In addition to our monthly book sale on September 17, we will also hold a small book sale on Sunday, September 11. Join us on the patio in front of the Central Park Library from 1pm – 3:30pm to buy cookbooks, classics, history books, and more! This is another great way to support the Santa …
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If you have a child in middle or high school, they probably have a list of suggested – or required – books to read over the summer. We reach out to the local middle and high schools to get those lists; then we put those books on their own cart just outside the bookstore door …
Our June book sale is today at Central Park library! Join us from 10am – 2pm to buy all kinds of books. We have loads of children’s, fiction, computer books, and more in the Margie Edinger room. We hope to see you there!
Have you ever wondered what we do with the money we make at our book sales? We take it, and twice a year, we grant out part of it to the librarians for some amazing programs and projects. Below is what the librarians asked for this spring. None of these would be funded without …
Our April Book Sale is this weekend! We’ll have over 300 boxes of books for sale, full of computer, kids, foreign language, and fiction books for you to peruse. This month, we got a large donation of DVDs and VCDs in Asian languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese. If you want a movie in one of …
Y’all donate a lot of books to us. Thank you! We do our best to get every single book to a good home: either in the library or to another book lover outside the library. But sometimes, despite our best efforts, we’re unable to match that book with a buyer. That’s where Better World Books …
We’ve been experimenting with something new in our book store: recommendations! Our volunteers, as you may imagine, are readers. Everyone loves sharing their favorite books. But we can’t all be in the bookstore all the time. So we’ve created tags to put in the books to mark which ones we especially enjoyed – like you see …
Our monthly book sale is this Saturday, January 16th from 10am – 2pm at the Central Park Library. We’ll have hundreds of books to help you meet your new year’s resolutions, be it learning a new language or eating better or whatever your resolutions are. Are you a Friends member? If so, the sale will …
The Library’s Book Discussion group, run by librarian Morgan Pershing, has announced their books for 2016! You can find the full list below, or it’s on the library’s website. January 26 – Memory of Water (Part of Silicon Valley Reads) February 23 – Whistling Season March 22 – Everything I Never Told You April 26 – …
Reminder: The Central Library is getting new carpeting starting today! This fabulous improvement, however, means that the library (and our bookstore) will be open only limited hours for the next few weeks. The hours are: Mon – Sat: 10am – 6pm Sunday 1-5pm After December 23rd, the bookstore will be closed until Jan 5th, so …