Definition of bookstore
: a place of business where books are the main item offered for sale — called also
bookshop
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Before exiting the bookstore business, McNeal welcomed many African-American luminaries, including LeVar Burton, Stokely Carmichael, Cornel West and Julianne Malveaux, to her store.
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Cooke did not respond to an interview request on Sunday, and repeated calls to the bookstore went unanswered or to voice mail.
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Peregrine Cavendish, the 12th Duke of Devonshire, inherited his majority ownership stake in London’s Heywood Hill bookstore after his father died in 2004.
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The title, aimed at readers aged 8-12, will be available in comic stores Oct. 10, with a wider bookstore release following Oct. 23.
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Then pop by Munro’s Books, the lovely bookstore owned by the Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, or do drinks at the landmark Fairmont Empress Hotel.
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Over the years the bookstore has had several outposts in the Bay Area.
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Here are only a few of the celebrations and big-name authors coming to your friendly local library or bookstore: Andrew McCarthy and Adele Griffin (6 p.m. June 13, Doylestown Bookshop).
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Though the start of college football is four months away, the race for preseason magazines to hit the newsstands and bookstores is underway.
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First Known Use of bookstore
1760
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