Holiday Hours

Bindlestiff will be closed Thanksgiving Day, but will reopen Friday with our normal hours.

We will open the two Mondays before Christmas (Dec. 12 and 19), and so will be open every day for those two weeks.

We will close Saturday, Dec. 24, at 4 pm. We will be closed Christmas Day.

We will close Saturday, Dec. 31, at 4 pm. We will be closed New Years Day.

As always we welcome special orders for books we do not have in stock. While the service standard suggests that books ordered as late as Dec. 21 should arrive in time for Christmas (assuming they are in stock in our distributor’s Pennsylvania warehouse), we have been notified by our distributor that they anticipate delays both in filling orders and in their delivery. They recommend that all orders be placed by December 14 in order to ensure delivery.

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month:

Beatrice Alemagna, Never, Not Ever!

Lois Ehlert, Rain Fish

David Adler, Things That Float and Things That Don’t

Linda Ashman, Rain! (board book)

Akwaeke Emezi You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

WEB DuBois, Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

George Saunders, Liberation Day: Stories

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Ocean Vuong Time is a Mother

Laura Wolf-Powers, University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District

Ling Ma, Severance

Jennette McCurdy I’m Glad My Mom Died

James Mayhew Once Upon a Tune: Stories from the Orchestra

Marilyn Chin, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales

Junot Diaz, Lola: Edición en español de ISLANDBORN

Ling Ma, Bliss Montage: Stories

Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Lemony Snickett Poison for Breakfast

Best Children’s Books of 2022

The New York Times has come out with its list of the best picture books of the year; we either have them or have them on (re)order. We also have many other books that we liked a lot. Every week we get new children’s books in, and if you’re looking for something we don’t have we can usually get it in within a week or so.

This link will not count against your quota on the NYT paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/books/review/the-2022-new-york-times-new-york-public-library-best-illustrated-childrens-books.html?unlocked_article_code=akVH5TuTqFqFDVfIAKUA8BEjzR3wfp3RWOihRh4mbv2vVxLLyboc5H5ZA3xNTTZ_jXN5Zq_JHUJ03Pko4HQcldltq4Y2Sd3Zv8GP89M2aoUfcaYkAaaKDkarK3xp1njEk8A1OOjWCw9zHAijRBbkJyqTvNsjAJdFCTaKLjRBZQDx7MakkYb4KDIv0DZVFkYjpv1TrcoN5Mk4zVDhV3vwPA-BOXXSRtjowfROlMaHhqlfJ0B7H9bsCAibDrX_n4fV2vW-VkFMvhpJGSP5039n9UU7Je-WR6p5LXUILRBkdrf9YmkSMPMXavbTH78lrvPus2S3gN2ErrTMZGSv48Kv9NiU4lltQCQqFi8Cy8dtTx2deKpqJxPW5B06PreT-bfBy5FTJ9WN2mi8CTFn39icAD_MjyQ681If9KxctFCmvA&smid=share-url

University City: History, Race, & Community (book event)

Laura Wolf Powers will discuss her new book, University City: History, Race, & Community in the Era of the Innovation District, this Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6 pm. The book chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in the present day both depart from and connect to the politics of mid-twentieth-century urban renewal. 

Powerss, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Policy & Planning at Hunter College,  teaches economic development, community planning, and real estate finance, and is particularly interested in how to make the outcomes of land value capture strategies more just and reparative. She is currently a co-PI on a Ewing Marion Kauffman-funded project designed to redirect anchor institution supply chains to Black-owned businesses in East and Central Brooklyn.

Thursday 11/10, 6pm, Meyerson Hall B03, 210 South 34th Street

The event is free and open to the public. Bindlestiff Books will be there with copies of the book available for purchase.