Bookstores deal in obvious secrets. Cookbooks [food & drink] along with sci-fi/fantasy are some of the books that people hunt and trade.

Since Hercules, the age-old question about addressing good and evil drips into dragon evolution.

Book browsing in Mainz Germany. The birthplace of the Gutenberg Bible. A story of terrain over time.

circa. 1917 original book made in Iowa City about Iowa National Guard activation in the shadow of WWI.

Bookselling is a lot like soldiering. Each person's experience is a bit different. Just as every veteran's combat experience differs, each bookseller's adventures also vary. Why some soldiers survive, while others perished is an age-old question pondered by each generation, similar to why some booksellers make it and others don't.