This year, One Island One Book is offering a special opportunity — a guided tour of Flagler’s Speedway to Sunshine, the special Over-Sea Railroad Centennial exhibit at the Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House.
The Custom House exhibit features a re-created Florida East Coast railcar, a replica of a section of the Seven Mile Bridge, vintage footage of the journey from the Middle Keys to Key West and a film recounting Flagler’s story and the arrival of the first train. Artifacts include a railroad worker’s tool …

The Marathon Book Club meets on the first Friday of each month at the Marathon Library. Bring your tea or coffee and join us for a great 2 hour discussion!
For March, we’re reading and discussing The Social Animal by David Brooks.
Selections for upcoming months: The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (for April), Desert Queen by Janet Wallach (for May) and The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (for June).

Come discuss great books with us every 3rd Tuesday of the Month at 7:00 p.m. in the Key Largo library’s community room.   
www.KeyLargoBookClub.com

For the Key West Library’s third One Island One Book program, we’re reading Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford — the perfect book for 2012, the Centennial of the Over-Sea Railroad.
Standiford will speak at the library on Feb. 27 — but we’re hoping our patrons and other community members will be already taking part well ahead of that in our first online readalong. That will start Jan. 22 — the actual centennial day of Henry Flagler riding the first train into Key West.
What is an online readalong? It’s basically …

 
The final event in this year’s One Island One Book will be a meeting of the Library’s Book Bites reading group in the Conference Room at the Key West Library, 700 Fleming St. Anyone is welcome to attend any or all of the events — you don’t have to have a Monroe County Library card.
One Island One Book 2012 is reading Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford, in recognition of the Centennial of the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad. Copies of the book, including audiobook, ebook and eaudio formats, are available from the …

The Library’s Book Bites reading group is holding a special meeting as part of One Island One Book at the Florida Keys Community College Library. The Library is at 5901 College Road, upstairs in Building A.
Anyone is welcome to attend any or all of the events — you don’t have to have a Monroe County Library of FKCC Library card. The discussion at FKCC will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2.
One Island One Book 2012 is reading Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford, in recognition of the …

The Library’s Book Bites reading group is holding three discussions about Last Train to Paradise as part of this year’s One Island One Book program. Anyone is welcome to attend any or all of the events — you don’t have to have a Monroe County Library card. The first discussion will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 3, in the Conference Room at the Key West Library, 700 Fleming St.
One Island One Book 2012 is reading Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford, in recognition of the Centennial of the …

One Island One Book combines with the Library’s popular Cafe con Libros (Books with Coffee) series to present the Library’s own Historian Tom Hambright, in a talk about the Over-Sea Railroad.
Hambright has been historian with the Monroe County Libraries for more than 25 years and is the pre-eminent authority on local history.
He oversees a vast collection of documents and photographs and recently oversaw the scanning and identifying of more than 700 images of the railroad on the library’s popular online photo archive.
One Island One Book 2012 is reading Last Train …

The Key West Library is honored to present Les Standiford, author of Last Train to Paradise, to talk about his book at the Library.
One Island One Book 2012 is reading Last Train to Paradise in recognition of the Centennial of the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad. Copies of the book, including audiobook, ebook and eaudio formats, are available from the Library. Copies are also for sale Key West Island Books, 513 Fleming St. More information on One Island One Book, including a full schedule of events, is available at the …

Book Bites returns on November 10th at 4:30.  The book club is open to anyone, whether they’ve read the book or not.   In November we will be discussing The Whiskey Reblesby David Liss.  (Check out Nan’s review under Staff Picks.)