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Book Sorters needed!

2/18/2015

 
The Friends is currently looking for volunteers to help sort donated books every Wednesday at the downtown library at Evergreen and C streets. You will be trained to evaluate the value of books using the internet and other resources so that the most valuable books can be sold at our online Amazon bookstore. The less valuable books are sold at the Booknook for just $1 which is still a great value. Book sorters are asked to commit to a six month period minimum because your training is lengthy and makes you quite valuable to other used book retailers. 
Working for the Friends is kind of like having a job with all the perks of friendly coworkers, great bosses, excellent training and good working environment. And like any job, do good work and you'll get a good reference for your job search increasing your chances of landing a great job in the private sector. To apply please visit our Volunteer website. 

True Blood novels

2/15/2015

 
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I sense a theme here, with the word dead in every title! Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has produced many series but all of these books are from her Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) series. This novel series was dramatized for the small screen in HBO's True Blood TV series. If you liked True Blood you will enjoy these books from this very prolific author. Only $1 each at the Booknook now!

Star Trek books

2/15/2015

 
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We have a good selection of Star Trek novels on sale. We placed them in our Fiction section but to group them together they have been placed in the Biography section so they aren't scattered around randomly, sorted alphabetically by author as would normally be the case. If you love Star Trek come on down and take a look. These are stories that have (so far) never been made into movies or TV shows, although one can dream...

Twilight and the Vancouver Connection

2/14/2015

 
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We have books 3 and 4 of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer in the Booknook. Of course everyone knows of the connection of the Twilight series with the Northwest, but did you know that a small part of the first movie that was not in the book was filmed here in Vancouver? The marina scene where two of the vampires murder a fisherman in his boat was filmed at Kadow's Marina off Lower River Road. The owners Lloyd and Bev Kadow are listed in the credits as Boat Wranglers, as the film crew spent a lot of time asking for boats to be moved around to make the scenes perfect. Also the end credits for the first movie roll over an undulating water background that was filmed at the marina in the Columbia River.

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2015 Spring Booksale!

2/14/2015

 
Mark Your Calendars!!!
The Spring Booksale is just around the corner.

Friday,
    April 17   5 pm - 8 pm
                        (FOVCL Members Only Pre-Sale)
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Saturday,    April 18   10:30 am -4 pm
Sunday,       April 19   12 pm -4 pm
                       All Books on Sunday are $1.00

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         Purchase a membership at the door or right here.
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Location:
Columbia Room
Vancouver Community Library
901 C Street
Vancouver, WA.

Biographies

2/1/2015

 
We have some interesting folks portrayed in the Biography section of the Booknook. At polar opposites politically are Sarah Palin in Going Rogue: An American Life and Barack Obama's The Audacity Of Hope. Moving to the topic of space we have First Man: The Life Of Neil A. Armstrong and Barbara Eden's autobiography Jeannie Out Of The Bottle. What do those two have in common? Remember the pretense of the TV show I Dream Of Jeannie. Major Nelson played by Larry Hagman, who later starred in Dallas, was an American astronaut who splashed down the Pacific Ocean during a mission, landed on an island, found a bottle and opened it to find Jeannie inside! Astronauts and space were all the rage in 1960's and the antics of the otherwise professional and proper Major Nelson saddled with the troublesome and impetuous Jeannie led to no end of hilarious story lines for the writers.

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