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A fiver for a forklift, please! Call it a fin, a five-spot,
or plain five dollars, please contribute $US 5.00 right
now to help us purchase a new forklift! We need to
go from the image at top right to the one just below it,
so we can safely and efficiently continue receiving and
repacking books! Just click below to chip in your five!



The International Book Bank works with non-profit
literacy programs in the developing world to supply
them with high-quality new books and educational
materials. Our books go to children, the ill, and the
indigent, in places where there is no access to books.
We get our books from generous publishers and
authors throughout North America. It comes down to
this: we redistribute our great book wealth to Africa,
Asia, the Caribbean, Central and Latin America -
and keep those books out of landfills.

Could your company, church, or civic organization
sponsor a shipment of books? We often get
requests for donated books from worthy programs
    that lack the resources to cover the costs. Please   
    contact sponsor (at) internationalbookbank.org to  
    learn about shipment sponsorship opportunities.

Heard about the "on-line bookstore with a soul"?
Better World Books sells books on-line to fund
literacy initiatives worldwide. To learn more about
struggles in places outside North America, check out
IBB's recommended reading list:  

    Ishmael Beah,  A Long Way Gone
    Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach
    Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
    Masha Hamilton, The Camel Bookmobile
    Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
    Greg Mortensen & David Relin, Three Cups of Tea
       
    Then click through here to get the books, and BWB      
    donates a portion of your purchase to the IBB!








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