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CUBBERLEY
USED BOOK SALES
Saturday
August 11
10 am - 4 pm
Main Room opens at 11 am
Sunday
August 12
1 pm - 4 pm
Featured topics for
August:
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Antique Magazine (30 years)
Collecting and Collectables
Early 20th Century Engineering
Martial Arts • Sports
And over 50,000 other items
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4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
Northwest corner of the Cubberley Community Center
Map
More information on the sales
Donate your old books
All proceeds go to help Palo Alto libraries.
Main Book Room Sale
In our Main Room, prices are way below what used book stores charge. Paperbacks are 50 cents and up, and
hardcovers are $1 and up. Numbered tickets for the Main Room are given out beginning at 8 am on Saturday.
These reserve your place in the line that forms before the 11 am opening.
Each person may pick up one or two tickets. On Sundays this summer, you get a 20%
discount on all purchases of $5 or more.
Children's Books in K6
Room K6 in the K wing (see
map) is
entirely filled with children's books and toys. You'll find picture books,
school age fiction, award winners, non-English titles, and books for parents and
teachers, many for under $1. This room and the Bargain Room open at 10 am
on Saturday.
Bargain Books in K7
Next door in K7 is the Bargain Room, where paperbacks
are 50 cents, hardcovers are $1, and children's books are just 25 cents each.
The room also contains many LP records and 78s at $1 each. All items are
half off after 12:30 pm on Saturday and all day on Sunday. On Sunday, you
can also buy grocery bags in the Bargain Room for $5 and fill them with books.
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More New Books from the Stanford Bookstore |
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We're offering this month even more brand new hardcovers and paperbacks from the
recently-closed Stanford University Bookstore in downtown Palo Alto.
You'll find most of these on a
special table near the checkout area.
Topics include biographies, historical fiction, and sports. Although the
books are all new, they're offered at our usual very low prices. We'd like to
again thank the Stanford Bookstore for their enormous
generosity and support of our sale. |
Main Room Continues Special Summer 20% Sunday Discount |
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Not only can you avoid huge crowds by coming to the sale on Sundays, but you
also get an automatic 20% discount on Sundays in our Main Room if your purchase
$5 or more. This special sale discount will continue throughout the
summer. |
Window Shop on Your Computer |
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Check out our numerous shelf preview
pictures to see some of the tens of thousands of books for sale this weekend. |
Friends Give $163,000 to Library |
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Thanks to our many booksale customers, donors, volunteers, and members, we're
giving $163,000 to the library this year for new books, DVDs, e-books, audio
books, electronic databases, author events, children and teenager summer reading
programs, performers at children's events, and staff appreciation. In
addition, we're providing new printers and network equipment for the Children's
Library and eight new laptops for the College Terrace and Downtown branches as
part of our 9 Libraries project, which is funded by a Cable Co-op Legacy Grant.
The laptops are already available for checkout at the College Terrace branch and
will be soon at Downtown.
Library Director Diane Jennings says: "The ongoing support of the Friends has
been tremendous. Through our partnership and shared goal of improving the
Library, we’ve been able to enhance our service in many ways. The Friends not
only provide funding to enrich the collection, but also support innovative pilot
programs. I am very appreciative of the hard work many Friends volunteers put
in to raise money for the Library." Read
the
full
press release. |
Children's Library Progress |
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The Children's Library is on target to reopen next month, with a big celebration
and reopening party on September 29. See many
pictures of the branch's reconstruction. |
Non-Profit Book Giveaway |
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Non-profit organizations and schools that need free books should come to the
Bargain Room this month from 4 to 6 pm on Sunday, August 12.
Please bring grocery bags to put books into.
More information. |
Library Closed for Labor Day |
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All Palo Alto's libraries will be closed on Monday, September 3 for the Labor Day
holiday. Even when the libraries are closed, you can still
search the online catalog,
submit reference desk questions,
and access many online resources. |
Suggestions? |
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| We're always eager to hear your suggestions for ways to
improve our book sale. Please email them to us at suggestions@friendspaloaltolib.org
or mention them to a volunteer at the sale. |
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