Programs & Events

The HPL Book Talk Group meets on the last Tuesday of each month at 6 pm.
During the winter months we meet on Zoom.
For more information, call the library @ 938-4702. 

HPL Book Talk Group
2025

January: North Woods by Daniel Mason
February: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
March: Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
April: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
May: Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by Margaret Atwood, ed.
June: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
July: American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life by Jennifer Lunden (ReadME statewide community read)
August: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
September: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Graphic memoir)
October: The Ride of Her life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts
November: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
December: Readers’ Choice

2026

January: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
February: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
March: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
April: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
May: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
June: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Writers Group

Do you enjoy writing? Have you ever wished you had a group of other aspiring writers to share your work with? Meetings are relaxed and supportive and adult writers in all genres are welcome. We meet once a month on Saturday mornings. Contact the library for future dates.

FAMILY GAME DAYS & ANYTIME PLAYTIME

Use the library’s games or bring your own. little ones can play with the library’s toys. Any time, any day!