Boneshaker Books

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2002 23rd Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404
+1 (612) 208-6669
http://www.boneshakerbooks.com
Arise! describes itself as an "infoshop", an urban permaculture project, a meeting space, a small venue, a bookstore and resource center. It serves the community as a bookstore carrying alternative books and periodicals for people involved in South African, Irish, Native American and other political issues. The bookstore provides works of social resistance authored by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Audre Lorde, John Zerzan and Noam Chomsky. It acts as a library of books, periodicals, files and videos for in-house use and lending out. It also acts as an office for projects undertaken by its members, including the publication of the Arise! newspaper, group meetings and cultural celebrations. Arise! is open every day and is located in Minneapolis.

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4.517 reviews
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Rachel W.
11/17/2018

What a lovely little bookstore with a badass name and cool building! It's a small, but good, selection of books. There was a mix of used and new, and a strong support of minority authors! The...

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Lydia C.
5/9/2025

The exterior of the bookstore was cute enough for me to be drawn to enter without any prior knowledge, but that's about where my positives end. Maybe I'm just a hater, but I definitely found the...

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Kaitlyn K.
5/2/2024

Boneshaker is the place to find social and political justice books. We visited Boneshaker as a stop along the 2024 Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport. The space itself is fun to take in...

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Ellie B.
8/9/2024

I love this place so much. The energy is always so chill and the workers (who are volunteers) are kind and helpful. They have events with local artists outside sometimes and are always looking for...

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Annette G.
6/29/2022

Boneshaker offered to host my book, and we did a reading. What a large turn-out, we had! They also worked with us throughout the year to host our book and share it with incarcerated women. Social...

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