Category: Book Sales

Become a Friends Member today!

Become a member of the Santa Clara Library Foundation and Friends! Individual membership is $15/year, and a family membership is only $25/year. You receive a 10% discount on books in our store and early entry into our Saturday book sales at Central Park Library, as well as email updates on library activities. Your membership dues support our …

Our Amazon Store

Looking at our stats, I can see that one of our most popular links on our site is to our Amazon store! We sell some of our books online, not just in our bookstore or at our monthly Saturday Sale. If you buy from us online, we’ll conveniently ship your purchase to your house. Thanks …

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!