pickWhat a great book! I loved learning the history of my local bookstore, cleverly and expertly written. I wish EVERY independent had a book about them like this!
Light in the Midst of Darkness: The Story of a Bookshop, a Community and True Love | 
pickWhat a great book! I loved learning the history of my local bookstore, cleverly and expertly written. I wish EVERY independent had a book about them like this!
Quote from Jonathan Franzen. Loving this book!
"Wallace Blaine brings us a rich & insightful page-turner with his deft chronicling of the colorful history of Bookshop Santa Cruz & its unlikely survival against long odds, a true community triumph representing the best of civilization at large." - Novelist Elizabeth McKenzie
"Baine's book is a love letter, intimate in focus but smartly expansive in implication and execution, a love letter to a storied bookstore, but also to booksellers and writers and to books themselves." - Novelist Karen Joy Fowler
