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Spinning Tales

"What should we do with the record section?" This became an annual question from the late 1990s until about 2008... Read More

"Who you?" I knew who he was. He was from down in the city and the top book dealer in the region. I was just a newbie book guy... Read More

This story is all legend and faded memory... Almost immediately after entering the book business, I began hearing stories of Johnny G... Read More

"Are you charging us to take these?" That was an unusual question. One that I don't recall ever hearing before... Read More

I never thought I'd own these books again. I'd selected many of them carefully over the years. Some were gifts chosen to inspire... Read More

Some books tell stories in ways other than their contents. At Wonder Book, we used to rarely get copies of The Joy of Cooking... Read More