Location: Ponte Vedra Beach

It’s that time of year for costumes, pumpkins, and of course, not-so-scary storytime stories! Little ones and their families are invited for a special Halloween storytime and a costume parade through the library. Dress up and join us for seasonal fun at the library!

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

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.

Join us for a perfect first storytime for babies! This gentle lapsit program features action rhymes, songs, and stories presented in a circle time format. For babies up to 12 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

This interactive storytime for toddlers encourages physical, social, and language & literacy development. Be prepared to laugh, move, and sing! For ages 12-24 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

Let’s practice the alphabet together! Each week this storytime will feature a letter of the week to help children learn letter shapes and sounds. For ages 24 months-Kindergarten; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

*** Want to be added to our e-blast list for updates about our Book Club and more? Please e-mail Anne at ascrawford@sjcfl.us. ***

All adults are invited to join the Book Lovers Book Club meeting in person or via Zoom from anywhere, whichever is better for you! You do not have to be a St. Johns County resident or SJCPLS library card holder to participate.  To join us via Zoom, RSVP for this event below and make sure to create a free Zoom account (www.zoom.us) if you don’t already have one. You will receive a Zoom link for the meeting the day of the meeting, or you can visit this event posting the day of the meeting for the link.

The book we will be reading is 11/22/63 by Stephen King. If you would like a copy of the book to read or listen to for our Book Club, please stop by our Adult Reference Desk beginning October 8. Print and audiobook CD copies of this selection will be available for you to checkout at the Adult Reference Desk while copies last. If we run out of copies, we are happy to put you on the waiting list.

Plot synopsis of 11/22/63:  “On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination – a thousand page tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment – a real life moment – when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students – a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane – and insanely possible – mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.” (taken from www.bookbrowse.com)

When you’re done reading, please return your copy to the Adult Reference Desk. 11/22/63 is also available to download and/or request for your tablet, phone, etc. via Overdrive or with the Libby App and your SJCPLS library card! Please call the Library at (904) 827-6950 with any questions. We look forward to seeing you! Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

The Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library is hosting its monthly Gerson Yessin Music Series, held in the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library’s FOL Community Room. This monthly series, spotlighting local musicians, is free and open to the public. Performing tonight are Jim Carrick and Charlie Simmons. These Florida Troubadours will perform Florida Guitar music. Seating is first-come, first-served until room capacity is reached. Doors will open for this event starting at 6:00 pm. Are you interested in helping our Library sponsor more special events and performances? Please consider joining and/or donating to the Friends by visiting their website:  https://folpvbfl.org/.

Join us for a perfect first storytime for babies! This gentle lapsit program features action rhymes, songs, and stories presented in a circle time format. For babies up to 12 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

Everyone is invited to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for our Book Sale in November hosted by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library! Get gifts for family, friends, or just for yourself. Funds raised go towards our library for buying library materials, special programming, and much more for our library’s patrons. This book sale will be held in the FOL Community Room, inside our Library, during the following times:  Friday, November 12 – Monday, November 15 from 10 am – 4 pm each day. Please Note:  Only cash and checks can be accepted (no credit cards) as payment at the sale.

Bargain books and music CDs cost a $1; you can get a bag at the sale which you can fill up for $10; and “Better Books” are priced individually. Ponte Vedra Friends Members:  A $3 coupon is available at the check in table on Friday, November 12 from 10 am – 12 pm. It is valid throughout the sale. You can also become a member of the Friends or donate to the Friends to help support our Library as well. You can join the Friends at the sale or in Seymour’s Bookstore in our Library’s foyer or visit the Friends’ website at the following link to join and/or make a donation:  https://folpvbfl.org/. Thank you for your support of our Library!

Everyone is invited to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for our Book Sale in November hosted by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library! Get gifts for family, friends, or just for yourself. Funds raised go towards our library for buying library materials, special programming, and much more for our library’s patrons. This book sale will be held in the FOL Community Room, inside our Library, during the following times:  Friday, November 12 – Monday, November 15 from 10 am – 4 pm each day. Please Note:  Only cash and checks can be accepted (no credit cards) as payment at the sale.

Bargain books and music CDs cost a $1; you can get a bag at the sale which you can fill up for $10; and “Better Books” are priced individually. Ponte Vedra Friends Members:  A $3 coupon is available at the check in table on Friday, November 12 from 10 am – 12 pm. It is valid throughout the sale. You can also become a member of the Friends or donate to the Friends to help support our Library as well. You can join the Friends at the sale or in Seymour’s Bookstore in our Library’s foyer or visit the Friends’ website at the following link to join and/or make a donation:  https://folpvbfl.org/. Thank you for your support of our Library!

Everyone is invited to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library for our Book Sale in November hosted by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library! Get gifts for family, friends, or just for yourself. Funds raised go towards our library for buying library materials, special programming, and much more for our library’s patrons. This book sale will be held in the FOL Community Room, inside our Library, during the following times:  Friday, November 12 – Monday, November 15 from 10 am – 4 pm each day. Please Note:  Only cash and checks can be accepted (no credit cards) as payment at the sale.

Bargain books and music CDs cost a $1; you can get a bag at the sale which you can fill up for $10; and “Better Books” are priced individually. Ponte Vedra Friends Members:  A $3 coupon is available at the check in table on Friday, November 12 from 10 am – 12 pm. It is valid throughout the sale. You can also become a member of the Friends or donate to the Friends to help support our Library as well. You can join the Friends at the sale or in Seymour’s Bookstore in our Library’s foyer or visit the Friends’ website at the following link to join and/or make a donation:  https://folpvbfl.org/. Thank you for your support of our Library!

The Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library is hosting its monthly Speaker Series, held in the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library’s FOL Community Room. This monthly series, featuring a different local speaker each month, is free and open to the public. This month, the speaker is Chef Andrea Rosenblatt from A. Chef’s Cooking Studio. The title of her talk is Food in Writing. Seating is first-come, first-served until room capacity is reached. Doors will open for this event starting at 6:00 pm. Are you interested in helping our Library sponsor more special events and speakers? Please consider joining and/or donating to the Friends by visiting their website:  https://folpvbfl.org/.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Join Amy, a librarian, and AyoLane, a naturalist, for an outdoor book club that focuses on our natural world. We’ll discuss our all-time favorite nature titles, both fiction and non-fiction. The book club will meet at parks throughout St. Johns County, practically in your own backyard!

This month we’ll be reading Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at Vaill Point Park.  Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.

Acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1918. She was born in Washington, D.C., and moved to Cross Creek, Florida, at the age of thirty-two. Some of her other books include South Moon Under, Golden Apples, When the Whippoorwill, and Cross Creek Cookery. Rawlings published fiction until her death in St. Augustine in 1953.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. If the weather is sunny, please bring your own camp chair for sitting out under the trees. If it’s rainy, we’ll be sitting in the park pavilion. Feel free to bring your own snacks & beverages! Please notify us at least 3 days in advance if you should need a sign language interpreter. Questions? Please call Amy at 904.827.6942 or email at aackerman@sjcfl.us.

Join us for a perfect first storytime for babies! This gentle lapsit program features action rhymes, songs, and stories presented in a circle time format. For babies up to 12 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

This interactive storytime for toddlers encourages physical, social, and language & literacy development. Be prepared to laugh, move, and sing! For ages 12-24 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

Let’s practice the alphabet together! Each week this storytime will feature a letter of the week to help children learn letter shapes and sounds. For ages 24 months-Kindergarten; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

Join us for a perfect first storytime for babies! This gentle lapsit program features action rhymes, songs, and stories presented in a circle time format. For babies up to 12 months; siblings welcome.

Please RSVP for each child and adult attending the program. Please arrive on time to ensure your attendance.

For more information about youth programming at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, please contact Youth Services Librarian Lisa Calvert, lcalvert@sjcfl.us.

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, all SJCPLS libraries will be closed Thursday, November 25 and remain closed through Friday, November 26, 2021. Libraries will reopen on Saturday, November 28, 2021.

Bookdrops will remain open during all closed days and, of course, our virtual services such as eBooks, databases and downloadables are available 24/7. We wish you a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday.

*** Want to be added to our e-blast list for updates about our Book Club and more? Please e-mail Anne at ascrawford@sjcfl.us.  Also, starting in 2022, we will host TWO Book Lovers Book Club events a month – one that is entirely in person on a Friday morning at 11 am, and one that is entirely via Zoom on a Wednesday evening at 6 pm! We are looking forward to even more participation in 2022. ***

All adults are invited to join our final Book Lovers Book Club meeting for the year in person or via Zoom from anywhere, whichever is better for you! You do not have to be a St. Johns County resident or SJCPLS library card holder to participate.  To join us via Zoom, RSVP for this event below and make sure to create a free Zoom account (www.zoom.us) if you don’t already have one. You will receive a Zoom link for the meeting the day of the meeting, or you can visit this event posting the day of the meeting for the link.

All adults are invited to participate, regardless if you are a St. Johns County resident or have a SJCPLS library card or not. December is Readers’ Choice, so please share with the Club a favorite book you have enjoyed. This way, all of us will have new books to try over the holidays and in 2022! Please call the Library at (904) 827-6950 with any questions. We look forward to seeing you! Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

All libraries will be closed for the Christmas holiday on Friday, December 24th and Saturday, December 25th, 2021. All libraries will resume regular operating hours on Monday, December 267h.

Bookdrops will remain open during all closed days and, of course, our virtual services such as eBooks, databases and downloadables are available 24/7. We wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday.

All SJCPLS libraries will be closed Saturday, January 1, 2022 for the New Year’s Day holiday. Libraries will resume regular operating hours on Monday, January 3.

Book drops will remain open during these closures and our virtual services such as eBooks, databases, and downloadables are available 24/7. From all of us at SJCPLS, we wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday!

All SJCPLS libraries will be closed on Monday, January 17, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.

Book drops will remain open and, of course, our virtual services such as eBooks, databases, and downloadables are available 24/7.

Register here: https://laceupforlibraries5k.itsyourrace.com/event.aspx?id=12794

To put the location of the start of the race in your GPS, use the following address: 245 Nocatee Center Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32081

In observance of the President’s Day holiday, all SJCPLS libraries will be closed on Monday, February 21, 2022. Libraries will resume normal operating hours on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. Book drops will remain open during this closure and, of course, our virtual services such as eBooks, databases, and downloadables are available 24/7.