Events

Every Friday

Join us at East 59 Cafe at Lee Branch to enjoy a fun storytime for all ages! Free & open to the public.

Register with the Hoover Public Library to get a spot! Supplies provided.

Every Friday

Join us at East 59 Cafe at Lee Branch to enjoy a fun storytime for all ages! Free & open to the public.

Meet your favorite librarians for a coffee and book discussion.

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, comes a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a 20-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

-from Goodreads

The Birmingham Bike Club teaches you how to change a flat tire and fix a broken chain on your bicycle. 

Bring your bike and your family to learn together. Work with teams of experienced cyclists to help you know what to do when your ride won’t roll.

Design and build your own landscape in a glass container. Supplies provided. Register online with the Hoover Public Library. http://events.hooverlibrary.org/events

Learn how to hand-tie paracord to create a flower bracelet. Register online with the Hoover Public Library.

Create artwork and jewelry with puzzle pieces, relax with coloring pages, and put together fun puzzles.

Enjoy stress-free crafts with other crafty people and enter your name for a door prize! All ages welcome.

For more information, call 205-444-7840.

Every Friday

Join us at East 59 Cafe at Lee Branch to enjoy a fun storytime for all ages! Free & open to the public.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Meet your favorite librarians for a coffee and book discussion.

Meet your favorite librarians for a coffee and book discussion.

Learn organizational techniques from Kim McBrayer, Professional Organizer and Owner/CEO of Space Cadets! Registration on Hoover Library's website.