Book Corner
Regular hours for the Book Corner
Sundays, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
First Saturday of each month, 4:30-5:45 p.m.
First Wednesday of the month, 5:30-7 p.m.
Advent hours for the Book Corner beginning Dec. 1
Sundays, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Every Saturday in December, 4:30-6 p.m.
Every Wednesday in December, 5:30-7 p.m.
Special event hours:
Thanksgiving Eve Worship: Wednesday, Nov. 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nova Singers: Friday, Dec. 13, 7-8:30 p.m.
Holiday Brass Concert: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Big River Brass Band Concert: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Awakened mind | Stirred heart
Every book is carefully selected by St. Paul pastors, staff, and avid St. Paul readers. Books are priced below retail, without sales tax. A copy of each new book is donated to the church library.
Awaken your mind and stir your heart with current and classic Christian books of enduring significance. You’ll find home devotional materials, Bibles, and scriptural resources. Helpful books focus on Lutheranism, spirituality, prayer, family, life’s circumstances, and contemporary issues. Vibrant children’s books and adult fiction abound too.
Antiracism resources in the Book Corner
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Gifts for global justice
The Book Corner is committed to stocking gifts and products that provide fair income for the world’s poor. Fairly-traded handicrafts from around the world come to us through networks of artisans like 10,000 Villages and SERRV International, as well as dZi, Lucuma, Swahili African Modern, Venture Imports, and World Finds.
Self-sufficiency for poor and unemployed women is the goal for the Women’s Bean Project, specializing in bean soups and salsas. Out of the Blue granola lends a hand to Tennessee women recovering from abuse and addiction.
You’ll taste justice too. Gourmet coffee, tea, and chocolate are provided through Equal Exchange and Lutheran World Relief. Your purchase ensures that more of the money you spend on coffee reaches the farmers who actually grow it. Fair Trade coffee is a simple solution that means the difference between surviving and not surviving for small-scale coffee farmers.
Other vendors provide distinctive gift items that are expressive of a grace-centered life, including St. Paul apparel, created by Handicapped Development Center, beautiful bath and body products from Agrow’s House, and jewelry from ReClassified Treasure.
Greeting cards
The Book Corner stocks greeting cards that carry messages of encouragement, consolation, joy, and celebration. You’re not likely to find these vendors in any other Quad-Cities location. All cards are priced below retail and without tax.
Advent devotionals
Good News, Great Joy provides daily devotions for the first Sunday of Advent (December 1, 2024) through Epiphany (January 6, 2025). These devotions explore year C scripture readings (in the Revised Common Lectionary) for the Sundays of Advent and Christmas, as well as for the festival days of Christmas and Epiphany. Each reading is accompanied by an image, a reflection, and a prayer. The writers bring their unique voices and pastoral wisdom to these texts, and offer the voices of other witnesses in the quotations they have chosen for the “To ponder” sections. The devotional also provides household blessings and prayers to enrich your preparations and celebrations during the Advent and Christmas seasons.
Book Corner: Andrea Spencer
