Get your gently used book at Blasco Library sale this weekend
The Friends of the Erie County Library are hosting a sale in the Admiral Room of the Blasco Library Thursday through Saturday.
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Books are lightly used and are mostly collected in donation drives.
The most a book will be sold for is $2 and what isn't sold will be put back up for sale at the Great American Book Sale in July.
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'Inflation has hit every segment of commerce and books are quite a bit more expensive,' said Kathleen Horan, coordinator of small book sales for Friends of the Library. 'Programs that the library offers to children and adults a variety of programs, the idea lab, books for kids, book in a bag, all of those things are paid for by friends of the library.'
The sale continues Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 until 3 p.m.
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