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…
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
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
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.
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
The week of March 4, we will be open daily: Tuesday and Friday, 3:30 – 7; Wednesday Noon – 3:30; Thursday and Saturday Noon – 7; and Sunday Noon – 5. (It is possible we may be able to fill in a few more hours.) Starting the week of March 11, we will be open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from Noon – 7, and Sundays Noon – 5. We will be open most Wednesdays and Fridays for at least part of the day, and closed Mondays. It might make sense to call (215.662.5780) before making a special trip on those days.
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
