The Friends of the Whitesburg Public Library book store, Harvey’s House of Books, will be open for extended hours on Saturday, September 29, as it offers a one-day “bags of books” sale in observance of the McIntosh Reserve Fall Festival. Customers may fill a brown paper bag with regular adult fiction and nonfiction hardback books for $10 and a plastic bag of paperback books for $5. Bags will be provided by the store.
Special hours on September 29 will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The store at 1140 Main Street offers 20,000 books, movies, music and magazines. All sales benefit the Whitesburg Public Library. Giftable, like-new books for $3, children’s books and DVDs and CDs are excluded from the sale.
Regular hours are Mondays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m. to noon and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Frugal Fridays feature half-price books every week. Call 470-345-9397 for information.
The McIntosh Reserve Fall Festival features arts and crafts and food at the McIntosh Reserve Park on West Highway 5 in Whitesburg on September 29 and 30.
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Bobbe Jacobs Toub and Lorri Sposato-Allen, volunteers at the Friends of the Whitesburg Public Library book store, Harvey’s House of Books, prepare for the “Bags of Books” sale on Saturday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Customers may fill a brown paper grocery bag with regular adult fiction and nonfiction hardback books for $10 and a plastic grocery bag of paperback books for $5. The store at 1140 Main Street offers 20,000 books, movies, music and magazines. All sales benefit the Whitesburg Public Library.