Author Ann Patchett, shown here at Parnassus Books, co-founded the Nashville bookstore at the end of 2011.
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Author Ann Patchett, shown here at Parnassus Books, co-founded the Nashville bookstore at the end of 2011.
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To author Hilary Davidson, Ben McNally Books in Toronto looks like an idyllic private club for book lovers.
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To author Hilary Davidson, Ben McNally Books in Toronto looks like an idyllic private club for book lovers.
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Book Passage has two locations, but Davidson fell for the <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">San Francisco Ferry Building</a> location.
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Book Passage has two locations, but Davidson fell for the San Francisco Ferry Building location.
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Davidson's favorite branch of Denver's Tattered Cover is in the historic Lowenstein Theater on East Colfax Avenue.
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Davidson's favorite branch of Denver's Tattered Cover is in the historic Lowenstein Theater on East Colfax Avenue.
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Mysterious Galaxy's Redondo Beach, California, location features a Ladies, Lunch & Literacy program at independently owned restaurants and organizes the Passion & Prose conference for romance readers.
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Mysterious Galaxy's Redondo Beach, California, location features a Ladies, Lunch & Literacy program at independently owned restaurants and organizes the Passion & Prose conference for romance readers.
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In Quebec City, where fewer than 5% of the population is Anglophone, La Maison Anglaise (The English House) has been going strong since 1984.
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In Quebec City, where fewer than 5% of the population is Anglophone, La Maison Anglaise (The English House) has been going strong since 1984.
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McNally Jackson looks like a traditional New York bookstore, but it houses some cutting-edge technology: the Espresso Book Machine, which prints paperbacks from a catalog of almost 4 million titles.
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McNally Jackson looks like a traditional New York bookstore, but it houses some cutting-edge technology: the Espresso Book Machine, which prints paperbacks from a catalog of almost 4 million titles.
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