CUBBERLEY
USED BOOK SALES
Saturday February 8
Ephemera 8am - 4pm
Bargain and Children's Rooms 10am - 4pm
Main Room Sale 11am - 4pm
Tent Sale 9am - 4pm
*WEATHER PERMITTING*
Sunday February 9
All Rooms 11am - 4pm
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FEATURED IN FEBRUARY
Super Soviet Special
Spring Holidays
Children's Room
Gift Certificates
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4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
NE corner of the Cubberley Community Center
(650) 213-8755
www.fopal.org
Maps and Directions
More information on the sales
Donate your used books
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALO ALTO LIBRARIES
Marty's (Main) Room
In our Main Room, prices are way below what used book stores charge.
Hardcover books start at $1.00 and softcover books start at only 50
cents.
Due to the popularity of our sale and the fact that we can only have
160 customers in the room at any time a numbered ticket system (Main
Room only) is in place and numbers are given out beginning at 8am on
Saturday. Be sure to be in line in order of your number before the
11am opening. If you miss the time when your number is allowed to
enter the Main Room you will forfeit your place in line. NOTE: If
you plan on arriving to the sale after 11am you do NOT need to get a
number.
Please note that due to crowding during the first two hours of the
Book Sale, no strollers, rolling carts, etc. can be brought into the
Main Room. This is for the safety of shoppers and volunteers alike.
By 12:30 or so, the crowd thins out and shoppers are welcome to bring
these items into the sale.
Children's Book Sale
The Children's Room is located in the portable formerly occupied by
the Jewish Community Center next to the soccer field. It is entirely
filled with children's books and toys. You'll find picture books,
school age fiction and non-fiction, award winners, non-English titles,
CDs and DVDs, and books for parents and teachers, most for 50 cents
or $1. Strollers are welcome in the Children's Room at any time.
Bargain Books in H-2
The Bargain Room is located in Rooms H-2 and H-3 of the Cubberley
main campus, between Marty's Room and Middlefield Road. On Saturday,
paperbacks are 50 cents, hardcovers are $1, and children's books are
50 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. Or, save even more on Sunday by buying green FOPAL reusable bags
from us for $2/ea (or bring your own grocery-size reusable bags) and
stuffing them with any items in the room for $5/bag. Fill four bags
at $5/bag and fill a fifth bag FREE! (We no longer receive sufficient
used paper grocery bags along with donations for this purpose.)
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Library Closings for President's Day Holiday
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All libraries will be closed on Sunday, February 16 and Monday,
February 17 for the President's Day holiday. Normal hours will
resume on Tuesday, February 18.
You can find out about closings and other Palo Alto Library events
on the Library's event calendar.
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Friends Bookstore in Downtown Library |
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If you cannot attend the book sale, please drop by the Friends
Bookstore located inside the Downtown Library and open during
library hours. It is restocked regularly with a unique selection
of books for all ages and interests.
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FOPAL Book Sale Notices Now on Twitter |
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You can now follow us on Twitter @fopalbooks.
We'll post Sale notices and will reveal the Sunday 50% off
section via our Twitter feed.
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Non-Profit Book Giveaway
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Non-profit organizations and schools are able to select books
from among the thousands of books available in the Bargain Room
on the Sunday evening following the sale from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
If you are associated with a non-profit organization or school
that would like to receive books from us for free or for
information on eligibility, hours, and the types of materials
available, please contact Norma Burchard in advance by e-mail
at normalcy@earthlink.net or at (650) 494-1082.
Several dozen organizations benefit from the monthly giveaways,
including local hospitals, homeless programs, senior centers,
schools, and jails, as well as libraries in rural areas and on
reservations, and literacy projects in many other countries.
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True in 2004 and still true in 2013
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"It's truly surprising how many valuable books are donated to FOPAL"
-Marty Paddock, 2004.
This is still true in 2013! It's because of this truth that FOPAL
continues encouraging checking the value of uncommon books on the
internet so that they can be given a price which is fair to our
customers and high enough to ensure the Friends are maximizing
their sales revenue.
This is why our Main Room book sale customers are likely to see some
books priced higher than the Bargain Room prices of $1 for a hardback
and 50 cents for a paperback. A suggested pricing guideline for
pricing book using internet research is one-third to one-half of the
on-line asking prices given the criteria of publisher, date, edition,
signed copy, condition, and availability. So, if you see a book
priced for $10 at a monthly sale, chances are this book would sell
on-line for at least $30. That being said some books warrant higher
prices, but are still a great deal to our "collecting and reader"
customers.
One of FOPAL's challenges is to recognize those books that might be
even more out-of-ordinary and of unusually high value say...where
the Internet price is over $40.00. Now once these books have been
identified, FOPAL then looks for other markets for them where they
can be sold at prices well above what we might price and sell them
for our monthly sale. FOPAL not only sells at sells books at the
monthly sale but also at the Friends Kiosk (Downtown library) at
auction and on-line.
If you can't attend the monthly sale, please drop by the Friends
Kiosk located in the Downtown library during library hours. Books
are priced $1 for hardbacks and 50 cents for paperbacks. The Friends
Kiosk is restocked regularly with books for all interests. Or, shop
our on-line book store http://www.amazon.com/shops/grandmabetsybooks.
All proceeds from book sales benefit the Palo Alto Libraries.
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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 us at
suggestions@friendspaloaltolib.org or mention them to a volunteer at the sale.
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Tremendous, Voluminous, Mammoth Book Sale!
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You'll find some heart-warming Valentine's Day gifts at this
weekend's sale on a Spring Holiday special book case near the fiction
area (southwest corner) of the Main Room. Althea Andersen is working
on an entire bay of books she's been saving just for the month of
February. And...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.
If you're looking for something more serious for your February read,
check out the Soviet Super Sale that section managers Nigel Jones,
Jim Johnson and Suzanne Little have created from a large donation of
soviet books we received last year. The Soviet Super Sale includes
books from several areas of interest including History, Military
History, Philosophy and Historical Fiction. So if you've always
been interested in the Stalin era or post-Stalinist power struggle
and the Khrushchev Era...then February at FOPAL is the month to shop
and buy books from the Soviet Super Sale!
February is also Black History Month and all the more significant
as we just celebrated Martin Luther King Day, and this past August,
the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. The
Children's Room has a special they've created titled African
American History Month. Look for books on the history of slavery,
freedom riders, the Underground Railroad buffalo soldiers, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. and many more.
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Preview Our Shelves
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Check out some of the thousands of books that will be on sale this
weekend using our
shelf preview photos.
The old shelf preview photos work too.
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Preview Our New Web Site
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The new face of FOPAL has arrived! Please check out our redesigned and
now activated web site at:
www.fopal.org
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Changes Coming to This Newsletter Too
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Our new hosting provider has some additional requirements for
e-mail newsletters (like this one) and we are going to have to
ask you to re-confirm your subscription to this newsletter. Look
out for an e-mail from this address later this month, it will
have a link for you to click to confirm your subscription.
We're still managing the mailing list, but our new provider
has more and better anti-spam policies in place.
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Super Soviet Special
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To celebrate the February Revolution of 1917 and the Sochi Games of
2014 this month's featured book sale is dedicated to all things
Soviet. An extensive collection across three bookcases it includes
Soviet era books on history, sociology, economics, politics and
philosophy. Sections include: biography, autobiography and memoirs,
Soviet publishers such as Progress Publishers, and Marx, Engels and
Lenin. The espionage section ranges from its own services and their
moles, to their enemies: the KGB, Philby and friends, MI6 and the
CIA.
Sets: Plekhanov (6 vols.), Leninism (2 vols.), Lenin in Profile
(2 vols.), Solzhenitsyn (3 vols.), Marx and Engels (3 vols.)
-Nigel Jones
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Spring Holidays
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February means two things. Valentine's Day is just around the corner
and Spring Training is about to begin. Althea Andersen, section
manager for the Sports section as well as Spring Holidays is busy
putting together a selection of Spring Holiday books she's been
holding on to from the past year. Althea's periodically pull
several boxes of books she's been saving and offers them to our
customers. Look for a featured selection of the Spring Holiday
special books displayed on the end cap shelves near the front of
the main room by the check-out line. -Thanks Althea for creating
this special for FOPAL's February Sale!
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Children's Room
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The Children's Room has a nice selection of books pertaining to
black history geared towards younger readers. Here are but a handful
of titles you'll find offered for Black History month: Freedom
Train; The Story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling, To
Be a Slave, by Julius Lester, a Newbery Honor Book; Samuel
Morris, Missionary to America, by W. Terry Whalin. Look for these
books and many more on the bookshelf with the picture of Martin
Luther King displayed on it. And, you could own all four of the above
books for a mere seven dollars!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Life's most persistent and
urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'"
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Philosophy for February
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Recent additions and noteworthy for February include:
Emerson - Self-Reliance, Popper - Lesson of this Century,
Beauchamp - Bioethics, Girvetz - Science, Folklore and
Philosophy, Cleary - Confucius, Plato - Xanthippic
Dialogues, Magee - Confessions of a Philosopher, and
Norris' biography of Derrida.
The existential dilemma of book sales could be expressed as:
donations>sales or die. In other words, I want your unwanted
Philosophy books. In fact all of my colleagues and I want all
of your unwanted books. Never going to read it? Never going to
re-read it? Don't want it? We would be happy to take it!
Isaac Newton: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity,
and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Meanings, time to simplify, give us your books. -Nigel Jones
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Music Books for February
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Here are the highlights in this month's Music and Dance section:
Martha Graham Sixteen Dances in Photographs
Prime Movers: The Makers of Modern Dance in America
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds,
from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond Bachanalia: The
Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
Inside Early Music: Conversation with Performers
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
Here There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the
Beatles
The Book of Metal: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Metal
Music Ever Created
True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
This month's quirky item - RCA Victor - The Music America Loves
Best - March 1952 to August 1952-Charlotte Epstein
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Greeting Cards
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In cards this month, in addition to single cards, there is a large
selection of packaged cards. Single card prices changed to 50 cents
a card this year. Packaged cards are priced as marked.
-Marda Buchholz
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Gardening
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This month the Gardening section offers lots of current,
nearly new books on: landscape design, famous gardens, growing roes
and perennials and how-to guides on growing fruits, vegetables and
herbs in Northern California. -Ann Justice
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Humor for February
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This month's gem in humor is Gavin and Stacey, an inspired comedy
delving into cross-cultural misunderstanding and love in the 21st
century set against a backdrop of rabid colonialism. That it's set in
my hometown is a coincidence.
Other highlights include new novels by Roy Blount Jr. and Nick
Hornby, The Middle-Aged Baby, Men will be Boys, The Wicked Wit
of Churchill, The Hacker's Dictionary, The Food Chain, and
Kawakami's Useless Inventions. Wodehouse fans - there are 24
novels over in the Bargain Room! -Nigel Jones
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Fiction readers!
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When it's your turn to suggest a title for your book club, look for
ideas in "What Book Groups Are Reading." This month, for example,
you'll find My Antonio by Willa Cather (1918); Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis (1953); Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (2012);
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (2012); and Benediction by Kent
Haruf (2013); plus many others. -Marian Knox
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Home & Craft
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In honor of Chinese New Year (and perhaps to expedite your own New
Year's resolutions) organize your home and life the Feng Shui way
by visiting the Home and Craft feature of the month section.
Don't forget to also check the Totally Random section for all sorts
of surprises. -Nancy Welch
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History & Historical Fiction
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The History section has a large selection of Lakeside Press books
in pristine condition. We also have many of our History as well
as Politics books in the Soviet special this month. We have been
collecting these books for months. You will find an extensive
selection of very old and rare books in addition to recent
publications. -Suzanne Little
Historical Fiction has a large and diverse selection of Bernard
Cornwall books this month. We also have a nice selection of
"like-new" Patrick O'Brian hardback books. -Suzanne Little
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Children's Room - Arushi's Recommendations
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Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse is a Newbery Medal winning book
that depicts a fictional girl's life in the Dust Bowl. It is a story
told in free-verse about Billie Jo, a 14-year-old girl who wants
nothing more than to escape the dust. The one thing that keeps Billie
Jo going is playing the piano, which she plays beautifully, though
not as good as her mother. Out of the Dust is a book that delves
into the meaning of family and sticking together through the hard
times. Although many tragic things happen in this story, I
definitely recommend reading it because it reflects the reality of
the Great Depression.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling is a classic tale of a young
boy's journey to belong to the world he has been torn apart from for
so long. The story starts when Harry is 10 years old, sleeping
inside a closet of his Muggle aunt and uncle's house. Mysterious
letters start arriving, and when Uncle Vernon gets spooked by them,
he takes the family to an old shack in the middle of the sea. Harry
is celebrating his 11th birthday alone at midnight when Hagrid, the
giant gamekeeper at Hogwarts, a magical institution for young witches
and wizards, bangs down the door and tells Harry the truth: he is a
wizard. All seven Harry Potter books are full of the same wondrous
tales of humor and magic, and your life will not be complete until
you witness J.K. Rowling's imagination firsthand.
Kaya is a Native American from the Nez Perce tribe in the 1700s,
when the the tribe encounters white settlers for the first time. The
whole series of books talks about Nez Perce culture, and lessons
they teach their children. Kaya is a brave girl who finds herself
in trouble often. She has many hair-raising adventures that teach
her how to keep up her bravery and think fast. Although this book
is a fiction story, it accurately depicts the struggles of Native
American life, and is a great read for students when they are
learning about Native American history and culture.
-Arushi Sinha
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