COVID-19 - an update

As the Missouri statewide stay-at-home order lifts today, we wanted to write to give you an update about the shop and how we will be moving forward from here.

Under the terms of the statewide and local ordinances we are allowed to open our doors to the public today, but we won’t be doing that.

Our priority, first and foremost, is the health and safety of our staff and our customers. We do not feel that opening the shop right now is the safest course of action. We will continue just as we have over the past several weeks, taking orders by phone and email, and mailing, delivering or doing curbside pick-up.

In other words, nothing is going to change.

We plan on spending the next week tidying up the shop, securing additional cleaning supplies, and monitoring the situation generally, and then we will decide how to proceed. We may at that point decide that it’s safe to open the shop to individual shoppers on a by-appointment basis, but cannot make any promises right now. Rest assured that all decisions will be made in order to protect the health and safety of you and our staff.

WE MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH! But we hope you understand our decision to proceed with caution at what is still a very uncertain time. Thank you all so much for your amazing support over this extraordinarily difficult time. We feel honored and proud to keep getting books into your hands.

Stay well, keep reading, and keep washing your hands!