Our next Big Book Sale Event
Fall 2024
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Friday, November 1 through Monday, November 4
inside the Westport Library
20 Jesup Road, Westport CT
Mark your calendar now for our Big Fall Book Sale, Friday, November 1 through Monday, November 4, 2024. Book Sale hours and details will be posted in September.
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Want to support your community? Volunteer with us at a Book Sale!
Help us set up at the Library during the two days before the sale starts, or volunteer during the sale.
Send an email to volunteers@westportbooksaleventures.org
Can't wait until our next Book Sale Event? Shop all year 'round at our Westport Book Shop at 23 Jesup Road in downtown Westport. For store hours and other information, click here. Or shop with us online, at our eBay store www.ebay.com/str/westportbooksalesct -- items are added to our eBay store on a regular basis.
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Don't miss out -- join our mailing list to receive email notifications about our Book Sale Events and other book sale news.
Short Story Book Club at the Book Shop
Short on time but long on interest?
Every month the Westport Book Shop's Short Story Book Club
will get together to discuss another classic or
contemporary short story
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Meets at the Westport Book Shop on
the fourth Thursday of every month
from 6:00 to 7:30pm
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Come to one session, some, or all, it's up to you!
Space is limited; registration is required.
Upcoming Westport Book Shop Events
Each month's short story selection will be announced by the first day of the month, and registration for that month's session will open when the email announcing that month's selection goes out. Make sure you are on our email list (use the "Contact Us" form at the bottom of the page), so you'll be among the first to know!
The next session of the Short Story Book Club will be Thursday, September 26, 2024. Join us for a discussion of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. This novella was short-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize; it is on the New York Times' recently released list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century; and it was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political fiction.
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Space is limited; registration is required, by phoning the Book Shop at 203-349-5141 or by sending an email to: bookshop@westportbooksaleventures.org
Reception for September Exhibiting Artist
Rebecca Ross
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Meet local artist Rebecca Ross at a reception for the Westport Book Shop's exhibiting guest artist at the Shop's Drew Friedman Art Place for the month of September.
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Join us for a reception and book signing with Rebecca, and her collaborator, author Michael Hendricks, on Sunday, September 8th, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm, at the Westport Book Shop, 23 Jesup Road.
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RSVP encouraged -- call 203-349-5141 and let us know you're coming! or send an email to bookshop@westportbooksaleventures.org
For more information about Rebecca and this exhibit, visit our "News" page.
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Copies of the children's book In the Beginning: A Love Story will be available for purchase at the reception, and throughout the month of September, at the Book Shop.
Readers' Night Out with Aline Weiller
Thursday, September 19th
Enjoy an evening with award-winning writer Aline Weiller after-hours at the Westport Book Shop on Thursday, September 19th at 6:30 p.m.
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We're celebrating Aline's new release, FUN: Essays on a Life Embraced
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Aline will be interviewed by memoirist and novelist Gabi Coatsworth
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It'll be a lively bookish night, with great conversation, light refreshments, and a chance to win a literary gift basket!
Space is limited -- please RSVP to let us know you are coming! Phone 203-349-5141 or send an email to bookshop@westportbooksaleventures.org
Recent Events
October 25, 2023
at The Westport Library
in the Trefz Forum
A benefit event
to support the next phase of our employment program
In November 2021, Westport Book Sales began selling books on eBay. Now we are piloting an expansion of our employment program, to engage employees with differing abilities in our eBay business. Participation in our eBay business provides training in valuable computer, data entry and office-type skills, broadening the work experience and marketability of our employees. And it will provide support for our fledgling online sales business.
On October 25, 2023 we hosted Chapter Two: Spanning From Retail to E-tail, to raise funds to support this next phase of our employment program. Guests enjoyed live music by Zoe's Lounge, light bites & beverages, a paddle-raise, and both a live and a silent auction of a representative sample of the kinds of things we sell on eBay, plus artwork and signed books donated uniquely for this event.
If you missed our benefit event, you can still support our efforts: click here to donate. Thank you.
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Chapter Two Benefit Committee
Jocelyn Barandiaran | Robin Berggren | Katherine Caro | Simon Curtis | Mimi Greenlee |
Eileen Lavigne Flug | Sharuna Mahesh | Linda Monteiro-Hopper |
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Event Sponsors
Dan Levinson Eileen Lavigne Flug
Jocelyn & Walter Barandiaran Robin & Brad Berggren
Linda & Scott Hopper Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Rolleri & Sheppard CPAs, LLP
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Catering by SeaSide Sliders Catering. Beer donated by Two Roads Brewing Co. Wine donated by Brescome Barton Inc. Auction items donated by Eve Potts & Andrew Bentley, Rowene Weems, Norm Siegel, Kirsten Rao, Miggs Burroughs and Nina Bentley.
ONLINE Book Sale -- Ongoing
The Westport Library Book Sale is online!
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Visit our Online Shop on eBay at www.ebay.com/str/WestportBookSalesCT, and browse a broad selection of noteworthy, collectible, antiquarian and hard-to-find out-of-print books from our Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Biography, History and Politics, Art, Architecture & Design, Photography categories, and more!
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Choose to have your purchases shipped to you, or pick up your order at the Westport Book Shop, 23 Jesup Road.​
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Items are added to our online store regularly, so check back often!
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