Welcome to The Book Shelf

"The staff and I would like to welcome you to our website. From here, you can shop from our multi-million title database, browse our staff selections, as well as keep track of store events and other community happenings.  Although we are a small independent bookstore in a small midwestern city, we hope to expand our reach through our website.  Our new online fundraising tool allows clubs, organizations, and schools across the country raise money.  You will find our eclectic taste reflected in our staff selections.  We appreciate your patronage, and hope your interaction with our store, staff, and website make your buying experience easy and memorable.  Thank you for supporting local independent businesses.  You are doing your part, as are we, to keep America interesting."  -- Chris Livingston, Owner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Declare Your Independence!

Rally

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for individuals to denounce the corporate bands which threaten to homogenize our cities and our souls, we must celebrate the powers that make us unique and declare the causes which compel us to remain independent.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all stores are not created equal, that some are endowed by their owners, their staff, and their communities with certain incomparable heights, that among these are Personality, Purpose and Passion. The history of the present indies is a history of experiences and excitement, which we will continue to establish as we set our sights on a more unconstrained state. To prove this, let’s bring each other along and submit our own experiences to an unchained world.

We, therefore, the Kindred Spirits of IndieBound, in the name of our convictions, do publish and declare that these united minds are, and darn well ought to be, Free Thinkers and Independent Souls. That we are linked by the passions that differentiate us. That we seek out soul mates to share our excitement. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the strength of our identities, we respectively and mutually pledge to lead the way as we all declare that we are IndieBound!

To sign the Declaration, go to www.indiebound.org/declaration-indiebound.

 

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