After a year of dormancy at the hands of bed bugs, the book sales from the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library are finally back.

The Friends, a nonprofit that raises funds for the library, was forced to cancel its last two book sales, in the spring and fall, after a donation of books infested with bed bugs threw all or most of the several thousand books being prepared for sale under suspicion (they were never mixed with the library’s collection).

The book-living bugs spent the past year in a semi-trailer, cast off to starve to death under quarantine. Now, the books are fit for sale.

“With the Friends having been shut down basically for the last year, we are all — the board, myself, the public, the library staff — we are all eagerly anticipating returning to business as usual and getting these books out into the community and raising funds for the library,” Friends program manager Kandyce Horn said.

The sale runs from Sept. 25 through 27, but this year, book lovers won’t have to wait long for the next one. The Friends will experiment with the idea of monthly sales by hosting more in late October and early November. Sometime after, they will decide whether to go monthly, quarterly or back to the usual biannual schedule.

Either way, it’s a welcome return. A year without any sales resulted in a 30 percent drop in contributions from the Friends this year. Each sale typically brings in up to $25,000, Horn said.

But things weren’t as bad as they could be. The library spent almost all of the past year operating out of a smaller, temporary location during its renovation, and the Friends had reserve funds to tap into anyway.

“We weren’t doing as much programming, so it affected us a little bit less as we were in a transitional state,” library director Brad Allen said. “It probably would have had more impact if we were in this new building.”

Sales will now be run out of the southwest corner of the library, on Kentucky Street. A garage door will be opened with the books, DVDs and CDs laid out inside, running anywhere from 50 cents to $5.

“I’m excited that they’re trying this monthly thing,” Allen said. “We’re very excited to have the Friends back in action. They have worked so hard in difficult circumstances, to say the least.”