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Featured Store: Third Place Books
Third Place staff members are over the moon about introducing people to new books. Third Place Books has participated in our matched book drives during Independent Bookstore Days and Banned Books Week for a couple of years now. They also maintain an online wish list of books we need year-round. Rosa Hernandez talks about building community, one book at a time. How did you begin working with Books to Prisoners? If I remember correctly I think B2P reached out to us and it felt
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Double your donation when you buy a book for BtP during Banned Books Week, Oct 5-11 2025
“Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” That's the theme the American Library Association and the Banned Books Coalition have...
Sep 262 min read


Q&A with Outsider Comics & Geek Boutique
Wing Mui, owner of Outsider Comics and Geek Boutique, displays some of the comics, manga and graphic novels she chooses for Books to...
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Find our store partners, on land or online
Year-round, you can donate books from the comfort of your own home by ordering from the online wishlists each of these stores maintains...
Apr 231 min read


Buy two books for readers in prison for the price of one
If you want to experience a win-win-win situation this spring, consider buying a book for someone in prison during BTP’s Independent...
Apr 161 min read


Q & A about Phinney Books
Q&A about Phinney Books We’re coming up on our third Independent Bookstore Days promotion with Phinney Books in Greenwood. Owner Tom...
Apr 33 min read


Q & A about the Queen Anne Book Company
We've been working with the Queen Anne Book Company (QABC) to get books on specific topics and titles to prisoners for five years. We put...
Nov 29, 20242 min read
Q & A with a 10-year volunteer at Left Bank Books
Books to Prisoners began as a project of the Left Bank Books Collective. Now Left Bank Books is one of our store partners for the Prison...
Sep 2, 20243 min read
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