Our conversation this week is with Annie B. Jones. She's the owner of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia, host of the 'From the Front Porch' podcast, and child of Tallahassee, Florida.
In this episode we explore the power of ordinary stories, the beauty and challenges of small-town life and business, how faith built The Bookshelf, her evolution as a From-Away in Thomasville, work as humility, her wonderful team of booksellers and communal support, an honest (and refreshing) take on Amazon, and the strength given by "weak ties" inside a bookshop.
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Listen to the From the Front Porch Podcast
Mentioned in this episode:
An Old Fashioned Girl and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Nora Ephron Documetary - Everything Is Copy
Dragonfly Books in Decorah, Iowa
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina
A Novel Escape in Franklin, North Carolina
Independent bookstores turn a new page on brick-and-mortar retailing
Hollowing Out the Middle by Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas
The Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The From-Aways and The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
I'm nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson
Sundog Books in Seaside, Florida
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
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