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We were adopted by a really vocal and insistent kitty a few months after Jamaica’s death. While dancing for cat treats and shoplifting mouse sized, furry covered children’s books for his own pleasure, spike feels lucky about long naps on especial Orders desk. Our customers named her Jamaica after noted author Jamaica Kincaid. Author and cat have met. Left Bank’s first feline staff member was the legendary Captain Nemo, who was rescued from drowning and nursed back to health by the store owners. That said, this past year we developed Mixed Messages Press and published our first book, A Wedding Song for Poorer People by Flannery O’Connor Award Winner Alfred DePew. Finding our way through this process has helped us understand industry more we love from inception to editing to painstaking layout challenges to wholesale discount schedules to marketing and promotion to giddy moment when that first book in all its beauty and glory rests in our own hands at long last. No independant bookstore my be complete without a cat. Notice, he was grouchy, particular, and respected by all.
I know it’s a finalist in Forward Review’s INDIEFAB Year Book Award for LGBT Fiction.
Nemo lived with us for fifteen years.
Jamaica passed away April 2005. We were joined by a brand new and equally literary cat, right after Nemo’s passing. Then once more, in the past, we have worked with Teach for America and the St. Now look. Louis community School District to distribute individually wrapped and personally addressed books to children in pre kindergarten through sixth grade. Left Bank Books Angel Tree Book Drive is always an annual holiday event that enables our customers to purchase a book and donate it to a child in need. We bring authors to their schools that they could meet them and explain questions, when circumstances allow.
Everybody wins.
Sponsorship for a student was probably $ 20 any other month or an one time $ 100 tax deductible donation, and this ensures students receive a book any other month of their school year pretty own to keep and start their own private library. These range from big events with dignitaries like Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter to nearest poets in River Styx study Series. In that spirit, we produce a lot of churches, communal and special schools and similar community institutions to get this programming type to our city, and work with them to motivate literacy. Wehost 9 book clubs of our own and sell books to a lot of, a lot of another individual book groups. As a result, louis liberal Bookstore Alliance. Louis and a ReadMOB under Arch for the first World Book Night. In 2011, Co Owner Jarek Steele co founded St. Group worked gether to host 1 literary bookstore cruises through city, joint author events, Lit in the Lou, a book festival in St.
Actually the libraries, schools and identical institutions in our area, we work with different bookstores. We always were partnering for free Bookstore Day 2015 also. School students, disadvantaged populations, and all St. For example, louis were always living below poverty line while 85 of students enrolled in St. Created as a store project in 2009 and moved to foundation in 2011 but managed by the bookstore staff entirely, that said, this program focuses on our struggling social schools. Louisans. Louis City have been homeless at some point in the school year. Through this nonprofit organization, we raise finances for such projects as our River City Readers Program. Nonetheless, our store was founded with and holds a rich tradition of community involvement.
We will inspire youthful children to explore for fun which encourages and lets them to study, dream and succeed, while we can’t fix a generations deep poverty problem.
Loads of these kids do not have books in their households and have not figure out how to explore for pleasure.
And similar community members formed Left Bank Books Foundation, whichis dedicated to promoting literacy and literary arts in the St. There’s a lot more info about it on this website. Since St city. We had the first women’s studies, glbt and African American sections in city.
CoOwner, Kris Kleindienst uses problems like peace, racial justice, civil rights, urban sustainability, education, animal rights, and support for arts are plenty of areas in which Left Bankers are involved. Left Bank Books has oftentimes carried a diverse selection of books, striving to represent subjects and communities that are rather often under represented elsewhere. We have long sought out children’s books with strong female characters and diverse characters. At times merely plain fun. To its health creative people, artists and personally appreciate importance of a store like Left Bank, also to cultured health of a community. Left Bank Books workers have probably been a fiercely committed group. Anyways, in 2001 Fall that meant sifting through what was largely academic titles on Middle East to feeling of 9/In Fall of 2014 it meant that we could help guys and girls put events in our neighboring Ferguson in a larger context through handselling books we had long been carrying and ‘staffpicking’.
