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Liberty Bay Books' Suzanne Droppert said she didn't have "a lick" of experience when she bought her bookstore in 1996. But she quickly learned the skills needed to develop a bookstore to suit the interests of the diverse city of Poulsbo, Washington, a suburb of Seattle with large Scandinavian and Native American communities.