bookseller
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booksellers
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"Luck Win Bookstore and Elmbook have always kept a very low profile," the bookseller says.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The name is new to me, but the reality of the project is not, and has been the subject of much discussion on the bookseller forums."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The bookish space, says Rebecca, 44, a bookseller, “isn’t perfectly aligned on everything. We don’t all like the same authors or even the same genres. I don’t think anyone expects that.”
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chain’s history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad blood for the bookseller.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
I hurried down the street to the bookseller one wintry afternoon, bought a whole new set of ledgers, and started in to impose method on madness.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Over the last few months independent booksellers have been observing a strange pattern of purchases which have seen scores of their novels being shipped to far-off warehouses.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
After this month's raids, security chief Chris Tang said booksellers must ensure the items they sell "do not endanger national security".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The annual honor, which comes with a $10,000 prize, puts Gay in the company of luminaries such as Maya Angelou, Terry Gross and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as to lesser-known booksellers and independent publishers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
In addition to numerous GoFundMe campaigns sponsored by booksellers, there have been small and significant acts of kindness along the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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