Let a book traveler guide you to some of the high-minded (and fun) hangouts in America's great literary terrain: Mississippi
Twice a year, I travel to many Mississippi bookstores for University Press of Mississippi, and I think they are among the most unique havens for bibliophiles in America. Most of Mississippi's towns lack the population to support large chain stores. So from the Hills to the Delta down River Country to the Central Plain through the Piney Woods and on to our Gulf Coast, independent bookstores have found a way to thrive and create places where booklovers congregate. These brave entrepreneurs share the very latest history, mystery, fiction, children's books, and Mississippiana with an eager clientelle. From the state that brought America William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Shelby Foote, Tennessee Williams, Willie Morris, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Whitehead, Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer, Larry Brown, Frank Stanford, Barry Hannah, Lewis Nordan, Steve Yarbrough, Turner Cassity, and Natasha Trethewey (to name but a few), expect to be enriched when you walk through one of these doors. Each store is an expression of its management, its neighborhood, and its hometown. So when you are down here with us, drop by.
(POSTSCRIPT TO BOOKSTORES: If you are not listed here: 1) I'm always building; 2) I'm happy to hear from you; 3) I'm including only stores I know sell new books, not just used; 4) I haven't visited you and need to! So let me hear from you: syates @ mississippi.edu)
(POSTSCRIPT TO BOOKSTORES: If you are not listed here: 1) I'm always building; 2) I'm happy to hear from you; 3) I'm including only stores I know sell new books, not just used; 4) I haven't visited you and need to! So let me hear from you: syates @ mississippi.edu)
Bay Books
Bay St. Louis
131 Main Street, Bay St. Louis, MS 39500, 228-463-2688Kay Gough and her son Edward opened this store in Bay St. Louis AFTER Hurricane Katrina smashed and flooded one of the coolest of coastal downtowns. Brave and rare as the sand hill cranes are these two booksellers. For months after Katrina, when business all over the coast seemed so precarious and disrupted, departing volunteers from all over America who had come to Bay St. Louis to help people and save the town stopped in Bay Books and bought up every photography book about the Mississippi coast that could be had. "We have to take this home," they would say. "Nobody will believe us!"
Now the store serves a customer base that is growing with the rebuilding town around it.
Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art
Clarksdale
252 Delta Ave., Clarksdale, MS 38614, 662-624-5992, www.cathead.bizOyaaa! as my dear friends from Charleston, IL, say. While not a juke (or jook), this joint is funky cool. My face-to-face store stops have all been as a customer, usually touring the bluesy Delta with outworlders (like me) doing their blues traveling pilgrimages. Lots of books and blues CDs and DVDs. A required stop, especially if you want to make the art in your home cooler than the House of the Blues collection or decorate with the otherwise inimitable flare of the jooks in Birney Imes' Juke Joint. 2-KOOL 2-BE 4-GOTTEN. This great image of the storefront is from photo/artist Chuck Lamb.
Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale
1 Blues Alley, Clarksdale, MS 38614, 662.627.6820, www.deltabluesmuseum.orgHow can you go wrong with an address such as Number One Blues Alley? Again this is a store I'm in more often as a customer, and I'm telling you the clerks can take you deep into blues history or bend your strings to something brand new being played or discovered. This store also boasts one of my favorite book traveler moments. Holding up Earl Hooker: Blues Master (warning: part self-serving plug) I asked the clerk how it was selling. "Sold one yesterday," he says. "Get this, the cat buying was from Bulgaria."
Pentimento
Clinton
302 Jefferson Street, Clinton, MS 39056, 601-925-4662Right across from Wyatt Waters' gallery and around a corner from Cups Coffee, this bookstore makes Clinton's downtown an even more pleasant stroll. Eclectic new section and savvy used. No webpage yet but I will post when it comes.
Downtown Books
Corinth
515 Franklin Street, Corinth, MS 38834, 662.284.2665Every downtown should be so lucky as to have a bookstore this cute on one of its corners. The interior is as lovely and fitting as the exterior. The staff have chosen just the right local flavors and some really unique gift items. This store wins my interior design award. Shoppers step from room to room, and can feel focused and cozy whether browsing cookbooks or stationary or regional books. And yet seated at the reading table in the main entrance one can see every nook. Blue ribbon use of space and an ideal addition to Corinth's city center.
Spice of Life Bookstore
Corinth
1801 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-287-9471, www.spiceoflifebookstore.comThis is the first store I ever walked into with a catalog and the intent to sell books, though not for University Press of Mississippi. Though my books were from Universiy of Arkansas Press, though I had no appointment, the owner listened happily and courteously to everything I said. This store will always have a sweet place in my heart. The store has moved and expanded since that long ago visit. Now beautifully stained wooden cabinets offer shelves of literature, science fiction, romance mystery, regional history, and the owner has created an inviting children's corner, and an education station tuned in to all the local school needs. Waiting for my appointment, I noted three carloads of customers wheeled up and were eager to get in the door before 10 a.m.
Borders
Flowood
100 Dogwood Boulevard, Flowood, MS 39232, 601-919-0462
Mississippi does have national chain bookstores and the booksellers in them work hard to make sure that customers feel that Mississippi presence. Always finding a way to make her store local, Marcia Walsh has a fine regional selection. This store is an anchor to a sprawling series of shopping outlets at the four corners of Lakeland Drive and Old Fannin Road in booming Rankin County.
Mississippi does have national chain bookstores and the booksellers in them work hard to make sure that customers feel that Mississippi presence. Always finding a way to make her store local, Marcia Walsh has a fine regional selection. This store is an anchor to a sprawling series of shopping outlets at the four corners of Lakeland Drive and Old Fannin Road in booming Rankin County.
McCormick Book Inn
Greenville
825 South Main Street, Greenville, MS 38701, 662-332-5038, www.mccormickbookinn.comIf a library is the mind of a college campus, then a bookstore has to be a community's mind, buzzing with new ideas and opinions. A three-hour appointment at McCormick Book Inn will teach you more about Greenville than many a museum. The store devotes significant space to an intriguing and substantial collection of local historic newspapers, photographs, documents, posters, all displayed with curatorial elan. Mary Dayle McCormick can point out the Percy's homeplace and the house where Shelby Foote lived as a boy. And Hugh McCormick can tell you just what the Delta is, was, and ought not to be. See more on Deltalogy at the website.
Turnrow Book Co.
Greenwood
304 Howard Street, Greenwood, MS 38930, 662-453-5995, www.turnrowbooks.comThis is the home of one of my book trade heroes, Jamie Kornegay. We both started bookselling in Mississippi at about the same time, him at Square Books in 1998, and me at UPM in that same year. When my wife and I went up to Greenwood to help him move the old Dancing Rabbit Books across Howard to the new store, he dropped one of the most inspirational sentences I have ever heard. "Steve," he said. "I decided this next decade I'm going to work harder than any other time in my whole life." With a smile he said it, and a day's worth of sweat and grit from moving. This space is spectacular, and with the proximity of the Viking Cooking School it is growing a cookbook collection that may rival (no appliance brand puns intended) any in the country.
Books
Grenada
Village Creek Plaza, 1360 Sunset Drive, Ste. 12, Grenada, MS 38901, 662-226-6676This pleasant oasis is inside the Village Creek Plaza across from a New York-style pizzeria. Owner Carolyn O'Brien declared years ago that she "refused to live in a city with 30 check cashing establishments and no bookstore." So like the literary warrior she is, she did something about it for Grenada and opened Books. Mississippi books are particularly well-represented, along with children's books and lots of practical buys, such as a value and identification guide to arrowheads. In stocking matters, she says, "I listen to my customers. You have to make it their store." Ask her about the Tie Plant Achievement Center where she teaches creative writing to at-risk kids, and you'll witness the fire it takes to survive any economy.
Barnes & Noble
Gulfport
15246 Crossroads Parkway, Gulfport, MS 39503,
228-832-8906
Just east off US Highway 49 and before the I-10 interchange as you are slowing in the traffic approaching Gulfport you can see this Barnes & Noble. Andrea Yeager and Tim Sutherlin have made this a Coast-heavy and Mississippi-friendly selection.
228-832-8906
Just east off US Highway 49 and before the I-10 interchange as you are slowing in the traffic approaching Gulfport you can see this Barnes & Noble. Andrea Yeager and Tim Sutherlin have made this a Coast-heavy and Mississippi-friendly selection.
Main Street Books
Hattiesburg
205 Main Street, Hattiesburg, MS 39401, 601-584-6960, www.visitmainstreetbooks.comHere's another store alongside which I grew up in bookselling. When I first talked with Diane Shepherd she was still setting up shelves and getting excited when someone would peek in the window to see what was happening. I was just a publicist and promotions manager then, setting up signings. We answered a lot of questions together, and I don't know who learned more about the business! Now Diane has moved across Main Street and the store has tremendous space, lots of Hattiesburg authors and books about the Coast.
Dragonfly Shoppe
Jackson
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, 2148 Riverside Drive, Jackson, MS 39202-1353, 601-354-7303, museum.mdwfp.comThis is THE stop for critter geeks (like me and all my nephews and nieces). But the store also carries Walter Anderson books and a good selection of Mississippiana beyond natural history.
Jubilee Bookstore
Jackson
Jackson State University, Ayer Hall, 1400 Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217, 601.979.3935It's great to get in on the ground floor, but that old cliché literally won't work here (see picture!). Now expanding (really transforming might be the better word) on the second floor of Ayer Hall in the Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center is The Jubilee Bookstore. Director Robert Luckett plans on carrying titles in African American studies, Civil Rights studies, African American fiction and poetry, and of course books by Margaret Walker Alexander and books in our series in honor of her, The Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies. This is NOT the campus bookstore, but something revived and new. Call for hours and information.
Lemuria
Jackson
202 Banner Hall, 4465 I-55 North, Jackson, MS 39206, 601-366-7619, www.lemuriabooks.comMy hometown bookstore, a phone number I have memorized, and a book space I am thankful for every day. I grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, and let me tell you, it would have been heavenly to have had a store such as Lemuria in my original hometown. I knew about Lemuria before I ever set foot in it or sold a book to its staff. When Rick Bass visited the University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program, he told us he became a writer because John Evans at Lemuria handed him Jim Harrison's LEGENDS OF THE FALL and said, "Here. You ought to read this." Now that is bookselling! Tons of events, pictures on the wall of hundreds of literary lights, first edtions, a seemingly endless selection of contemporary fiction... this is one of the cardinal bookstores of the South.
Mississippi History Store
Jackson
200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201, 601-576-6933,
mdah.state.ms.us/museum/shop.php
While the Old Capitol is being repaired from Hurricane Katrina damage, the Mississippi History Store is sharing books on history, art, literature, and Mississippi from the beautiful Winter Archives building. Also a great feature: if you cannot make it to Ocean Springs to the Walter Anderson Museum Gift Shop or Realizations, this store has cards and prints from Anderson and many others.
mdah.state.ms.us/museum/shop.php
While the Old Capitol is being repaired from Hurricane Katrina damage, the Mississippi History Store is sharing books on history, art, literature, and Mississippi from the beautiful Winter Archives building. Also a great feature: if you cannot make it to Ocean Springs to the Walter Anderson Museum Gift Shop or Realizations, this store has cards and prints from Anderson and many others.
Mississippi Museum of Art Store
Jackson
Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 South Lamar StreetJackson, MS 39201, 601-965-9939,
www.msmuseumart.org/catalog_c166283.html
After you've seen the giant paintings by Bill Dunlap and photographs by Eudora Welty, you can take books home and keep a piece of the art forever.
Barnes & Noble
Madison
1000 Highland Colony Pkwy Ste 3008, Ridgeland, MS 39157, 601-605-4028
While my tag here says Madison, the mail goes to Ridgeland. On Interstate 55 just north of Jackson it is hard to tell when you have barreled past Jackson into Ridgeland into Madison. So slow down! Donna Humphries and staff have an expansive store with a mind toward local representation. If you want some Mississippi, they make sure it is here.
While my tag here says Madison, the mail goes to Ridgeland. On Interstate 55 just north of Jackson it is hard to tell when you have barreled past Jackson into Ridgeland into Madison. So slow down! Donna Humphries and staff have an expansive store with a mind toward local representation. If you want some Mississippi, they make sure it is here.
Cover-to-Cover
Natchez
401 Main Street, Natchez, MS 39120, 601-445-5752,www.c2cbooks.com/?page=shop/index
Charles Hall has some of the hardest to find books on Natchez and the River. And a beautiful facade in one of the prettiest downtowns on the planet. See photograph below (vainly I'll say the shot was too good to make tiny).
Turning Pages Books & More
Natchez
520 Franklin Street, Natchez, MS 39120, 601-442-2299, www.turningpagesbooks.netOne of my favorite driving circuits is to blaze over to Vicksburg and see Lorelei Books, then cruise down the Blues Highway US 61 through Port Gibson and on to Natchez, where Mary Emrick and great Natchez books await. Greg Iles signed copies and lots of literary Mississippi here.
Realizations
Ocean Springs
1000 Washington Avenue, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, 228-875-0503, walteringlisanderson.comIf you haven't been to Ocean Springs, drop what you are doing and hit the road now. An especially great time to be there is during the Peter Anderson Festival when the streets are flowered with craft vendors and all the shops and restaurants are bustling. This shop will show you books on Anderson's work and offer lots to take home from this unforgettable seaside village.
Walter Anderson Museum Store
Ocean Springs
510 Washington Avenue, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, 228-872-3164, www.wamastore.org
The first experience of Walter Anderson's art is transformative for anyone who has visited this museum. You will leave and see motion and energy in nature such as you never beheld before this encounter. Go here! Then stop at the shop and take something home to return you to Anderson's vision in case the World gets too much with you.
The first experience of Walter Anderson's art is transformative for anyone who has visited this museum. You will leave and see motion and energy in nature such as you never beheld before this encounter. Go here! Then stop at the shop and take something home to return you to Anderson's vision in case the World gets too much with you.
Square Books
Oxford
160 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS 38655, 662-236-2262, www.squarebooks.comLooking out on the square that Benjy Compson was driven round to calm him and where so many other scenes William Faulkner described come alive, this store is one of the gems, and like Lemuria a cardinal store of the South. With OffSquare Books and Square, Jr. operating right around the corner, one could book browse all day in what Square has to offer, and still return to find undiscovered nuggets the staff is sharing in sections as far ranging as poetry, photography, and philosophy. Just down Courthouse Square are two more iterations of Square Books, Off Square and Square Junior. Off Square contains literary magazines, used books, and the event space. Square Junior is an amazing children's store. When I last visited I counted two strollers in the store and three more on the way in, and a lot of happy faces.
Pass Christian Books
Pass Christian
212 East 2nd Street, Pass Christian, MS 39571, 228-452-7399, www.passchristianbooks.comJust moved back to downtown Pass Christian! When this store launched its website, I was inspired to create Mississippi Literary Links at UPM's website, and seeing the site again I'm inspired. Scott Naugle and Rich Daley lost their store to Katrina, and then, crazy brave, they re-opened and have vowed to keep at it, whether at the current location or something new. Good coastal selection and fine general reading with a passion for what is new and what is Mississippi. Scott Naugle writes great book reviews in the SOUTHERN REGISTER and the SUN-HERALD. By the way, the town involved here is pronounced Pass Chris cheean. Barely touch the "t" or just skip it.
Dancing Rabbit Press Gallery
Philadelphia
402 East Beacon Street, Philadelphia, MS, 39350-2954,
601-650-1999, www.dancingrabbitpress.com
Right on the square in storied Philadelphia, this store puts the focal in local. Browsing its shelves is like opening a choice historical quarterly; let's call it The Neshoba County History and Civil War Review. I swear I took a picture at the grand opening but cannot find it anywhere. Stephen, if ye have one, please send.
601-650-1999, www.dancingrabbitpress.com
Right on the square in storied Philadelphia, this store puts the focal in local. Browsing its shelves is like opening a choice historical quarterly; let's call it The Neshoba County History and Civil War Review. I swear I took a picture at the grand opening but cannot find it anywhere. Stephen, if ye have one, please send.
Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore
Tupelo
111 South Spring Street, Tupelo, MS 38801-4811, 662-842-6453, www.reeds.ms/books.aspReed's Department Store in hopping downtown Tupelo (I'm not kidding, great restaurants, cool pubs, nifty music and art stores, outstanding automotive museum, Elvis's birthplace has a whole lotta shakin goin on) is a classic, and Reed's Gum Tree bookstore is part of what makes it great. John Grisham signs new books at only a few stores in the nation---Lemuria, Square Books, Turnrow, and Reed's are among the lucky. On my recent visit, Grisham had just been in and there was a steady flow of customers picking up signed copies of his latest, 2500 copies in two days.
Village Green Book Store
Tupelo
1210 West Main Street, Tupelo, MS 38801, 662.842.8541Waiting on the owner at my first visit to this store, I heard something that made me want to stay for hours. In walked a customer, and one of the sales personnel hollered out, "Good afternoon, Mr. Kim." Now that's local, independent bookselling! Jim Troxler has been selling books in Tupelo for thirty years, and has seen all manner of changes in the market. Village Green features a deli, which is swamped at the lunch hour, and a tremendous selection of gifts, including Mississippi State and Ole Miss merchandise, locally manufactured candles, cards. The book selection is very attentive to Tupelo's corner of the state. You may walk out of here with more than a book!
Lorelei Books
Vicksburg
1103 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39183, 601-634-8624, www.loreleibooks.comAnd you thought Vicksburg was nothing but casinos and the battlefield. Take a look downtown and you will find next to the Attic Gallery a bookstore that makes buying local its mantra and your reward. Anything and everything about the River, Vicksburg, steamboats, the siege, it's here or Laura Weeks will find out about it for you. A truly inviting space.
Mississippi Booksellers websites
Visit these online now at
- Mississippi Literary Links
- This is the clearing house of links I started after I first saw Pass Christian's website.
Bookstore mascot
Coco of Lorelei Books in Vicksburg
Coco says sales reps talk WAY too much.
Bookstore mascot
Sugar at Natchez's Turning Pages Books & More
Sugar received her MBA at Tulane University and was the first canine in Natchez to ace her CPA test on the first try.
Bookseller at work
Diane Shepherd
readying the store at Main Street Books, Hattiesburg
Hurricane Shelf
at Pass Christian Books
When people needed to understand a disaster, they reached for books.
Glad they were there;
Glad to see them gone!
Utility trucks putting Bay St. Louis back on the grid right outside of Bay Books when I visited.
Great reading space
The DotCom Building at Lemuria
I think this is Michael Connelly reading.
Cover-to-Cover
In beautiful downtown Natchez
Notice the building was originally a bank in 1889. Heartens, doesn't it? As if after the current banking system is destroyed, there will still be some good, undaunted bookseller courageously sharing books with his or her community no matter what befalls us!
Does selling Walter Anderson's books affect booksellers?
Side effects may include...
This is the lovely foot of an Alabama bookseller. And on that fine-turned foot is a tattoo of Robinson the Cat, Walter Anderson's famous kitten on the keys who plays duets with ease. First person to email me the correct name of the bookstore this foot presides in and the town this foot belongs in wins a copy of Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat. Email syates @ mississippi.edu
Interior design award
Downtown Books, Corinth
This photo will give you an idea of what I meant. Each nook has its own privacy at Downtown Books, all hubbed at the reading table. Very Cool.
Where Jubilee began!
At the Jubilee Bookstore at JSU
Or at least we can say, upon this typewriter Margaret Walker Alexander wrote her novel Jubilee. Shoppers can see it and many others artifacts and surprises at Jackson's "newest" store.
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- OhMe OhMe Nov 19, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
- Wonderful lens. Great photos and information with lots of local flavor of Mississippi's Book Stores. Very well crafted. Blessed by a Squid Angel and I am lensrolling to my lens Reflections of A Mississippi Magnolia.
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- upmtraveler upmtraveler Nov 20, 2009 @ 6:05 am
- Wow! Thanks, OhMe. I received this while, you guessed it, I was on the road! I'll check "Reflections" and thanks for the blessings!
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- Mickie_G Mickie_G Mar 16, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
- Well, I guess this Alabamian will have many book stores to visit whenever I get around to crossing the border!
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- Almor Almor Feb 25, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
- I liked all the images of the different book stores. I enjoy going to book stores and browsing. Books are addictive to me. Great lens. You are welcome to go to my book store at PennGrove Books.
It looks bland compared to some of these stores.
Allan
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- Kate Betterton Kate Betterton Feb 20, 2009 @ 11:01 am
- Hi Steve,
This is a fine collection of bookstores; thanks for gathering them on one page. I was in Mississip in November for a book tour for my novel WHERE THE LAKE BECOMES THE RIVER, about growing up in the Delta. I gave readings at Square Books, Turnrow, Lemuria, McCormicks Book Inn, and finally Davis-Kidd in Memphis, and signed stock at some of the other stores you have listed here. They are all wonderful and sumptuous, each in its own way, and I just wished I had more time to hang out in them and enjoy. Will use your listing to contact some of these other fine bookstores for a return visit / booktour in Spring or Summer, so thanks for this excellent resource. All the best, Kate
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- marydayle marydayle Feb 16, 2009 @ 11:00 am
- Hello! I finally got my squido on. Don't know how much further than this I can go with it. My family is already about to destroy my computers over the time I spend on our official website mccormickbookinn.com . Great job, Steve! I especially appreciate the short articles you reprint. Often use them on our site.
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- a_willow a_willow Jan 1, 2009 @ 11:39 pm
- This lens entered Fresh Squid Contest for January as one of featured lenses on Fresh Squid group in December! Come by and vote!
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- a_willow a_willow Dec 5, 2008 @ 11:47 am
- Welcome to Fresh Squid group! Glad to have you aboard!
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- RickBasset RickBasset Dec 2, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
- I see you found your way!
Welcome to "BOOKS ON SQUIDOO!". Thanks for your great additions to the group!
Peace! :~)
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- Philip L. Levin Philip L. Levin Nov 25, 2008 @ 8:01 am
- Wonderful article. As President of the hundred member Gulf Coast Writers Association, we independent writers value the local bookstores willingness to promote our work. Thanks for this excellent resource!
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- Eight state universities of Mississippi
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- Gulf Coast Writers Association
- Where books begin: writers!
- Worldwide Rave
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- Carl Lennertz's publishing blog
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- Saint John Evangelist
- Prayers and intercessions for writers and all those in the book trade: his tweets twitter On High, his RSS feeds go Celestial, his facebook friends are cherubim and seraphim, his lensrolls are Revelations. To be bluntly Catholic, Saint John, Pray For Us!
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Allons à Lafayette!
With all apologies to the Ville Platte Queen candidates for any ethnomusicological innuendo here, and thanks to Ian McNulty for the photo, I'm embarking on a squidoo lens about Louisiana Bookstores. Check progress at links to my other lenses or at
http://www.squidoo.com/Louisiana-Bookstores, see link below!
Allons à la Louisiane
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