NPR: bookstore https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=732756585 bookstore en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:38:24 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: bookstore https://www.npr.org/tags/732756585/bookstore How Barnes & Noble turned a page, expanding for the first time in years After years on the brink, the bookseller is going for a plot twist: Sales are growing and the chain plans to open some 30 new stores. Here's what's changed. Tue, 07 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161295820/how-barnes-noble-turned-a-page-expanding-for-the-first-time-in-years https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161295820/how-barnes-noble-turned-a-page-expanding-for-the-first-time-in-years

After years on the brink, the bookseller is going for a plot twist: Sales are growing and the chain plans to open some 30 new stores. Here's what's changed.

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]]> Alina Selyukh The white ghosts haunting Native Americans in 'The Sentence' Louise Erdrich's novel turns the trope of the haunted Indian burial ground on its head with the story of a Native-run bookstore being visited by the ghost of a white woman obsessed with indigeneity. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:00:52 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/11/23/256592468/the-white-ghosts-haunting-native-americans-in-the-sentence https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/11/23/256592468/the-white-ghosts-haunting-native-americans-in-the-sentence The Sentence.'/>

Louise Erdrich's novel turns the trope of the haunted Indian burial ground on its head with the story of a Native-run bookstore being visited by the ghost of a white woman obsessed with indigeneity.

]]> Sam Yellowhorse Kesler New York City And The Strand Bookstore Are Not On The Same Page Nancy Bass Wyden, the Strand's owner, is protesting New York City's decision to preserve the bookstore as a historic city landmark. She thinks the move will hurt, not help her business. Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:57:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/732755982/new-york-city-and-the-strand-bookstore-are-not-on-the-same-page https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/732755982/new-york-city-and-the-strand-bookstore-are-not-on-the-same-page

Nancy Bass Wyden, the Strand's owner, is protesting New York City's decision to preserve the bookstore as a historic city landmark. She thinks the move will hurt, not help her business.

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