This week in our Online Bookstore
JULY 2, 2025
Keep your kids reading this summer with Youth Fiction, Children’s Picture Books and Children’s & Youth Nonfiction from the Friends Bookstore! You will find many prices have been reduced on some fabulous books for children and youth!
The stories in the 10-volume hardcover set The New Junior Classics are by well-known authors including Louisa May Alcott, William Saroyan, Charles Lindbergh, Jack London, John Muir, A Conan Doyle & Rudyard Kipling.
Orders are picked up in our bookstore in the lower lever of the Kalamazoo Public Library, Downtown Kalamazoo.
OPEN BOOKSTORE HOURS: Wed. Noon - 6pm, Thurs - Sat 10am - 4pm.
PLEASE NOTE: The bookstore will be closed on Thursday 7/3 and Friday 7/4 due to the holiday.
New on Shopify
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by Adam Higginbotham
“Stunning…A heart-pounding thriller…Challengeris a remarkable book.” —The Atlantic
War of the Whales: A True Story by Joshua Horowitz
Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative….
Children's Books
Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co by John Loring
More than 350 illustrations, most in color, accompany a close-up look at the seminal influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany on his father's famous company, showcasing the designers extraordinary jewelry, enamels, blown glass, ceramics, desk accessories, and other objets d'art created during his tenure as the company's design director, as well as at luxury goods created in his own studio. 13,500 first printing.
Also newly listed:
Tiffany's 20th Century: A Portrait of American Style
Our newest art books
Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed
Tunnicliffe's Birds: Measured Drawings by C. F. Tunnicliffe
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* 10% off all purchases in the Friends Bookstore
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FRIENDS BOOKSTORE
July 2, 2025
Store hours:
Wednesday, Noon to 6pm
Thursday – Saturday 10am to 4pm
The Friends Bookstore is located in the Lower Level of the Kalamazoo Public Library.
315 S. Rose St.
Downtown Kalamazoo
269-553-72015
DONATIONS
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Due to a KPL construction project we are only accepting donations by appointment. If you would like to schedule an appointment to drop off your donation, please call 269.553.7950, leave a message and a volunteer will return your call.