Friends of the Hoover Public Library

05/08/2025

Stop into our Friends' book sale this weekend and pick out the perfect books to read this Summer! The sale will be on the theater level of the Hoover Public Library hosted by the Friends of the Hoover Public Library.

Friday, May 9th 9 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday, May 10th 10 AM - 5:30 PM

04/19/2025

04/02/2025

Sue Simpson, one of our "best" Friends, passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at the age of 94.

She was a lover of books and an avid reader. During her working life, Sue worked in high school and church libraries, and at the Hoover Public Library, Hoover, Alabama. After retiring, Sue supported the library through her work with Friends of the Hoover Public Library.

Sue and Frieda Bearden were instrumental in setting up the Friends Book Store, and Sue spent many hours working there, often with her husband Charlie. Many of us first met Sue when we volunteered to work in the bookstore or at one of the Friends book sales. She scheduled all volunteers and kept us on track each month.

She went on to help run the library at the Galleria Woods Senior Living Community after moving there in 2018.

She is survived by her sister Janette Newton; her daughter Sue Ellen Williams; her two sons, Charles Simpson, Jr. and Timothy Simpson; and grandchildren Ben Williams and Bryan Williams.

The celebration of Sue's life will be on Friday, April 4, 2025 at Southern Heritage Funeral Home, 475 Cahaba Valley Rd., Pelham. Visitation will begin at 10 AM and the Celebration of Life will be at 11 AM.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pelham-al/eleanor-simpson-12320579

03/30/2025

Friends Membership Coffee
10 AM
Monday, April 7
The Plaza
Featuring Courtney Cook

After graduating from Auburn University, Courtney Cook moved to New York and LA, appearing in off-Broadway shows as well as several TV series. A few years ago, she moved back to Birmingham, where she’s continued her theatrical work. Today she will be performing a cabaret show for our entertainment.

Refreshments will be served. The public is invited.

03/24/2025

The Dill Pickers
April 10, 2025 • 7 PM
Hoover Library Theater
Tickets $30
Fundraiser benefitting the Friends of the Hoover Public Lib

The Dill Pickers are sometimes asked, "Just what kind of music do you play?" They're a vocal string band that happens to own bluegrass instruments. Truth be told, bluegrass bands do not usually have pianos, clarinets, accordions, strumsticks or many other such crazy instruments that the Dill Pickers use in their wide variety of music and frivolity.

"Coming from our combined theatrical backgrounds, it just makes sense to us to entertain instead of just singing and playing."

So, don't let the banjo and fiddle fool you. The Dill Pickers will flat out entertain you and you'll leave with a smile on your face.

Buy tickets at www.thelibrarytheatre.com

03/21/2025

Our Coffee Membership Social is at 10AM April 7 on the Plaza. Renew your membership or become a new Friend and enjoy some tasty treats!

02/26/2025

Dr. Farah Sultan will be our guest speaker at 10 AM on Monday, March 3. A board-certified doctor in Family Medicine and Functional and Regenerative Medicine, she has trained and worked in three continents, including India, the UK and the United States.

She is an expert in sleep and hormone balance and is the founder of Vitalogy Wellness and Medspa.

Learn all about holistic wellness at this informative meeting!

02/10/2025

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is one of the featured authors at this year's Southern Voices author conference, which will be held from 9AM to 4PM on Saturday, Feb. 22.

His most recent book is "The American Daughters", which Publishers Weekly called "a vibrant picture of antebellum New Orleans."

He is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Oxford American, Garden & Gun, and Kenyon Review.

A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of creative writing at Louisiana State University.

01/31/2025

Mayor Frank Brocato will deliver his annual State of the City address at 10 AM on Monday, Feb. 3. Free and open to the public.

01/23/2025

Stop into our Friends book sale this weekend and pick out the perfect books to read during this wintry weather!

Friday, Jan. 24 9 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday, Jan. 25 10 AM - 5:30 PM

01/20/2025

Kimberly Brock is one of the featured authors at this year's "Southern Voices" author conference, to be held Feb. 22. Tickets are $45.

Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of "The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare," which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction, and "The River Witch," recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award.

She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop.

A native of north Georgia, she now lives near Atlanta. Her latest novel, "The Fabled Earth," released in October.

For ticket information to Southern Voices, visit www.southernvoices.info, call (205) 444-7888 or stop in at the box office.