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.
Lenten hours
Every Wednesday, 5:30-7 p.m.
Special events hours
Sunday, March 9 – QC Wind Ensemble concert, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Friday, March 14 – Grinnell Singers, 6:30-8 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.
Lent devotionals
Life Renewed reflects on how God does this in the creation of all things, the Israelites’ rescue from slavery in Egypt, the dry bones and Ezekiel, the fiery furnace, the big fish and Jonah, and more.
Life Renewed provides devotions for each day from Ash Wednesday to the Resurrection of Our Lord/Vigil of Easter (March 5 to April 19, 2025). The devotions begin with evocative images and brief scripture readings drawn from traditional Easter Vigil texts. The writers then add their diverse voices and pastoral wisdom to the texts, offering quotations to ponder, reflections, and prayers. The pocket-sized book is available for $4.75 while large print is $9.75.
The Book Corner also features other 40-day Lenten devotionals by authors such as Kate Bowler, C.S Lewis, and D. Bonhoeffer.
Stop in and shop a large selection of Easter and spring-themed children’s books, cards, and fair trade goodies for Easter baskets, including chocolate!
Book Corner: Andrea Spencer
