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| - This is no Barnes & Noble or Borders, so don't expect big and flashy. It's actually kind of a "hole-in-the-wall", cramped and a little dingy stuck in the corner of a seedy little strip mall -- but crammed with books, thousands of them. But this is a really fun place to find books, new and used, at excellent prices and with the help of the two owners, Tom and Melanie, who couldn't be friendlier or more helpful. Here you can trade in your own used books for credit, which you can apply to purchases of their books, which is convenient and a good deal. The place has also become the headquarters for a number of special interest groups, which gives it a kind of clubhouse feel sometimes. Every time I've been in there I've encountered other "regulars" just hanging out and talking books with Tom and Melanie. During the past 2 weeks, I have rediscovered Craig Thomas, a Cold War thriller writer (Firefox, Firefox Down), and have greatly enjoyed his Lion's Run, now out of print. I inhaled that book, traded it in and picked up three more -- again, all out of print and unavailable except in a place like this. I strongly recommend this place to all avid readers. You'll grow to love it.
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