Friends of the Library - Tehachapi

Save the Date for the Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale!

Need a great place to study, alone or with a group? The Tehachapi Library is open Tuesday-Thursday 10 AM - 7 PM, Friday 10 AM - 6 PM, and Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM.

Donations Needed
The Friends of the Tehachapi Library like to keep the shelves of “The Downstairs Bookshop” full for community shoppers.
They need quality donations of fiction: trade (taller) paperbacks, mass market paperbacks, classics, and hardback fiction. General nonfiction is also needed, specifically: history, biography, autobiography, diet, self-help, nutrition, psychology, and animals.
Children’s books are very popular, and donations are appreciated
The Downstairs Bookshop is open when the library is open, Tuesday through Thursday from 10 am to 7 pm, Friday 10 am to 6 pm, and Saturday 10 to 4 pm.
The funds generated by the nonprofit Friends of the Library group stay in our community and support and enhance library and materials for all ages.

Looking for the perfect gift for a book lover? The Friends of the Tehachapi Library have two patterns and sizes of handcrafted bags (snowman and cat) handcrafted by volunteer Mary Horton from our Christmas Book Market.

If interested, contact The Friends at [email protected] or (661) 750-2818

The fall leaves are turning. We hope you are turning the leaves of some of your book purchases from the recent Friends of the Tehachapi Library Book Sale during the Apple Festival.

Thanks to our regular volunteers as well as members of the community who showed up to help us turn the Courtyard of the Library into an outdoor sale.

It's gratifying to see books match up with readers. What did you buy at the sale? What are you reading?

Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 7th when the Friends put on a Family Craft Event from 10 to 4, and our Christmas Book Market from 11-4 as part of the Tehachapi Hoe Town Christmas. (P. S. We've been saving special books all year!)

It's happening! The Fall Book Sale (during the Tehachapi Apple Festival). Stop by the Library Courtyard at 212 S. Green Street. We are here until 5 pm with LOTS of great priced specialty titles and vintage, and our popular bag sale.

Join a community of library supporters and readers and book lovers! We look forward to seeing you!

We discover such interesting things in our donations!

Today we priced vintage children's books from the 20s and 30s and vintage sheet music in preparation for our Fall Book Sale. The sale is THIS SATURDAY from 10 to 5 (in conjunction with the Apple Festival) in the Library Courtyard at 212 S. Green Street in downtown Tehachapi. Friends Community members and volunteers can shop at 9:30 am. You can buy a Community Friends membership at the door for $10, good for early entry to our sales for a year.

On Friday, October 10th from 4 to 6 pm we'll host our "We Love Locals" sale. Preview for Friends and volunteers at 3:30 pm.

We're looking for robust community-minded volunteers to help move boxes of books Friday from 12 to 1 at the library, and from 1 to 3 at our local storage shed. You can sign up online at https://www.volunteersignup.org/F8BFL.

The weather looks to be wonderful, and the book selection is too! All sales support the programs of the Tehachapi Branch,.

Feel like casting off on sea journey? A recent donation of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (think "Master and Commander"!) and related titles are now featured on the top shelf on the nonfiction wall of the Friends of the Tehachapi Downstairs Bookshop. These are cracking sea adventures about the Royal Navy, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Look for the "As Featured on Facebook" shelf marker.

And stop by our Fall Book Sale for more interesting reads Saturday, October 11th from 10 to 5, and our "We Love Locals" sale Friday, October 10th from 4-6!

It's exciting to price interesting and unusual titles for Priced Specialty Books in our Boutique section -- part of The Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale this Saturday, October 11th from 10 am to 5 pm (during the Apple Festival).

We wish to thank our community for the generous donations with a "We Love Locals" sale Friday October 10th from 4-6 pm.

Our Bag Sale area offers all kinds of books for all ages for $5 a (provided) bag. Prices are discounted from 3-5 on Saturday.

Come join and support a community of readers and library supporters!

The Friends of the Tehachapi Library's Fall Book Fair is this Saturday, October 11th from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Courtyard of the Library at 212 S. Green Street (in conjunction with the Apple Festival)

We are hosting a "We Love Locals" book sale on Friday early evening, October 11th from 4:00-6:00, before the Apple Festival begins on Saturday. Our community has been generous with quality donations and we want to show our appreciation

The Boutique section of our sale has specialty priced books, discounted vintage, sets, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, and some records, and comics. Our Vintage area has priced books and sets 50 years and older. The remainder of the sale is our popular Bag Sale. You may fill a bag (provided) for only $5!. From 3:00 - 5:00 pm discounts are offered: Boutique items are half off, and you can fill (provided) bags for only $1!

Bag sale area is sorted by topic or genre, for example: Childrens & Young Adult, General Nonfiction, Biography and Autobiography, Health and Fitness, Religion and Spirituality, Humor, Travel, Reference, STEM, Classics, Poetry and Plays, mysteries, romance, fiction, and more...

If you wish to shop from 3:30-4pm Friday or 9:30 -10:00 am Saturday, you may join the Friends as a Community Friends member for $10 donation at the door.

If you love books, and want to help the Friends, you can sign up to work a shift at https://www.volunteersignup.org/F8BFL.

The Boutique section of our sale has specialty priced books, discounted vintage, sets, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, and some records, and comics. Our Vintage area has priced books 50 years and older. And the remainder of the sale is our popular Bag Sale. You may fill a bag (provided) for only $5!. From 3:00 - 5:00 pm discounts are offered, and Boutique items are half off, and you can fill a (provided bag) for only $1!

The bag sale area is sorted by topic or genre, for example: Childrens & Young Adult, General Nonfiction, Biography and Autobiography, Health and Fitness, Religion and Spirituality, Humor, Travel, Reference, STEM, Classics, Poetry and Plays, mysteries, romance, fiction, and more.

If you wish to shop from 3:30-4pm Friday or 9:30 -10:00 am Saturday, you may join the Friends as a Community Friends member for $10 donation at the door.

If you love books, and want to help the Friends, you can sign up to work a shift at https://www.volunteersignup.org/F8BFL.

The Friends of the Tehachapi Library is a nonprofit that supports and raises money for our local Tehachapi branch library.

The Friends of the Tehachapi Library are sorting and cleaning donations in preparation for our next sale. Yesterday it was beautiful art books on Van Gogh...stay tuned!

The Friends of the Tehachapi Library received a windfall of fiber arts books: knitting, lacework, felt, crochet, dyeing fiber, and more. Check them out on the top shelf of our nonfiction section in The Downstairs Bookshop, open when the library is open. Tuesday through Thursday, 10-7, Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-4.