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New year, new hours (at Mission Hills)! 📚⏰ As we settle in at Library Shop Mission Hills, we’re making a small change to our hours. We will be closing at 6 PM every day instead of 7 PM and will be open an hour earlier at 10 AM on Saturdays. No changes at Library Shop Central location, we’re still rocking the same hours there. 2026 Library Shop hours: 📍 MISSION HILLS (Updated) Mon-Sat: 10 AM - 6 PM Sun: 11 AM - 6 PM 📍 CENTRAL LIBRARY (Same, same) Mon-Tue: 11:30 AM - 5:30 PM Wed-Sat: 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Sunday: Closed Come visit us for book recommendations, gift ideas, and that guilt-free shopping you love. 💙 Questions? Call us! Central: 619-236-5800 Mission Hills: 619-782-7541 #SanDiegoBookstore #MissionHills #SDPL

An inside look into @libraryshopsd ‘s new Mission Hills location! Tons of space, tons of merch, and all the BOOKS! Visit either @libraryshopsd location during the San Diego Book Crawl between April 25-27th to earn a stamp in your passport!! #sandiego #sdbookcrawl #shoplocal

📖 Growing up is hard. Being chronically underfunded is harder. We've been asking the City budget for a little respect for a while now. This is our Judy Blume moment. Are you there, Budget? It's me, Library. It's time you talked to the City Council to ask them to fund the Library! YOU will have your chance tomorrow, May 18th at 6pm. Find all the info you need at the SPEAK UP link in our linktree. #FundTheLibrary #SanDiegoPublicLibrary #LibraryFoundationSD

🔥 Just a cool 1,200 postcards (a fraction of what has been sent to the Mayor) and we NEED YOU to show up to write 2,000 more that have just dropped. This time to San Diego City Councilmembers. The budget is in their hands. Stop by either @libraryshopsd location this week, grab a card (or a stack), and tell City Council what’s up. Library hours. Library funding. The programs your neighbors count on. Say it with your whole chest. We’ll handle the mailing. You just have to show up. Can’t come in? Sign up to SEND A POSTCARD and we’ll mail you a packet straight to your door. We have 350 to get out, so don’t wait. If you are feeling ready to DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT at City Council, please join us on MONDAY, MAY 18th at 6pm to make your voice heard. 🔥Comment HOT below and we’ll send you all the details to your DMs. Let CITY COUNCIL know you want them to FUND THE SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY! Either way, send this to someone who needs to see it. 📍 Library Shop Central Mon + Tue 11:30am - 5:30pm Wed-Sat 10:30am - 5:30pm 📍 Library Shop Mission Hills Mon-Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 11am - 6pm

The wild things don't go quietly. Comment ROAR for details. This Monday, May 18th at 6pm, City Council needs to hear from you. The Library is where imagination lives. Where kids who feel too big for their rooms find a kingdom that fits. Proposed budget cuts threaten Library hours, art programs, and youth services that make that magic real. 📚 Show up. Speak up. Be the wild things this City needs. Let’s Roar! #FundTheLibrary #SanDiegoPublicLibrary #LibraryFoundationSD

Summer is setting up to be STACKED with a great list of author events and activities. 📚 June 2 | @natashalesterauthor in conversation with @kayliejonesbooks , "The Chateau on Sunset" with @AdventuresbytheBook 📚 June 4 | @laurelcoronaauthor , in collaboration with the Humanities Department of @sdpubliclibrary 📚 June 8 | @tgwood505 + @elanlesvies , mystery and historical fiction double feature 📚 June 11 | @writemadhushree in conversation with @huda.almarashi , "Safar" book launch 🚘 June 14 | Second Sunday Storytime: Things That Go 📚 June 18 | Remember the Ladies: @writerreynagrande , @laurakamoie , and @elizabethcobbsauthor | Book purchase required 📍 All at Library Shop Mission Hills. And we're not stopping there. 🔎 July 1-31| Where's Odi @ SDPL is back! Find Odi, stamp your passport and collect a button! Can you find Odi at all 37 branches of the @sdpubliclibrary ? 📚 August 22 | Library Shop is heading to the @KPBS San Diego Book Festival at the University of San Diego. Save that date too. Full event details and RSVPs at the EVENTS link in our bio! #LibraryShopSD #SanDiegoEvents #AuthorEvents #SummerReading #SanDiego

📮 The mayor’s budget revise was just an opening move. Your City Councilmembers are the ones who decide what stays and what goes from here. Now it’s time to write to them directly. We just restocked with 2,000 new postcards and 350 postcard packets, and every message counts. The new cards are addressed “Dear ___” so you can write to your specific councilmember (or all nine, if you’re feeling fired up). Tell them exactly what’s at stake: Library hours, Library programs, arts, and youth services your neighbors depend on. Stop by either Library Shop location and fill out a few, or click the SEND A POSTCARD link in our bio to get a full packet delivered to your door. libraryfoundationsd.org/take-action Keep writing. Keep showing up. 📍 Library Shop Central Library | Mon + Tue 11:30am - 5:30pm, Wed-Sat 10:30am - 5:30pm 📍 Library Shop Mission Hills | Mon-Sat 10am - 6pm, Sun 11am - 6pm

📚 Happy Pub Day to “Migrant Heart” by @writerreynagrande ! Reyna Grande is an award-winning author whose work powerfully illuminates the complexities of immigration, family separation, and the pursuit of the American Dream. Her memoirs “The Distance Between Us” and “A Dream Called Home,” as well as her historical novel, “A Ballad of Love and Glory,” have been praised for their accounts of migrant resilience, determination, and heart. “Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget” blends sophistication and honesty about the reality of crossing borders and living between nations, cultures, and identities and how her journey shaped the woman she has become. While reconciling her own impoverished past with her children’s world of comfort, Grande asks: How do we turn pain into power? When memory threatens to define us, how can we use story to heal while still honoring our boundaries? How do we bridge the gap between who we were and who we have become? Reyna will also be joining us June 18 for Remember the Ladies, a panel discussion with @laurakamoie (“Fearless Women”) and @elizabethcobbsauthor (“Founding Mother”) on the women who shaped this nation. Presented with @adventuresbythebook , timed to the 250th anniversary. All three authors to sign after. 📅 Thursday, June 18 | 6:30 PM 📍 Library Shop Mission Hills Advanced registration is required for this event. Your ticket is a book. Pick up “Migrant Heart” (or any of the three featured titles) to reserve your seat. Bundle all three for a discount and priority in the signing line. Proceeds support the San Diego Public Library. We encourage you to grab your spot today as this event will sell out. Click the EVENTS link in our bio to register. #libraryshopsd #migrantheart 📸 @thatsranunculus

Shout out to @libraryshopsd for making reaching out to my representatives as easy as pushing a button and sending a post card! Listen, this isn’t just happening in San Diego. Hubs for communities are under extreme stress and facing shut down across the country. As a reader, the library is sacred but it’s more than that! As a kid, I remember going to the library with my mom for story time and a new book, FOR FREE! I learned to take care of the books because they weren’t just for me. They were for EVERYBODY! As a social worker, when I started my masters program, I remember being really confused that there was a practicum at the library. Then I learned about all of the ways that librarians step up and the information and ACCESS they hold for the community. Don’t get it twisted. This isn’t just about books! You cut the funds to a library, you cut a community down. If you’re local to SD, check out the link to see how you can support and reach out to your representatives. If you’re in a different area, make sure you’re showing your library support. Whether it’s for that young reader learning or the person who didn’t know how much a library could mean. They need you to!

Stop being so selfish! #thebooksneedyou!

Just dropped off a new batch of crocheted cactus to the Mission Hills Library Shop!!

📖 "If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun." ― Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn lived by those words, and @priyaparmarwriting wrote a novel worthy of them. "The Original" is a gripping novelization of the screen icon's life: her fierce independence, her passionate spirit, her fluid sexuality, and the Hollywood rules she refused to follow. Join us May 13 at 6:30 pm at Library Shop Mission Hills for an author conversation with @laurenmariefleming . Already praised by Kristin Hannah, Paula McClain, and Claire Messud. Don't miss it. 📅 Wednesday, May 13 | 6:30 pm 📍 Library Shop Mission Hills | 925 W. Washington St 🎟 Free and open to the public 📚 Your @libraryshopsd purchase supports programming @sdpubliclibrary Presented with @adventuresbythebook . Link in bio to grab your book ahead of time!