Get Ready to Shop: Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale April 25-29 at E*Plex
Put on your comfy shopping shoes, dig out those stray dimes and quarters from the seat cushions and get ready – the huge Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale opens Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the E*Plex on the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds.
First, the essentials: Hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Half-Price Day. The sale continues 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Bag Day, when everything you can stuff in a bag costs only $1, or $5 per sack from the better books side. The Friends will supply the bags.
Friends Night Preview Sale is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24. Friends members are admitted free for this whirlwind, pre-sale event; or pay $5 at the door, and you can turn it into a one-year Friends membership, which offers Library gift shop discounts and free admission to the fall 2018 Friends Night Preview Sale.
Come solo and spend as much time as you want. Bring a spouse or friend – someone’s got to keep you from buying everything. Bring the kids. Bring a schoolmate or a fellow teacher. Bring your fellow gardeners, movie buffs, cooks, travelers and truck drivers – we’re told they love audiobooks.
This is Springfield’s biggest selection of bargain-priced books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, vinyl records, board games and puzzles. Most adult, teen, children’s books and audiovisuals are $1 or less; better books are $2 and up. The Friends accept cash or check only.
Every sale brings a new mix of unusual items. Here’s a sample of what’s new: A new, large collection of genealogy materials; Mary Winston Churchill and Moby Dick collections, a signed Maya Angelou book; more than 100 titles of novels published in 2017; and new categories: Autographed Novels; May We Suggest (including a Paddington Treasury); Women; and one called Almanacs, Believe It or Not and Weird Books.
There are lots of education resources for teachers and home-schoolers; graphic novels; and the popular Famous Authors category. And as always, shoppers will find a huge selection of religious-oriented titles, history books and popular children’s books for only 10 cents.
For more details, call 860-0761, or email friends@thelibrary.org.
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