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At Library AF, we want to meet adult readers where they are now! Whether that be in our local libraries, out in the community, or from the comfort of home (👋🏻 virtual programs! 👋🏻).
For the young adult readers (and those still young at heart), join us for monthly book group discussions, lively pop culture banter, and other enjoyable non-traditional programs.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- "Walk Around Midtown" Book Group: Before the Coffee Gets ColdCamellia Coffee Roasters, Sacramento, CA
Join us IN PERSON for our annual Walk Around Midtown book group meetup!
We'll be discussing the cozy fantasy novel, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, while visiting 4 local coffee shops in the midtown area.
Please meet at Camellia Coffee Roasters (1200 R St, ste 130).
Considerations:
- Wear comfortable footwear and clothing you can easily move around in.
- This program will take place outdoors, so bring anything you need to feel comfortable (hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, water bottle, etc.).
- Book Group Discussion (SPL/ARPF)River Bend Park , Rancho Cordova, CA
Join Sacramento Public Library and the American River Parkway Foundation @ River Bend Park for book-based programming this summer
Join your fellow readers for a traditional book discussion group, featuring The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, at River Bend Park. This program will be facilitated by library staff and a discussion guide will be shared with attendees onsite.
Please register to attend. Parking passes will be available, and instructions will be emailed to registrants prior to the program date.
- Book Group: Yerba BuenaSacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our selection for June is the adult debut of prolific, award-winning YA author Nina LaCour (whose novel We Are Okay won the Printz Award in 2018 and left me with a severe book hangover). I'm excited to pick this one up and listen to the incomparable Julia Whelan as narrator.
“When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.
When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara's old life catches up to her, upending everything she thought she wanted just as Emilie has finally gained her own sense of purpose, they must decide if their love is more powerful than their pasts.
At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women finding their way in the world."
Synopsis from Goodreads
- Book Group: The Collectors: storiesSacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our anthology pick for 2025 is a collection of short stories from some of the best YA authors in the game.
“From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.
From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection."
Synopsis from Goodreads
