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Copperfield’s to Open Branch Location in Novato

Downtown Novato, California, will be the home of Copperfield’s Books’ newest location, which is tentatively scheduled to open by the end of the year, reported the Marin Independent Journal. The bookstore currently has seven locations throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties.

“We’re excited to be there,” said Paul Jaffe, co-owner and founder of Copperfield’s Books. “We’re busy planning and we’re already buying for the new store. It’s going to be a real win-win situation for the community and for Copperfield’s.”

The bookstore will be located near the Novato Theater, which is undergoing a renovation and will be reopened in 2016. The theater, which has been closed for 24 years, will show classic, independent, and foreign films.

op.cit. Opens in Taos

Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos, New Mexico, closed last month and reopened on August 15 as op.cit. Taos under the ownership of Noemi de Bodisco, reported the Taos News. de Bodisco is also the owner of op.cit. Books in Santa Fe and Tome on the Range in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Operating under the same model as the two other bookstores, op.cit. Taos will feature new, used, and remaindered books and will offer self-published authors a dedicated space to display and sell their titles.

“But every store is different,” de Bodisco noted. “Every store depends on the community.”

de Bodisco plans to rehire employees from Moby Dickens and has hopes to use the store’s original name in the future, if outstanding legal issues are settled.

Petunia’s Place a Literary Haven for Children and Adults

Fresno, California’s Petunia’s Place children’s bookshop, which last year expanded its offerings to incorporate a selection of books for adults, in particular for women, is a longtime community favorite, the Fresno Bee reported.

“We’ll be in the grocery store and people will come up and recognize us and say, ‘Oh, we love your store,’” co-owner Jean Fennacy told the newspaper. “There’s such a warm feeling about that.”

Fennacy and fellow co-owner Debbie Manning, who are both former teachers, bought the store 26 years ago. “We’ve been blessed with dear friends,” said Manning. “Our employees have been a godsend. They’ve all been a part of our lives in some kind of entwined way: student-teachers, students, and children of teachers.”