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| - Score another win for Shelf Life Books! I was pondering a couple of books to buy in the business/networking realm. I've done some friends and family research, a little internet browsing, found some common book titles that I thought might be worth a shot and was just about to head out the door to the big C word. Then I stopped myself. The big C word would certainly have the titles I had already thought of. But I remembered Reg T's review about finding books that were equally (if not more) uber-awesome than some of the best sellers at this little place called Shelf Life Books.
The store isn't huge, and for surely doesn't stock everything under the sun. But one round of the store brought an employee to my side asking me what it was I was in search of. She asked me questions, pondered different sections that might relate to my topic. In the end, she recommended I check out the business, international development and environment and sustainability sections. Bonus, each is only a bookcase or two big and not filled with multiple copies of the same book, rather one or two copies of many different books, so I didn't need to go far and still had a variety of titles to ponder. She also invited me to settle into any of the chairs around the store to read through some of the books... just to make sure it was what I wanted before I brought it home.
In the end, I settled on two books, but while I was looking, that didn't stop said employee from bringing by another one that had caught her eye on her way by. Oh, and the two books I came home with? Soooooo not anything that came up in my "research" phase of my book quest, and yet they've turned out to be even better suited for what I was looking for.
Stellar work Shelf Life. You've taken the lead as my first stop.
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