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We are open Tuesday – Saturday, Noon to 7, and Sunday Noon to 5.

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Baltimore Ave Dollar Stroll Sept. 7

The second dollar stroll of the year will be Thursday, Sept. 7, from 5:30 pm to 8. We will be tabling with a selection of new adult and children’s books reduced for the evening to $1, and the store will be open late as well.

At 7:30, the Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble will sing in our back yard – a secret garden hidden in the middle of the block…

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Jill Filipovic, The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Walidah Imarisha & Adrienne Maree Brown, editors, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Zadie Smith, Swing Time

Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

Edward Gorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies

 

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

Here, in descending order, are our best-selling books for the last month:

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Te-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Innosanto Nagara, Counting on Community (board book)

Bryant Terry, Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed

Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology (novel)

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (a novel)

Andrea Beaty, Rosie Revere, Engineer (picture book)

Innosanto Nagara, A is for Activist (board book)

Noam Chomsky, Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

Jon Stone, The Monster at the End of this Book (picture book)

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Dollar Stroll Thursday, June 15

Bindlestiff Books will be open late (until 8:30 pm) Thursday, June 15, for the dollar stroll, and will have several new books and DVDs available on tables in front of the store for a dollar.

Bindlestiff Best-Sellers

Here, in descending order, are our best-selling books for the last month:

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (a novel)

Kate Schatz, Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!

Jon Stone, The Monster at the End of this Book (children’s picture book)

Zadie Smith, Swing Time (a novel)

Chris Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

Monique Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Vaunda Nelson, Don’t Call Me Grandma (children’s picture book)

Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

Te-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things To Me

Ali Almossawi, An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Working with the schools

Bindlestiff is working with two projects that are placing books in the schools. One, which we have been working with for a while, places a new book every week in the Lea and Penn Alexander schools.

More recently we have been working with the West Philadelphia Coalition Against Islamophobia to place children’s books featuring African-American Muslim children in Philadelphia schools. We have already delivered about 150 books, and more are en route from our distributor. This story discusses the project: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mom-fundraises-get-books-featuring-muslim-children-schools-n753271