SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Over the past few months, Harpers Ferry resident Loni Wronka-Edwards has been enjoying the peace and quiet in the Scarborough Library, spending countless hours there studying for her graduate certificate classes. When she looked online to confirm the library would be open for some study time on Saturday, she was disappointed, and quickly began searching for an alternate spot.

She found herself, instead, driving for the first time to the Shepherdstown Public Library (SPL), where she did find her ideal study environment -- along with a number of books begging for her to take them home with her, at the annual Friends of Shepherdstown Library Book Sale in the SPL Commons Room.

"I like nonfiction," Wronka-Edwards, who is a federal contractor, said. "I like true crime, but I a

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