Need a One of a Kind Gift? Try Library Friends Bookstore

By Toni Campbell

The holidays have arrived at the Capitola Library Friends’ bookstore in the Capitola Mall.

Just before Thanksgiving, a group of volunteers stocked tables and shelves with hundreds of holiday-related items and festooned the store with decorations celebrating the season. The community is invited to stop by daily to browse holiday and general interest materials.

This well-organized store has become a favorite browsing place for Mall shoppers.

About five years ago when the ‘temporary’ Capitola Library closed for construction, the Capitola Mall donated an empty store to the Capitola Library Friends for used book sales.

In their current 4,000-square-foot location, the Capitola Friends’ volunteers sell used books, CDs, and DVDs that have been donated to them by folks from throughout Santa Cruz County, and sometimes beyond!

Almost all of the approximately 15,000 items are $1 or $2.

The store is packed with materials for all ages … picture books for the young set; hundreds of chapter books for new readers; young adult books that meet teens’ interests; and, of course, hundreds of novels in both paper and hardback for adults.

In addition to fiction, the store has healthy collections of history, gardening, biography, sports, music, crafts, travel, cookbooks, and many more categories.

The money raised benefits the Capitola Library.

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For information about scheduling a donation pickup up, contact Karen at karen@sploids.com.
Store hours are 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily (12 – 5 Mondays).