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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- Silent Reading Group meetupRiver Bend Park, Sacramento, CA
Join Sacramento Public Library and the American River Parkway Foundation @ River Bend Park for book-based programming this summer!
The Silent Reading Group is designed to make space in our busy lives for reading and listening to books, meeting new people, and sharing a community space together. Bring the book currently holding your bookmark (or occupying your headphones) and spend some time enjoying your book and the outdoors. There will be time at the end of the silent reading session to chat with fellow readers and to explore the parkway at River Bend Park.
Please register to attend. Parking passes will be available, and instructions will be emailed to registrants prior to the program date.
- "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
