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

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.

Captain's Log: Stardate 2020: It was bound to happen. The first salvos between the bots and cyborgs... The cyber-sales-cops, (robot...