Talking Leaves Books

Hello friends! We'll be taking a brief break from our labors and closing on Monday, 9/7 for Labor Day. We'll be back to our regular, weird, pandemic hours on Tuesday!

HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY! It’s not the way we planned to celebrate, but celebrate we will! We have lots of IBD exclusives available, and while they’re currently updating on our website, please call us at 716-884-9524 for orders!

HELLO FRIENDS! We're so sorry to have been absent from these pages for a while -- we had a very strange computer situation that would not allow us Facebook access. We've figured it out, and we'll be back to posting regularly. We appreciate all the love and support from our phenomenal community, and we look forward to welcoming you back into the store just as soon as we can. We're working very hard to ensure the safety of our customers and our staff. In the meantime, we are still doing front door and curbside pickup for phone and web orders. Please check out our website at www.tleavesbooks.com 24/7 or give us a call at 716-884-9524 from 12pm-6pm Monday - Saturday. We miss you all, and we hope to see you SOON!

Hello friends! We are still working hard towards reopening, and we appreciate your patience. We are still offering curbside pickup for phone & web orders Monday - Saturday 12 -6, but please note that we will be closed this Saturday the 4th. We hope you all have a safe and happy 4th!

QUICK UPDATE ON CURBSIDE PICKUP, WEB ORDERS, AND OUR MISSION, FRIDAY, JUNE 5: Though the website does not offer curbside pickup as an option yet, you can request it in the notes to your order and we will remove the shipping charges, with the exception of orders in which having a book or books shipped directly to you will be the most timely option for quick delivery. Just request curbside pickup in the notes and choose the least expensive shipping option (media mail). We will... remove or adjust the shipping when we process your order. Please note, also, that in the past 10 days we, and most of our independent bookstore colleagues, have experienced a huge surge in online orders, especially for books dealing with racism, racial justice, white supremacy, etc. We are all gratified that you are turning to books, and to us, as you seek information and answers, but the result is that many of the books you are looking for are sold out everywhere. We are reordering like mad, and will gladly accept orders so that you will be in the queue when the books arrive back in the store. Because of coronavirus protocols, publishers and their printers are not able to reprint as quickly as they were in the past. This influx of orders, with our still limited staff, has caused us to fall behind in processing your orders. Never fear, we are working diligently to catch up, and to prepare for an eventual re-opening of the store. We ask for your patience as we work through the backlog. The struggle for racial, social, and economic justice has been at the core of our mission as booksellers for the past 4+ decades, along with providing a space in which the voices of the under- and un-represented can be heard. It is time for all of us not to begin to listen but to really, really listen, with full attention and without pre-conception, to those voices. Please bear with us as we continue to navigate all these issues together--clean hands, tight masks, clear vision, open minds, full hearts.

A Note from our store owner, Jonathon Welch: UPDATE MEMORIAL DAY, MONDAY, MAY 25: Dear Friends,...Continue reading

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Participating in #ReadIndieForward is easy! 1. Buy a book from an independent bookstore 2. Send it to someone you love ... 3. Post about it Use #ReadIndieForward 4. Ask them to do the same! Learn more at readindieforward.com

It's finally here! Happy reading, and may the odds be ever in your favor! #SongbirdsAndSnakes #HungerGames #IndiesFirst https://www.tleavesbooks.com/book/9781338635171

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We're working hard to make sure that Talking Leaves will be waiting with open doors and open arms on the other side of this most trying time. Every order, every book, and every penny helps! https://www.saveindiebookstores.com

'Everybody Wins When Bookstores Succeed' "In honor of World Book Day this April 23, it seems the right time to say this: we believe in books. George R.R. Martin wrote it well in his novel A Dance with Dragons, 'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.... The man who never reads lives only one.' Great books can do this to a person. Essential to the human experience, books transport us, inform us, and have the power to lift our spirits when we need it most. "But books do...n't sell themselves, which is why we also believe in bookstores--and the incredible, knowledgeable, and passionate people who run them. Sadly, after a decade of recovery and growth that affirmed the importance of reading, writing, and publishing, bookstores are suddenly facing a moment of monumental crisis at the hands of the Covid-19 pandemic. In some instances, these beloved institutions, which mean so much to so many communities, face the very real possibility that they will never open their doors again. "We cannot let this happen because we need bookstores now more than ever. As award-winning poet and writer Jen Campbell wrote in her book The Bookshop Book, 'Bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.' "We are therefore asking for your help to save these best of places. Please visit your community bookstores online or find them at Indiebound.org. Your actions matter and they are waiting for you: a little shopping today will do so much to ensure their futures. You can also make a donation to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation here: Save Indie Bookstores . Everybody wins when bookstores succeed. Thank you for your help and happy reading!" --A joint post yesterday from Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers; Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild; and Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association

Check out this fabulous program from our friends at Macmillan Publishers! https://static.macmillan.com//mackids-streaming-schoolho/