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Friends of Brooks Memorial Library hosts spring book sale

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 — Issue 300

BRATTLEBORO — The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library Spring Booksale will be held Friday, April 10, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Join your fellow community members and sift through the thousands of paperbacks, DVDs, and audio books for the Big Spring Booksale, to raise funds for the support of the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

The books and other items are piling up for this important annual event. Remainders will be on sale during the month of April during regular library hours.

The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library was organized in 1990 to support the library in providing the highest quality library service to the community by means of advocacy, public relations, and fund raising.

For more information, contact the library at 802-254-5290, ext. 0. Become a Friends of Library member by downloading a Friends membership form at brookslibraryvt.org/about/support-your-library.

For more information, contact Mary Ide at [email protected].

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