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December's pick features advice, assessment, and blessed diversion--a tonic to a toxic year.

11/30/2020

Three wise titles for an idiotic year

Purchase three works for $30 (30% off retail): the latest World Almanac (one of the most requested reference titles by incarcerated readers), a guide to maintaining mental health from the immensely popular radio host, Charlamagne Tha God; and an anthology of fantasy and horror short stories set in the Wild West (all genres very much sought after in prisons)

Many thanks to all of you who have participated in the November drive to benefit NYC Books Through Bars! We truly appreciate your generosity at this time (over 5,000 books donated since June!), when those incarcerated face ever greater obstacles getting access to written material.

December's pick:
Facts, fantasy, and sober advice book bundle--three books for $30
Following November's drive (Webster's New World Dictionary; Webster's New World Thesaurus; USA Today Sudoku Super Challenge 2, Origami Flowers and Birds, and Star Wars Word Search and Coloring Book), Freebird ends a craptacular year with a selection that looks soberly at what happened in 2020, how to manage the stress from it, and where to find distraction in unreality: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2021; Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me by Charlamagne Tha God; and Straight Outta Dodge City, a "weird western fantasy and horror anthology" edited by David Boop.

November book drive--double the books for the same price

11/1/2020

November's pick features reference books, crafts, and games--among the most requested materials at prisons nationwide.

Purchase copies of five works for $30 and Freebird will match each order with an additional dictionary--(six books total for a collective savings of 35% off retail): a holiday care package for incarcerated readers that will include sudoku challenges, word games, origami instruction, a coloring book, and the always in demand dictionary and thesaurus

Many thanks to all of you who have participated in the October drive to benefit NYC Books Through Bars! We truly appreciate your generosity at this time (over 3,000 books donated!), when those incarcerated face ever greater obstacles getting access to written material. To learn more about how NYC Books Through Bars began, and what impact access to reading material has on the incarcerated, check out this conversation we hosted between NYC BTB co-founder Victoria Law and Orange Is the New Black author Piper Kerman: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/piper-kerman-and

November's pick:
A games, crafts, and reference book bundle--six books for $30

Following October's drive (Zone One, Kindred, and a selection of histories), Freebird heads into the holidays offering five titles + one for $30: Webster's New World Dictionary; Webster's New World Thesaurus; USA Today Sudoku Super Challenge 2, Origami Flowers and Birds, and Star Wars Word Search and Coloring Book. EVERY ORDER WILL BE MATCHED BY FREEBIRD with an additional Webster's New World Dictionary. Dictionaries are the single largest request NYC Books Through Bars receives every year, and they can never have enough in stock.

To learn more about the important work NYC Books Through Bars does, go here.