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I just found out about this site and so far I like what I've seen. Especially this.

Thanks, Lacey and Sean.

More of Us Online

We've been working hard over here in our basement home (Look for our ad in The Onion: "Your Underground Bookstore." See we can be funny if The Onion comes a callin') trying to get our name all over this internet. Oh, and selling books.

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A funny response to fake memoirs (see post below) from Salon.com.

There's a Category for This: Fiction

Apparently some folks out there have forgotten that there is a different section in bookstores that has for some time now accommodated stories that are not actually true. These people are caught up in the seemingly unending love of the Memoir. I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but sometime recently the Memoir seemed to lodge its way into the #1 spot in readers' hearts. I'm also not sure why exactly this is. In my opinion if it's good, it's good, doesn't matter what section it goes in in the bookstore. But some people apparently love to label things so much, and for a while now, Memoir has been the IT label. And then we end up with stories like this.

Random Fact

As we were searching for a book for a customer this morning we learned something we did not know: Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President born in a hospital.

Old news, but still should mention it here. (Sorry, I didn't work at all last week.) Robert Bly becomes Minnesota's first poet laureate...who else?

I didn't even know this was possible. Over 5,000 tickets sold in two cities...for a poet?!