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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-6 days until the Treasure & 25 cent sale at the Madison City Library auditorium 1 & 2, Sat, 10/24, 9:00-3:00. Today’s ...
10/18/2026

T-6 days until the Treasure & 25 cent sale at the Madison City Library auditorium 1 & 2, Sat, 10/24, 9:00-3:00. Today’s post is for books related to all kinds of HOBBIES and ART. These include Cookbooks, Gardening, Hunting, Fishing, Shooting, Cars, NASCAR, Sewing, Quilting, Travel, Baseball, Golf, Football, Animals, Bird Watching, Jewelry Making, Rocks/Gems/Minerals, Woodworking, Home Building & Repair, Homesteading, Exercise, Natural Healing, Weddings & Star Gazing. The ART books include technique, adult coloring books & works of various famous artists. We also have 17 matted, signed & numbered photographs by Barry Jackson, who died in 2020 & was a local TN photographer known for his photos of the Swartzentruber Amish community in Ethridge, TN.

For reference, this week’s photo posts will be:
Sat - Kids (SO many items)
Sun - Hobbies (Gardening, Cooking, How-to, Fishing, Cars, etc.) & Art
Mon - Fantasy, Science Fiction, Games, Puzzles & Legos
Tue - History, Religion, Classics & Collectibles
Wed - Fiction, New Releases, Movies, Music & Media
Thu - Science, Technical, Textbooks & Education
Fri - Setup & Last minute donations
Sat - Sale

Hope to see you at the sale on the 24th. We will have bags & boxes available.

Sale is open to the general public.

Cash or check only. Cashiers will be available.

All proceeds go directly into supporting the Madison City Library.

Check back each day this week for additional Treasure items.

There will also be several hundred 25 cent items at the sale.

We are a week away from our Treasure & 25 cent sale at the Madison City Library auditorium 1 & 2, Sat, 10/24, 9:00-3:00....
10/17/2026

We are a week away from our Treasure & 25 cent sale at the Madison City Library auditorium 1 & 2, Sat, 10/24, 9:00-3:00. Today is the 1st day of the Treasure photo posts leading up to the sale.

This week’s photo posts will be:
Sat - Kids (SO many items)
Sun - Hobbies (Gardening, Cooking, How-to, Fishing, Cars, etc.) & Art
Mon - Fantasy, Science Fiction, Games, Puzzles & Legos
Tue - History, Religion, Classics & Collectibles
Wed - Fiction, New Releases, Movies, Music & Media
Thu - Science, Technical, Textbooks & Education
Fri - Setup & Last minute donations
Sat - Sale

Today (Sat) is KIDS. You will not be disappointed in the variety, quality & prices for the huge selection of kid items in this sale! It’s the perfect time to Christmas shop for all the kids on your list.

We have books for all kid ages (board, touch & feel, science, math, coding, early readers, Dr. Seuss, Lego & Minecraft building, kid dictionaries, story collections, foreign language, classics).

We have lots of bundled series sets (Little House on the Prairie, Nancy Drew, Magic Tree House, Hank Zipper, Junie B. Jones, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Beverly Cleary, Dork Diaries, Boxcar Children, Chronicles of Narnia, Horrible Histories & so many more). Check out the 27 pages of photos to see everything!

Hope to see you at the sale on the 24th. We will have bags & boxes available. Bring a friend & make it an adventure.

Sale is open to the general public.

Cash or check only. Cashiers will be available.

All proceeds go directly into supporting the Madison City Library.

Check back each day this week for additional Treasure items.

There will also be several hundred 25 cent items at the sale.

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.

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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