New CD's and DVD's! Out with the old and in with the new! Tony is back, and over the last few days, has weeded out the old and put out 591 DVDS and CDS!
A TON of new stuff has been put out! Look at the Book Tok, new releases and new arrivals! The shelves are stuffed full!
Look at the new release shelves plus Booktok shelves! Lots going on! Even more will be added.
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
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
We have a gift basket with the ACOTAR series-paperback in pristine condition with tons of goodies included! Also some new children’s gift baskets with books, tiny beanie babies, toys, snacks and stickers. And fill a bag for $2 of old westerns! Also new releases have been restocked. New bookmarks for kids. Bring in your summer reading coupons for a free regular priced book and pick up a new bookmark while you are there!
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