Friends of Baldwin Public Library

Today's the day! Celebrate the Friends' Bookshop Grand Opening today and tomorrow...
Saturday: 10-11am - FOL members only
Saturday: 11am-4pm - open to all
Sunday: 12-4pm - $5 Bag Sale!

Happy Hanukkah! Shop for gifts this Sat./Sun. at our Friends Bookshop Grand Opening Sale. Lower Level, BPL.

Have you read any of these titles?

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023 Featuring Anne Enright, Lorrie Moore, Zadie Smith, Anne Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and more

It's Grand Opening Book Sale Week! Hope to see you this Saturday/Sunday. Members get to shop exclusively the first hour. There will also be swag!

Coming to the Christmas tree lighting and Winter Markt this weekend? Swing by The Friends’ Bookshop!

Please mark your calendars! Fabulous chance to score holiday gifts and do good at the same time. We'll have some free goodies, too!

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If you're shopping downtown B'ham tomorrow, swing by The Friends' Bookshop

Happy Thanksgiving! What are you most grateful for this year?

Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination. We have a curated collection of donated JFK material for sale this week in The Friends Bookshop at the BPL.

Please don't forget to renew your 2023-24 Friends of the BPL membership! Return the remittance form we mailed in September, or pick up a form at The Friends Bookshop the next time you're at the Library.

We are always looking for new Friends. If you want to volunteer to help with book sales/sorting or become a Friends Board member, please email us at [email protected]

Is your favorite on this list?

The Best Books of 2023 Here we go, book lovers. Announcing Book Riot's picks for the best books of 2023!

Mark your calendars: Friends' Bookshop Grand Opening Book Sale Dec. 9 & 10.

We love, love, love picture books. And they sell like hotcakes at The Friends' Bookshop.

The Joy of Perusing Pictures: A Reading List of Wordless Picture Books Lately, there’s been a lot of attention on how children learn to read, and I’m heartened that phonics is making a comeback. But sounding out words (also called “decoding”) can be labori…

Do you read mostly fiction, non-fiction, or a mixture of both?

Honoring those who served our nation this Veterans Day weekend with specially curated books for sale in The Friends' Bookshop.

TODAY: In 1920, D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love is first published, in a limited subscribers’ edition in the United States.

2023 National Book Award winners to be announced next week. Are you rooting for any of these authors?

Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists The winners of the 74th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by LeVar Bu…

Daylight Savings Time has ended and you have an extra hour today. Spend it at the BPL and visit The Friends Bookstore!

Friends Board Members Deb Mohatarem and Ryndee Carney welcome everyone to our new sales space, housed where the Main Circulation Desk was formerly located. You can now walk through the center of the BPL again! Please come and shop our great curated selection of donated books and media.

We're getting closer. . .hope to open later this week. So exciting!

Progress on our new Friends' Bookshop. Watch this space!

American novelist Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was born on this day.

Attention Sci-Fi/Fantasy fiction fans: check out this year's Hugo Award winners.

Here are the winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards. The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards—one of science fiction and fantasy’s most prestigious awards, decided by the popular vote of WorldCon members—were presented this weekend at the 81st WorldCon in…

Ernest Hemingway's first novel was published on this day in 1926.

It's going to be a rainy weekend. Take shelter at the BPL and buy a new read (or 2) from the Friends sales display in the Great Hall.

70 years ago, on this day in 1953, the Ray Bradbury novel "Fahrenheit 451," set in a dystopian future where books are banned and burned by the government, was first published.

Good news! We now accept donations whenever the BPL is open. Please place your LIGHTLY USED, UNDAMAGED books and DVDs on the cart beside the elevator on the first floor. Please, no encyclopedia, Readers Digest books, magazines, Time/Life books, or outdated text books.

Help us celebrate National Friends of Libraries Week by renewing/becoming a member of the Friends of the BPL. You can donate online at http://www.baldwinlib.org/give/friends or by returning your renewal form via USPS or in person at Baldwin.

Friends of the Library - Baldwin Public Library - Birmingham, Michigan The Friends of the Baldwin Public Library is a non-profit organization that fundraises to support library programs.

We asked our Board members to tell us what book was their favorite read so far this year. Their responses:

Stephanie Brochert: "The Diamond Eye" by Kate Quinn
Ryndee Carney: "Middlemarch" by George Eliot
Michelle Hollo: "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
Mark Lyles: "Riverside Sermons" by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Judy Vindici: "Double Blind" by Edward St. Aubyn

This is National Friends of Libraries Week. Thank the Friends of the BPL by purchasing something from our sales display in the Great Hall or donating a couple of bags of choice, lightly used books on the donation cart by the elevator.

RIP poet Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award.

It's literary award season; congrats to this year's Kirkus Prize winners.

Here are the winners of the 2023 Kirkus Prize. On Wednesday, at a ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of the 10th annual Kirkus Prize: one each in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’…

Dates for our Fall Book Sale are still TBD due to the ongoing BPL construction project. Please shop our display in the Great Hall in the meantime, and thanks for your patience and support!

It’s Spooky Season! Spice up your Halloween with custom-made buttons and bookmarks crafted from recycled books. Available at the Friends of the BPL sales display in the Great Hall of the Library.

Rumor has it our new Friends Bookshop will be among the first areas of the BPL Phase 3 construction project to open. What do you hope to see there?

Check out this year's National Book Award finalists.

Here are the 2023 National Book Award finalists. Today, the National Book Foundation announced their finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Lite…

Congrats to this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Have you read his work?

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Norwegian writer and perennial contender Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsay…