| Description |
391 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print. rda |
| Series |
Center Point large print edition |
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Center Point large print edition.
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| Note |
"Center Point large print edition." |
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Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012. |
| Summary |
Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore. When the opportunity to escape a toxic work environment and run to a struggling Virginia coal-mining town presented itself, they took the plunge. They chose to ignore all the talk about the "death of the book," of the closing of bookstores across the nation, and of the difficult economic environment. Six years later they have carved a bookstore and a life out of an Appalachian mountain community. A story of beating bad odds with grace, ingenuity, good books, and single malt, this memoir chronicles two bibliophiles discovering unlikely ways in which daily living and literature intertwine. Their customers come to the shop looking for the kind of interactive wisdom electronics don't spark. There, they find friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book in good company. |
| Contents |
How to be attacked by your heart's desire -- No longer renting the space inside my skin -- Mommy, where do books come from? -- Follow your ignorance is bliss -- Holy grails full of frass -- Creating, and being created by, community -- God bless you for trying, losers -- Stephen saved our bacon day -- Catty behavior, or how Beula taught us to stand tall, quit whining, and have fun -- Saved by the cell (and the napkin dispensers, and the corkboards) -- A book's value versus its price -- I dream about running a bookstore someday ... -- Running an unlicensed intellectual pub -- Yarn goddesses -- What happens in the bookstore, stays in the bookstore -- Growing into ourselves -- Reading rekindled -- Last cowboy -- Living large in a small-town bookstore -- The network -- Ceridwen -- The way we buy now (with apologies to Trollope) -- Booking down the road trip -- Bibliophiliacs versus book snobs -- On recommending books -- Citizen Jack -- The last word. |
| Subject |
Bookstores -- Virginia.
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Antiquarian booksellers -- Virginia.
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Married people -- Employment.
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Book collectors.
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Antiquarian booksellers. (OCoLC)fst00810677
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Book collectors. (OCoLC)fst00836139
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Bookstores. (OCoLC)fst00836517
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Married people -- Employment.
(OCoLC)fst01010662
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Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
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| Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9781611735833 (lg. print ; hc ; alk. paper) |
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1611735831 (lg. print ; hc ; alk. paper) |
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