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Read Between the Lynes bookstore is ready for a busy Groundhog Day holiday weekend thanks to the 1993 Bill Murray movie filmed in its town, Woodstock, Illinois.

Café Con Libros opens in Brooklyn; Alaska bookstores in the news; SIBA newsletter column features Malaprop’s bookseller

Indie bookstore Get Lit. opens in Arizona; Half Price Books plans new store for Kansas; Duende District adds pop-up shop; Employees taking over Virginia’s Book People as owner retires; New owners settling in at Bookstore of Glen Ellyn; Bridge Street Books to become nonprofit; Politics and Prose owners named Washingtonians of the Year; New general manager named at Harvard Book Store; Avid Bookshop’s Janet Geddis tapped for TEDx Talk

Alsace Walentine’s 120-square-foot pop-up shop in St. Petersburg, Florida’s Edge District features 200 titles as well as literary tattoos, bookmarks, notebooks, pencils, and more.

Brilliant Books marks 10 years in business; Midtown Reader plans expansion; Scrawl Books, Brilliant Moon, Bob’s Beach on the move; Northshire starts college scholarship; Left Bank receives Missouri Jobs With Justice award; Sheridan Stationery named Best of the West

Jackson Hole Book Trader reopens with new owner, new look; Longtime indie in Blytheville gets new name, owners; Lake Worth’s Book Cellar opens café and wine bar; McIntyre’s Books to host children’s book festival

Bookstore veteran Kathryn Grantham is reinventing the art of the book sale with a minimalist philosophy and just 1,000 curated titles on her reclaimed wood shelves.

Cover to Cover Books for Young Readers has a new owner who plans to reopen the store in a new location in the Columbus, Ohio, area in January.

This December, Zenith Bookstore is bringing the Icelandic tradition of “Jólabókaflóð,” or “Yule Book Flood,” to Duluth, Minnesota, for two weeks of books and chocolate.