Orca, drawn in the style of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. We need donations of paperback Native American nonfiction and fiction by Native American authors year-round. We're especially low right now. We're looking for fiction, biographies and memoirs by and about Native Americans, history from an indigenous perspective, and pre-Columbian religions/mythology. Here are some contemporary authors and titles we'd like to have in order to fill requests from incarce

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There is no weight maximum for packages, but a good guideline is that the average package will be a 2-pounder; some packages will be 1-pounders, some will be 3+ pounders. Two books being weighed on a scale. The red pointer aligns with a black line drawn at 1 pound 14 ounces. All of the lines drawn on the dial are two ounces short of the shipping weight, to allow for the weight of the wrapping material. This post is the first in a series of Tips for Volunteers, about the fine

Thanks to all of you who donated during Banned Books Week 2025! Thank you to everyone who bought new books to donate to Books to Prisoners during Banned Books Week, October 5-11. Together, you gave 332 new paperbacks worth a total of $6225. A generous donor will match the dollar amount of your gifts. We'll use that grant to buy more new paperbacks, to educate and entertain people in prisons around the US. While the matching grant is only applied for books bought during Banned

Books last longer than candy, and they're better for your teeth! We always need books on these spooky topics: Horror fiction, classic and modern Paranormal fiction of all kinds and not-so-spooky, but still associated with Halloween and scary movies: Witchcraft Wicca Neopaganism Spiritual practices inspired by indigenous traditions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas As well as books about: UFO's and aliens Cryptozoology Haunted houses Bizarre coincidences The Occult If you hav

"Used Books Not Allowed" scrawled on the wrapping paper of a package of books refused by a prison mailroom. Today is the first day of Prison Banned Books Week 2025, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access inside jails, prisons, and detention centers. Head to prisonbannedbooksweek.org  for updates and actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS CHAPTER by donating books, gifting postage money, volunteering, and spre