Category: Book Sales

October Book Sale tomorrow!

Our October Book Sale is tomorrow at Central Park Library starting at 10am for the general public, 9am for Friends members. You’ll find over 1,500 books of all types for sale: non-fiction (with an entire section of computer books), paperback & hardback fiction, children’s, and foreign language.  This is a great opportunity for you to …

Become a Friends member

If you are a regular shopper at the Friends Bookstore at Central Park Library, you should consider becoming a Friends member! You get 10% off all books at the Friends Bookstore at the Central Park Library *and* early admission to our monthly book sales, for only $15/year. If you are a regular book shopper, this …

Taking credit cards

The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends bookstore is happy to announce that we take credit cards! As fewer people carry cash, this is a great way for us to be able to accommodate people who may have a card (or their phone – we can also take ApplePay and GooglePay) on them, but …

Stories from Valley Fair

We’re still enjoying the afterglow of helping so many people find new-to-them books at Valley Fair a few weeks ago. For example: The teachers who were able to fill up their classroom libraries thanks to our selection of books at such low prices Families buying books to help themselves and their children learn a new …

National NonProfit Day

Saturday is National NonProfit Day. This is a great opportunity to support you favorite nonprofits, both local and national. You can choose to support us by shopping at our August monthly book sale on Saturday at Central Park Library from 10am – 2pm or by making a small donation. Thank you for your support!

Thank you!!

A HUGE thank you and shout out to everyone at Westfield Valley Fair, both who work at the mall and who shop at the mall for making our pop-up book fair such a success! We raised over $5500 for the library and got more than 3000 used books to new homes. We could not have …

Celebrate at Northside

Celebrate Northside Library’s new Sunday hours by visiting our first-ever Sunday book sale at Northside! The sale is Sunday August 11, starting at 1pm, and will feature a buy-5-get-1-free deal. We hope to see you there!