Sea Turtle Celebration and Benefit with Bestselling Author MARY ALICE MONROE presenting Beach House Memories

Wednesday, May 23rd at 6 p.m.

Published by Gallery Books

**The Vero Beach Book Center, Indian River County and Inwater Reseach Group are co-hosting a sea turtle celebration and benefit event. Mary Alice Monroe will do a special reading and signing of BEACH HOUSE MEMORIES. Proceeds will benefit THE TURTLE HOSPITAL in Marathon, FL**

Autumn brings its own haunting beauty to the sun-soaked beaches and dunes on Isle of Palms, where Olivia “Lovie” Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage with her daughter, Cara. Looking back as summer fades, Lovie can remember many island summers, but especially one. . . .

In 1974, America was changing, but Charleston remained eternally the same. Lovie had always done what was expected — marrying the son of a historic Charleston family, Stratton Rutledge, and turning over her fortune and fate to his control. But one thing she steadfastly refuses to relinquish: her family’s old seaside cottage. The precious summers spent on the barrier island are Lovie’s refuge. Here, she can escape with her children from the social expectations of her traditional Southern mother, and her overbearing husband’s ambition and philandering. Here, she indulges her lifelong vocation as a “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead sea turtles that lay their eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea.

JAMES SWAIN presents Dark Magic

Tuesday, June 5th at 6 p.m.

Peter Warlock is a magician with a dark secret. Every night, he amazes audiences at his private theater in New York, where he performs feats that boggle the imagination. But his day job is just a cover for his otherworldly pursuits: Peter is a member of an underground group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes.

"Campfire Saturdays" with Miss Dawn in the Children's Store

Saturday, June 9th at 11 a.m.

Stories, Guitar Sing-a-Long and Snacks!

Vero Beach Bookies Book Group discuss Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Monday, June 11th at 10:30 a.m.

Published by Penguin Group (USA)

The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

Father's Day Pajama Story Hour with Miss Julie's Story Hour in the Children's Store

Friday, June 15th at 6:30 p.m.

KAREN WHITE presents Sea Change

Wednesday, June 27th at 6 p.m.

Published by Penguin Group (USA)

For as long as she can remember, Ava Whalen has struggled with a sense of not belonging, and now, at thirty-five, she still feels stymied by her family. Then she meets child psychologist Matthew Frazier and thinks her days of loneliness are behind her. After a whirlwind romance, they impulsively elope, and Ava moves to Matthew's ancestral home on St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia.

Annual Bubblewrap Explosion and Fourth of July Party in the Children's Store

Saturday, June 30th at 11 a.m.

Vero Beach Bookies Book Group discuss State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Monday, July 9th at 10:30 a.m.

Published by HarperCollins Publishers

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft, Run, The Magician’s Assistant, and The Patron Saint of Liars, Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment in State of Wonder—a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

"Campfire Saturdays" with Miss Dawn in the Children's Store

Saturday, July 14th at 11 a.m.

Stories, Guitar Sing-a-Long and Snacks!

BRAD THOR presents Black List

Thursday, July 26th at 6 p.m.

Published by Atria Books

Somewhere, deep inside the United States government, is a deadly list. Members of Congress never get to see it and only the president has the final say over it. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off…until you’re dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name to the list.

Somehow, Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has framed him for treason and why they want him out of the way.