Tag: bookseller

  • October 15, 2019

    October 15, 2019

    At the Barnes and Noble in Frisco, Texas last Saturday night, Elijah was the bookseller who assisted me in the signing line. Every time Elijah handed me a stack of books, he smiled at me—a radiant, beautiful smile. And when we were done, he handed me his own books—the ones he had read when he…

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  • February 12, 2013

    February 12, 2013

    I want to tell you about Diane Clements who is a bookseller at Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi; and I want to tell you about hand-selling which is when a bookseller takes a book off the shelf and puts that book in a customer’s hands and says, “Please, please read this book.” This simple, profound…

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