Program Type: Virtual

Most of us are familiar with ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. However, there lots of other seasonal stories that you also might enjoy. This program can be conveniently viewed on our website, Facebook page or Youtube channel.

Join Ms. Nicole in the Anastasia Library or via Zoom for our Wings of Fire Book Club! Kids, grades 3-6, can join us for this popular book series. We will have book trivia, discussions and hands on activities and weekly challenges! Registration is required as supplies are limited.   No registration necessary.  If interested in attending via zoom, email njebbia@sjcfl.us. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
November = The Dangerous Gift
December = The Flames of Hope

Join Main Library’s Adult Programming Coordinator Beth online as she demonstrates a pretty bell jar craft that can be added to your winter decorations! To follow along you will need a glass bell jar (any size), a floral foam block the same size as your bell jar base, a small assortment of dried flowers, fir sprigs, mini pinecones, glitter, and a pair of scissors. This program will be recorded, and can be conveniently viewed on our Facebook page or our Youtube channel.

WARRIORS FANS — this fun tween and teen Erin Hunter Book Club is for you! Join Librarian Ms. Lisa for an adventure through Erin Hunter’s Warriors books!

Although we will meet through Zoom for a special Book Club meeting, you don’t need to wait for our club meeting to get started! Every member who RSVPs will get an invitation to our online Erin Hunter Book Club Hub where we share fan art, fan fiction, and more! Club Logo proudly provided by our Club Member, Katie!

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us. Special thanks to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for sponsoring this program.

Learn about some fun seasonal crafts using corks. For younger artists on up, make your home festive! This program can be conveniently viewed on our website, Facebook page or Youtube channel.

The Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library’s Book Lovers Book Club is hosted each month by our Adult Services Library Staff – Anne or Trinh – and offers two opportunities a month to discuss the monthly selection! You can attend in person on Friday morning at 11 am, via Zoom on Wednesday evening at 6 pm, or both. Adults are invited to participate and new members are always welcome! If you want to join us for our Zoom meeting, please RSVP below for a Zoom link.

In December, the Book Lovers Book Club will be celebrating an amazing year of reading and discussing literature together! At this special holiday party, each attendee is invited to share a favorite book with our Book Club members. A suggested reading list of these titles will be compiled and e-mailed out by Adult Services Librarian Anne to all Book Lovers Book Club members as a holiday gift to ourselves:  a great list of books to try out and read!

Any titles not currently owned by SJCPLS we will attempt to purchase for SJCPLS so that other readers may enjoy these wonderful titles. Additionally, Adult Services Librarian Anne and Adult Services Assistant Trinh will share the 2023 Book Lovers Book Club monthly reading list with you including the four “Conversations with Authors” Series events for summer of 2023. You’ll also learn about St. Johns Reads 2023, so mark your calendars for this fun-filled wrap-up event with fellow readers and great books!

Thank you to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for sponsoring our branch library’s Book Lovers Book Club!

WARRIORS FANS — this fun tween and teen Erin Hunter Book Club is for you! Join Librarian Ms. Lisa for an adventure through Erin Hunter’s Warriors books!

Although we will meet through Zoom for a special Book Club meeting, you don’t need to wait for our club meeting to get started! Every member who RSVPs will get an invitation to our online Erin Hunter Book Club Hub where we share fan art, fan fiction, and more! Club Logo proudly provided by our Club Member, Katie!

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us. Special thanks to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for sponsoring this program.

The Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library’s Book Lovers Book Club is hosted each month by our Adult Services Library Staff – Anne or Trinh – and offers two opportunities a month for patrons to gather and discuss our Book Club’s monthly selection! You can attend in person at our library on Friday morning at 11 am or via Zoom from anywhere with internet access on Wednesday evening at 6 pm. New members are always welcome! You do not need to be a member of our library or a resident of our county to participate. If you want to join us for our monthly Zoom meeting, please RSVP below to receive your Zoom link the day before the Zoom meeting. You will need a Zoom account to participate in the Zoom meeting, and you can get a free one at www.zoom.us. Please call our library at (904) 827-6950 if you need any assistance with your online RSVP. Online RSVPs will close 1 hour before this event starts.

Come celebrate St. Johns Reads 2023 with us by discussing our 2023 selection, Buttermilk Graffiti, by author and chef Edward Lee! Print copies, while they last, are available at the Adult Reference Desk at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for checkout with your SJCPLS library card. This title is also available for checkout in physical formats via our SJCPLS online catalog or in downloadable formats via Overdrive with your SJCPLS library card. We can’t wait to discuss this book with you!

You can also meet our St. Johns Reads 2023 Buttermilk Graffiti author in person on Saturday, January 14 at 2 pm! Please mark your calendars for SJCPLS’s special St. Johns Reads 2023 event featuring author and chef Edward Lee! Everyone is welcome. For details including the location for this event, please visit this link:  St. Johns Reads 2023 In-Person Author Event. This special event is free and no registration is required. Join us!

Buttermilk Graffiti Book Synopsis:  “American food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. But for Edward Lee, who, like Anthony Bourdain or Gabrielle Hamilton, is as much a writer as he is a chef, that first surprising bite is just the beginning. What about the people behind the food? What about the traditions, the innovations, the memories? A natural-born storyteller, Lee decided to hit the road and spent two years uncovering fascinating narratives from every corner of the country. There’s a Cambodian couple in Lowell, Massachusetts, and their efforts to re-create the flavors of their lost country. A Uyghur café in New York’s Brighton Beach serves a noodle soup that seems so very familiar and yet so very exotic—one unexpected ingredient opens a window onto an entirely unique culture. A beignet from Café du Monde in New Orleans, as potent as Proust’s madeleine, inspires a narrative that tunnels through time, back to the first Creole cooks, then forward to a Korean rice-flour hoedduck and a beignet dusted with matcha. Sixteen adventures, sixteen vibrant new chapters in the great evolving story of American cuisine. And forty recipes, created by Lee, that bring these new dishes into our own kitchens.” (taken from Amazon)

Thank you to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for sponsoring our branch library’s Book Lovers Book Club!

WARRIORS FANS — this fun tween and teen Erin Hunter Book Club is for you! Join Librarian Ms. Lisa for an adventure through Erin Hunter’s Warriors books!

Although we will meet through Zoom for a special Book Club meeting, you don’t need to wait for our club meeting to get started! Every member who RSVPs will get an invitation to our online Erin Hunter Book Club Hub where we share fan art, fan fiction, and more! Club Logo proudly provided by our Club Member, Katie!

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us. Special thanks to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for sponsoring this program.