Our goal is to see every patron of Café con Libros Press leave with something to read. We invite the community to visit our Lending Library and strive to offer a variety of reading materials for every interest and every age, at no cost and no fees.
Simply explore our shelves and choose a book to take home. On the way out, let us know which book or books you’re taking home and return it when you’re done, no due dates. If you think you want to keep the book permanently, give us a small donation.
Our Lending Library is made possible by generous donations from our community.
Book Donations
In order to maintain an ever engaging selection of books, we rotate books out after 4 months unless we added them to our “classics” section or our own in-house library of “must haves”.
Below is the calendar of our monthly book drives that target books that have been highly requested by our community.
| January | Women Narratives |
| February | Biographies (especially of BIPOC) |
| March | Fantasy and SciFi |
| April | Inspirational and Self-Help |
| May | LGBT+ and Social Sciences |
| June | Parenting, Families, and Relationships |
| July | Young Adult |
| August | College Text Books and College Test Prep Books |
| September | Mystery and Thrillers |
| October | Children’s Books |
| November | Spirituality and Bibles |
| December | Arts, Cooking, Crafting, and Health |
What Happens to Donated Books?
After we process the donated books, most will end up in our Lending Library.
A small amount of donated pristine books are placed in our selection of books for sale at a greatly reduced price and help to supplement our costs, fund events, or buy materials such as art supplies for our Cuentitos y Crafts (children’s story hour and craft).
Local Partners
In the past we have partnered with women’s and transitional shelters, teen group homes, and teachers. They gave us a list of the types of books they needed and we donate books from our Lending Library to fulfill their requests.
If you or your non-profit organization is interested in receiving a donation of books from our Lending Library, please email us.
cafeconlibrospress@gmail.com
Another local initiative has been to maintained a booth at the weekly Farmers Market where children listen to a story and find a book to take home. We also supplied book bundles sold for a modest amount or given at no cost at the Farmers Market.
