{"id":29965,"date":"2026-02-11T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=29965"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:42:49","slug":"bonner-leader-book-drive-for-dc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/bonner-leader-book-drive-for-dc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonner Leader Book Drive for DC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have new or gently-used books that you\u2019d like to donate, please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus before 2\/20\/26. Students in the Bonner Leader Program are collecting books for a service project during our spring break trip to Washington, DC. Scan the QR code on the flyer for a list of genres or contact <a href=\"mailto:alicia.burns@wilkes.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alicia.burns@wilkes.edu<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for helping us spread the love of reading and improved literacy to incarcerated individuals across the United States!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/dcbookstoprisoners.org\/donate-books\/\">https:\/\/dcbookstoprisoners.org\/donate-books\/<\/a> to learn more about this amazing program and the types of books to donate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College-level dictionaries \u2014 our #1 request<\/li>\n<li>National Geographic magazines<\/li>\n<li>Introductory (Level 1 or 2 or &#8220;phrase book&#8221;) language instruction and dictionaries for Spanish, American Sign Language (ASL), Hebrew, Latin, Japanese, German, Russian, Arabic, Greek, and various other European, Asian, and African languages<\/li>\n<li>Science fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of November 2025, the following books are ideal for various prison book clubs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All About Love (bell hooks)<\/li>\n<li>Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Davis)<\/li>\n<li>Autobiography of Assata Shakur (Assata Shakur)<\/li>\n<li>Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo)<\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)<\/li>\n<li>Defending Jacob (William Landay)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Call Us Dead (Danez Smith)<\/li>\n<li>Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)<\/li>\n<li>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)<\/li>\n<li>Ghost Boys (Jewel Parker Rhodes)<\/li>\n<li>A Good Country (Laleh Khadivi)<\/li>\n<li>The Great Pretender (Susannah Cahalan)<\/li>\n<li>The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)<\/li>\n<li>On the Road (Jack Kerouac)<\/li>\n<li>Wonder (R.J. Palacio)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have new or gently-used books that you\u2019d like to donate, please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus before 2\/20\/26. Students in the Bonner Leader Program are collecting books for a service project during our spring break trip to Washington, DC. Scan the QR code on the flyer for a list of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/bonner-leader-book-drive-for-dc-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bonner Leader Book Drive for DC!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29970,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29965\/revisions\/29970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}