Most adult non-repeating events take place on Friday evenings at 6:00 pm.

All programming is FREE.

Please Check our Calendar for upcoming events and call the desk to register.

Our space dictates a limited number of participants.

If you have any questions please call us at 304-535-2301.

Inclement Weather Procedure: Bolivar Harpers Ferry Public Library follows the Jefferson County Public School District’s inclement weather policy; if JCPS are closed the library will be closed as well. If JCPS have a 2hr delay the library will open on time and Programs will begin as scheduled. Please check our Facebook page for updates.

The Bolivar Harpers Ferry Public Library Thursday Book Club is held on the second Thursday of the month at 6 pm. This is a potluck dinner and discussion.

Please check our calendar for the monthly book club selection. You may pick up a book club book at the desk while supplies last.

Below you will find a list of books this book club has read:

Book Club Titles Read
Last Updated: 9/2024
Author
 Date Read
84 Charr Cross Road Helene Hanff 6/14/12
A Land More Kind Than Home Wiley Cash 2/18/18
A Life We Bury Allen Eskens 8/13/20
Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1/14/16
All Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion Fannie Flagg 10/9/14
All the Light We Cannot See Anthoney Doerr 11/12/15
American Dirt Jeranine Cummins 11/21/22
American Wolf Nate Blakeslee 1/10/19
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England Brock Clarke 7/11/19
An Artist of the floating World Kazuo Ishiguro 4/18/18
Angery House Wives Lorna Landvile 7/5/05
Appalachian Winter Hauntings Short Stories 1/1/13
Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden 6/21/22
Bedford Boys Alex Kershaw 7/11/24
Before I Go To Sleep SJ Watson 7/13/23
Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 5/9/19
Bel Canto Ann Patchett 7/12/15
Bellewether Susanna Kearsley 9/22/22
Between the Acts Virginia Wolf 8/8/19
Book Of Morman Girl Joanna Brooks 7/5/05
Book Shop Penelope Fitzgerald 3/18/18
Book Thief Markus Zusak 7/5/05
Boy, Mole, Fox & Horse/ BFG Charlie Macvkesy/Roald Dahl 11/22/22
Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown 9/1092015
Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 7/5/05
Carrying Albert Home Homer Hickman 9/14/17
Chasing Cows  Lyn Widmyer 7/4/05
Child of The Mountains Marilyn Shank 6/8/17
Christmas Bells Jennifer Chiaverini 12/12/24
Christmas Train David Baldacci 12/22/22
City of Jasmine Deanna Raybourn 12/12/19
Clara and Mr.Tiffany Susan Vreeland 9/11/14
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Chris Bohjalian 10/8/15
Closed for Covid 19 April & May 2020
Cruel Prince Holly Black 2/8/24
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 9/14/23
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 9/14/23
Elegance of The Hedgehog  Muriel Barbery 7/4/05
Elegant Gathering of White Snows Kris Radish 6/11/15
Elenanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 1/8/21
First Frost Sarah Addison Allen 10/11/18
Follow the River James Alexander Thom 8/28/14
Forest of Vanishing Stars Kristin Harmel 1/22/22
Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 10/10/19
Four Winds Kristin Hannah 5/11/23
Garden Spells Sarah Addison Allen 7/18/18
Girl in the Tower Katherine Arden 7/21/22
Girl Waits With Gun Stewart, Amy 5/12/16
Girls of Atomic City Denise Kienan 7/5/05
Glass castle  Jeannette Walls 4/9/15
Go Set A Watchman Lee, Harper 4/14/16
Gray Mountain John Grisham 4/13/17
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone JK Rowling 12/14/23
Harry Potter and the Sorcor's Stone JK Rowling 12/14/23
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 2/9/23
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 2/9/23
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven
Immortalist Chloe Benjamin 3/14/24
In Five Years Rebecca Serle 12/21/22
In the language of Miracles Rajia Hassib 8/11/16
Invention Of Wings Susan Monk Kidd 8/13/14
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brtonte 6/13/24
Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan 8/1/18
Killing in the Hills Julia Keller 6/11/20
Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom 12/11/14
Kitchens of Great Midwest J. Ryan Stradal 2/18/16
Language of Flowers  Vanessa Diffenbaugh 3/12/15
Last Lecture Randy Pausch 10/11/12
Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier 5/14/15
Last thing He Told Me Laura Dave 10/23/23
Leaving Time Jodi Picoult 6/8/23
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 10/10/24
Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson 9/12/19
Letters of the Woman Homesteader  Elinore Pruitt Stewart 9/132012
Light Between the Oceans Maria Stedmans 7/5/05
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 8/9/18
Little Shop of Found Things Paula Brackston 12/9/20
Long Way Down Nick Hornby
Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 6/18/18
Milkweed Ladies  Louise McNeil 11/8/12
Morality Play Barry Unsworth 2/14/19
Mother of Rain Karen Spears Zacharias 3/14/19
Mrs. Lincoln and Ms. Keckly Jennifer Fleischner 7/5/05
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker Jennifer Chiaverini 7/5/05
Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase Walters, Louise 9/82016
Next Ship Home Heather Webb 4/13/23
Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 5/22/22
Nightingale Kristin Hannah 6/9/22
Olive Again Elizabeth Strout 8/15/24
Olive Kiteridge  Elizabeth Strout 7/6/05
Once Upon A River Diane Setterfield 7/11/19
One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus 5/11/17
Open Season C. J. Box 7/6/05
Ordinary Grace W. Kent Keuger 7/9/20
Orphan train Christina Kline 7/6/05
Paris Wife Paula Mclaine 7/6/05
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender 5/10/12
Patron Saint of Ugly Marie Manilla 10/21/22
Readers Choice 11/9/23
Reluntant Midwife Patricia Harman 2/9/17
Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 11/14/24
Rosemary Kate Clifford Larson 11/10/16
Saints For All Occasions J. Courtney Sullivan 9/12/19
Sandcastle Girls Chris Bohjalin 1/13/23
Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott 4/21/22
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 9/12/24
She Walks these Hills Sharyn Mccrumb 2/14/13
Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 10/8/20
Silver Star Jeanette Walls 3/9/17
Sing Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward 2/21/22
Sisterland Curtis Sittenfeld 7/6/05
Snow Child Eowyn Ivery 11/8/18
Sold on a Monday Kristina McMorris 9/11/20
Spellman Files Lisa Lutz 7/6/05
Still Life Louise Penny 12/12/19
Stolen Marriage Daiane Chamberlain 10/22/22
Storied Life of A. J. Frikry Gabrielle Zevin 7/22/22
Summer Wives Beatriz Williams 8/8/19
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley 7/6/05
Tell The Wolves I'm Home Carol Rifka Brunt 7/5/05
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 4/11/24
The Measure Nikki Erlick 5/9/24
Third Angel Alice Hoffman 4/14/22
Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 8/22/22
This Tender Land W. Kent Kreuger 11/12/20
To Kill A Mockingbird Lee, Harper 3/10/16
Touch of Stardust Kate Alcott 1/12/17
Trumbo Bruce Cook 1/19/19
Truth According To Us Annie Barrows 10/13/16
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune 3/10/23
Unquiet Grave Sharyn Mccrumb 5/18/18
Victoria and Adul Shrabani Basu 4/11/19
Virgil Wander Leif Enger 5/21/22
Water Street Crystal Wilkinson 11/14/19
We Bought A Zoo Benjamin Mee 8/9/12
What Alice Forgot Moriarty, Liane 6/9/16
When Harry met Minnie  Martha Teichner  3/22/22
Where The Crawdad's Sing Delia Owens 6/13/19
Where The Forest Met the Stars Glendy Vandurah 3/21/22
Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden 8/21/22
Woman in the Library Sulari Gentill 8/10/23
Woman in the Library Sulari Gentill 8/10/23
Yiddish Policemen's Union  Michael Chabon 12/13/12

 

Knit and Crochet for Charity are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 12:00-2:00 PM

This is a Free program. Everyone is welcome to join.

If you would like to learn more please email Judy at: eslusher2@aol.com

The Stitchers of Harpers Ferry meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10:00 AM

This is a Free program. All are welcome to join.

Anyone crocheting, knitting, sewing, or any type of needle craft may join.

The Stitchers of Harpers Ferry have a Facebook group that you can request to join. They meet here one Thursday 5-7pm and on one Friday 10am -12pm and each month.

  • These dates vary each month so joining the Facebook page will keep you in the know.

Braided rug making taught by Megan Perez

This is a free program and requires pre-registration.

This program will run every Monday 4:00-5:30 PM between January and February 2025, excluding holidays and inclement weather.

Lisha Simester's Golden Yoga

Meeting Wednesdays through October 30th, from 6:30 - 7:30 PM

A suggested donation of $10.00 a class.

Indoor yoga, ages 15 +

Certified by: British Wheel of Yoga

A craft will be on offer the 1st Thursday of each month taught by Sara.

Most ages are welcome to participate. Please check the events calendar to see what craft is coming up.

This is a free program with supplies provided so pre-registration is required.

Please call the Library to pre-register at 304-535-2301.