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It takes many people make the Friends of the Library successful in its mission of providing programs and funds to the Napa County Library.  If you are interested in volunteering, there are many ways you can help out.  Positions may require the ability to lift boxes of books while other only require you to re-arrange books on a shelf or staff the sale check out desk. Contact the Book Sale Manager for information.  If you find an opportunity that is right for you, you will receive the applicable training.  Currently, there are volunteering opportunities in the following areas:

  • Book Sales: Before each sale we need people to stock the shelves and prepare the Community Room for the sale. During the sale we need volunteers to re-stock the shelves, straighten out books and move books from storage to the sale.  Also during the sales we need volunteers to check out patron’s purchases by accepting cash or credit cards.  Shifts are normally 2 -3 hours and usually you will be asked to only work 2 -3 shifts per sale.  There are usually at least two volunteers working at the same time.
  • Sorting/Cleaning/Organizing Donations: Volunteers are also needed in our sorting room where book donations are processed.  Shifts are usually one day a week and are for 2 hours.  You are asked to make a commitment of one day each week for those two hours. For example, 3pm – 5pm every Tuesday.  There are normally 2 -3 volunteers per shift.

Volunteering with the Friends of the Library is a fun way to help the library meet its commitments to the Napa community.


BOOKS WE LOVE – Recommended Reading List

Here is our next installment of books that we think you too will love! We ask our volunteers to make recommendations. Book clubs…avid readers….please email your list to us and we’ll post it here.

War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy                                             A Gentleman in Moscow by Amon Towles

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy                                        Rules of Civility by Amon Towles

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt                                         All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead      The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng                  Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout                                  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

The Fifties by David Halberstam                                     Middlesex  by Jefffrey Eugenides

Recommended Authors

Any book by Bill Bryson

Any  book by Alan Furst

Any book by Diana Gabaldon

Send us your lists…favorite childrens stories…favorite young teen series…favorite biographies….whatever gets your reading juices going.  Make sure you give us your name so we can give you or your book club credit for the suggestions.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

2019 SALE DATES

Saturday, March 16 – Sunday, March 24

Saturday, May 18 – Sunday, May, 26

Saturday, Sept 14 – Sunday, Sept 22

Saturday, Dec 7 – Sunday, Dec 15

Sales are held in the Community Room at the Napa County Library.

Remember the first day of each regular sale is reserved for Friends of the Napa Library members only.

BOOK SALE GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE
We now have gift certificates available for shopping at our book sales. They come in $20 demonination and make great stocking stuffers! They will be available for sale at the Book Sales or contact Bruce Taylor, the Book Sale Manager at (707) 253-4614 to arrange your purchase.

 

BOOK DONATIONS
Did you know that ALL OF THE BOOKS, CD'S, RECORDED BOOKS come from donations? While some of the donations come from the library as they cycle media out of their inventory, most of the items we sell come from donations by the public. Without donations, we cannot fund various programs at the library.

Donations are accepted anytime in the bins marked "'Friends of the Library Book Donations" located outdoors in the service/loading are of the library in the northeast corner of the building.
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Friends of the Napa City County Library Inc.
a 501(c)(3) corporation
580 Coombs Street  Napa, CA  94559
(707) 253-4614
info@folnapa.org
EIN: 23-7367635

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