We will be launching a new website very soon, to celebrate exciting developments in our work to build libraries for Darfuri refugees! Subscribe to our mailing list or follow us on Twitter @bookwish to get the latest news.

Book Wish Foundation has just opened a shop on Zazzle, where you can buy gifts for the book lovers in your life and help support our mission to help needy readers at the same time. The shop features book-themed artwork on t-shirts, bags (to bring to book sales), mugs, magnets, and many other items. Click here to visit now (and take advantage of Zazzle's holiday deals), or read more about the artists and our future plans for the shop below.

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We are thrilled to report that our upcoming project to build a library for AIDS orphans in Ghana has received support from a major international publisher, SAGE. Even though we haven't publicly launched the project yet, this is so encouraging that we just had to post about it. SAGE's donation will provide more than 100 books for some very needy children, targeted to their school requirements, vocational opportunities, and culture.

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Our pace of updating this blog has slowed recently, but exciting news is on the way! We have been focusing on a site-wide redesign to help our visitors engage in our work in more ways (beyond just donating), and to feature a very special project that our bibliophile fans will love (especially students or parents of students). You can subscribe to our mailing list to be notified when the new site is online. Meanwhile, we are getting ready to launch a library project at an AIDS orphanage in Ghana, so stay tuned for details if you would like to help provide books for some very needy children.

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Avalon Press, a publisher in the UK, is supporting our campaign to build a refugee camp library for 20,000-30,000 Darfuris by donating for every order they receive for Larry Kuechlin's book of poetry, "Along a Ruined Sea." For orders made directly through their website through February 6, Avalon Press will donate two bricks to help build the library, one in the purchaser's name and a matching brick from themselves. For poetry lovers, this could be a great opportunity to help some of the world's neediest readers. Click here to order directly from Avalon Press, or here to read more about "Along a Ruined Sea." Thanks, Avalon Press, for helping us build a library for refugees!

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