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The 69th Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale

Friends of the Library
Friends of the Library

The 69th annual Friends of the Library Book sale kicks off tomorrow at the McKinley High School cafeteria.

More than 150,000 books and media are for sale, along with CDs and DVDs.  Prices range from 50 cents to $5,000 for the most expensive rare books. There are also more than a hundred pieces of art for sale, both framed and loose.

All of the proceeds from the sale go to supporting the 50 public libraries across the islands. Nainoa Mau is the Executive Director of the Friends of the Library. 

  Books will be heavily discounted on the last two days of the sale, and any books that are sold are donated to libraries in Micronesia through Reach Out Pacific, or RePac program.  

The sale runs until next Friday and hours for each day vary and can be checked at friendsofthelibraryofhawaii.org.

Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.
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