Freebird book drive for NYC Books Through Bars
While NYC Books Through Bars operating out of Freebird's basement is currently limiting in-person volunteering and drop offs due to COVID-19, book requests continue to pour in from prisons around the country: nearly 300 per week. In response to the challenges of accepting those donations during the pandemic, we have started a monthly program in which specific, in-demand titles can be purchased through Freebird at a discount.
June's pick for NYC Books Through Bars
For the fifth anniversary of the Freebird/Books Through Bars bundle campaign (over 25,000 books collected since June 2020!), we focus on subject material that might not pass muster at the U.S. Naval Academy library, but that incarcerated readers are welcome to request and receive.
Please help Books Through Bars stock up on LGBTQ+ titles for the coming months.
$30 purchases an assortment of three titles (43% off retail)*A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the recent drive for mysteries and thrillers. Your generosity will help Books Through Bars re-shelve their section with 550 copies! Which comes on the heels of the previous campaign for sci fi and fantasy which yielded 650 copies. Which officially tips us over 25,000 books collected since the bundle campaign was inaugurated exactly five years ago this month.For June 2025 we step away from genre fiction to celebrate Pride with three works that shed light on the important role of an increasingly maligned community: The Stonewall Reader, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White; A Queer History of the United States, the first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present; and On Being Different, Merle Miller's early and groundbreaking defense of gay liberation—now a Penguin Classic and with a foreword by Dan Savage.
While donations of used books in this category continue to be dropped off at the store (and please keep them coming), prisons are establishing higher thresholds for the condition and wear-and-tear of the copies. These unstained, undog-eared editions will help guarantee their delivery to incarcerated readers.*Each purchased bundle will be delivered directly to Books Through Bars so that they can fulfill requests from incarcerated readers. If you wish to purchase one of these titles for yourself, you can go to https://bookshop.org/shop/FreebirdBooks.
For the fifth anniversary of the Freebird/Books Through Bars bundle campaign (over 25,000 books collected since June 2020!), we focus on subject material that might not pass muster at the U.S. Naval Academy library, but that incarcerated readers are welcome to request and receive.
Please help Books Through Bars stock up on LGBTQ+ titles for the coming months.
$30 purchases an assortment of three titles (43% off retail)*A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the recent drive for mysteries and thrillers. Your generosity will help Books Through Bars re-shelve their section with 550 copies! Which comes on the heels of the previous campaign for sci fi and fantasy which yielded 650 copies. Which officially tips us over 25,000 books collected since the bundle campaign was inaugurated exactly five years ago this month.For June 2025 we step away from genre fiction to celebrate Pride with three works that shed light on the important role of an increasingly maligned community: The Stonewall Reader, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White; A Queer History of the United States, the first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present; and On Being Different, Merle Miller's early and groundbreaking defense of gay liberation—now a Penguin Classic and with a foreword by Dan Savage.
While donations of used books in this category continue to be dropped off at the store (and please keep them coming), prisons are establishing higher thresholds for the condition and wear-and-tear of the copies. These unstained, undog-eared editions will help guarantee their delivery to incarcerated readers.*Each purchased bundle will be delivered directly to Books Through Bars so that they can fulfill requests from incarcerated readers. If you wish to purchase one of these titles for yourself, you can go to https://bookshop.org/shop/FreebirdBooks.
BTB Bundle: Pride Month Picks
$53.00
$30.00
Freebird's June 2025 picks include a selection of LGBTQ-related titles: On Being Different; A Queer History of the United States; and The Stonewall Reader. $30 for three books.
Please note that when Square processes your order they describe it as a "digital delivery". That does not refer to way the books will be delivered to incarcerated readers. Your purchase will go towards NYC Books Through Bars fulfilling requests with physical copies of the aforementioned titles.
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PLEASE NOTE that the books purchased through Freebird are ones that will be delivered directly to Books Through Bars so that they can fulfill requests from incarcerated readers.
Looking for a book for yourself? Check out our page at Bookshop.org, including lists of recommended reads from Piper Kerman, Victoria Law, Albert Woodfox, Victor LaValle, Mat Johnson, and others! Want to give a gift card? Freebird has e-gift cards available here for your birthday and holiday needs (and to redeem for future book drives)! To get updates on future selections, subscribe to Freebird's newsletter |
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