Amanda Sterett will bring her jewelry line to B. Barnett March 17-18.

Sometimes you just have to buy something. Here are some ideas for items that you won't find in the mall down the street:

Friends of Central Arkansas Library System are sponsoring a Used Book Sale March 12-14 at the Main Library basement, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Hardbacks are $1; paperbacks are 50 cents. Sale hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 12 and 13 and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, March 14. A FOCAL members-only preview party will be held from 5 p.m.-7 pm. Thursday, March 11 (50 percent off, which makes the books practically free) at River Market Books & Gifts, 120 Commerce St.; memberships (from $13 to $150) are available at the door.

A huge Rhea Lana spring consignment sale of children's must-haves is happening at the former M. M. Cohn building at McCain Mall, North Little Rock. Sale days and times are noon-7 p.m. Sunday (March 14), 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday (March 15-17), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday (March 18), 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday (March 19 — half price day) and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (March 20). 

Items on sale include name brand and boutique kids' clothes, furniture, toys, and baby equipment. All forms of payment — cash, check, credit and debit cards — are accepted. 

An Amanda Sterett Trunk Show, with the designer in attendance and featuring a color-enhanced assortment with lots of shapes and vivid shades of stones, is going on from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. March 17-18 at B. Barnett, 8201 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, (501) 223-2514.