Celebrate Hanukkah! Location: Front Entrance

Light-hearted versions of the best holiday songs, played by a top-notch band of Alabama artists Location: The Library Theatre

Hot chocolate, cookies and cozy stories! Location: East 59 Event Room 701 Doug Baker Blvd, Ste 103 Hoover, AL 35242

Join us for a fun night of holiday-themed bingo. Location: Plaza

Celebrate National Ugly Sweater Day Don we now our most outrageous holiday apparal for an after-hours celebration. Play minute-to-win-it table games, enjoy a cup of hot cocoa with your favorite fixings and compete in an ugly sweater contest judged by none other than the Grinch at this fun-tastic adults-only event. Location: Plaza

Authors discuss the writing of African Town. The last book in the Stories of Exile Book Club series is African Town, a story about the journey of 110 captured Africans brought to Mobile, Alabama, on the last slave ship, Clotilde. Enjoy an evening in discussion with authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters as they share the inspiration for their young-adult novel-in-verse, and talk about the incredible writing journey that brought them face-to-face with the living descendants of those 110 exiles. Live-stream this event on the Hoover Library Facebook and YouTube pages. Location: Shakespeare Room

Sing along with your favorite staff during this winter-themed variety show! Location: The Library Theatre

Sing along with your favorite staff during this winter-themed variety show! Location: The Library Theatre

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a program in which librarians organize reading groups to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in translation. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. The program will also be streamed live on the Hoover Library YouTube and Facebook pages. Location: Fitzgerald Room