Past FOCL Events

  • Mixed Media Sales
  • Bagged Book Sales

Thank you to everyone who came out to shop our Big Bag Sale! It was a busy day with lot’s of happy shoppers! Next up is our 2023 Membership Meeting featuring best-selling author Jennifer Coburn. https://jennifercoburn.com/

  • Author Events

Friends of Ontario City Library Presents:

Friends of Ontario City Library hosted best selling author, Piper Huguley on Friday, April 19, 2024.  MS. Huguley shared the history behind  By Her Own Design and American Daughters. MS. Huguley signed copies of her newly published book, American Daughters, at the event.  

Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022, was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper and was selected as the historical fiction winner for 2022 by the American Library Association’s Reading Council.  

Her new historical fiction book, American Daughters (2024), is the story of the decades-long interracial friendship between Alice Roosevelt and Portia Washington, the rebel teenage daughters of President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, respectively. She is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com .
  • Celebration of National Library Worker Week

Prior Author Events: Sadeqa Johnson/Kristina McMorris

On Wednesday, February 22, The Friends of Ontario City Library hosted New York Times best-selling author Sadeqa Johnson. Sadeqa was on a national tour discussing her new book “The House of Eve”. Here are a few pictures from that fabulous author event!

The Friends of Ontario City Library hosted New York Times Best Selling author Kristina McMorris on Sunday, September 11. Thank you to everyone who joined us for this wonderful and engaging author program!