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unusual facts about bookstore



2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

Riot police eventually managed to push the rioters away from Georgia, onto Granville Street and Robson Street, where the rioters then caused further substantial damage, breaking the windows of several shops and looting, such as a Future Shop, a Sears and a Chapters bookstore.

Acres of Books

In its long history Acres of Books has served clientele such as Jack Vance, Upton Sinclair, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens, James Hilton, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Paul Schrader, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Easton, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton, and, most notably, Ray Bradbury, who immortalized the bookstore in an essay entitled "I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic".

Alfred State College

Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services (ACES) has been providing services to Alfred State College since 1946 including dining services, telecommunications and the Alfred State Bookstore.

Barry Building

The building's most famous tenant was the Dutton's Bookstore where for more than two decades authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and Isabel Allende held readings and signings.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book, Fariña attended a book-signing ceremony at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird (to be followed the next day by another at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco).

Betsy-Tacy

In the 1998 film You've Got Mail, bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) describes the first two books of the series to young Annabel Fox (Hallee Hirsh), who immediately decides she wants them all.

Better Than Chocolate

The plot line about the bookstore is a fairly direct reference to Vancouver's Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium and its travails with Canada Customs.

Charles Scribner's Sons Building

Charles Scribner's Sons Building is a building in Manhattan at 597 Fifth Avenue, built 1912–13 to house the Scribner's Bookstore.

Declining business forced the Scribner's Bookstore to relocate to a lower-rent district in New York before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. The building has subsequently housed Brentano's bookstore, a Benetton clothing store, and presently Sephora, a cosmetics retailer.

COEX Mall

Along with hundreds of shops, the mall houses two food courts, Megabox (movie theatres), COEX Aquarium, a large bookstore, and the Kimchi Field Museum.

Corner Brook Plaza

Other stores in the mall include, among others, Coles, The Source, Payless ShoeSource, DAVIDsTEA, Stitches, Bluenotes, Bootlegger, Le Chateau, Ardène, Spring and Pseudio.

Crawford Notch

In the Carroll portion of the notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center, and has renovated the Queen Anne style Victorian-era Crawford Notch Maine Central train depot as a bookstore.

Detroit's Marwil Bookstore

Marwil Bookstore was last located at 4870 Cass Avenue (corner of Cass and Warren avenues) in the Midtown area of Detroit on Wayne State University’s main campus.

Dhiren Barot

The book was commissioned and published by Maktabah al-Ansar, a bookstore co-owned by Moazzam Begg.

Dorothy Arnold

She was last seen in Brentano's bookstore on 26th Street, where she purchased a book of epigrams; before that, she had visited Park & Tilford's store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street and charged a pound of candy to her account.

Ferdinand Gottlieb

He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".

First-mover advantage

Founded by Charles M. Stack, it is considered to be the very first online bookstore known to date.

Flyer Enterprises

::::::::::*Flyer Spirit - A joint venture with the UD Bookstore opened in 2007 to sell Dayton Flyers apparel and memorabilia

G3school

The school is equipped with Smart Boards and online communication portals, a music lab, science and computer labs, a science park, a library and bookstore, and an audio-visual room.

Globe Corner Bookstore

The Globe Corner Bookstore's Adventure Travel Lecture Series had hosted Jan Morris, Bradford Washburn, William Dalrymple, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Roger Tory Peterson, Rory Stewart, and David Allen Sibley, in addition to other well-known authors and travel writers.

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone

Other projects included designs for limited edition Christmas jigsaw puzzles for the British bookstore chain Waddingtons, and two books she wrote and illustrated about Santa Claus.

Josip Marohnić

Marohnić founded the "First Croatian Bookstore" in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

LaMarcus Aldridge

He appeared in the eighth episode of the second season of Portlandia, attending the 10th anniversary of the bookstore Women and Women First with Penny Marshall.

Linda Parks

Her mother managed a bookstore her father was a voice actor and was the voice of Smokey Bear.

Maktaba-tul-madinah

Maktaba-tul-Madinah (Urdu: مکتبةالمدينه) is a bookstore established by the Muhammad Ilyas Qadri in Karachi, Pakistan.

Marines' Memorial Club

The nonprofit Marines Memorial Association owns the large building in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco that houses a hotel, theater, restaurant/bar, sports club, special event facilities, library, museum, memorial, and a military history bookstore.

Marriage plot

We may see this, for instance, in the film You've Got Mail, which resolves the political opposition between mega-bookstore boss Tom Hanks and bookshop-around-the-corner owner, Meg Ryan, by uniting its lead characters in a union that effaces the unequal distribution of capital that originally put them at odds.

Oscar Wilde Bookshop

The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors.

Pierre Brossolette

Buildings in Paris such as the former bookstore and nearby Lycée Janson de Sailly's court at Rue de la Pompe, the residence at Rue de Grenelle, his birthplace at rue Michel-Ange, the Maison de Radio France and the Ministry of the Interior's court at Rue des Saussaies all feature commemorative plaques and his name is mentioned on a floor plaque at the Panthéon.

Poetry reading

A public reading is typically given on a small stage in a café or bookstore, although reading by prominent poets frequently are booked into larger venues such as amphitheaters and college auditoriums, to accommodate crowds.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

The National Park Service in 2003 approved for sale in the Grand Canyon National Park bookstore Grand Canyon: A Different View; a book that presents the formation of the Grand Canyon as a result of Biblical events.

Rise of the Ogre

Band creators Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn also appeared in Oxford Street, London bookstore Waterstone's to sign copies of the book on 6 November 2006 from 6pm-7pm (note the use of sixes on the date as a reference to Murdoc's satanic ways).

Śajvo

Within the walls of the bookstore readings performed such leading figures of Ukrainian literature, as Ostap Vyshnya, Maksym Rylsky and Pavlo Tychyna.

Seminary Co-op

The Co-op also operates 57th Street Books, also in the Hyde Park neighborhood, which stocks popular volumes, and the Newberry Library Bookstore, which sells books, cards, and gifts on Chicago's North Side.

Shimon Attie

His photographs Almstadtstrasse 43, Berlin (1930). (car parked in front of Hebrew bookstore) (1991) and Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin (1932). (children and tower) (1991) are owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Steimatzky

He had originally came to the British Mandate of Palestine on a short visit for the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and decided to stay after he saw the potential in opening a foreign language bookstore that would serve a growing immigrants' market as well as British Army soldiers serving under the British Mandate.

Strip mall

The categories of retailers may vary widely, from electronics stores to bookstores to home improvement stores.

The Library Is on Fire

Five took the name from a poem by French war poet René Char while working at Strand Bookstore, after weekly meetings over coffee with Television guitarist Tom Verlaine.

The Poisoned Pen

The Poisoned Pen Bookstore was founded in 1989 by Barbara G. Peters.

This Ain't the Rosedale Library

The bookstore had a rich history of author visits and readings, ranging from William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson to Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters.

Titan Entertainment Group

Titan Entertainment Group (TEG) is a British retailing and publishing company, owner of the Forbidden Planet bookstore chain, Titan Magazines, and Titan Books.

To Be the Man

Upon its release, Flair held a successful book signing at a Borders bookstore in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina.

William Ratigan

Ratigan made his home in Charlevoix, Michigan where he operated a small used bookstore in a fish shanty called The Dockside Press. In his latter years, he would spend winters in Dunedin, Florida.

Wyn Cooper

Crow's producer Bill Bottrell discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in Cliff's Books, a Pasadena, California used bookstore.

Zofia Romanowiczowa

She then studied romance philology in Paris, where she met her husband, Kazimierz Romanowicz, director of the bookstore and publishing company Libella, on the Ile Saint Louis, from 1946 to 1993.


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