Round Rock, Texas: The Round Rock Public Library
The Three Amigos welcome you to the Round Rock Public Library!
Public libraries are also often, somewhat paradoxically, very good bookstores. You would think that a place that loans books for free would not be a great place to locate a bookstore, but people who love to read books also love having books, and often end up having to trade out books they once loved to make room for new books on their bookshelves. These folks make up the Friends of the Library.
The Round Rock Public Library’s Friends of the Library Book Nook is not very big, but at least by my judgment it makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Since moving to Texas I’ve picked up eleven books there, from Andrew Breitbart and P.J. O’Rourke to Andre Norton and a Robert Heinlein.
And Martin Greenberg’s Dinosaur Fantastic collection isn’t the best science fiction I’ve read lately, but it is filled with dinosaurs! Can’t hardly go wrong with that.
They also have an entire bookshelf dedicated to a handful of high-selling authors such as Richard Patterson and Janet Evanovich.
The Book Nook appears to have a pretty good turnover rate, as, despite it’s size, I’m always finding something new.
There are two sections to the Book Nook. As you walk in the main entrance, the children’s and young adult section is directly around the corner on your left as you enter the library. The larger Book Nook is in a room up the stairs, also around the corner to your left as you leave the stairs.
The Round Rock library is currently right downtown, though they are considering moving it to the outskirts of town.
Round Rock Public Library
216 E. Main St.
Round Rock, Texas
Aug. 6, 2022
| The Best of Isaac Asimov• | Isaac Asimov | $0.50 | mass market paperback |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burmese Days• | George Orwell | $0.50 | trade paperback |
| Telegraph Avenue• | Michael Chabon | $1.00 | hardcover |
| Becoming Ray Bradbury• | Jonathan R. Eller | $1.00 | hardcover |
| The Map That Changed the World• | Simon Winchester | $1.00 | hardcover |
Jan. 29, 2019
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame I• | Robert Silverberg | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame IIB• | Ben Bova | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
| Peace• | Gene Wolfe | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
| What Went Wrong?• | Bernard Lewis | $1.00 | small trade paperback |
| Independence Day | $1.00 | ||
| Ragnarok: The End of the Gods• | A. S. Byatt | $2.00 | hardcover |
Jan. 11, 2018
| For Kings and Planets• | Ethan Canin | $2.00 | hardcover |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures• | Mike Resnick | $2.00 | hardcover |
Nov. 17, 2016
| The Translator• | Ward Just | $2.00 | hardcover |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Yiddish Policemen’s Union• | Michael Chabon | $2.00 | hardcover |
Oct. 8, 2015
| Odd Interlude• | Dean Koontz | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
|---|
July 20, 2015
| Star Maker• | Olaf Stapledon | $1.00 | trade paperback |
|---|
March 9, 2015
| The Face of Fear• | Dean Koontz | $0.50 | mass market paperback |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors | Jeff Smith | $0.50 | unknown print |
| Sargasso of Space | Andre Norton | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
| Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein | Robert A. Heinlein | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
| Orphans of the Sky | Robert A. Heinlein | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
| Methuselah’s Children | Robert A. Heinlein | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
Jan. 24, 2015
| Dinosaur Fantastic• | Martin H. Greenberg, Mike Resnick | $1.00 | mass market paperback |
|---|
March 20, 2014
| Parliament of Whores• | P.J. O’Rourke | $1.00 | small trade paperback |
|---|---|---|---|
| Righteous Indignation• | Andrew Breitbart | $2.00 | hardcover |
In response to The bookstores less traveled: These aren’t the bookstores people travel across the country to visit. But if you’re already traveling across the country, you’ll want to take advantage of the opportunity to visit them.
- The Book Nook at Round Rock Public Library
- “The Book Nook is the Friends of the Round Rock Public Library’s used book store, located inside the library on the second floor. Our mission is to raise funds to purchase new materials for the library.”
More bookstores
- The Thrifty Peanut in Shreveport
- A great little bookstore in Shreveport off of I-20, and a great place to relax in the middle of a long road trip.
- New Orleans: Beckham’s Bookshop
- Beckham’s Bookshop is a musty must-stop if you’re in the French Quarter.
- Las Cruces, New Mexico: Coas Books
- Coas Books is a chain of two bookstores in Las Cruces, and well worth the visit.
- Palestine, Texas: The Palestine Public Library
- The Palestine Public Library opens their booksale room about once a month. If you’re in the area, it’s well worth a look.
- Buffalo, Texas: The Horse’s Mouth on Highway 79
- This tiny little bookshop and coffeehouse is worth stopping at if you’re on Highway 79 and need a browse, a coffee, or a shake.
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- Temple Public Library Book Sale
- The Temple Public Library has a great book sale twice a year. I’ve picked up some wonderful novels, nonfiction, and cookbooks there.
- Friends of the New Braunfels Public Library Annual Book Sale
- The annual New Braunfels Library sale is well worth a visit if you live nearby.
- Palestine, Texas: The Palestine Public Library
- The Palestine Public Library opens their booksale room about once a month. If you’re in the area, it’s well worth a look.
- Georgetown, Texas: Second-Hand Prose
- The Georgetown public library book nook is possibly the best library bookstore I’ve been to.
- Newaygo, Michigan: Bay Leaf Books
- If you’re passing near Newaygo Michigan, don’t miss this bookstore hidden among the antique stores and art stores of little Newaygo.
More Round Rock
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- Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
- Business prospect incentives discourage innovation
- Complicating the law and raising taxes, then lowering them for businesses that know how to lobby local or state governments, is not a recipe for encouraging innovation. It is a recipe for killing it.
- Why don’t taxes go down when population goes up?
- The left says that government can better take advantage of economies of scale. So why don’t they lower taxes when population rises?
- Round Rock extends dangerously low speed limits on Highway 79?
- Are accidents along Highway 79 in Round Rock the result of speed limits that are too high, or are they the result of speed limits too far below the 85th percentile?
- Round Rock vote to terminate Redflex contract
- Round Rock will, this coming Thursday, consider a resolution to terminate their contract with Redflex for red light cameras. I think that’s a great idea.
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