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The Book Bonanza will be held this Saturday and Sunday at the Fingerlakes Mall offering books, DVDs and CDs.
The Book Bonanza will be held this Saturday and Sunday at the Fingerlakes Mall offering books, DVDs and CDs.
Fingerlakes Mall will pack its food court with more than 60,000 books during the 16th annual Book Bonanza.
DVDs, CDs and videotapes will round out the sale to take place over the weekend.
Most books can be bought for $1 or less, while multimedia items sell for $2.
A “Better Books” station, located between the DEB and FYE stores, will sell higher quality reading selections for no more than $10. Bargain hunters can swipe as many books as they can stuff in a bag on Sunday's “$2 a Bag Day” sale.
“It's a really great deal if you think about it,” said Diane La Rue, the Bonanza's organizer.
The surplus of 5,500 readers who showed up for last year's Book Bonanza seemed to agree.
They purchased more than $15,000 worth of literature that July weekend, almost cleaning the sale out of its book supply entirely.
The books they bought, like those available this year, were donated by members of the Cayuga County community.
The sale will benefit St. Joseph's School in Auburn, and school students, parents and faculty will organize the sale into 60 different categories.
“We've gotten a lot of compliments on the organization,” La Rue said.
With several tables of different book genres filling the Fingerlakes Mall food court, no reader should walk away without something to read this weekend.
“There are a lot of kids' books, romance novels - anything you can think of,” La Rue said. “It's one of the largest book sales in the region.”
Staff writer David Wilcox can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 245 or david.wilcox@lee.net
If you go
What: 16th annual Book Bonanza
When: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Fingerlakes Mall, 1579 Clark St. Road, Aurelius
For details: Call 255-1188
DVDs, CDs and videotapes will round out the sale to take place over the weekend.
Most books can be bought for $1 or less, while multimedia items sell for $2.
A “Better Books” station, located between the DEB and FYE stores, will sell higher quality reading selections for no more than $10. Bargain hunters can swipe as many books as they can stuff in a bag on Sunday's “$2 a Bag Day” sale.
“It's a really great deal if you think about it,” said Diane La Rue, the Bonanza's organizer.
The surplus of 5,500 readers who showed up for last year's Book Bonanza seemed to agree.
They purchased more than $15,000 worth of literature that July weekend, almost cleaning the sale out of its book supply entirely.
The books they bought, like those available this year, were donated by members of the Cayuga County community.
The sale will benefit St. Joseph's School in Auburn, and school students, parents and faculty will organize the sale into 60 different categories.
“We've gotten a lot of compliments on the organization,” La Rue said.
With several tables of different book genres filling the Fingerlakes Mall food court, no reader should walk away without something to read this weekend.
“There are a lot of kids' books, romance novels - anything you can think of,” La Rue said. “It's one of the largest book sales in the region.”
Staff writer David Wilcox can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 245 or david.wilcox@lee.net
If you go
What: 16th annual Book Bonanza
When: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Fingerlakes Mall, 1579 Clark St. Road, Aurelius
For details: Call 255-1188
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