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The little bookstore of Big Stone Gap, a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book, Wendy Welch

Label
The little bookstore of Big Stone Gap, a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book, Wendy Welch
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The little bookstore of Big Stone Gap
Responsibility statement
Wendy Welch
Sub title
a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book
Table Of 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
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