We have a really excellent used book store with a coffee shop attached and plenty of other types of media to buy.

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Gould's story is also framed by another narrator, Sid Hammet, a present-day faker of antique furniture who discovers Gould's book of fish paintings in a junk shop.

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They swarmed in and out of a large cafeteria and browsed in the factory book shop.

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It got so popular on twitter in our circle that when we went to shop the book Manology, there was a little bidding war.

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Less experienced hikers can book a seven-day guided hike with the Cardboard Box travel shop in Windhoek.

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The home screen looks like standard Android, save for some tweaks, including large book icons and a bar at the bottom with links to the Kobo Shop, your current reading selection, the library, a full app list and the so-called Reading Life social feature.

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Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.

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The items were donated to a charity shop in Kent, where workers spotted the artist's address on the book's cover.

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The rivalry between the two retail giants would make a book in itself, with Branson turning up with suitcases of cash to try and gazump HMV for prime city centre shop locations.

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