Longboat Library books find loving homes

By Dana Kampa
| 3:00 p.m. February 17, 2026

Nancy Prendergast walks away from the annual Longboat Library book sale happy with her find of a book by Jenny Lawson.

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From cookbooks to hardbacks to fiction to coffee-table books, plenty of the titles the Longboat Library had for sale on Valentine's Day found new homes.

Books flew from the shelves at the annual sale, serving to both downsize the library's collection and help raise funds for Save Our Seabirds.

The sale featured tomes the library wouldn't typically part with as it prepares for the groundbreaking of the new library on the Key.

The library is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at 555 Bay Isles Road.

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Dana Kampa

Dana Kampa is the Longboat Key neighbors reporter for the Observer. She first ventured into journalism in her home state of Wisconsin, going on to report community stories everywhere from the snowy mountains of Washington State to the sunny shores of the Caribbean. She has been a writer and photographer for more than a decade, covering what matters most to readers.