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JUST IN TIME FOR YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING!

Our final book sale for 2017 will take place from Saturday, December 9, 2017 through Sunday, December 17, 2017.  We continue to receive an incredible amount of quality books donated by the generous public. In particular we have received large donations in the following categories…

• Sailing and Boat Building – Look in the Sports Section
• Jewelry and High Fashion – Look in the Special Price Section
• Birds; Animals; The Seaside; “a Natural Historian’s Dream…” – Look in The Sciences
• Romance Mass Paperbacks;  “Great for Winter Reading!” – Look along side all of the mass paperbacks.
• Small books; Inspirational books; Books on CD’s; CD’s and DVD’s – all make great STOCKING STUFFERS!!
• And Friends of the Library Book Sale Gift Certificates also make great Grab Bag Gifts and Stocking Stuffers for your favorite readers.

REMINDERS

Members: The first day of the sale is always reserved for our Friends of the Library members. And to make it even easier we are having a membership sale. Anyone who joins before the end of the year will also be paid up through all of 2018. Click here to visit our Membership page for more information.

Children and Students (through high school and college): To encourage reading at any age, select three (3) free books every day you visit the sale.  All books in the sale are eligible with the execption of the Special Price (red sticker) books.

SALE DAYS/HOURS

Saturday, December 9 10am – 5pm   Member’s Only Day – you can join right there at the sale!
Sunday, December 10  2pm – 6pm
Monday, December 11 10am – 8pm
Tuesday, Decemer 12 10pm – 8pm
Wednesday, December 13 10am – 8pm
Thursday, December 14 10am – 8pm
Friday, December 15 10am – 5pm HALF PRICE DAY!
Saturday, December 16 10am – 5pm BAG DAY! (everything you can shove in a bag – $5)
Sunday, December 17 12pm – 4pm DOUBLE BAG DAY!! (1 or 2 bags/$5. 3-4 bags/$10… you get the idea!)

As the fires that ravaged our county and our neighbors in Sonoma County,  The Friends of the Napa Library (” the Friends”), along with just about everyone else, looked for ways to help the victims.  The one way we could help obviously involved books! The Friends provided many boxes of books to the shelter at the Napa Valley College and other places where families looked for ways to bring some normalcy to their lives.

We still have thousands of children’s books, trade and mass paperbacks which are available to anyone or any organization that needs them to restock schools, day care facilities, doctor’s offices, senior centers, community centers or home libraries lost in the fires.  Whether it be a group or organization that helps others or a family, the Friends want to do their part to help.  If you or anyone you know is in need,  give us a call at 707-253-4614 or email us at pensionato2001@aol.com.  We will work with you to get these books into the hands of those who want or need them. They will, of course, be free.

And to everyone who donates their books,  your donations do much good besides and beyond our fundraising book sales.  A Wholehearted  “Thank You” from the Friends.

As Friends of the Napa Library it should go without saying that “We Love Books!” and spend a lot of time reading new publications, old friends and soon to be old friends. We wanted to share our passion with our community so we asked our membership to help us compile a READING LIST aka “BOOKS WE LOVE” in hopes that our suggestions give you a new reason to love books as we do. It is sort of like “Employee Favorites” at your local bookstore.

The list is made up of books we have read in our own book clubs, books from our favorite authors that may or may not be as well known as some of their works and other gems we have run into from time to time. And we try to cover as many genres as possible to appeal to as many of you as possible.

So visit our Volunteer Page to see our first installment of Books We Love. We will update this list from time to time so keep coming back to check out new additions to the list. Bookmark us for easy returns.

UPCOMING SALE DATES

Saturday, August 19th through Sunday, August 27th

Construction is over, the Children’s Library has relocated back into their beautiful, newly renovated space and we are swimming in books…. so without further ado.. The Friends of the Napa Library Multi-Day/Multi-Media Sales return.

Our donors have been busy and we have an overwhelming amount of books, CD’s, DVD’s and Audio Books for sale.  The boxes are stacked to the ceiling and we are bursting with inventory.  In addition to our usual broad selection we have a concentration of topics such as Sherlock Holmes materials: older selections of books about chess; lots of biographies; materials on classical music; and a lifetime of cook books.  

As always; we have boxes and boxes and boxes of children’s books ready for back to school reading.  The Children’s Corner will be waiting for little and not so little hands to discover the wonder of books and reading.  Don’t forget: everyday a child or student visits the sale, they get to take home 3 free books! 

SALE DAYS/HOURS

Saturday, August 19 – 10am – 5pm   Member’s Only Day – you can join right there at the sale!
Sunday, August 20 2pm – 6pm
Monday, August 21 10am – 8pm
Tuesday, August 22 10pm – 8pm
Wednesday, August 23 10am – 8pm
Thursday, August 24 10am – 8pm
Friday, August 25 10am – 5pm HALF PRICE DAY!
Saturday, August 26 10am – 5pm BAG DAY! (everything you can shove in a bag – $5)
Sunday, August 27 12pm – 4pm DOUBLE BAG DAY!! (2 bags/$5)

Just about every library has a “Friends of” organization or a similar group that, due to their great love of books and reading, supports their public or private library.  And in Napa it is US… the Friends of the Napa Library. Our members are from all walks of life and share an interest in maintaining a strong local free library.  We further the mission of the library through funding many programs such as WorkForce, English as a Second Language classes and many children’s activities. We raise these funds through membership dues and our regionally popular Book Sales (see the post above, 10 Day Book Sales Return). We also sell ear buds and flash drives at the library.

So what does a membership get you? First of all, it allows you to support literacy, the library and your local community.  For $.05 per day you help bring the joy of reading to children and adults and fund programs that enrich the lives of yourself and your neighbors. Membership also qualifies you to volunteer for the Book Sale by either sorting and cleaning donated books and/or working the Book Sales throughout the year.  If volunteering for the Friends isn’t your thing, membership also gets you entrance to the first day of the Book Sales so you have access to the choicest selections.

If all of this wasn’t enough,we are currently holding a Membership Sale.  Join before September 1 and your annual membership won’t expire until December 31 2018! Visit our Membership Page for more information and a link to join on-line.

BE A FRIEND AND BE SURE TO TELL A FRIEND!