Join us online as Books & Books’ Mitchell Kaplan sits down with Julia Alvarez, the internationally bestselling author of In The Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents to discuss her first adult novel in fifteen years, Afterlife. We welcome you to engage and ask... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-26 14:48:32 UTC ]
While Books & Books was selected as PW’s Bookstore of the Year, our judges felt that another store, St. Louis’s 46-year-old Left Bank Books, deserves recognition for exemplifying what an independent bookstore can and should do to serve its community during a crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the late 1970s, Mitchell Kaplan dropped out of law school in Washington, D.C., with the dream of opening an independent bookstore in South Florida, where he grew up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books & Books, Left Bank Books, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Powell’s Books, and Village Books made the cut for this year's Bookstore Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Most indie booksellers who want to expand their business add more stores, and that’s the way Mitchell Kaplan initially tried to grow Books & Books, which he opened in Coral Gables, Fla., in 1982. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]