It’s time for the Friends of the Library’s March Madness Book Sale. Come check out all the bargains and support our Friends group.

The spring book sale features thousands of high-quality used books in many genres, including

• Popular fiction
• Mystery
• Romance
• Military
• Local and Regional
• Art
• Biography
• Religion and Inspiration
• Classics
• Crafts
• Cooking
• Children’s Books
• CDs
• DVDs
• and More

Most books are priced from 50¢ to $2. Some collectible, vintage, first edition and signed books are individually priced.

The sale is refreshed with new books daily, so visit often.

A preview sale for Friends only is Sunday, March 17 from 2-5 p.m. Memberships are available at the door for $10. Scanning devices are not permitted at the preview sale.

Sale hours are:

Monday, March 18 through Thursday, March 21: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, March 24: 1-5 p.m. (Bag Sale)

MasterCard, Visa and Discover are accepted.

All proceeds of this sale support programs and services of the Washington County Public Library System.

It’s time for the Friends of the Library’s March Madness Book Sale. Come check out all the bargains and support our Friends group.

The spring book sale features thousands of high-quality used books in many genres, including

• Popular fiction
• Mystery
• Romance
• Military
• Local and Regional
• Art
• Biography
• Religion and Inspiration
• Classics
• Crafts
• Cooking
• Children’s Books
• CDs
• DVDs
• and More

Most books are priced from 50¢ to $2. Some collectible, vintage, first edition and signed books are individually priced.

The sale is refreshed with new books daily, so visit often.

A preview sale for Friends only is Sunday, March 17 from 2-5 p.m. Memberships are available at the door for $10. Scanning devices are not permitted at the preview sale.

Sale hours are:

Monday, March 18 through Thursday, March 21: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, March 24: 1-5 p.m. (Bag Sale)

MasterCard, Visa and Discover are accepted.

All proceeds of this sale support programs and services of the Washington County Public Library System.

Family story time features stories, songs, rhymes and fun for children of all ages and their parents or caregivers.

Free and open to the public. Story times are held at the main library at 11 a.m. on Mondays, 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.

No registration is required.

Family story time features stories, songs, rhymes and fun for children of all ages and their parents or caregivers.

Free and open to the public. Story times are held at the main library at 11 a.m. on Mondays, 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.

No registration is required.

The Passawatami Book Club meets at the Glade Spring branch library the last Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion.

Join us in Hayters Gap for our STEM for Homeschoolers program.

Join us as Randy Smith tells us about the Amazing Hummingbird. We’ll learn about the biology and flight characteristics of nature’s flyer wonder. you’ll also learn to attract them to your property.

All attendees receive a packet of information about these amazing tiny birds.

Learn how to use the Cricut machine to cut out spring words of your choice. Those cut-outs will then be transferred to wood blocks to create a spring display.

Sunday with Friends hosts Frances Mayes, author of “See You in the Piazza.”

About the book:

This travel narrative crisscrosses Italy, discovering the hidden secrete, the enchantment of the backstreets and the hubbub of the markets where tourists rarely go. An additional pleasure is finding inventive new recipes that celebrate Italian cuisine.

About the author:

Mayes’s new novel (April, 2018) “Women in Sunlight” delves into possibilities women face as they grow older. Three southern women meet at orientation at Cornwallis Meadows, an active lifestyle retirement community. They become friends and decide to leap out of what is forecast for them and take on life in Italy. Their story is told by Kit, an American writer already ensconced on a Tuscan hillside. They’ve all had their share and more of heartache but this is their year. Mayes wrote the novel as a tribute to all the women she has met who have traveled to a foreign country in quest of enlightenment.

She has always adored houses, and when she saw Bramasole, a neglected, 200-year old Tuscan farmhouse nestled in five overgrown acres, it was love at first sight. Out of that instant infatuation came four hugely popular, books: international bestsellers “Under the Tuscan Sun,” “Bella Tuscany,” “Everyday in Tuscany,” “In Tuscany,” a collaborative photo-textbook with her husband, the poet Edward Mayes, and photographer Bob Krist, and “Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy,” another collaborative book with Edward Mayes and photographer Steven Rothfeld. They are about taking chances, living in Italy, loving and renovating an old Italian villa, the pleasures of food, wine, gardens, and the “voluptuousness of Italian life.” She was awarded the Premio Casato Prime Donne for a major contribution in the field of letters in 2009.

Her first novel, “Swan,” a family saga and mystery, returned Mayes to her childhood home of Georgia. She is also the author of the travel memoir entitled “A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller,” which debuted as a New York Times bestseller in 2006. Working again with Steven Rothfeld, she published “Shrines: Images of Italian Worship,” also in 2006. A film version of “Under the Tuscan Sun,” starring Diane Lane, was released in fall of 2003.

Prior to “Women in Sunlight,” Mayes  published “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir,” set in her hometown, Fitzgerald , Georgia. Her work has been translated into more than 50 languages.

A widely published poet and essayist, Mayes has written numerous books of poetry, including “Sunday in Another Country,”  “After Such Pleasures,” “The Arts of Fire,” “Hours,” “The Book of Summer” and “Ex Voto.” Her work “The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems” is widely used in college poetry classes.

Formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she directed The Poetry Center and chaired the Department of Creative Writing, Mayes now devotes herself full time to writing, traveling, restoring an historic garden. She and her husband divide their time between North Carolina and Cortona, Italy.