We are the storefront of the nonprofit organization Mid Missouri Peaceworks. Peaceworks provides educational activities towards sustainability, social justice, and peace. The Peace Nook specializes in adult and children's books that you won't find in a big-box bookstore. Also, we sell fair-trade knick-nacks, adult and children's clothing, jewelry, candles, incense, and natural food and body products. Local artisans also sell consignment items, such as hand-made dolls, cards, t-shirts, and jewelry. We have both paid employees and volunteers who donate their valuable time to help run the store. We assist with the Peaceworks customers who order bulk food, spice, kitchen, or supplement items at near-wholesale prices through the "Blue Planet" program. Climb down the stairs off Broadway in downtown COMO and say hi!
Columbia Books began October 1, 1977 and has been continuing along ever since. The books are an eclectic mixture of 65, 000 volumes ranging from new releases to antiquarian volumes 400 years old, emphasising books which are interesting and have some literary merit. We also have a large accumulation of prints, maps, ephemera, interesting older periodicals. Annette Kolling-Buckley is the proprietor of Columbia Books, and came to the book business in much the normal waytotally by accident. Clayton Weaver and Jonathan Pons all work to keep things in order and running smoothly. Fred is the Resident Cat. As we are obsessive-compulsive people, Columbia Books is very much customer-service oriented. We will make every humanly possible effort to get the book to the customer, either ordering it if its in print, or if it is out of print, searching tirelessly until it is found. Columbia Books is a member of the American Booksellers' Association ( ABA ), a trade organization made up of most of the remaining independent booksellers in the country. Their slogan for their Booksense Marketing Program-"An independent bookstore for independent minds" applies to the ambiance of our store and to the personalities of our customers. Annette is a member of ABAA/ILAB, which stands for Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America/International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. ( Just saying all of that is so exhausting that referring to it as ABAA is sufficient ). The Antiquarian Booksellers of America was founded in 1949 to encourage interest in rare books and manuscripts and to maintain the highest standards in the aniquarian booktrade. The privilege of membership in the Association and the display of its logo carries with it the responsibility of maintaining and futhering the objectives of the Association and abiding by its ethical guidelines ( link here to ABAA ).
We are a minority and women owned business located in the south side of City of Columbia, MO. We sell used books and our goal is to provide affordable good quality books to our patrons. We live in a technology driven (or obsessed?) society where physical books are sadly on the verge of becoming an obsolete concept; a dying entity under the constant threat of being replaced by portable digital forms! However, the thrill of holding a printed book in one’s hand, the excitement of inhaling the scent of a printed book and hearing the rustling sound of the turning pages of a printed book is magical, and uniquely appealing. Hence, printed books are irreplaceable. Call us nostalgic, but here at Sabu’s Books, we hope to keep the joy of printed books alive. We designed the shop in such a way that people can come, pick up a book, peruse it while relaxing on a comfy couch at one of the several cozy book nooks while listening to soothing music. We also offer complimentary coffee. So, in a nutshell, we would like to be known as the cute bookstore with ambience!
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