Gardendale Library's Big Spring Book Sale

We are having our first big Spring book sale! This sale is to help raise money for our expansion fund, so please join us Thursday April 29 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m, Friday April 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m and then Saturday May 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As we have an abundance of books and other items for sale we do not have the room to have the sale at the library, so it will be held at the old Anderson Boat Building on HWY 31. Click here for directions from the library.

Prices will range from .50¢ each or 3/$1 for paperbacks, $1 and up for most hardbacks, audiobooks, VHS and DVDs. Magazines 4/$1. However, we will have some more expensive items ranging from $2-$3.

We will also be selling coffee and cakes for your enjoyment. All proceeds benefit the Gardendale Public Library Expansion Fund!

Beach Books!

A trip to the beach is just around the corner! Pick up one of these great reads when you hit the road this summer.

Here are a few titles and series to consider:
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
Get Lucky by Katherine Center
How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler
The Language of Sand by Ellen Block
Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch
How to Knit a Love Song: A Cypress Hollow Yarn by Rachael Herron
Balancing Acts by Zoe Fishman

Here are some general series or authors you should check out:
Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
The Twilight Saga (if you haven’t gotten around to it yet!) by Stephenie Meyer
Sophie Kinsella Books
The "Sisterchick" books by Robin Jones Gunn

Don't forget you could pick up a bunch of great pool or beach books from our Big Spring Book Sale on April 29th 2pm-7 pm, 30th 10am-5pm, & May 1st 10am-2pm.

Thursday April BCB The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

Product Description

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love, family, and faith.

Monday April BCB The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Product Description

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."

Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose.