| Prologue |
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1 How to Be Attacked by Your Heart's Desire |
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7 | (7) |
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2 No Longer Renting the Space Inside My Skin |
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14 | (7) |
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3 Mommy, Where Do Books Come From? |
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21 | (25) |
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4 Follow Your Ignorance Is Bliss |
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46 | (15) |
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5 Holy Grails Full of Frass |
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6 Creating, and Being Created by, Community |
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7 God Bless You for Trying, Losers |
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82 | (10) |
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8 Stephen Saved Our Bacon Day |
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92 | (7) |
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9 Catty Behavior, or How Beulah Taught Us to Stand Tall, Quit Whining, and Have Fun |
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99 | (5) |
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10 Saved by the Cell (and the Napkin Dispensers, and the Corkboards) |
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104 | (5) |
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11 A Book's Value Versus Its Price |
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109 | (14) |
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12 I Dream About Running a Bookstore Someday... |
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123 | (9) |
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13 Running an Unlicensed Intellectual Pub |
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132 | (10) |
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142 | (7) |
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15 What Happens in the Bookstore, Stays in the Bookstore |
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149 | (5) |
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16 Growing into Ourselves |
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154 | (8) |
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162 | (113) |
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19 Living Large in a Small-Town Bookstore |
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185 | (12) |
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197 | (10) |
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207 | (7) |
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22 The Way We Buy Now (with Apologies to Trollope) |
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214 | (15) |
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23 Booking Down the Road Trip |
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229 | (17) |
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24 Bibliophiliacs Versus Book Snobs |
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246 | (6) |
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252 | (28) |
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280 | (6) |
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286 | (3) |
| Acknowledgments |
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