CUBBERLEY USED BOOK SALES
Saturday
February 10
10 am - 4 pm
Main Room opens at 11 am
Sunday
February 11 1 pm - 4 pm
Featured topics for
February:
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.
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 $1.00, and children's books are just 25 cents each.
Pay just half of that in the Bargain Room 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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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, February 11.
Please bring grocery bags to put books into.
More
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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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Lovely Valentine Day Gifts |
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You'll find some heart-warming Valentines Day gifts at this weekend's sale on a
special table in the fiction area (southwest corner) of the Main room.
Among the books there on love and romance is a wonderful 1972 rare first-edition
of Love a la Peanuts by Charles Schulz, priced at $35. If
you're not quite sure what kind of books your valentine will love, you can
also buy gift certificates in denominations of $5 from the Main room
cashiers. |
Window Shop on Your Computer |
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Check out our popular shelf preview
pictures to see some of the tens of thousands of books for sale this weekend.
This month's pictures include many of the featured topics. |
Shopping Center Easier to Walk to |
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You'll be happy to know that a gate has been put into the new fence that
separates the Cubberley Community Center from the Charleston Shopping Center
just to the north of us. The gate lets you walk
conveniently from the booksale over to the shopping center for breakfast, lunch, coffee, or dessert.
Neighbors accustomed to walking in the area requested the gate's installation
after the fence went up. |
New Guide to Main Book Room |
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You'll find new green subject guides posted in our Main book room to explain
where all 97 sections are throughout the room. We updated the
directory
recently for the latest topics and locations. You can also print
out your own copy of the
directory
to carry with you. |
Wonderful LPs in Bargain Room |
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Check out the many LPs on the west wall of the Bargain Room this month.
You'll find many complete opera records and albums dating from the 1950s.
The covers alone make wonderful gifts or decorations. LPs are priced at $1
per disk until 12:30 on Saturdays, and after that for 50 cents each. On
Sundays, you can also fill an entire grocery bag full of records for $5. |
Free Legal Expertise at your Fingertips |
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About 120 Nolo Press legal and business self-help titles are available via
the Palo Alto Library as eBooks, which means you can check them out
and read them instantly using your Palo Alto Library card. Just go to the
library's
eBook resources page. You can print entire forms, letters, and
contractual language directly from the eBooks or copy them into your own
documents. Among the popular Nolo Press titles are:
- Work Less, Live More: The New Way to Retire Early
- Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
- Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court in California
- Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits
- How to Form Your Own California Corporation
- Deduct It! Lower Your Small Business Taxes
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Council Makes Libraries Again a Top Priority |
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Palo Alto's City Council recently made library
improvements one of its top priorities for 2007, as in 2006. The other priorities
for this year are sustainable budgets, climate protection, emergency and
disaster preparation, and a new public safety building. See articles in the
Palo
Alto Weekly and
Palo Alto Daily News. |
Children's Library Progress |
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Framing is going quickly on the new wing of the Children's Library renovation
and expansion. See our month-by-month
picture record of the project. The branch is currently scheduled to
reopen in September 2007. |
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