Program Type: Book Clubs

Thursdays, September 3,10,17,24 @ 4 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our zoom teen book club (Grades 7 and up). We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 8 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each teen individually if using online form or by emailing.

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America’s heartland. No one is safe.

Thursdays @ 3:15 PM October 1,8,15,22
Join Ms. Nicole for our SSYRA Grades 3-5 Zoom Book Club: Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 10 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each child individually if using online form or by emailing.

After sprouting horns and feathers, Charlie Hernandez realizes that all those myths his grandmother has told him might just be real. This happens right at the same time his home burn down and his parents have gone missing. Charlie and his friend Violet embark on a journty discovering Charlie’s life is linked to the balance between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Charlie tries to hide all the things changing about himself from his friends while searching for his parents.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club featuring the The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Copies available on request, just let us know where you’d like to pick it up. Email draasch@sjcfl.us to request a copy if needed.

Registration Required.

Thursdays @ 3:15 PM October 1,8,15,22
Join Ms. Nicole for our SSYRA Grades 3-5 Zoom Book Club: Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 10 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each child individually if using online form or by emailing.

After sprouting horns and feathers, Charlie Hernandez realizes that all those myths his grandmother has told him might just be real. This happens right at the same time his home burn down and his parents have gone missing. Charlie and his friend Violet embark on a journty discovering Charlie’s life is linked to the balance between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Charlie tries to hide all the things changing about himself from his friends while searching for his parents.

Curl up with a drink of your choice in the comfort of your own home with this Zoom Adult Book Club!

Shelby Mahurin’s sequel to Serpent and Bone is expected to be released late this year. Join us for the first installment in this duology!

The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

Contact Will at mpate@sjcfl.us for issues with Zoom links and questions.

Registration Required.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club: Elevation by Stephen King

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together–a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade–but escalating–battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face-including his own–he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.

Copies available on request, just let us know where you’d like to pick it up. Email draasch@sjcfl.us to request a copy  if needed.

Registration required.

Thursdays @ 3:15 PM October 1,8,15,22
Join Ms. Nicole for our SSYRA Grades 3-5 Zoom Book Club: Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 10 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each child individually if using online form or by emailing.

After sprouting horns and feathers, Charlie Hernandez realizes that all those myths his grandmother has told him might just be real. This happens right at the same time his home burn down and his parents have gone missing. Charlie and his friend Violet embark on a journty discovering Charlie’s life is linked to the balance between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Charlie tries to hide all the things changing about himself from his friends while searching for his parents.

Thursdays @ 3:15 PM October 1,8,15,22
Join Ms. Nicole for our SSYRA Grades 3-5 Zoom Book Club: Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 10 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each child individually if using online form or by emailing.

After sprouting horns and feathers, Charlie Hernandez realizes that all those myths his grandmother has told him might just be real. This happens right at the same time his home burn down and his parents have gone missing. Charlie and his friend Violet embark on a journty discovering Charlie’s life is linked to the balance between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Charlie tries to hide all the things changing about himself from his friends while searching for his parents.

Thursdays, November  5, 12, 19 & December 3 @ 4:15 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our zoom teen book club (Grades 7 and up) for this month’s pick, Aurora Rising by Aime Kaufman. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 8 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each teen individually if using online form or by emailing.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . . and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline cases, and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club featuring the The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her–freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead

Copies available on request, just let us know where you’d like to pick it up. Email draasch@sjcfl.us to request a copy  if needed.

Registration Required.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening … Anna Fox lives alone — a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies … and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble — and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this gripping Hitchcockian thriller, no one and nothing are what they seem

Copies available on request, just let us know where you’d like to pick it up. Email draasch@sjcfl.us to request a copy  if needed.

Registration required.

Thursdays, November  5, 12, 19 & December 3 @ 4:15 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our zoom teen book club (Grades 7 and up) for this month’s pick, Aurora Rising by Aime Kaufman. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 8 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each teen individually if using online form or by emailing.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . . and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline cases, and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

Curl up with a drink of your choice in the comfort of your own home with Will via Zoom for this Adult Book Club!

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler: In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others’ pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

Contact Will at mpate@sjcfl.us for issues with Zoom links and questions.

Registration Required.

Thursdays, November  5, 12, 19 & December 3 @ 4:15 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our zoom teen book club (Grades 7 and up) for this month’s pick, Aurora Rising by Aime Kaufman. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 8 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each teen individually if using online form or by emailing.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . . and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline cases, and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

Thursdays, November  5, 12, 19 & December 3 @ 4:15 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our zoom teen book club (Grades 7 and up) for this month’s pick, Aurora Rising by Aime Kaufman. We may not be able to meet in person, we can still make new friends, have good discussion and fun! Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 8 students who sign up! Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us to sign up for our book club. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please sign up each teen individually if using online form or by emailing.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . . and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline cases, and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club featuring a book of your choice! Read a selection of your choosing and join this group to highlight your choice and hear others as well. You might even get more ideas for your reading list!

Registration Required.

Curl up with a drink of your choice in the comfort of your own home with Will via Zoom for this Adult Book Club!

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young: Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother’s betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother’s friend Fiske, she attempts to unite the two clans.

Contact Will at mpate@sjcfl.us for issues with Zoom links and questions.

Registration Required.

Join Donna for an Adult Zoom Book Club: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes.

Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they’re committed to their job–bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope. At times funny, at others heartbreaking, this is a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.

Copies available on request, just let us know where you’d like to pick it up. Email draasch@sjcfl.us to request a copy  if needed.

Registration required.