Best bookstore café in Jacksonville, FL | Happy Medium Books Café

First Coast Horror Book Club - The Gates
2025-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium to discuss The Gates by John Connolly.
As always, Happy Medium Book Club Books are 20% off at Happy Medium!

JAG Art Reception - Linda Chipperfield
2025-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
HAPPY MEDIUM BOOKS CAFE
2724 Park St. Jacksonville, Florida 32205
EXHIBITION DATES: Sept 15th – Dec 2nd, 2025
RECEPTION: Sunday, Oct 19th, 2 pm – 4 pm
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Linda Chipperfield “I have a strong connection to my inner child. And she’s always loved bugs. Butterflies, beetles, bumblebees, and moths inspire wonder and awe in me. Their attraction to color and light, and especially their ability to fly, stirs my curiosity. I imagine being that small and flying around among the huge flowers.”
As Toni Morrison said, “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

Meet Children's Book Authors Timothy and Karinna Karsten
2025-10-18 11:00 - 14:00 UTC | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Timothy and Karinna Karsten are the creators behind The AWEsome Wonders of Your World! — a visually rich, joyfully curious exploration of Earth’s most awe-inspiring natural wonders. As part of the Global Galactics team, they’re on a mission to spark wonder and imagination in kids everywhere. Timothy and Karinna bring energy, fun, and a sense of cosmic play to every event — and they can’t wait to share the magic with your community!

Storytime with Miss Dana
2025-10-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-09-26 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States

Not Your Skoolastic Bookfair - Spooky Edition
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us for a bookfair of the Spooky kind!
Meet Author C Paul Wiggins, author of Disorder
and Devin Clark, author of The Witches Crystal.

Park After Dark
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | FL

Happy Little Melodies
2025-10-16 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-16 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-13 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-09 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-09 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-25 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us for music, movement, and memory-making with your little one in this cozy, welcoming space!
👉 Reserve your spot before they’re gone: www.musictherapynow.net/happylittlemelodies

Wine Date with a Book - If Wine Could Talk by Kara Joseph
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Cork Thyme @ All Spiced up Avondale, 3543 St Johns Ave, Jacksonville, FL, 32205
Join us at Cork Thyme at Al Spiced Up with author Kara Joseph as we discuss her book If Wine Could Talk.
Unlike most soon-to-be college graduates, Kara Joseph found something in wine she couldn’t quite explain. It had nothing to do with the penny wine nights down at the local pub or the off-campus mixers. It called to her. It brought people together. The mystery and unshakable feeling that it was more than just a drink led her on a journey toward becoming a sommelier, taking on Napa Valley and New York City, and finding the answers in wine she desperately yearned to discover. Pursuing wine as her passion brought Kara adventures, struggles, and an insatiable desire to understand wine to the core.
If Wine Could Talk intertwines two stories, one of a young girl’s narrative molded by wine and the other being the answers to all your need-to-know wine questions. Follow Kara’s story of defying limiting beliefs, choosing a challenging but rewarding path, and sharing the soul of the vine. So pour yourself a glass and dive into a tale that only an unconventional wine-filled life could create, and begin your own journey of wine discovery with an education on all the wine basics. You might even impress your friends at the next wine tasting.
If Wine Could Talk and all Happy Medium book club books are 20% off at Happy Medium Books Café.

Spooky Book Bingo
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the Café for SPOOKY BOOK BINGO!
$5 Registration holds your spot.

Mystery/Thrilling Book Club - A Curious Beginning
2025-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium Books Café as we discuss A curious beginning by Deanna Raybourn.
As always, Happy Medium Book Club Books are 20% off at Happy Medium!

Spooky Sunday with Authors and Poets
2025-10-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us this month for SPOOKY Sunday with Authors and Poets. This month we have Tim Gilmore and Michael JP Whitmer.
Tim Gilmore writes about the haunted South, the “spirit of place” (or psychogeography), the South as center of America’s cultural rifts. Gilmore sees the South’s particular patterns of crime, its fundamentalism, its racial irresolution at the heart of America’s divisions and its stories, and therefore, as illustrative and necessary. Tim Gilmore is a writer based in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the author of more than twenty books and the creator of jaxpsychogeo.com.
Michael J.P. Whitmer is a dad, and published speculative fiction writer, living in his sunny hometown of Jacksonville Beach, FL.
He won the Watty Awards Best in Horror 2010 for his story “Day of the Undead Sophomores” and 2016 Theme of Absence’s Halloween Horror Fiction contest for “The Girl in the Window.”

The Silent Book Club of Jax
2025-10-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Bring whatever you are reading an join us at the café for reading hour at Happy Medium.

Learn to Play Mahjong Day 2
2025-10-08 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
You must have attended Day 1 on October 6th to attend Day 2.

Learn to Play Mahjong Day 1
2025-10-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
This is a 2 day class for Mahjong Beginners.
$50 covers the 2 – 2 hour classes on October 6th & 8th 10am-12pm and includes the 2025 National Mahjong Card.

Mahjong for Relative Newbies! Instructor present!
2025-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
For people who know how to play, but would like and extra day of instruction.
$20 registration includes class and a drink of choice at the café!

YARNING at Happy Medium
2025-10-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Do you crochet, knit, or just like to hang out with those who do? Join us at Happy Medium for Yarning! No experience required!

Twilight Trivia
2025-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Calling all Twihards! As you probably know, October marks to 20th anniversary of the Twilight Saga, so it is time to celebrate…
Show off your knowledge at Twilight Trivia. Twilight prizes and surprises!
$10 registration required.

Banned Book Bingo
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the cafe for Banned Book Bingo!
Tickets are $5

BookTalk with Valerie Bowman
2025-09-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the café with best selling Author Valerie Bowman on her book tour for Honey Crisp Orchard Inn.
2pm BookTalk followed by Q & A and signing.

Sci Fi Book Club - Red Rising
2025-09-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the Café to discuss Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
As always, book club books are 20% off at Happy Medium Books Café!

Happy Medium Book Club - The Secret Book Society
2025-09-24 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium Books Café as we discuss The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin, with Special Guest Madeline Martin!
As always, book club books are 20% off at Happy Medium Books Café.
