Friends of the Library put on an annual book sale and provide the Homebound Service.
Join the Friends of ImagineIF Libraries Book Club. Meet with book enthusiasts on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 4:30 pm in the meeting room in the basement of ImagineIF Kalispell.
Download the Membership Application to find out how you can become a Friend of the Library.
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Friends of the Library is to work for the benefit, improvement and welfare of ImagineIF Libraries – its collections, its services and its facilities.
Officers
President: Francy McAllister
Vice President: Roxie Lehl
Secretary: Jill Carlberg
Treasurer: Joan Gates
2021 Book Sale at Kalispell Center Mall
September 17-19th
Friday, 10 am-8 pm
Saturday, 10 am-6 pm
Sunday, 11 am-4 pm
Thousands of items will be for sale, with all proceeds benefiting ImagineIF Libraries. Donations are welcome year round! Bring your donations to the log cabin in Lions Park across from Hilton Garden Inn. The cabin has a covered porch where you can place your donations. Please no magazines, text books, or encyclopedias.
The money raised from the sale helps pay for:
- Homebound Service
- The ImagineIF newsletter
- Literacy Volunteers
- “Book Page,” a monthly magazine
- Children’s summer programs
- Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks
- Loud at the Library (in partnership with the ImagineIF Library Foundation)
Book Donations Guidelines
Due to overwhelming response, the Friends of the Library cannot accept any more donations this year. They have no room to store them.
We appreciate your help in presorting for our book sale. Please keep these guidelines in mind when donating:
- NO old textbooks
- NO encyclopedia sets
- NO hardback fiction without a dust jacket
- NO magazines
- Nothing that is torn, damaged, moldy or smells like cigarette smoke.
Thank you for your support.
BOOK CLUB
The Friends of ImagineIF Libraries Book Club meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 4:30pm in the meeting room at ImagineIF Kalispell. Join other enthusiasts and discuss the following books each month.
OCTOBER
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Traces the life of the reclusive American heiress against a backdrop to the now-infamous of the W.A. Clark family that includes an elder-abuse investigation.
Oct 12, 4:30 PM
NOVEMBER
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese by Tiffany Midge
Collection of author’s musings on life, politics and identity as a Native woman in America.
Nov 9, 4:30 PM
DECEMBER
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
A memoir about identity, paternity and family secrets receiving the stunning news through a genealogy website that a father was not a biological father.
Dec 14, 4:30 PM
JANUARY
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Discovering a tattered letter that is to be open only in the event of her husband’s death, she is unable to resist reading and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.
Jan 11, 4:30 PM
FEBRUARY
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner of The Warmth of Other Suns.
Feb 8, 4:30 PM
MARCH
This is Where I Leave you by Jonathon Tropper
A man is thrown together with his dysfunctional family when his father dies, while at the same time coping with his wife’s infidelity and the end of his marriage.
March 8, 4:30 PM
APRIL
Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris
An evocative travelogue and memoir of a journey by bicycle along the Silk Road and how it became synonymous with humanity’s exploration of boundaries.
April 12, 4:30 PM
MAY
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia.
May 10, 4:30 PM