Reading has saved us all at one time or another. In the pandemic, when we need company, when we need to flee and escape to other worlds… And the fact is that reading heals, cures and gives us strength.
Picking up a book, starting it, savoring it and finishing it can become an act of solidarity.
So now it’s our turn to save the Valencian bookstores and publishing houses that have lost a large part of their stock and have suffered damage to their premises due to the DANA.
Below, we tell you how to help these bookstores and recommend books from some of the publishers that have suffered the most from the DANA so that you can choose your next solidarity reading.
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Bookstores that have suffered damage and how to help them.
Somnis de Paper, Benetússer
This bookstore in Benetússer has been completely destroyed by the DANA and has lost most of its books. It is an independent bookstore focused, above all, on children’s and young adult literature.
You can buy books through their website somnisdepaper.es
Bufanúvols, Catarroja
This bookstore does not have a website, but you can contact them through their Instagram page @bufanuvolslib.
Librolandia, Benetússer
In this bookstore specialized in children’s and young adult literature you can find hundreds of titles for all tastes.
You can buy your next reading in this link.
Samaruc, Algemesí
In this store, you will find books of all kinds of literary genres. In addition, the bookstore is not only a point of sale of books, but a cultural space that carries out activities, book clubs, book presentations.
This is their website.La Moixeranga, Paiporta
La Moixeranga is another bookstore that only has Instagram, but from there, you can make donations that will go directly to cover the damages of the premises, as it was severely affected by the DANA.
@la_moixeranga
Libro Ideas, Aldaia
This bookstore is located in CC Bonaire and was completely destroyed by the DANA. They are now cleaning up and don’t know when they will be able to reopen.
This is their website.Pasarella, Paiporta
Pasarella is not only a bookstore, but you can also find toys of all kinds for the little ones of the house. Now, because of the destruction of the DANA, they have opened a crowdfunding campaign on the Go Fund Me platform.
You can make a financial contribution at this link.
Esplai llibres, L’Alcúdia
Esplai llibres is another bookstore that has suffered serious consequences due to the DANA. Here you can find from illustrated albums to textbooks, as well as children’s and young adult literature.
You can buy on their website from this link.
Booksellers Guild
The Booksellers Guild of Valencia has created an initiative to help all these bookstores. It has created an account number and a Bizum so that all those who want to contribute financially to the reconstruction of the bookstores, can do so.
IBAN: ES76 3159 0015 8823 2590 9725
Bizum: 10592
Concept: Donation Llibreries DANA
Literary recommendations from Valencian publishers
Some Valencian publishers have lost a large part of their stock due to the floods in the industrial warehouses where they stored their videos. For this reason, we tell you a little about each publishing house and recommend a title so that you can help with your next reading.
Don’t forget to buy the books in bookstores, and not on Amazon and big platforms, this way you are helping both publishers and small bookstores that have been destroyed.
Bromera
Bromera publishing house has an extensive catalog of children’s and young adult literature, reading focused on the world of education and also for adults. We love “El Senyal” by Marta Meneu Borja, a choral novel that talks about the lives of four women who meet in the Town Hall Square in a minute of silence for a victim of male violence.
It is a realistic novel, about the Valencian streets and its people. Where we can know how these lives are and how is the current Valencia.
Sembra llibres
Sembra llibres is a publishing house that publishes books in Valencian. It is an independent and cooperative project, which gives voice to good literature for young people and adults.
We want to highlight “Florescència” by Kopano Matlawa. A social novel that talks about mental health, racism and the problems faced by the protagonist as a doctor in the public system. Undoubtedly, it is a moving read, which makes us see and understand how this world works.
Editorial Afers
This publishing house is dedicated to thought and divulgation. It wants to bring to the readers great critical works of our times. So, if you are not a reader of novels, but you are interested in the world, present and past, and how it is being thought, you will certainly find very interesting proposals in their catalog.
Their latest proposal is “Discurs contrafeminista” by Mercè Rius, a work that addresses the debates and contradictions of feminism, from a lucid position and taking into account the multiplicity of problems encountered by a postulate that is theoretical and that, at the same time, has its practice in the streets.
Batidora editions
From Batidora we have to highlight “Esbozos del alma”, a book of poetry that deals with sadness, melancholy and explores the most fragile parts of the human soul.
In addition, in the catalog of the publisher, you can find from juvenile literature, to works of poetry like the one we have recommended now.
Unaria editions
The catalog of Unaria ediciones is endless. They publish everything from children’s and young adult literature to theater and poetry. They publish in Spanish and Valencian and we love “Contes de la ciutat adormida” by Germà García Belmonte. A collection of stories that take place in the city of Castellón.
These stories go through the urban margins, those places where the city is blurred. A Castellón that seems to forget this kind of people, but being forgotten does not mean that they do not exist.