Eldon Trails Little Free Library

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👤 Books for all ages
📚 Read. Return.

Repeat.
🚫 We share banned books
📍 Port Orchard, Washington
📜 Charter #177572

(AUGUST 26) Hi, friends! It’s been a while. Our library has had a great summer with lots of new books and friendly faces...
08/26/2026

(AUGUST 26) Hi, friends! It’s been a while. Our library has had a great summer with lots of new books and friendly faces. Come see us! 👋❤️📚

(AUGUST 9) Happy National Book Lovers Day to the friends of the ETLFL! We hope you’re reading something good today. If y...
08/10/2026

(AUGUST 9) Happy National Book Lovers Day to the friends of the ETLFL! We hope you’re reading something good today. If you’re looking for a new book, we have so many great ones in the library, including two copies of The Tainted Cup, gifted to us by Del Rey and Random House Worlds! This was a Goodreads fantasy nominee in 2024, and gets a 4.29 rating!

ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death at once terrifying and impossible.

Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears—quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home.

Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

(AUGUST 4) announced its August selection today—Take What You Can by Naima Coster—and our LFL is one of the lucky recip...
08/05/2026

(AUGUST 4) announced its August selection today—Take What You Can by Naima Coster—and our LFL is one of the lucky recipients of TWO copies for our readers! 📚🎉 Stop by and pick up a copy of a novel that Catherine Newman says “is so brilliantly, unbelievably good, I have a burning in my heart.”

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Val and Milly fell in love with France at the same time they fell in love with each other and became immediate best friends. Then, they bonded as the only Black students on a study-abroad trip. Now, they are in their thirties, each married and with a baby girl on the way. When Milly suggests Val move to New York to raise their daughters together after a decade apart, it’s a resounding yes.

Despite their excitement, the pair secretly wonder if their friendship has always worked best as a trio. From that first trip to France, these two motherless daughters were taken under the wing of an older woman named Helene. She showered them with money, love and attention, and showed them the possibilities of a meaningful future. But without Helene, who are Milly and Val?

Milly, a successful influencer married to restaurant royalty, is occupied with her desire for independence. Val, a brilliant journalist, is struggling to write her first book and fit into her old friend’s new world. The realities of class and social capital, of strained marriages and the demands of motherhood, serve as constant reminders of how far apart they’ve grown. And no matter how much they try to avoid it, everything comes back to the rift that began all those years ago in France. What they’ve long tried to bury may finally destroy their sisterhood.

Weaving between Brooklyn brownstones and the glittering beaches of southern France, Take What You Can is a dazzling novel exploring what it means to be a mother when you have none, a sister without blood ties, and a woman in pursuit of the life she wants. With her signature sharply-observed prose, Coster illustrates what it means to be—and to stay—someone’s person through all phases of life.

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A huge thank you to Little Free Library, Viking Books, ans Pamela Dorman Books for our two free copies. 📚

(JULY 25) We were gifted a copy of The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei from Penguin Random House, and it’s now in the E...
07/26/2026

(JULY 25) We were gifted a copy of The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei from Penguin Random House, and it’s now in the ETLFL!! Thank you, PRH!

ABOUT THE BOOK: Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a place where the urgent insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. Knowing that failure is not an option, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another as they spurn outside friendships, leisure, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future.

When a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love, home versus the outside world, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is.

In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing, winner-take-all world, The Original Daughter is a major literary debut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight.

(JULY 16) We snapped this before the thunderstorms arrived! Who doesn’t love a good excuse (⛈️) to cozy up with a good b...
07/16/2026

(JULY 16) We snapped this before the thunderstorms arrived! Who doesn’t love a good excuse (⛈️) to cozy up with a good book?

(JULY 11) We love when the library has buzzy books! Stop by for one of the most talked about books of 2026 so far, Theo ...
07/11/2026

(JULY 11) We love when the library has buzzy books! Stop by for one of the most talked about books of 2026 so far, Theo of Golden! Also, these stickers are a good reminder for us all. It never hurts to be kind.

(JULY 10) Gotta catch ‘em all! Did you know the ETLFL is a Poké Stop? Stop by, catch a Pokémon, and grab a book! 📚♥️
07/11/2026

(JULY 10) Gotta catch ‘em all! Did you know the ETLFL is a Poké Stop? Stop by, catch a Pokémon, and grab a book! 📚♥️

(JULY 3) As we celebrate the 4th of July weekend and America’s 250th birthday, we’re reflecting on the stories that conn...
07/03/2026

(JULY 3) As we celebrate the 4th of July weekend and America’s 250th birthday, we’re reflecting on the stories that connect us, challenge us, and help us better understand one another.

Wherever this weekend finds you, we hope there’s a good book there, too. 🧨🇺🇸

(JULY 1) A big thank you to Del Rey Books for two free copies of Red Rising by Pierce Brown! We also have several blockb...
07/01/2026

(JULY 1) A big thank you to Del Rey Books for two free copies of Red Rising by Pierce Brown! We also have several blockbuster books in the library, including The Women and Yesteryear! Come see us!

ABOUT THE BOOK: Red Rising is a dystopian science fiction novel by Pierce Brown, the first in the Red Rising Saga, about a low-caste miner named Darrow who infiltrates the ruling elite (Golds) on a colonized Mars to overthrow a brutal, color-coded caste system, evolving from a revenge story into an epic space opera with Roman-inspired battle school elements.

06/28/2026

(JUNE 28) We know what you’re wondering… What’s in the ETLFL today? 😉

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