Last year's Bookstock sale drew thousands of buyers and raised thousands of dollars.
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March 27 .2008
Recycling Books
Detroit's largest used book sale helps area literacy
at bargain-basement prices.
T
hanks to hundreds of volun-
teers who have been sorting
thousands of donated books
for the last six months, the annual
Bookstock used book and media sale
will be held April 6-13 at Laurel Park
Place shopping center in Livonia.
Metro Detroit's largest sale of its kind
benefits dozens of literacy and educa-
tion projects.
On the sale tables will be current
bestsellers, old literary treasures, DVD
titles and even 8-track tapes.
Most paperbacks are priced at $1 and
most hardcovers are $3. Rare books
are individually priced. Records, DVDs,
CDs and tapes run $1-4.
New this year will be children's pro-
gramming from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, April
13. It will feature a storyteller, guitar
playing and yoga for the kids, plus all
books and media on this last day of the
sale will be half price.
The money that is raised at the week-
long sale is shared by community orga-
nizations that provide 700 volunteers to
sort the books and run the sale.
The organizations include:
Brandeis University National Women's
Committee, Frankel Jewish Academy,
B'nai B'rith Great Lakes Region,
Hadassah, Hillel Day School, Hillel
of Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish
Community Centers of Metropolitan
Detroit and of Washtenaw County,
Jewish Community Relations Council,
National Council of Jewish Women,
Oakland Literacy Council, ORT America
and the Detroit Jewish Coalition on
Literacy.
The Detroit Jewish News and
Schostak Brothers and Company are
Bookstock supporters.
Not all the books are sold. This win-
ter, Rabbi Howard Gorin of Maryland
shipped more than 700 pounds of
sacred Judaica from Bookstock to a
Jewish community in Africa. Wyman
Brent of California is using 200
Bookstock volumes to help establish
the Vilnius Jewish Library in Lithuania.
Several local volunteers, on their
way to Cuba, took Bookstock volumes
with them for the Cuban Jewish com-
munity. Some Yiddish books are sent
to the National Yiddish Book Center in
Massachusetts.
At the conclusion of the sale each
year, unsold books are offered to non-
profit organizations. Recipients have
included local prisons, Summer in
the City, the Coalition On Temporary
Shelter, WXYZ-TV's Immunization Fair,
art schools in Israel, local JARC homes,
hospitals, Friendship Circle, Washtenaw
JCC Early Childhood Program (who
sent the books to an Israeli school), the
American Jewish Historical Society,
United Way of Oakland County Sites
of Promise, Pontiac Operation READ
through Birmingham Groves High
School and the Holocaust Memorial
Center.
It is recommended that non-profit
organizations buy books at the sale for
best selection, then return at the end of
the sale for free merchandise.
Bookstock is a "green" venture, find-
ing new homes for donated books and
media and raising $260,000 over the
last five years for community literacy
projects. ❑
Bookstock
At Laurel Park Place, on Six Mile
Road east of 1-275.
Pre-sale ($10 admission) is
8:45-11:45 a.m. Sunday, April
6. The regular sale (no admis-
sion charge) continues through
Sunday, April 13: Sundays, noon-
6 p.m., and Monday-Saturday,10
a.m.-9 p.m.
Books are sold for half-price
on Sunday, April 13, the last day
of the sale.
Non-profit groups that need
unsold books must register on
the Bookstock info line, (248)
645-7840 ext. 365. Non-profit
representatives must also bring
a note on organization let-
terhead to Laurel Park Place
at 5:45 p.m. April 13. The note
should introduce the represen-
tative and the organization's
needs.