HUGE cookbook selection. We received a donation of BRAND NEW cookbooks! Several tables and shelves full. They are priced $1-$5 each! We also have gently used cookbooks ranging from .25 - $3. Taste of Home magazines- each marked .50 each, most look brand new. Also take a look at our gift bags and baskets. Open this week Monday. & Tue. 10:30-2:30, Thursday 3-6:30
Wednesday, August 5th - Books Between Bites - Second Chances-The Sequel (see below)
Newer book prices - 2025 and 2026 hardbacks are now $7 and 25-26 paperbacks are $4. But we still have a majority of $1 hardbacks and tons of 50 cent paperbacks.
New - 2026 Annual FOL Membership Application 2026 FOL Membership Form Membership forms with payment may be mailed to "Friends of the Library, 130 N. Franklin St., Decatur, IL 62523" or brought into our Books & Beyond bookstore during business hours as listed in the letter.
FOL Phone Number - We have a phone number you can use to call us. Call the Friends at 217-421-9733.
Please join us on Wednesday, August 5th, 2026, at 12:15 in the Decatur Public Library's Madden Auditorium for Books Between Bites.
Book: Second Chances-The Sequel -- This science fiction novel is based on the Einstein-Rosen theory of wormholes. It is a nostalgic journey of five friends and former high school basketball players at Lakeview High School in 1959, which became defunct in 1983. Now seventeen again, they have the obsession of winning the state basketball championship and have planned an amazing strategy (given their lifetime experiences) to accomplish just that. One twist is that they recruit a seven-foot-one-inch Watusi exchange student and former players who were living there in 1959 to fill their roster. There is drama, adventure, excitement, humor, anticipation, and misdirection along the way. What man or woman would not like to relive his or her high school years?
Second Chances The Sequel answers the questions of what happened to the characters at the end of the first novel, Second Chances, which is set in the past because the characters passed through a wormhole. The reader will see who decides to remain in the past and correct past mistakes and forge a new path. The main character is goal driven, and when he perceives his path blocked, he travels to the near future, changes his name and appearance in the sequel, but never his goal, which has become a complicated obsession with a unique strategy to achieve. Mysteries abound in the sequel, which will keep the reader guessing, often inaccurately.
Author and Presenter - J Terry Shull - J Terry Shull is a recent widower and loving father as well as a lifelong athlete, and retired teacher and professor of fifty six years, has completed his new book, Second Chances, a riveting tale of five friends who are somehow given the ability to relive their high school years along side their lifetime of wisdom and experience.
Books Between Bites is a free program at the Decatur Public Library, sponsored by Friends of the Decatur Public Library
Local fiction writer, Marcy Bialeschki recently donated several of her paperbacks to the FOL bookstore. Mary recently spoke at Books Between Bites. Thanks Marcy!
Book sales are on the main floor of the Decatur Public Library. Go in the main entrance, then go left to our bookstore. Hardback books are only $1,and paperbacks are 50 cents. 2025 and 2026 hardbacks are $7, and 2025 -2026 paperbacks are $4 Special books and other items are priced as marked
Sale Days and Times - Monday from 10:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesdays from 10:30am - 2:30pm
Thursdays from 3pm - 6:30pm
Saturdays sales are on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays every month from 9:30am - 12:30pm