Summer Book Sale and Movie 2022

The results are in: the Summer Book Sale netted $3,057 for the library! 🥳 We are so grateful to our shoppers and volunteers. 🥰 Thank you for a successful sale, and we hope you all enjoy your books and enjoyed seeing Luca! 📚📚

You won’t want to miss this opportunity! Stock up on books for summer reading and spend time as a family at the Whiteside Theatre watching Luca!

We have a wide selection of (mostly paperback) books, CDs, and DVDs for readers of every age. Items are individually priced.

Friday from 2-4pm is reserved for Friends of the Library Members Only (you can join or renew for $10 at the door or here), but everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!

Details to see Luca on Saturday: https://fb.me/e/3b88nepc0

Let us know you’re coming! https://fb.me/e/1PAlsu8XJ

Random Review: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Read it: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Reviewer: Michael Nelson

Related Books

This year, Random Review will take place virtually, through GoToWebinar, which guarantees you a front row seat from your favorite chair! 

Join the conversation, let us know you’re interested in attending, and get an event reminder here: https://fb.me/e/1maxngyYq

Replay coming soon!

Random Review: Homeland Elegies

Read it: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

Reviewer: Keith Scribner

Related Books

This year, Random Review will take place virtually, through GoToWebinar, which guarantees you a front row seat from your favorite chair! 

Join the conversation, let us know you’re interested in attending, and get an event reminder here: https://fb.me/e/1upOnTYCY

Replay coming soon!

We Love Our Community!

As we got down to the wire before our BIG Book Sale was to begin, there were virtually no volunteers to move books from our warehouse to the fairgrounds for the sale. The organizations and people that have helped in the past had been contacted, but no firm offers of help. Then the most wonderful thing happened that affirmed our faith in this wonderful community.

Another email to our membership, a plea in local newspapers, and the responses started flooding in! Within days, we had so many offers of help that we were afraid we couldn’t use everyone! Not only were the books moved in record time, but they were laid out on the tables and ready for the sale a day early!

We have never had such a wonderful response to pleas for help! And because of the superb help, and numerous and generous customers, we were able to raise over $22,000 to support the activities of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library branches!

We want to specifically thank the following:

This truly is a wonderful place to live, and read!

Random Review: The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

Read it: The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager

Reviewer: Randy Milstein

Related Books

This year, Random Review will take place virtually, through GoToWebinar, which guarantees you a front row seat from your favorite chair! 

Join the conversation, let us know you’re interested in attending, and get an event reminder here: https://fb.me/e/1maxngyYq

Watch the replay below or here if you have any troubles.

Random Review: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Read it: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

Reviewer: Marisa Chappell

Related Books

This year, Random Review will take place virtually, through GoToWebinar, which guarantees you a front row seat from your favorite chair! 

Join the conversation, let us know you’re interested in attending, and get an event reminder here: https://fb.me/e/6ig9N19Xx

Watch the replay below or here if you have any troubles.