Dear friends—like everyone in the Twin Cities, we are reeling and heartbroken and sad and angry and all the things. We want #JusticeForGeorge. We want our neighbors and friends to be safe and okay. We want everyone to be shouting together that #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">.
The store and our staff are safe, and we& #39;re so grateful to the folks who have reached out to check on us. We& #39;re okay, and to keep it that way we& #39;re going to to be shutting up shop early tonight and sending our staff home. If you want to pick up your books, we& #39;ll be here till 3.
We are not sure what tomorrow will look like, for us or for the Twin Cities or for the state. We& #39;ll keep you posted with what we know.

In the meantime, if you want to buy a book, we recommend @MoonPalaceBooks. They are working hard to keep the community fed and safe.
As soon as we can, we& #39;ll get up a list of books we recommend for this moment. If you need it right away, @librofm has audiobooks of lots of them, and you can choose to support any indie bookstore—including @MoonPalaceBooks—with your purchase.
If you want to help in concrete ways, here are a few orgs and fundraisers that could use your donations:

Bail for arrested protesters: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ 

Rebuild">https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/">... Lake Street small businesses: https://www.welovelakestreet.com/ ">https://www.welovelakestreet.com/">...
Support George Floyd& #39;s family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd 
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Street">https://www.gofundme.com/f/george-... medics: https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate ">https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate&qu...
Please, please be safe out there, Twin Cities folks. We are holding on to Valerie Castile& #39;s words:

Seek justice. Show kindness.

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Here& #39;s our preliminary book list, including some more books for littler kids, as requested. We& #39;ll keep adding as we think of things, so please let us know if you spot a book we& #39;ve missed! https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/black-lives-matter">https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/black-liv...
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