18 New Releases Going into the Library Today

14 middle grades books accompany a handful of contemporary novels and a thriller in today’s release.

We’ve updated our GoodReads bookshelf with all the books we’ve got in stock if you want to browse from home.

We’re also closing in the 500 book mark for total number of books donated to our Library!

New releases going into the library today

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A “Little” Library Renovation

With the Central Branch of the Glendale Library closed for renovations, we thought we’d spiff things up a little bit too. (Fortunately, we only needed to close for a minute to do our upgrade.) Thanks, in great part to local donors, today we’ve replaced ALL of the books in the library with over 42 great new titles!

This batch includes:

  • 11 brand new, never before read books
  • 2 books written by a famous local author
  • Fiction
  • Thrillers & mystery
  • A great spread of non-fiction (from medicine and sleep to history and archaeology)
  • Our 4th copy of Wild by Cheryl Strayed (the most popular donation in the last year, but they always disappear as quickly too…)
  • Our 3rd copy of the popular Like Water for Elephants
  • An awesome selection of pulp fiction
  • A tie yesterday(?) for #8 on our list of records for Largest Single One-Time Donations

Be sure to stop by today and resupply your night table.

Donations?

Do you have some books you’re done reading and want to share with your neighbors? We gladly accept your donated books – it’s part of what keeps the library a vital part of the community. Simply place your book donation directly into the library. Not enough space or need more information on donating? Maybe your question is answered here. Otherwise ask below in the comments, and we’ll do our best to help.

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Take a book, leave a book.

Mystery and Thriller Take Over for Halloween

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!

 

A Massive Cache of Mystery & Thriller Books Courtesy of Denise Frost

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!