Last year's Bookstock sale drew thousands of buyers and raised thousands of dollars. Dr. Lawrence Stocker holds the distinction of being one of the area's pre-eminent opthalmologists, and a benefactor to many community causes, including Hebrew Free Loan. "In 1937 I received a loan to pay my tuition at Wayne State. In those days, money was hard to come by, and that loan afforded me a solid education and the opportunity to make a living doing what I enjoy," Dr. Stocker says. "I make regular contributions to Hebrew Free Loan so others have the oppportunity I was given. And I'll remember them in my estate planning as well." Cali or visit our website today to donate to Hebrew Free Loan Hebrew Free Loan provides interest- free loans for tuition assistance, rent and many other financial needs: living expenses, medical expenses, training. small business start-up costs, and much more. If you or someone you know needs help. please click or call. www.hfldetroit.org 248.723.8184 HEBREW FREE*LOAN hfldetroit.org We Provide Loans. We Promise Dignity. A18 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.