ABQ bookstores still in business, and local bookstores that have shuttered
Elizabeth Tucker Elizabeth TuckerElizabeth Tucker Journal Staff Writer
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Albuquerque has had to bid a sad farewell to Menaul Book Exchange, but thankfully, there are other options for local bookworms.
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Page 1 Bookstore
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Page 1 Bookstore at the Mountain Run Shopping Center is seeing increased business over the last few years despite the rise in online shopping, according to co-owner Steve Stout.Taylor Hood
Organic Books
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Mystery writer Steve Brewer ands wife Kelly Brewer, former journalist, with stacks of books for their soon-to-be "Organic Books" bookstore in Nob Hill Business Center.Jim Thompson
Under Charlie's Covers
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Under Charlie's Covers, a used bookstore, recently opened in Bernalillo. It offers a variety of used fiction and nonfiction for half the cover price. It also offers collectible and out-of-print books.Richard Pipes
Under Charlie's Covers
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Under Charlie's Covers, a used bookstore, recently opened in Bernalillo. It offers a variety of used fiction and nonfiction for half the cover price. It also offers collectible and out-of-print books.Richard Pipes
University of New Mexico bookstore
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Matthew Justus age 22, who is majoring in chemical engineering and applied math, shops for text books at the UNM Bookstore.Pat Vasquez-Cunningham
Collected Works Book Store
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Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, center, signs books and has his picture taken with Fina Perez, left, and Rem Gallegos, from San Francisco, during a book signing at Collected Works Bookstore, in Santa Fe. Richardson's book is titled "How to Sweet Talk a Shark".Eddie Moore
Books on the Bosque
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Deborah Condit, owner of Books on the Bosque, sits in the new West Side bookstore.Courtesy of Books on the Bosque
Title Wave Books
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Title Wave Books has been woman-owned since 1994. The second-hand bookshop offers fiction, nonfiction, children's, college textbooks, educational and homeschooling materials, collectibles, DVDs, Christian genres and more.Courtesy of Title Wave Books
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Leslie Gulley and Liberty Goldstein, owners of Title Wave BooksCourtesy of Title Wave Books
Don's Paperback Book Exchange
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In operations since the 1970s, Don's Paperback Book Exchange has vintage books, magazines and comics.
Don's Paperback Book Exchange
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Bookworks
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Children's author Rudolfo Anaya reads The Cat in the Hat out loud to a group of kids and parents at Bookworks in Albuquerque, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007.Journal file
Bookworks
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Dean Hanson
Bookworks
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The members of the book club meet in the Bookworks book store in the North Valley Wednesday night. Wednesday, June 09, 2010.Jim Thompson
Closed but not forgotten local bookstores in New Mexico
Menaul Book Exchange
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Isaiah Keene and his grandfather Doug Lawson shop in a canyon of books at Menaul Book Exchange.Eddie Moore
Menaul Book Exchange
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Dorothy Scrivner, owner of Menaul Book Exchange, shows a customer where to find a book. Scrivner is closing the store, which has been in business in Albuquerque for 48 years.Eddie Moore
Menaul Book Exchange
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Menaul Book Exchange is selling it entire stock of books for $5 a bag. The store, a fixture in Albuquerque for 48 years, is going out of business.Eddie Moore
Full Circle Books
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The staff at Full Circle Books Anne Frost, Helene Vann, Elli Elderbroom and Alice Trabaudo will soon be closing the doors of the bookstore that has been in business for 25 years.JIM THOMPSON
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John Randall, owner Salt of the Earth Bookstore
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John Randall, owner of closed Salt of the Earth Bookstore.ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS JOURNAL
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Book Stop bookstore
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Jerry Lane Book Stop bookstoreDEAN HANSON
All Indian Nations Bookstore
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Victor Garcia, owner of All Indian Nations Bookstore, stocks the shelves. The new bookstore carries books about and by American Indians.ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS
Bird Song Used Books
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Asa Mullins, left, and Martha Dow, previous owners of Bird Song Used Books 1997Dean Hanson
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Books and Beans
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Books and Beans owner, Scott Free hangs out, Tuesday afternoon at his new bookstore in downtown Albuquerque. Aprl 30, 2002.RANDY SINER FOR THE JOURNAL
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Reader's Bookstore
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Champion holds a sign for his used bookstore, which he said will open its doors on the Jan. 15, 2009LEE ROSS
Bound To Be Read
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Rod MacDonald, of Dallas, flips through a book at Bound To Be Read bookstore on Menaul Wednesday afternoon, April 27, 2005. MacDonald, who had just arrived in town to visit family, said he heard that the store would be closing.PVC
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A store closing sign announces the closing of Bound to be Read and discounts at the store, June 22, 2005.Jaelyn deMaria Leary
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Joshua Fenton, 13, looks at some of the books that are still on the shelf at Bound to be Read, an Albuquerque bookstore that recently announced its plans to close, June 12, 2005.Jaelyn deMaria Leary
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Books still remain on the shelf at Bound to be Read, an Albuquerque bookstore that recently announced its plans to close, June 12, 2005.Jaelyn deMaria Leary
Harvest Moon Books
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The interior of Harvest Moon Books, was located in the Nob Hill building once occupied by Disco Display House in Nob Hill. The shop closed earlier this year.Photo Courtesy of Harvest Moon Books
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Bookstore news
Turning the page: After almost 50 years in business, Menaul Book Exchange is shutting its doors
One of ABQ's best-known independent bookstores has been sold
ABQ bookselling community mourns 'patriarch' of the trade
New Albuquerque book shop aims to draw 'next generation' of bibliophiles
