Five hundred fiction and non-fiction, children’s and adult titles fill the Bookstore Café shelves in the Watertown Free Public Library’s Red Leaf Café. These are popular, fast turnover titles, plus some DVDs and CDs.
They all are donations from the Watertown Free Public Library community and are expertly sorted and readied for sale by a dedicated volunteer. Other volunteers serve as sales staff when the Red Leaf Café is closed.
The sorting process goes on daily behind the scenes and the bookstore shelves are refreshed daily. But there are some books that have value as classics, for their autographs, as first editions, for their lovely bindings, or for their unusual content. These would not sell as popular reading, so they are screened for addition to the library’s online book sales through www.librarybooksales.org. All the proceeds from the Bookstore Café and online sales go to the Library Building Committee, which in turn funds many needed projects and programs for the library.
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Would you like to own an autographed copy of TV journalist Tim Russert’s “Big Russ & Me”? The book is in fine condition, with a clean dust jacket and author signed inscription.
Did you read Nancy Drew mysteries in the 1940s Grosset and Dunlap editions with the textured blue bindings? There are three available in fair condition – “The Clue in the Jewel Box”, “The Clue of the Leaning Chimney” and “The Secret of Red Gate Farm."
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Are you a fan of Gore Vidal? The Signed First Edition Society autographed copy of “Empire” was privately printed, bound in embossed light brown leather, with beautiful endpapers, gilt edges and a ribbon bookmark sewn into the spine.
Do you wonder what happened on the day you were born? “The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages 1851-2008” would tell you in a folio, first edition in fine condition with dust jacket.
These and over 300 more interesting titles are available through our online sales. You can link to it through our website www.watertownlib.org or by going directly to www.librarybooksales.org.
Your book purchases help fund the Building Committee’s ongoing support of special library programs and projects. They include art work for the children’s department, our annual One Book One Watertown event, new bistro style furniture for the Red Leaf Café and outside table umbrellas.
