ALLIANCE \u2012 Each August, like clockwork, book hunters from around the country flock to the Friends of Rodman Public Library Used Book Sale.<\/p>\n
This year’s sale \u2212 which runs through Aug. 6 \u2212 is no exception.<\/p>\n
Buyers from Iowa, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Wisconsin had stopped in by Aug. 4, according to Barbara Burley, president of the Friends of Rodman Public Library.<\/p>\n
The annual sale is an official event of the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival and is held at The Alliance Commons at 405 S. Linden Ave.<\/p>\n
The sale features at least 10,000 hardback and paperback books, along with CDs, DVDs and records. It also has raffle prizes, including a lottery basket. The sale raises funds for the library and other activities.<\/p>\n
Prices for books and other materials are dirt cheap.<\/p>\n
For example, paperbacks are 50 cents apiece. Hardbacks are $1, and children’s books are 25 cents, or five for $1. All movies or music items are $1.<\/p>\n
The final day of the sale \u2212 Aug. 6 \u2212 will be easier on the budget. Purchases are by donation only, no matter how many books or items buyers want to take home.<\/p>\n
Burley, a retired teacher and an organizer of the event for the last 22 years, said the sale feels like a family reunion between volunteers and buyers.<\/p>\n
“I see people that I’ve had their kids in school when I taught and we catch up,” she said, “and some kids that came with their parents to shop now volunteer.”<\/p>\n
One of the nearly 100 volunteers helping with the sale was 16-year-old Gianna Phillips, a junior at Alliance High School.<\/p>\n
Phillips said this was her second time helping out. She learned about the sale last year from her principal, and asked to come back.<\/p>\n
Phillips participates in the school’s Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership chapter, and the book sale helps her earn service hours.<\/p>\n
“I just love helping out the community. I just love helping out people and being involved. It brings me joy,” Phillips said after she helped a buyer locate a book.<\/p>\n
Jo Dietz of Alliance was shopping on Aug. 4, perusing the numerous tables of books inside the old gymnasium at The Commons.<\/p>\n
Dietz rarely misses the book sale. “It’s sort of like Christmas in August,” she said while digging through cookbooks for vegan recipes.<\/p>\n
Beloit resident Tyler Wutrick, who attended with his girlfriend, was looking for books. Wutrick had a box of used books in hand \u2212 a mixture of sci-fi and thrillers.<\/p>\n
Wutrick said the pair have been known to make two trips to the sale \u2212 once at normal prices, and another on donation day.<\/p>\n
“I really like it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Reach Benjamin Duer at 330-580-8567 or ben.duer@cantonrep.com. On X (formerly Twitter): @bduerREP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLIANCE \u2012 Each August, like clockwork, book hunters from around the country flock to the Friends of Rodman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[45849,19548,692,45855,2253,223,16705,7826,41224,13715,3237,8324,88,10414,45854,7970,3729,983,3,24896,45853,13470,13471,14734,5573,9402,7240,13690,45851,29823,45852,13692,45850],"class_list":["post-61728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alliance","tag-autopilot","tag-book","tag-book-retailers","tag-book-sale","tag-books","tag-books-u0026-literature","tag-charity","tag-charity-u0026-philanthropy","tag-content","tag-county","tag-east","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-autopilot-via-snd","tag-literature","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oh","tag-oh-content-sharing-stark-east","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-philanthropy","tag-positive","tag-retailers","tag-sale","tag-sharing","tag-snd","tag-stark","tag-stark-county","tag-u0026","tag-via"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}