{"id":10151,"date":"2012-07-14T07:19:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2012-07-14T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:19:31","slug":"friends-of-the-sierra-madre-library-august-best-used-book-sale-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=10151","title":{"rendered":"Friends Of the Sierra Madre Library August Best Used Book Sale Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"friendsoflibrarylogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif 180w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo-150x75.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Press Release posted 7\/14\/12 &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>If your stack of summer reading material is getting low, the best place to replenish the stack is at the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library\u2019s Best Used Book Sale being held on Friday, August 3, from 3:00-7:00PM and Saturday, August 4, from 10:00AM-2:00PM.\u00a0 The library is located at 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. in the city of Sierra Madre.<\/p>\n<p>Best Used Book Sales co-chairs, Martha Troedson and Alan Leahy, say the sale features a number of lovely coffee table books on gardening, art, history and contemporary culture.\u00a0\u00a0 For the history buffs, there is a collection of Civil War books.\u00a0 And just in time for school, a number of dictionaries and references will be on sale.\u00a0 These items and many other adult fiction and non-fiction books, audio books, CDs, and DVDs will be available to purchase for your reading and listening pleasure.\u00a0 For the children and teens, we have many books and DVDs, including pop-ups.\u00a0 We still have some bound vintage copies of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Life<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday Evening Post<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">National<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Geographic<\/span> that contain articles of historical interest and are fun to look at for the fashions and advertisements.\u00a0\u00a0 The bargain tables in our parking lot will offer hardback and trade fiction and non-fiction for $1-2.00 each and paperbacks for twenty-five cents each (or five for $1.00).\u00a0 This month\u2019s bargain tables feature many resource and practice books for teachers and cookbooks.\u00a0 All children\u2019s bargain books are five for a dollar.\u00a0 Proceeds from the Best Used Book Sales are donated to the Sierra Made Public Library to support program and equipment needs.<\/p>\n<p>Because the markets are encouraging us to use cloth bags, our supply of paper shopping bags is rapidly diminishing and we\u2019d appreciate your bringing your own bags and boxes when you come to the Sierra Madre Library on Friday, August 3, and Saturday, August 4, for an opportunity to purchase some of the best used books around at the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library\u2019s Best Used Book Sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 7\/14\/12 &#8211;\u00a0If your stack of summer reading material is getting low, the best place to replenish the stack is at the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library\u2019s Best Used Book Sale being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[12,22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}