Davis Books to Prisoners

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

Heavy is the book that has the words.

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...

just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
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I read a book today—one I bought over 5 years ago.

Books don’t have deadlines—they wait for you, patiently, until the moment is right.

book cover shows person dragging a little foldable wagon down the street. book title is starting somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough Roderick Douglass (Author)

Extremely excited about this

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Raise local awareness. Pressure the county / parish government, particularly the sheriff.

Related book rec: You’re More Powerful than You Think by Eric Liu

Speaking of Luigi Mangione and entertainment in prison, I would like to direct people's attention to a charity that's really cool, The Prisoners Literature Project. They're looking for year end donations! www.prisonlit.org

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who read banned books.

Packages of wrapped books waiting to be mailed at Books Through Bars San Diego. A wall of shelves of zines is in the back.

Great coverage of Books Through Bars San Diego and their work to provide books across the country!

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We are!!

Foundryside

Cat in a library.

For those confused about South Korea, an “opposition party” is a political party that actively opposes the one in power.

Handwritten letter from a person in prison describing the lack of a library at the prison. This person is also requesting historical fiction from Books to Prisoners. Dated 1-18-2020.

Hi everyone! 👋 Books to Prisoners is a nonprofit in Seattle providing free books to incarcerated people (12,000+ annually!). We're new here but we've been working since 1973. Expect posts about prison conditions, the sweeping state of prison censorship, and communications with incarcerated readers.

It is very gratifying to finally have hard data on a phenomenon that we have all suspected to be the case since they started restricting mail and books from our groups.

This week someone asked for true crime and we were able to send them this book:

Hey everyone! We are gonna be packing up books today. If you know someone who’d like some, please let us know via reply or DM. If you don’t know anyone, please re-tweet(?) this so others who might can see it.

Thanks so much! 🫶📚