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The owners of Connecticut’s Bank Square Books will open Savoy Bookshop & Café in nearby Westerly, Rhode Island, in late summer. The store, in the former Savoy Hotel, will feature wooden floors and open brick walls in a 2,500-square-foot, two-level space.

Books Inc. to open new location; BookPeople promotes Texas Teen Book Festival Writing Contest; Eight stores take part in simultaneous book launch

Just Write! connects Village Books to writing community; Penguin Bookshop launches writers series; The Writer’s Block to bring education, events to Las Vegas; Third Place Books owner Ron Sher featured; California’s Bay Books offers personal touch

For St. Louis, Missouri’s Left Bank Books, the past year was the most successful — as well as one of the most eventful — in the store’s 46-year history.

Booksellers talk small business needs in Washington; Moravian Book Shop to add second location; Browseabout Books marks 40 years; New co-owners join Brookline Booksmith

Book Club Hub, a project launched by BookBar owner Nicole Sullivan, is a national reading group networking site that aims to pair readers and book clubs with independent booksellers.

Sales were strong at three New Orleans indies that banded together to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day a week later than the rest of the country, due to a conflict with Jazz Fest.

Booksellers celebrated the inaugural Independent Bookstore Day on May 2, and early reports indicate that sales were up at 80 percent of responding stores, compared to the first Saturday of May 2014.

Scrawl Books to open in Virginia; Mystery Lovers Bookshop welcomes new owners; Provincetown’s Womencrafts sold; The Book Shop celebrates 55th anniversary; A Room of One’s Own enters 40th year; Jacobsen’s marks five years; Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery debuts; Illinois’ Afterwords Books relocates

On April 25, Tamzin Malone and her husband, Ted, opened Main Street Books, a general bookstore with a special focus on science fiction and fantasy, in a 2,300-square-foot storefront in Lafayette, Indiana’s historic district.

Suzy Staubach to leave UConn Co-op; Maine Coast Book Shop & Café on the market; Literary Hub highlights Parnassus, Brazos

Vermont’s Phoenix Books is using a “community supported enterprise” model to open a 2,400-square-foot space in Rutland this August. This will be the third store for Mike DeSanto and Renée Reiner, his wife and business partner.

Village Books & Paper Dreams founders and co-owners Chuck and Dee Robinson have announced plans to open a branch store in Lynden, Washington, 20 miles north of their flagship location in Bellingham.

New indie opens in eastern Illinois; Elliott Bay Café to become Little Oddfellows; river’s end welcomes cash mob; Common Good Books celebrates Poetry Month with contest winners; Thriving indies among reasons to love Missoula

Last year, Mississippi’s independent booksellers and the University Press of Mississippi began working together to revitalize the Books pages in the Jackson-based Clarion-Ledger. Since then, the section’s resurgence has enlivened the state’s literary culture.