CUBBERLEY
USED BOOK SALES
Saturday October 10
Bargain and Children's Room Open 10 am - 4 pm
Marty's (Main) Room open 11 am - 4 pm
Outdoor $1.00 Sale opens at 9 am
Ephemera Opens 8 am
(weather permitting)
Sunday October 11
All Rooms Open 11 am - 4pm
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FEATURED IN OCTOBER
Christmas & Fall Holidays
Art & Art Technique
Vintage Computer Books
Military History
Large Format Books
Biography - Cooking
World and US History
Over 50,000 items available!
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4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
NW corner of the Cubberley Community Center
(650) 213-8755
www.friendspaloaltolib.org
Map
More information on the sales
Donate your old books
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALO ALTO LIBRARIES
Marty's (Main) Book Room
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. You may pick up a ticket for yourself and for one
other person.
Children's Books in K-6
Room K-6 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 K-7
Next door in K-7 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. On Sunday, the
room opens at 11 am and all prices are half off. Save even more on
Sundays by buying grocery bags from us for $5 each and stuffing them
with any items in the room. Buy 4 bags and get the 5th one FREE!
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Author Melanie Gideon Talk October 18 |
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Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year will speak at the
Friends of the Palo Alto Library Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 18,
at 2 pm. This meeting will take place in the Ballroom at the Lucie
Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road. See details in the main
text at right.
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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, October 11.
Please bring your own grocery bags to put books into.
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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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October Sale Highlights |
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Summer has turned to Fall, and that means it's time for the Fall Holiday season.
We've been saving up all the Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween related books
and media all year and for the next three sales it will be featured.... Our
History and Political Science section manager reports that lots of
wonderful books were received this month, while sometimes we get a lot of books
on one particular subject, the range is wide. A nice selection of titles on
Peace Studies was received which you'll find in the main History
aisle.... In addition to the great stuff usually found in our Computer
section, this month we offer an interesting selection of Vintage Computer books
and ephemera on the Specials table near the checkout. Great stuff for the
computer historian or collector.... Art lovers will find lots to choose from in
the Art sections.... Our Earth and Animals section manager
received a larger than usual amount of material this month.... Large Format
Books are also featured this month. Many of these contain beautiful
photography and sell for as little as $1.00!
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Preview Our Shelves |
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Check out some of the tens of thousands of books that will be on sale this
weekend using our
shelf preview
pictures.
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Exceptional/Collectible Books Display Case |
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The books in this case are offered to our regular customers for one
month before they are listed online. The prices at the sale are
significantly BELOW what they will be offered for sale online. On
Saturday there will be a sign up sheet on the case for priority
access. Due to the crowds in the room in the early part of the sale,
no books will be sold from the cabinet until 1pm. On Sunday, access to
the cabinet will be any time during the hours of the sale. See any
FOPAL volunteer to unlock the case for you.
Click here to view the Exceptional Books inventory (HTML)
Click here to view the Exceptional Books inventory (PDF)
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Foreign Language Texts Popular - Czech, Danish & Latin Featured |
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We've always gotten a good number of donations of books in many
different languages. We are getting regular donations of really nice
books in French, German, Spanish, and Russian, but more and more we
are seeing larger donations in other languages as well. Our selection
of Russian books now resides in its own book case under the window in
the Foreign Language section. We've also got a good selection of
titles in Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and much, much more.
Three of the of the featured languages this month are Czech, Danish,
and Latin.
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FOPAL Sponsors Talk With Author Melanie Gideon |
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Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year will speak at the
Friends of the Palo Alto Library Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 18,
at 2 pm. This meeting will take place in the Ballroom at the Lucie
Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road.
Ms. Gideon's recent work "...chronicles a year in which she confronts
both the fantasies of her receding youth and the realities of midlife
with a husband, a child, and a dog (one of whom runs away). She
reflects on the exigencies of domesticity -- the need for a household
catastrophe plan, the fainting spell occasioned by the departure of
her nine-year-old son for camp, the mattress wars, and the carpool
line. With tenderness, unsparing honesty, and uproarious wit, Gideon
brings us back again and again to the sweetness of ordinary pleasures
and to life's most enduring satisfactions. She captures perfectly
that moment right before everything changes and the things we have
loved forever begin to fall away for the first time."
This free event is co-sponsored by FOPAL and Books Inc. of Palo Alto.
Copies of Melanie Gideon's book will be available for purchase and
signing.
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More College Terrace Closing Results in DVD & Audio Book Bonanza |
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More DVD titles gathered from the recent closing of the College Terrace
library will be available this month. These will all have the usual
library stickers but there are some great titles and sets for sale.
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Sunday Fun Day - Mystery 50% Off Sale; Free Books for Sunday Shoppers |
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Sundays are a great time to shop the Book Sale. The atmosphere is quiet
and peaceful and there are still thousands of great books available.
Each Sunday we have a 50% off sale on one category of books in the Main
Room. The category will not be announced ahead of time, the only way you
can find out which category is on sale is by attending the sale on Sunday.
Signs will be posted on the doors and on the shelves of the section
involved on the morning of the Sale. In addition, we will have a small
selection of FREE books available to shoppers on Sunday. One free
book per person, and you must purchase at least one item from the Sale.
There are a limited number of free books and first-come, first-served.
This applies to the Main Room only. Doors open at 11 am.
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Think Ecologically! - Bring or Donate Your Own Bags |
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Due to the increasing reuse of grocery and other bags, we tend to run
short at our sales and encourage you to bring your own cloth tote or
paper bags to the sale. If you have any extra grocery bags in good
condition please bring them for your purchases at the sale. We would
also gladly accept any extra bags you wish to donate. NO BOXES are
allowed in the sale, however.
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Support
Palo Alto's Libraries While You Shop |
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By shopping at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park and Amazon.com, a
percentage of your purchase price can help the Palo Alto Libraries at
no cost to you. At Kepler's,
just mention to the cashier that you want to support the Friends of
the Palo Alto Library. For Amazon.com, always start your shopping
session by
clicking here or on the Amazon link on the top right of any of
our web pages at
www.friendspaloaltolib.org.
Virtually all purchases you make at Amazon are eligible, not just
books. Over the years, we've raised thousands of dollars to help
our libraries through these programs.
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