Get yourself primed for the holiday season and join us for an online conversation you won’t want to miss! Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his latest work, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.
In this groundbreaking book, Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art – and the science – of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine skeptic.
Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.
Register now to take part in the online discussion, learn how to enhance your everyday conversations, and add a new title to the holiday wishlist!
About the Author: Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of Supercommunicators, The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, and was the founding host of the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.

LSC Virtual Author Talk: Amanda Peters
2025-11-13 19:00 - 20:00
Registration:
LSC | Register | Sayre Public Library (libraryc.org)
Description:
Join us in an online conversation with acclaimed writer Amanda Peters as we discuss her instant bestselling novel, The Berry Pickers, as well as her tender short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories.
Influenced by Peters’ own Mi’kmaq heritage, The Berry Pickers is a riveting exploration of family, grief, and the bonds we share.
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
The Berry Pickers is an intimate portrait of race, love, and loneliness–and the power of forgiveness. Register now to take part in the discussion!

About the Author: Amanda Peters is a mixed-race woman of Mi’kmaq and European ancestry, born and raised in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, and Filling Station Magazine.
Amanda’s first novel, The Berry Pickers, was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in Canada, and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in the US. The Berry Pickers won the Dartmouth Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Novel Award, and has been translated into sixteen languages around the world. Her most recent book of short fiction, Waiting for the Long Night Moon, was published August, 2024, to critical acclaim.

Children's Story Time: Dinosaurs
2025-11-12 10:30 - 11:30
Join us for stories, songs, and fun every Wednesday morning at our Children’s Story Time! Our youth services librarian will lead children through a series of stories, activities, crafts, and more in an effort to help build critical early literacy and social skills. No registration is required.
This week, our theme for Story Time is Dinosaurs!

CLOSED for Veterans Day
2025-11-11
Sayre Public Library will be closed Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. We will re-open on Wednesday, November 12, at 10:00 a.m.

The Ink Drinkers Book Club: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
2025-11-10 17:00 - 18:00
Our monthly book club will be reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Ask for a copy at the circulation desk. No registration required.

Holiday Raffle
2025-11-10 - 2025-12-15
Get ready for the holidays with Sayre Public Library’s Holiday Raffle! Starting November 10 and running through December 15, the raffle will feature a variety of holiday decor, including a beautiful Nativity set, a basket of snowman decorations, and a lovely handmade quilt. We will also have bundles of books and Sayre Public Library tote bags as raffle items.
Tickets are $5 each or 6 tickets for $20. Each ticket purchase will get you a ticket for our Thanksgiving Special, a handmade quilted Advent calendar; the winner for this item will be drawn November 21. Winners for all other raffle items will be drawn December 15. All proceeds from the raffle go to benefit the Library.
Stop by the Library to see all of the wonderful items in person today!

Create Our Peace Tween Group
2025-11-08 13:00 - 14:00
Our goal for the Create Our Peace Tween Group is to provide a safe and fun environment for opportunities that will allow tweens to explore their developing identity, interact with peers and express their opinions by applying art and creativity with literacy and critical thinking.

Book Launch Party w/ Lisa McCarthy Cole
2025-11-08 10:30 - 13:30
Local author and educator Lisa McCarthy Cole will join us on Saturday, November 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to celebrate the launch of her new children’s book about Amos the Brave Mini Donkey! You’ll be able to chat with Lisa, hear her read the story, and purchase a signed copy of the book.
