Madison Friends of the Library

Madison Friends of the Library We want YOU! Become a Friend of the Madison Public Library today!

Where would we be without our Friends? 'Friends of the Library' is a national organization devoted to supporting local libraries. The Friends branches of the Huntsville - Madison County Public Library provide countless volunteer hours and fund raising activities that help make our library great.

T – 1 DAY to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleWonderful volunteers worked hard today (Fri) to g...
03/27/2026

T – 1 DAY to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Wonderful volunteers worked hard today (Fri) to get the sale setup. So many items available in both Treasure & 25 cent parts of the sale. Doors open at 9:00 am tomorrow, Sat, 3/28, for our 1 day only Treasure & 25 cent SALE in Auditorium 1 & 2 of the Madison City Library, 142 Plaza Blvd. We have small boxes & bags for your use, but you are welcome to bring your own.

A third of the room is 25 cent items & the other 2/3 is individually priced Treasure.

CASH or CHECK Only! We cannot accept any cards or electronic transfer.

The bookstore will also be open, but at the regular low prices as marked.

The sale is open to the PUBLIC. You DO NOT have to belong to the Friends to shop on Sat.

Today’s (Fri) photos are the set up room and Treasure items that have come in recently & didn’t make the early day’s posts. We also had a HUGE Fantasy book donation yesterday that didn’t make any photos, but got priced and put in the sale for tomorrow.

Hope to see you all at the SALE tomorrow!

T – 2 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Thu) feature is HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES an...
03/27/2026

T – 2 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Today’s (Thu) feature is HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES and MEDICAL. HISTORY treasure includes many large coffee table books on the Civil War, WW! and WWII, Snipers, Samurai, the New World, historical Huntsville, Pompei, NASA, Railroads, the American West, Herodotus, Naval Warfare, United and Northwest Airlines and the Air & Space and Natural History Museums. Individual textual history books across many time periods and subjects like the Knights Templar, Cowboys and Indians, North Alabama, the Civil War, WWI and WWII, Columbus, the Supreme court and many others. We also have a set of prints of the Panama Canal being built, the 3 vol set of Shelby Foote’s Civil War and 25+ books on the Kennedy family, especially Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

BIOGRAPHIES include Truman Capote, Ayn Rand, Hemingway, Julia Child, Virginia Woolf, Tallulah Banks, Werner Von Braun, Lee Harvey Oswald, Benjamin Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando, John Wayne, President Garfield, Louis XIV, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, Alfred Hickcock and others.

MEDICAL includes several books on the brain, Alzheimer’s, human anatomy, urology and home remedies.

Hundreds of 25 cent books will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 3/21 to Sat, 3/28.

T – 3 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Wed) features are HOBBIES (GARDENING, C...
03/26/2026

T – 3 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Today’s (Wed) features are HOBBIES (GARDENING, COOKING, MUSIC, SPORTS, ETC) and ART. Hobby books include an extensive selection of Gardening books, including several encyclopedias, books on Cooking, Home Repair, Fishing, Decorating, Essential Oils, Sign Language, Car Repair, Bird Identification and Watching, Travel, Jujitsu, Sewing and Fire Arms. Music books include books or sheet music from Billy Joel, Taylor Swift, Santana, Neil Young, U2, History of Muscle Shoals, Hollywood Musicals, Movies and Theatre.

In ART, we have our largest collection ever of beautiful, large books on various artist’s work covering many genres, books on the history of art, how to books, several fairy tale and fantasy art books and for the 1st time ever, 4 pieces of framed prints from Charles Russell, Ansel Adams, Frederic Re*****on & Maynard Dixon.

Hundreds of 25 cent books will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 3/21 to Sat, 3/28.

T – 5 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Mon) post highlights GAMES & PUZZLES. S...
03/25/2026

T – 5 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Today’s (Mon) post highlights GAMES & PUZZLES.
SO MANY PUZZLES!! We have just under 100 fabulous puzzles in this sale from companies like White Mountain, Thomas Kincade, Buffalo, Ravensburger, Disney, Cobble Hill, RoseArt, Darrell Bush, Windows of the World, Hallmark, National Geographic, Terry Redfin. We also have 2 unopened Balsam Wood 3-D puzzles.

Games include Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, multiple Evolution games, Pandemic, classic board game set, Game of Thrones, Shinobi, Discovering Ireland, Arctic Scavengers, Neil Patrick Harris Box Two, It Was a Dark & Stormy Night & Really Loud Librarians.

Hundreds of 25 cent books will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison
CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 3/21 to Sat, 3/28.

T – 6 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Sun) post highlights FANTASY, SCIENCE F...
03/25/2026

T – 6 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Today’s (Sun) post highlights FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION, FICTION and MEDIA. Many sets of Science Fiction & Fantasy including Harry Potter, Rick Riordan, Wings of Fire (books 1-5), Stephen King Dark Tower, Game of Thrones, Sally Green Half series, multiple Anne McCaffrey series, Twilight, The Witcher, Dune and other. Individual large coffee table size books on Star Wars, DC & Marvel (Avengers, Batman, Wolverine) including Encyclopedias, The Walking Dead, an early D&D Manual set. Several classic Comic Books.

Fiction includes many 2025 & 2026 new releases from authors such as: Baldachi, Patterson, Clancy, J.D. Robb, Michael Connelly, Louise Penny, Mark Greaney, Brad Taylor, Dan Brown, Elin Hilderbrand, Lee Child, Nora Roberts, Marc Cameron, Danielle Steel & many more. Book sets include Preston & Childs, Richard Osman, Victoria Laurie, Michelle Vernal, Alex North, Christopher Moore, Kate Morton, Ken Follett & others.

Not a lot of Media this time, but we do have a New/Sealed Complete X Files DVD series and many of the NCIS DVD series.

Hundreds of 25 cent books will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 3/21 to Sat, 3/28.

T – 4 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Tue) features are RELIGION, CLASSICS & ...
03/25/2026

T – 4 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

Today’s (Tue) features are RELIGION, CLASSICS & TECHNOLOGY. In RELIGION, we have many beautiful Bibles including a C.S. Lewis bible and several of them are near new condition, boxed and leather. We got a donation of a theologian’s library so we have many antique religious books as well as sets such as a 23 vol set of Exell Biblical Illustrator ($100), a 52 vol Pulpit Commentary ($100), a 12 vol Broadman Bible Commentary ($30) and a 1957 10 vol Children’s Bible Study ($25). We have several Mormon related items and 2 Strong’s Concordance Bibles.

The treasures in CLASSICS include 1st editions, several very old books from the late 1800s and early 1900s, an 11 vol set of the Presidential Papers ($120), several large Fairy Tale books including Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Brother’s Grimm, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Two beautiful Art of War books, an Illustrated Dante’s Divine Comedy, 5 volumes of Foxfire, hardback Tolkien books and many more.

In TECHNOLOGY, we have Technical books and Textbooks on many STEM topics including: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Propulsion, Statistics, Control Systems, Aerospace, Computing Security, Space, Aerodynamics, Astrodynamics, Model Rocketry, Signal Processing, Fluid Mechanics, Radar Systems, Circuit Analysis, Accounting, Programming (JAVA, 3D Graphics) and many more.

Hundreds of 25 cent books will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 3/21 to Sat, 3/28.

T – 7 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleWe’re a WEEK away from the Spring Madison City F...
03/21/2026

T – 7 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

We’re a WEEK away from the Spring Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale. As usual, I will post daily highlight photos of some of the most amazing Treasure items in each category during the upcoming week. Check posts from Sat 3/21 through Fri 3/27 to see all the photos.

Sale date - Sat, 3/28, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

All TREASURE items are either in excellent condition or are heirloom collector items. These will be individually priced with our typical store prices of 10-30% of original or current eBay/online prices. Some of these items are > $100 online so expect to see some things to be priced $10-$20 each.

Today’s Treasure features are KIDS & EDUCATION. Lots of children’s series (Alex Rider, Anne of Green Gables, Battle Bugs, Beatrix Potter, Dork Diaries, Dr. Seuss, Hardy Boys, How to Train Your Drago, I Can Read, Little House on the Prairie, Nancy Drew, Pop-up Peekaboo, Theodore Boone, 39 Clues, Warriors, etc.). Many large story books including several 5-Minute Collections. Popular authors and characters including Eric Caryle, Goodnight Moon, Velveteen Rabbit, Pout-Pout Fish, Frozen, Little Blue Truck, Disney, Pippa the Pig Phonics set. Children’s dictionaries, Science and History Encyclopedias, and educational reference books including a 15 volume set of 1982 Children’s How & Why.

In Education, there are many books that would be great for home schooling, including Journeys Textbooks, Six Ideas that Shaped Textbooks and individual books on middle and high school Math, Chemistry, Science, Geography, etc.

We will also have hundreds of .25 items but they will be limited to Fiction (all genres), Kids books, Cookbooks, CDs, DVDs & audio books.

Thank you for your continued support!

The Madison Friends of the Library is helping Santa this year by installing a "Letters To Santa" mailbox in the Kid's Ar...
12/03/2025

The Madison Friends of the Library is helping Santa this year by installing a "Letters To Santa" mailbox in the Kid's Area of the Madison City Library. Kids can bring their pre-written letter for mailing or write their own letter at the library on Christmas themed paper available at the desk in the Kids Area. The mailbox will be up until Christmas Eve. Our plan is to do this each December so we are hoping this can become a library tradition for all the kids in our community. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

T – 1 DAY to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleTo clarify, this sale is open to the PUBLIC. You ...
10/17/2025

T – 1 DAY to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale

To clarify, this sale is open to the PUBLIC. You DO NOT have to belong to the Friends to shop on Sat. Today’s (Fri) photos are all the items that have come in recently & didn’t make the early day’s posts. A 16 vol set of Good Housekeeping Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening, 24 vintage Charlie Brown books, a 17 vol set of Cooking Club of America, 46 vols of vintage Hardy Boys, a 6 vol set of New Book of Popular Science, a 11 vol set History of the US, multiple volume sets of Patrick O’Brian, Little House on the Prairie and Nicholas Flammel Secrets of the Immortal, Far Side and Calvin & Hobbs. Individual items include a Russian vocabulary card deck, the Hobbit on Audio CDs, a Band of Brothers new sealed DVD set, KAPLAN MCAT prep on 7 subjects, Art, Kids, many new Cookbooks, more New Releases and 12 leather Classics.

Hundreds of 25 cent items will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 10/18, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison

CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Today is setup for the sale so this is the last post with individual item photos.

Hope to see you all at the SALE tomorrow!

T – 2 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 SaleToday’s (Thu) feature is RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY & ...
10/16/2025

T – 2 DAYS to the Madison City Friends of the Library TREASURE & 25 Sale
Today’s (Thu) feature is RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION. In RELIGION, we have many Bibles, the Wycliffe Bible Commentary, a Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics, National Geographic Jesus An Illustrated Life, multiple Bible Dictionaries, Biblical Greek Primer, Jane Austin Devotional and more.

In TECHNOLOGY, we have Technical books and Textbooks on many STEM topics including: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Algebra II, Calculus, Thermodynamics, Propulsion, Regression Analysis, Failure Analysis, Statistics, Control Systems, Aerospace, Fluid Flow, Data Analysis, Structures, System Modeling, Computing Security, 6-Sigma, Thermal Radiation, Heat Transfer, Quality, Antenna Theory and Programming (JAVA, Turbo Assembler, 6800 Assembly, Virtual Reality, Gaming, Python and Hacking). In the Medical field, we have books covering Nursing, Herbal Health, Neurology, Urology and Family Health Guide.

In EDUCATION, we have several Math instruction products, including Mission Math and multiple volume sets of Algebra and Geometry b Videotext Interactive. We also have several books and kits on Latin, books for teaching Early Childhood education, Life and Earth Science and Smithsonian Definitive Guides to Humans and the Universe.

Hundreds of 25 cent items will be available too!

Sale date - Sat, 10/18, 9:00 – 3:30
Madison City Library Auditoriums 1 & 2
142 Plaza Blvd, Madison
CASH & CHECK ONLY. A cashier will be present. 100% of proceeds go to the Madison City Library.

Keep checking back each day for information on new featured Treasure categories. Photos will be posted from Sat, 10/11 to Sat, 10/18.

Address

142 Plaza Boulevard
Madison, AL
35758

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 8pm
Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+12564610046

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