27th annual Moultonborough Library Book Sale this Saturday and Sunday

MOULTONBOROUGH — Due to the Fourth of July holiday coming on a Wednesday this year, the "Fourth of July" Annual Summer Book Sale at the Moultonborough Public Library will take place this Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, and will be from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. under two large tents in the library parking lot, rain or shine.

Over the past 26 years, book lovers, buyers and sellers, collectors, and readers have come to count on this annual feature of the summer season to find all the books they want for summer beach reading, required school reading, Christmas and birthday gifts, long winter evenings, craft projects, and any other purpose for which books can be used, including using the illustrations for craft projects and making keepsake boxes out of the covers and pages glued together.

The count currently stands over 900 boxes sorted and packed ready for the big weekend, and there are also hundreds and hundreds of VHS tapes, plus audiobooks, games and puzzles. Hardcover books, and games and puzzles are priced at $1 each, and paperbacks, children's books, and VHS and cassette tapes fifty cents, and if that's not enough of a bargain, everything will be marked down to 25 cents on Sunday, the final day of the sale.

The library is located at 4 Holland Street in Moultonborough, across from the Old Country Store. Volunteers are needed to help move the boxes of books out of the library basement and into the tents on Friday evening, July 6, starting at 5 p.m. , and also to help during the sale and with the cleanup on Sunday, July 8. Call the library at 476-8895 if you are able to help., or for more information about the sale.