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    • 26 Ratings
    • 597 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Ida Isn't Reading Anymore

    APRIL 1, 2013 9:59AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: bookstores, aging, loss of sight

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 2256 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    The Boy Who Reads Manga On the Wooden Chair

    JANUARY 14, 2013 9:44AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: single moms, drawing, manga, bookstores

    • 13 Ratings
    • 582 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Machinations in Love

    OCTOBER 11, 2012 5:39PM

    By just phyllis


    Topics: fiction, secret stores, sex toys, bookstores

    • 8 Ratings
    • 369 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Bookstore Clerks, Those Wonderfully Strange People

    AUGUST 28, 2012 11:22AM

    By escrito por nada


    Topics: eccentric people, changing times, bookstores, books

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1442 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Hot Books In a Bookstore

    JULY 26, 2012 10:01AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: bookstores, air conditioning

    • 0 Ratings
    • 139 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    June 28, 2012: Mass Market Fiction

    JUNE 28, 2012 1:38PM

    By Ben Railton


    Topics: stuff we should think about, summer jobs, reading, bookselling, bookstores, waldenbooks

    • 12 Ratings
    • 1284 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Open Call Repost--Where Have All the Bookstores Gone

    JUNE 20, 2012 9:54PM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: bookstores, repost

    • 1 Ratings
    • 200 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Polly's Pigeons

    JUNE 18, 2012 8:46AM

    By Polly Waller


    Topics: bookstores, pigeons, true story

    • 33 Ratings
    • 1061 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    The Woman Who Quit Bookstores

    JUNE 6, 2012 11:05AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: bookstores

    • 1 Ratings
    • 389 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    It's Here, it's here, it's here!

    MARCH 23, 2012 4:15PM

    By havlin


    Topics: yada, self-promotion, pulped, remaindered, bookstores, authors, published, book, poet, poetry, shameless

    • 1 Ratings
    • 602 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    And Stop Calling Me Weird (or Horror by Any Other Name)

    MARCH 10, 2012 10:59AM

    By KC Redding-Gonzalez


    Topics: spectral fiction, gothic fiction, speculative fiction, china mieville, h.p. lovecraft, bookstores, history of horror fiction, publishing, fiction marketing, writing, horror fiction, new wierd fiction, weird fiction

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1504 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Why Writers Need Readers: Not for the Obvious Reason

    FEBRUARY 8, 2012 9:16AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: book clubs, book bloggers, readers, writing, novels, breast cancer, gerbil farmer's daughter, book reviews, bookstores, publishing, self publishing, facebook, sleeping tigers, social media, novel publicity

    • 0 Ratings
    • 110 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    It Was a Place I'd Never Been Before

    JANUARY 29, 2012 5:13PM

    By Judy Evans


    Topics: urban, alcoholics, tourists, springtime, bookstores, boston

    • 0 Ratings
    • 138 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Books - Old Friends

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 12:31PM

    By MarthaLShaw


    Topics: for+sale, business, books, bookstores, local businesses, open+call, declaration of independents

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1961 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Celebrating my independents

    DECEMBER 18, 2011 9:58PM

    By Lucy Mercer


    Topics: books, bookstores, independent bookstores, used bookstores, open call, declaration of independents

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1922 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    My Favorite Bookstore(s)

    DECEMBER 2, 2011 9:29AM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: open call, bookstores, howard's, caveat emptor, indiana, bloomington, wesleyan park plaza, waldenbooks, ebooks, books, kentucky, owensboro, moneytree, retail

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2764 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    Two small bookstores that have a big place in my heart

    NOVEMBER 30, 2011 8:56AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: possible location for my dream wedding, baldwin's book barn, housing works, hiv/aids charity, new york, pennsylvania, antique books, books, independent bookstores, open call, bookstores, declaration of independents

    • 0 Ratings
    • 3468 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Let The Wild Rumpus Start!

    NOVEMBER 29, 2011 8:31AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: declaration of independents, open call, bookstores, children, parenting, minneapolis, wild rumpus, kate dicamillo, animals, books, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 143 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Book Signing

    NOVEMBER 14, 2011 10:11PM

    By John Paddison


    Topics: historical literature, literature, child neglect, norrth dakotak, the great depression, q & a, question and answer session, audience, paddison-orvik publishing, charles d. orvik, charles orvik, john h. paddison, john paddison, november 12th, saturday, the brothers' keepers, bookstores, changing hands, book review, book signing

    • 0 Ratings
    • 109 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Book Signing

    NOVEMBER 14, 2011 10:11PM

    By John Paddison


    Topics: historical literature, literature, child neglect, norrth dakotak, the great depression, q & a, question and answer session, audience, paddison-orvik publishing, charles d. orvik, charles orvik, john h. paddison, john paddison, november 12th, saturday, the brothers' keepers, bookstores, changing hands, book review, book signing

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