Peace Nook

Location & Hours

We are located downstairs under the peace flag and rainbow flag at 804-C East Broadway (map), in downtown Columbia. Our hours are: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday noon-6 p.m. (We now stay open until 9 p.m. and show free films most, but not all, Sunday evenings. Call us to check.)  For more information, call us at 573-875-0539 or e-mail us at mail@midmopeaceworks.org.

About the Nook

The Peace Nook is a non-profit, volunteer-based community resource center operated by Peaceworks. The Nook is an information and social change activism referral center. It is also a storefront offering books, fair trade imports, natural foods, environmental products,  posters, jewelry, T-shirts, magazines and much, much more!

All proceeds from the Peace Nook support the educational work of Mid-Missouri Peaceworks. As an educational non-profit, we charge no tax.

Nook volunteers are always needed. If you have a couple of hours a week to spare and would like to lend a hand in our wonderful non-profit store and community resource center, we'd love to have your help.

We invite you to visit the Peace Nook and help us promote a socially just, peaceful world as well as a sustainable future.

Take a Virtual Tour of the Nook. Click HERE for Slide Show

Vote With Your Dollars: Each purchase we make is a vote. Whenever we shop, we transfer dollars--green energy--to the business or organization we buy from. If you support Peaceworks' mission, we urge you to check out the opportunities to manifest this support in a substantial fashion, while pleasing many on your list with wonderful, unique gifts. We feature:

Alternative Bookstore: Offering readers a multi-cultural mix, The Peace Nook stocks more than 3,600 titles, including progressive literature and politics, feminist, African American, LGBT, Native American, personal growth and spirituality, holistic health, sustainable living and vegetarian cooking.

The Peace Nook regularly saves you 17 percent on books (no tax + 10 percent book club credit). We also save you 27 percent immediately on best sellers and staff picks.

Fair Trade Import Headquarters: You can trust out imported products are not made in sweatshops. We have a wide array of imports that are made by cooperatives and imported by fair trade distributors that ensure the craftspeople earn a decent living wage.Our selection includes clothes, winter-wear, sacks, pouches, wallets, purses, jewelry and more. We also feature a great selection of fair trade coffee, tea and chocolate.

Progressive Message Products: T-shirts, posters, buttons, stickers, patches and more feature progressive messages. We have one of the largest selections in the state of Missouri of progressive paraphernalia.

Growing Selection of Natural Foods:  The Peace Nook offers a good mix natural foods and body products, all at very reasonable prices. We stock many of the basics, from juices and oils to grains and dried fruits, from cereals to snacks to condiments. Our selection of lotions, soaps, shampoos and other body products is excellent. And what you can't get off our shelves can likely be ordered from....

Blue Planet Natural Foods Buying Club:  Peaceworks also operates a buying service through which you can pre-order many thousands of items we don't have the wherewithal to stock here. The savings of pre-order buying from a non-profit source are significant. More info at BLUE PLANET.

Tell a Friend: Most businesses allocate a substantial amount of money for advertising. We hope that word of mouth can help us keep our prices low. We thank you in advance for helping us to do this.

For our part, we will continue to provide diverse reading, fair trade imports, holiday cards and calendars, environmental products, music, jewelry, etc. at affordable prices with no tax. All the proceeds support Peaceworks.

Photos above and in slide show by Kim Dill.

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MAY BESTSELLERS & STAFF PICKS--SAVE 27%+ ON 42 DIFFERENT BOOKS:    As usual we have on sale at 20%-off the Peace Nook's 15 best-selling books, two picks from each staff member and one each from volunteers of  6 months or longer tenure. This, plus no sales tax, means that you save a bit more than 27% on these 42 books (and, with the savings from our book club, you save more than 17% on all the other books we sell). All this, while supporting Peaceworks' work for peace, justice and a sustainable future.

  

The following are on sale through May 31, 2012:

Nook 15 Best Sellers:

                                                           

Wreck This Journal                                                                   Keri Smith

Hunger Games                                                                         Suzanne Collins

Way to Baghdad                                                                       Zaid Mahir                           

All My Friends Are Dead                                                            Avery Monsen

Make Your Place: Affordable and Sustainable                              Raleigh Briggs

Work: Capitalism, Economics and Resistance                             CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective         

People’s History of the US: 1492 to Present                                 Howard Zinn

New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness    Michelle Alexander

Rider Waite Tarot Deck                                                               Arthur Edward Waite

Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Personal Freedom                Don Miguel Ruiz

Banksy: Wall and Piece                                                             Banksy

Catching Fire                                                                             Suzanna Collins

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart                              Thich Nhat Hanh

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk                                                            David Sedaris

Howl & Other Poems                                                                  Allen Ginsberg

26 Staff & Volunteer Picks:

Staff Picks:

Kim:

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power                           Rachel Maddow

Jungle                                                                                       Upton Sinclair

Mark:

Spirit Level:  Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger        Richard Wilkinson

Eating Animals                                                                          Jonathan Safran Foer

Molly:

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace                                                   Tamara Chalabi

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention                                                  Manning Marable

Samuel:

When You’re Falling, Dive                                                           Cheri Huber

I Want My Hat Back                                                                   Don Klassen

Zach:

Rebel Cities                                                                               David Harvey

Your Farm in the City                                                                  Lisa Taylor

Zora:

Dear White America:  Letter to a New Minority                              Tim Wise

Are You My Mother?                                                                   Allison Bechdel

Volunteer Staff Picks:

Anastasia:

Given                                                                                        Wendell Berry

Bob:

The Gluten-Free Vegan Kitchen                                                   Donna Klein

Briney:

Bicycle Diaries                                                                           David Byrne

Brooke:

Lost Knowledge of the Ancients                                                   Glenn Kreisberg

Care:

Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh          Thich Nhat Hanh

Damian:

Mockingjay                                                                                Suzanne Collins                       

Davis:

This is Your Brain on Music                                                         Daniel Levitin

Dick:

Let There Be Peace on Earth: And Let It Begin with Me (w/ CD)     David Diaz & Jill Jackson

Jacob:

Elvenbane                                                                                 Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey

                      

Kyle:

Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley                                            Timothy White

Laine:

Hellions                                                                                     Maria Raha

Laura:

All My Friends Are Still Dead                                                      Jory John and Avery Monsen

Shanna:

Tales of a Female Nomad                                                           Rita Golden Gelman

Tyler:

DMT the Spirit Molecule                                                             Rick Stassman

Peace Nook Pick:

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy                   Peter G. Brown et al.

T-SHIRT STAFF PICKS:  Sweet Ts, 25% off our usual low prices for the month of February:  

Kim: Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper; Mark: God Bless the Whole World No Exceptions; Molly: Who Would Jesus Bomb; Samuel: Coexist; Zora: Homeland Security: Fighting Terrorism Since 1492 (Native American graphic). 

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