Love books? Love bargains? Combine the two Thursday and Friday at the Friends of the New Rochelle Public Library monthly Book Sale.
Friends Co-president Amy Tietz and other volunteers have been spending hours in the basement of the library selecting and pricing the books and other items that will be on sale.
The hours of the sale are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
"Unlike a bookstore who orders what they want," Tietz said, "we have to deal with what people give us."
People can pick up a 2013-published hardback book for about $4 and a 2012 book for less.
Tietz said they usually receive about 1,000 books a week, but in recent weeks donations have been closer to 2,000.
She said sales bring in around $60,000 a year, which pays for programming that the library sponsors.
Besides the monthly sales, Friends of NRPL operate the bookstore inside the library on the first floor three days a week—1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays—and the honor-system bookstore in the lobby.
"We are the only non-college bookstore in town," Tietz said.
(Photo caption: Friends of the NRPL Co-president Amy Tietz shows a visitor the basement storage of donated books, CDs and DVDs. Credit: Michael Woyton.)
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