Fall Book Sale – Member Preview
Members Day – Join online at www.LitGuildSSI.org or at the door starting at $15
Pricing
Small pocketbooks 50¢
Paperbacks $2
Hardcovers $4 or 3 for $10
Audiobooks $1
CDs $1
DVDs $1
Children’s hardcover $1
Children’s paperback 50¢
Location – Outdoor – Covered Atrium – 530 Beachview Drive, St. Simons Island, GA
Fall Book Sale
Day Two of Sale
Friday, October 9 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Free admission
Popular Categories: Fiction, History, Mysteries, Cookbooks, Civil War
Cash, credit, and debit cards accepted
Pricing
Small pocketbooks 50¢
Paperbacks $2
Hardcovers $4 or 3 for $10
Audiobooks $1
CDs $1
DVDs $1
Children’s hardcover $1
Children’s paperback 50¢
Fall Book Sale – Half Price Day
Day Three of Sale
Saturday, October 10 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Half–Price Sale All Day
Free admission
Popular Categories: Fiction, History, Mysteries, Cookbooks, Civil War
Cash, credit, and debit cards accepted
Poetry Talk & Book Signing– Troy Jollimore
Troy Jollimore, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, visits to talk about his poetry collection, Earthly Delights — a wry, philosophical meditation on film, painting, music, and poetry itself.
Author website — Troy Jollimore
Buy the book – Princeton University Press
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Film – Song Sung Blue
Two down-on-their-luck performers form a Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams. Starring Hugh Jackman & Kate Hudson.
1 hour 33 minutes
Rated PG-13
Watch the trailer –Song Sung Blue
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Author Talk & Book Signing – Kelly Scarborough
Kelly Scarborough visits to talk about her debut novel, Butterfly Games —a tragic love story about two star-crossed lovers, a countess and a prince. It’s based on real-life characters and is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Bridgerton.
Author website — Kelly Scarborough
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Emily Carpenter
The author visits to talk about her latest book, A Spell for Saints and Sinners — an intoxicating blend of Southern suspense and modern witchcraft set amid the moss-draped, haunted beauty of Savannah.
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Author website – Emily Carpenter
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Katherine Reay
Katherine Reay is a bestselling and award-winning author of 12 novels and 1 nonfiction work. Her latest book, The Undercover Bookshop (releasing 10/6), is set in a cozy 1950s Cotswolds village at the height of postwar tension; the novel layers its historical setting with an espionage thread.
Author website – Katherine Reay
Pre-order the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Four Children's Authors
Learn more about encouraging a love of books in infants and children as four award-winning authors talk about their work.
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
G.J. Ford Bookshop – Nancy Raines Day
G.J. Ford Bookshop – Kelly Young-Silverman
G.J. Ford Bookshop – Rosalind Bunn & Maggie Bunn
Film – The Hundred-Foot Journey
Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Richard C. Morais.
Helen Mirren stars in this charming story of a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues in this account that lays bare the inner workings of the elite world of French haute cuisine and provides a life-affirming, poignant coming-of-age tale.
2 hours
Rated PG
Watch the trailer – The Hundred-Foot Journey
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Author Talk & Book Signing – Callie Murray
Callie Murray visits to talk about her debut novel, The Brunswick, a fresh spin on historical fiction set in both Norcross, Georgia, and Austria in the months leading up to World War II.
Author website – Callie Murray
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Film – I Heard the Bells
The inspiring story behind the beloved Christmas carol and its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
1 hour and 50 minutes
Rated PG
Watch the trailer – I Heard the Bells
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Author Talk & Book Signing – Mark Brooks
Mark Brooks visits to talk about his debut novel, Laying Autumn’s Dust — part murder mystery, part coming-of-age story—a Southern tragedy set in northeast Alabama.
Author website —Mark Brooks
Buy the book – Righton Books
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino – Room 108
Film – The Sheep Detectives
Based on the novel Three Bags Full (2005) by Leonie Swann.
Every night, a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it.
1 hour and 50 minutes
Rated PG
Watch the trailer – The Sheep Detectives
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Film – Some Like It Hot
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
1959 - Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon
Directed by Bill Wilder – please see our Billy Wilder Film lecture taking place on January 20 &21
2 hours
Rated PG
Watch the trailer – Some Like It Hot
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
The Life and Films of Billy Wilder—Part One—The Early Years
Gary Olsen, film historian, will give a two-part presentation on Billy Wilder
Part One
Billy Wilder brought a singular wit to Hollywood as both screenwriter and director.
Part One follows his journey from Europe to Hollywood in 1934, his early screenwriting success with Ninotchka (1939), and his directing debut in The Major and the Minor (1942). We'll trace his rise through the classics Double Indemnity (1944), cinema's first film noir; The Lost Weekend (1945), his first Best Director win; and the dark Hollywood satire Sunset Boulevard (1950).
Clips and commentary throughout.
Each program stands on its own, so come for one or both.
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Registration is required via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
The Life and Films of Billy Wilder—Part Two—The Later Years
Gary Olsen, film historian, will give a two-part presentation on Billy Wilder
Part Two
Discussion of Wilder at the height of his powers. He directed Marilyn Monroe in the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), then swept the Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay with The Apartment (1960). We'll follow his career through Buddy Buddy (1981), his final film with longtime collaborators Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau — including a surprising twist about his retirement.
Clips and commentary throughout.
Each program stands on its own, so come for one or both.
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Registration is required via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk& Book Signing – Scott Gould
Beneath a Fallen Sky, the newest novel from award-winning Southern writer Scott Gould, follows four unique characters as they face the potential end of the world during the passage of Halley’s Comet.
Author website – Scott Gould
Buy the book – Righton Books
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Gerry Wilson
Gerry Wilson visits to talk about Storm Warnings – a collection of eleven linked Southern fiction short stories that take place over more than a century on Georgia's barrier islands.
Author website — Gerry Wilson
Buy the book – Righton Books
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Film – Project Hail Mary
Based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir.
A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key.
Starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller
2 hours and 30 minutes
Rated PG-13
Watch the trailer – Project Hail Mary
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Film – The Green Book
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
2 hours and 10 minutes
Rated PG-13
Watch the trailer – The Green Book
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Author Talk & Book Signing– Stephanie Stuckey
Stephanie's book, Unstuck: Rebirth of an American Icon, is a tribute to her family legacy and an inspirational story about the rebirth of Stuckey’s, the iconic American brand, and a must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs on what it takes to build a business.
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Roger Newman
Dr. Roger Newman visits to talk about his latest book – Boys — a historical fiction novel inspired by his own family history. Set during the Great Depression, WWII, and the Civil Rights movement, it follows two brothers—one white and one Black—raised on a Southern dairy farm.
Author website —Roger Newman
Buy the book – Righton Books
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Brian Biswas
Brian Biswas visits to talk about his latest book —Floating on Air, which chronicles the rise and fall of a mythical Mississippi town in the 1950s, from its founding to its cataclysmic destruction fifty years later.
Author website — Brian Biswas
Buy the book – Righton Books
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Author Talk & Book Signing – Jennifer Coburn
Jennifer Coburn visits to talk about her latest book – The Almost Wife— based on the experiences of the author’s mother, who posed as a fiancée and girlfriend for gay men in the 1950s in Greenwich Village at the height of bohemia.
Author website —Jennifer Coburn
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater
Film – Chef
When Chef Carl Casper faces a career crisis, he hits the road to rediscover his passion for cooking.
2 hours
Rated R
Watch the trailer – Chef
$5 – pay at the door
Closed-Captioning will be enabled
Author Talk & Book Signing – Susan Beckham Zurenda
Susan Beckham Zurenda’s novels Bells for Eli and The Girl from the Red Rose Motel have won numerous awards, including two South Carolina Fiction Prizes and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her latest novel, No Way Out But Through, is based on a true story about two women of different generations—one scarred by an abusive teen marriage and the other by an alcoholic husband—who come together to grapple with their inner demons and confront their untold stories.
Author website — Susan Beckham Zurenda
Buy the book – G.J. Ford Bookshop
Free for members; $10 for non-members. (Annual Membership is $15)
Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite
St. Simons Casino Theater