WORLD BOOK NIGHT AT ST. MARK'S BOOKSTORE

World Book Night is April 23rd!
Help us give away this year's books
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St. Mark's Bookshop invites you to come to the store Monday

evening, April 21 at 7 PM to hear about the national

literacy campaign known as World Book Night, and,
if desired, to receive a box of 20 free paperbacks to take

somewhere appropriate on April 23.

World Book Night U.S. is an ambitious campaign to give a

half million free, specially printed paperbacks to light

or non-readers across America on one day. The 25,000

volunteer book lovers will go into 6,000 communities to

seek out those without the means or access to printed

books. The volunteers go to such diverse locations as

hospitals, underfunded schools, food pantries, nursing

homes, community centers, and more.

World Book Night takes place on April 23, 2014 - 

Shakespeare's birthday - and is in its third year in

the U.S., after the UK launch in 2011. As part of World

Book Night, 2,300 bookstores and libraries serve as

community organizers for the book distribution to the

volunteer givers. WBN's reach includes all 50 states, 

Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and military bases

in Germany, Guam, and Afghanistan.

The WBN picks are written by a wide array of award-winning

and bestselling adult and YA authors, as well as classics,

books in Spanish, and books in Large Print.This year will

see an original free WBN proprietary e-book with pieces by

authors, booksellers and librarians who were givers. The

assortment of WBN titles is based on diversity in subject

matter, age level, gender, ethnicity, and geography.