Friends of Library hold popular annual book sale

By Jane Greiner
Sun contributor
Thousands of good used books will be offered for sale at the popular Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library book sale on August 3-5. Each year crowds of book lovers flock to the Glen Arbor Town Hall to look over the tables of books and pick out armloads of mysteries, bestsellers, popular fiction and nonfiction, all for fifty cents to $1 each. There are also individually priced children’s books, DVDs, CDs, games and puzzles and collectible books.
Thursday, August 3 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Preview Party with wine, hors d’oeuvres, lemonade and cookies. Your $5 admission ticket gets you first choice of all the books plus and an opportunity to bid in the silent auction on special autographed and unusual books.

Friday August 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regular sale, free admission.
Saturday August 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Regular sale in the morning. Bargain Bag sale after 2 p.m. Fill a grocery bag with books for one low price.
Friends volunteer Lyn Becker reports that this year finding the books you like will be easier because all the books have been “exceptionally well organized with nonfiction books divided into categories and fiction books alphabetized by author.”
She said that members have been “been busy sorting books into categories and pricing them all year.”
All profits support the library through purchases such as new library shelves and on-going commitments for new books, DVDs and periodicals.
Library director David Diller said that the Friends “work on the book sale throughout the year, pretty actively, and mostly right here at the library.” Then, as the date approaches, “they recruit extra people to help get the books to and from the sale. So, it’s a big group effort.” He sees it as a major library event. “It definitely helps us financially.”