The Friends Bookstore
Monday-Saturday: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Phone: (619) 435 1516
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Entrance behind the Library on D Avenue.
Located inside the Library lobby.
Welcome To Our Beloved Bookstore
For more than 20 years, Second Hand Prose has been a treasured part of the Coronado Public Library community. Now, as the Friends Bookstore, we continue that tradition—offering a wide selection of gently used books and gifts while supporting the Library programs and services you love.
Located behind the Library on D Avenue, across from Coronado High School, the Friends Bookstore is open daily and features books for readers of all ages. Visitors can also browse the Friends Honor Shop in the Library lobby, offering additional books, gifts, and specialty items.
This special place is proudly run by our dedicated volunteers, whose time and commitment have sustained the bookstore for decades. We are deeply grateful for all they do.
Browse. Discover. Give Back.
Every purchase helps fund Coronado Public Library events, resources, scholarships, and community programs. When you shop with the Friends, you help strengthen the Library and the services it provides to our community.
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Donations Welcome
The Friends Bookstore welcomes donations of gently used books, media, and select specialty items. To help our volunteers make the best use of limited sorting and storage space, we are currently prioritizing newer titles, recent bestsellers, and books in good condition, as well as rare, collectible, local-interest, and exceptional titles.
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Please review our donation guidelines before donating.
Donation Guidelines
Thank you for supporting the Friends Bookstore and the Coronado Public Library. Donations of quality books and media help fund Library programs, events, resources, scholarships, and services for our community.
To help our volunteers make the best use of limited sorting, storage, and shelf space, we ask that donations meet the following guidelines. While we welcome many quality donations, we are especially interested in books published within the last five years, as these are often in highest demand among our customers. We also welcome rare, collectible, local-interest, and exceptional titles regardless of publication date.
We Welcome
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Gently used fiction and nonfiction books in good condition
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Children's books in excellent condition
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Recent bestsellers
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Audiobooks on CD and Playaway devices
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Commercially produced DVDs
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Puzzles with all pieces included
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Magazines published within the last six months
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Rare, collectible, local-interest, and exceptional books
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Please Do Not Donate
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Damaged, ripped, musty, or water-damaged books
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Books with broken bindings, missing pages, excessive highlighting, or writing
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Outdated textbooks and reference materials
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Encyclopedias
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Computer software
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CDs, VHS tapes, audiocassettes, and 8-track tapes
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High school yearbooks
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Phonograph records
*Exceptions may be made for classic, collectible, local-interest, and exceptional titles.
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Donation Drop-Off
Donations may be dropped off at the Friends Bookstore during operating hours.
Bookstore Hours
Monday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Please do not leave donations outside the Library or bookstore.
If you have more than three boxes or bags of donations, please call us at (619) 435-1516 so we can help coordinate your drop-off.
Tax Information
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Receipts are available upon request.
Friends volunteers and Library staff are unable to determine the value of donated items.
Thank you for helping us turn books into community impact.
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