In an effort to provide more selection to our young adult readers, we’ve recently added a handful of new books. Today we’ve added three by Peter Hautman including:
In the past few days, we’ve also had a handful of favorites come back home to roost, so there’s some great new selection this week.
For Sci-Fi fans out there (and in honor of Andrew’s birthday this week) we’ve released four new Douglas Adams books from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy this morning!
As always there are a variety of other fiction, non-fiction, and even magazine choices as well. (Here’s a Periscope video of what we’ve got right now.)
As a reminder for readers traveling during the holidays, or those who have friends/family visiting for the holidays:
Our Little Free Library has a nice selection of great fiction for your long flights and your extended stays.
This is how our neighborhood Little Free Library can help:
Little Free Library: Always Free, Never for sale, and best of all, NEVER any late fees!
I originally started my Little Free Library, in part, to divest myself of some of my collection of books to make some more space in the house. Little did I know that the number (and variety) of interesting books I would come into contact with would increase dramatically! I wouldn’t have expected it, couldn’t have predicted it, probably would have told you I didn’t necessarily want it at the time, but now I’m very grateful for it.
Thank you friends and neighbors for the continued help and support! Thanks for sharing your favorite reads.
First, thanks to everyone who helped make our mystery/thriller take-over so successful during the past week.
We’ve now swapped out a number of the thrillers and mysteries for a somewhat more balanced selection of books. But don’t fear, because we’re holding on to those other mysteries and thrillers you’ve had your eyes on to replace books as they disappear.
I initially started out this blog using my personal GoodReads account to track LFL #8424’s incoming and outgoing books, but it’s really started to clog up my personal account more than I ever expected. So today, I’ve created a separate GoodReads account to track the library’s books.
Having a separate account also allows everyone to directly follow/friend the library to get updates as they happen rather than relying on following my personal account or being forced to periodically check the individual incoming/outgoing bookshelves. If you’ve bookmarked the shelves, be sure to update them.
Follow us on GoodReads: Little Free Library #8424
As a result of a huge cache of mysteries and thrillers donated by our neighbor Denise recently, we’ve decided to do a Little Free Library “take over” for books in these genres.
For the week of Halloween from 10/25-11/1 we’ve replaced all the books on the upper shelves with mystery and thriller novels. There’s lots of John Grisham, Dan Brown, David Baldacci, Gillian Flynn, James Patterson, Brad Thor, Dean Koontz, J.K. Rowling, P.D. James, and many others. In all it totals to more than 38 new books in the library today! In fact, it was so many books, we’ve had to make some room on our lower shelf to fit them all in.
After the week is over, we’ll go back to a more balanced selection of fiction and nonfiction that we’ve always had, though we’ll surely keep what’s left and rotate it through the library in the near future.
Come and get them while they’re hot!
Calling all bibliophiles and Little Free Library friends
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015
Time: 9:30am to 3:00pm
Location: Eagle Rock Branch Library
Most books will be priced from $0.50 – $2. They will have a variety of genres as well as children’s books, CDs, DVDs, and even records.
For those who’d like to help donate books to our library, they Friends of the Library have said that beginning at 1:30 pm, they’ll be selling full bags of books for $5 each.
Here’s a good chance to pick up some good material not only to read for yourself, but to donate to your local neighborhood Little Free Library.
Many of the new book donations from our 2 month anniversary extravaganza are disappearing, but that doesn’t mean that readers aren’t leaving some interesting new books behind. Since yesterday, there have been a few interesting donations including:
We’ve also had some additional mysteries and thrillers donated (in addition to those from Denise recently) for our upcoming Little Free Library “take-over”. For the week of Halloween from 10/25-11/1 we’ll replace all the books on the upper shelves with mystery and thriller novels.
This past weekend, we’ve received a bunch of new children’s easy reader chapter books including:
As always, our updated list of available books can be found on our GoodReads shelf.
Just after our two month anniversary, neighbor Denise Frost was kind enough to donate a huge pile of mystery and thrillers to our Little Free Library. Thanks Denise!!!
Because the library is full to the brim at the moment, we’re going to hold off on releasing them for a few days. Perhaps we’ll wait a week or two and do a Mystery/Thriller Take-Over where we replace all of our current books for those of just this particular genre for a week?! Maybe in honor of the week of Halloween? If you’ve got a mystery/thriller to donate, feel free to drop it off for our planned take-over.
If anyone is a major fan of one of the titles in the mystery cache and just can’t wait, then repost this page (or retweet/re-share on Facebook) and let us know in the comments which book you have to have and we’ll hold on to it for you.
Thanks again Denise! This is awesome!
