The Friends of Sherwood Library Bookstore

06/17/2026

Featured this week are a number of Time Life and other CDs including 26 from the ‘Guitar Rock’ collection. Stop in on Wednesday, June 17, 1-4 PM, for these new arrivals and many more!

Start the summer off with some recipes or take up a new hobby with our wide selection of cookbooks and craft books from quilting to needle arts.

Thanks to all of your generous donations, we are quickly replenishing our shelves, so stop in and explore. Donations of gently used books, CDs, and DVDs are always appreciated!

This week features the following:

CDs/DVDs/Puzzles:
26 CDs from the Time Life ‘Guitar Rock’ series
Vintage Music Collection (CDs)
20 years of Solid Gold Groups 1960 – 1979 (CDs)
The Golden Days of Rock and Roll 1955 – 1964 (CDs)
The Beat of The Moth (short stories – as heard on NPR) (CDs)
Prime Suspects - multiple years
Wishes Fulfilled
Lost - Complete Second Season
Music Appreciation Music Discs
The Wire - Seasons 1 - 3
S*x and the City - Season 2
Bob Ross - Happy Little Jigsaw Puzzle Book

Fiction:
Fire From the Sun - Volume 1 -Derbyshire
A Cold Snow in Castaway Country - John Lindsey Hickman
The Sirens - Emily Hart
Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

Nonfiction:
Fairfax County Stories - 1607 - 2007
The Guidebook to Virginia’s Historical Markers
My James McCallister Lineage - signed
The Whitehouse is on Fire - Edited by Bill Rhatican
We Shook the Family Tree - Hildegarde Dolsom
The American Way of Death Revisited - Jessica Mitford
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told by Alex Haley
Eddie Would Go - Stuart Coleman
Deliberate Acts - Whiteley - University of Arizona Press
Lee - Volume 1 - Harwell - Douglas Southall Freeman
Logbook - Great Aviation History
The Silk Road - Peter Frankopan

Garden, Crafts and Collecting:
Vegetables, herbs and fruit - an illustrated encyclopedia
Crochet Lace - Doris Chan
Belleck - Degenhardt

Textbooks:
1001 Activities for a Smarter Child
General Biology - Study Guide and Laboratory Manual
The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide
Civics Today - Citizenship, Economics and You
The American Odyssey - A History of the Us

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06/10/2026

Our Weekly Wednesday offers some great new finds, including:

History / Military:
The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. Fahey’s early editions, from the 40’s and 50’s, including the “Victory” edition
Mary Jane’s War. Civil War novel based on true story
Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in WWII
Old Dominion, New Commonwealth. History of Virginia, 1607-2007.
The Lockheed Constellation
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe

Fiction / Sci Fi:
Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
3 by Joab Stieglitz: The Battle. The Old Man’s Request. Designed for Slaughter
This Book Made Me Think of You
Animal Farm. Orwell’s classic with re-imagined cover featuring George Bush

Games/DVDs:
The Great British Baking Show, game
The American Comedy Box, 1915-1994. DVDs. Box has 3-D “Groucho” glasses and nose
All Day Thumbsucker Revisited. DVDs

Non-Fiction:
Movie Icons: Orson Welles
The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas
The Inventor and the Tycoon. By Edward Ball
WELCOME. “We Japanese.” Unusual string-bound book from Japan, 600 pages, 889 illustrations
Math textbook, Course 2

Crafts, Cooking, etc.:
Virginia’s Historic Restaurants & Their Recipes
Knitting Brioche
Knitting in Circles
Realistic Drawing Secrets
Mandala Source Book
Nutritional Healing

Donations of books, DVDs, CDs and puzzles in good saleable condition are always welcome. Please, no textbooks older than 10 years, encyclopedias, magazines or VHS tapes. Donations accepted at the delivery door from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday – Saturday, and in the blue bin by the returns desk whenever the library is open. Thank you!

06/06/2026

The Friends of Sherwood Library will hold their regular First Saturday sale on June 6th, from 10 – 4 p.m., featuring books and deals to get you ready for a long, hot summer!

The elevator is back in service! Free A/C all day tomorrow!

Come celebrate the elevator’s return! We are fully restocked with new inventory; history and biography shelves are packed and the Native American collection is again full.

Special Sale this Saturday! Kick off Summer Reading with our half-price sale on ALL children’s and young adult books: half-off sticker prices, and 25¢ books will be 2/25¢. This collection has been expanded in both second floor areas. Stock up for summer!!

On Saturday the tables, carts, and shelves in the center second floor lobby will feature new offerings in:

Crafts, art, needlework, quilting, etc. Multiple books in every category
More popular-author thrillers and mysteries (Scottoline, Robb, Shaara)
Romance novels, restocked
Games

On Saturday, find a new selection on the Special Price table. These are just a few examples:

George Washington. 3 volume set, 1775-1783, 1783-1793, and 1793-1799.
Great Maps of the Civil War: A Museum in a Book.
Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh. Vintage.
A Treasury of Grand Opera. Boxed & oversize.
My Sister’s House Is Built on the San Andreas Fault. Illustrated & signed.
The Plan of St. Gall. With building plans, reproduced blueprints, etc. Oversized
Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
Samuels’ Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West

Current bestsellers, popular titles (James; Warriors, #1-6, boxed set) and authors: Emily Giffin. Hoda Kotb. Holly Jackson. Sarah MacLean

Oversize art / animation:
Jim Henson
Bugs Bunny. (“50 years and only one gray hare”)
Charlie Brown: Not Your Average Blockhead
Field Guide to Fantastic Creatures
America’s Great Comic-Strip Artists
Warner Bros. Animation Art
Before the Animation Begins
…more

06/02/2026

The elevator is back in service! Come up and check out restocked shelves!

Because we have received so many generous donations in just one week, it is impossible to mention them all. Just a few examples: the history and biography shelves are stuffed with new selections; cookbooks and religion are completely refreshed; and the Native American shelf is again fully stocked.

The children’s and young adult book selections, in the quarter corner and lobby tables, as well as in the Bookstore side room, are bursting at the seams. Watch the next newsletter for summer reading specials!

Wednesday’s selections of special price books are many and varied, but too numerous to list. They include current best sellers (for example: Jack Carr’s Cry Havoc); unusual (This Land of Pure Delight); art (Library of Congress selections); story collections (Gaslight & Grimm); and so much more.

The monthly First Saturday sale will be on June 6th,10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Look for more Saturday details in a newsletter later this week.

Donations of books, DVDs, C and puzzles in good saleable condition are welcome. Please do not donate textbooks older than 10 years, encyclopedias, magazines or VHS tapes. Donations accepted at the delivery door from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday – Saturday, and in the blue bin by the returns desk whenever the library is open. Thank you!

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Normal open hours:
Saturday mornings, 10 – noon
Sunday afternoons, 1 – 3 p.m.
Wednesday sale, 1 – 4 p.m.
Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday, 10 – 1 p.m.
First Saturday of every month, 10 – 4 p.m.

05/28/2026

05/27/2026

GREAT NEWS! The library’s elevator is back in service!

At our Wednesday sale, choose a free mass market fiction paperback as an “Elevation Celebration”! Note: Free “Elevation Celebration” paperbacks do not include sci fi, mystery, classics, or romance.

Thanks to our many generous, patient, and helpful donors, we have managed to keep our shelves stocked during the past four difficult months. Thank you all for your patience and understanding! We are now able to accept donations as in the past.

For our Weekly Wednesday sale, the second floor lobby will hold an assortment of Irish-and Ireland-related books, along with like-new jigsaw puzzles and a collection of thrillers (from, for example, Mario Puzo, John LeCarre, James Clavell, and more).

Wednesday’s selection of special price books will include:

Fiction:
Odd Apocalypse. An Odd Thomas novel by Dean Koontz. Autographed 1st edition

Non-fiction:
The Family Man. Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh. By James Lasdun
A Sort of Saga. Text and illustrations by Bill Mauldin. 1949. Autobiographical
Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book
The Pioneer Woman Cooks. A 2-volume boxed set
King George the Fifth. His Life and Times, a Pictorial Record
Army Historical Series: American Military History, 1917 – 2003

Oversized:
Birds of the Chesapeake Bay. Paintings by John W. Taylor
Art Ducks
Quilts of the Oregon Trail
Nicholas & Alexandra. The Last Imperial family of Tsarist Russia. Text, photos
Lawyers and Justice. Lithograph reproductions of 19th century cartoons by Daumier

Vintage:
Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell and the otters
The Woollcott Reader
Young’s Night Thoughts
Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Hall.