CUBBERLEY
USED BOOK SALES
Saturday September 12
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 September 13
All Rooms Open 11 am - 4pm
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FEATURED IN SEPTEMBER
Computers (HP Labs Library Donation)
Martial Arts & Hand to Hand Combat
Graphic Novels - DVD Movies
China (History)
Quilting - Guitars & Guitarists
Foreign Language (Dutch, Swedish, Polish)
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 To Speak at FOPAL Annual Meeting Oct 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.
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."
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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, September 14.
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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September Sale Highlights |
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We know it sounds like we say this every month, but donations continue
to arrive in record numbers. Since May we've gotten such a load of
donations that we actually have a backlog. We don't mind one bit as it
means that our Sales should be fully stocked all Winter long! Of
special note this month is a fine collection of books on Martial
Arts covering just about every form imaginable from Aikido to Zen
Fighting(?). Because of the size and variety of titles and subjects
included you'll find these in different sections -- white Specials
showcase, Military History (hand to hand combat), Health (Judo,
Karate, Tae Kwon Do), and a few in Eastern Religion.... Some of the
hottest summer movies in recent years have been based on Graphic
Novels. Combining the beginning to end storytelling of a novel
with the artwork of a comic book, the format has been around since the
early 20th century, found its place during the 1970s and 1980s, and
more recently has taken off becoming one of the fastest growing
genres. We have an outstanding collection of recent vintage Graphic
Novels on the West Wall next to Fiction.... HP Labs recently
closed its corporate library and donated the remaining books to the
Friends. A fine selection of Computer books from the library is
available on and below the specials table near the cashier
stations. Note that most of these have the usual library stamps and
stickers but for the most part the texts are in perfect
condition. We'll be selling more from this donation in the coming
months.... The Home and Crafts Section Manager reports that she's
got a nice selection of Quilting books on the shelves as well
as books on just about everything you ever wanted to know about
Weddings.... History is showcasing Chinese History this
month. See the Specials table and the History Section.... Music
is showcasing Guitars and Guitarists.
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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) |
Foreign Language Texts Popular - Dutch, Swedish & Polish Featured |
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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,
Korea, and much, much more. Three of the of the featured languages
this month are Dutch, Swedish, and Polish. Our Section Manager says,
"there is some really nice stuff here!"
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Children's Room Has Loads of Books |
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The Children's Room manager has asked us to pass along that
they are once again fully stocked with great stuff including the
popular Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books for the budding
detective in your family (and they are in mint condition!) For those
who may be interested in Star Wars having recently seen the
well rated movie, we have all kinds of books about the Star Wars
series. Many young girls just love horses and we have several series
devoted to horses. For the beginning readers in the 6-9 year
old range, we have the popular Magic Tree House books. For
parents who are trying to get their little boys to read more and play
fewer video games, we have the hugely popular Captain
Underpants books guaranteed to bring laughter. For little girls
who love the American Girl books we have a large number of
these books also. Star Trek, A Series of Unfortunate
Events, Babysitters Club, Animorphs,
Goosebumps, and the Animal Ark. And of course, we
always have the Harry Potter books.
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College Terrace Closing Results in DVD & Audio Book Bonanza |
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The College Terrace library was closed in July for
renovations. Although some of the collection was merged with other
branches, and some put into storage, the Library donated some 200-300
DVD titles and series to the Friends. Our Media Section Manager has
been really busy sorting, organizing and pricing them which you will
find in the usual media sections in the Main Room. In addition they
sent us dozens of boxes of audio books on cassette, which will all be
in the Bargain Room due to lack of space. If you can still use the
cassette format a bonanza awaits with titles available on a variety of
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Sunday Fun Day - Mystery 50% Off Sale; Free Books for Sunday Shoppers |
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On Sunday September 14 there will be 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. |
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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