Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).
We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬
Samizdat is powerful. When we named our bookstore we did so in honor of the ordinary people who pushed back against totalitarianism. Also, the name serves as our daily reminder that it is our duty, as ordinary people, to push back in whatever ways we can.
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
Be evil and gift books this holiday season.
We are absolutely not the same.
Supper club is every Monday from 5-8pm. Get a big bowl of vegan and gluten free beans for $7 or $5 or nothing, whatever you can pay. Also, bring your bookworm brigade bag and get 20% off of all retail items you can fit inside!
Losing IAIA will be such an enormous blow to the region it’s difficult to contemplate.
Everything is wrong with this, but on a purely selfish note from a Northern New Mexico bookstore, IAIA is a robust pipeline for authors and poets in addition to being a local information resource. When I’m in the plaza area I talk to their staff (and buy books) and get great recommendations.
The second most popular teenager purchase today (#1 being boba) was the Smithsonian edition of The Constitution of the United States of America.
The authors of Banned Book Club will be participating in the Pajarito Literary Festival (remotely) May 10th. We have lots of copies of Banned Book Club in store now!
Today at ICv2, I talked to @ryanestrada.com about his and Kim Hyun Sook's decision to cancel their planned trip to the U.S.: icv2.com/articles/new...
Lit Fest tickets are on sale! We have 12 confirmed authors, poets, and artists doing speaking engagments and signings ranging from talks on folklore and banned books, to discussions with local children's authors! Whew, can we do it folks? I think we can! www.losalamosartscouncil.org/pajarito-lit
Our last copy but more are on order!!! Thanks Itty Bitty Lit Fest partner!
We have books on all sorts of topics.
Someone asked us today if we have a banned books section and we were like that’s the whole store.
Anyway, we’ll continue to do our best to reflect our pluralistic society. And all of us need to be ready to loudly and vehemently defend our public libraries from the type of censorship occurring in places like Fort Campbell.
It’s been our general philosophy that when it’s, for example, Black History Month, we should simply be able to go to the stacks and pull relevant books and make a display, no special orders needed. If we can’t do that, we’ve slipped up along the way and need to reevaluate our ordering.
Valentine’s is coming! Parents need a night out and a night off. Also, the world is on fire! and we all want to do *something*. These two events aren’t related in anything but proximity of timing, but we’re not going to let that stop us!
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Also tea. Much of our tea comes from Canadian distributors. We got a big order across the border a couple days ago. But we can’t order massive stock in advance. We don’t know what this means for pricing yet. We are not raising prices in advance, though :)
Blurbs are almost entirely useless and when a cover is particularly beautiful the presence of a blurb ruins it. Unless that blurb is “Daddy’s diary definitely delivers.” Which is on a book we received this week.
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Bookshop is now doing e-books! When you use Bookshop for your online purchases and choose us as your beneficiary, it has a significant impact. We will use the Q4 payment at the end of January to cover a week of payroll. We are so grateful for your support.
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COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION
Post Election, here's what we can do. Please RSVP and join our virtual discussion!
RSVP here: bit.ly/41Fw3fl
Hey Los Alamos, uh, good luck on your next travel to the Nevada Test Site?
Apropos of nothing in a town full of folks with security clearances, we do not maintain digital records of your purchases. It’s probably traceable through your credit card and our point of sale system, but if you use cash? Nope.
Cover for Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Leasons From the Twentieth Century
Our bestselling book of the holiday season.
If you’re downtown tomorrow for Winterfest weekend, stop by the bookstore and Fuller Lodge Art Center for free gifts!
When you bring a Saturday Samizdat receipt to the Art Center, you’ll get a free bookmark. Bring us a receipt from the Art Center and you’ll get a free recycled sari gift wrap!
Wrapping a book in a cloth square.
Ever wonder about those recycled sari scarves we have hanging up by the register? We have them there so folks can use them for reusable furoshiki gift wrap. On this Black Friday, get one free wrap with every hardcover book you purchase!
For the grumpy uncle who loves the Civil War, a Lincoln bookmark, books, book plates and stickers
Dinosaur gifts include picture books, manga, the game Fossilis, wooden blocks and crochet kit
