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Video of the Week: Trans-Allegheny Books
When we started this blog, one of the things I was really looking forward to was the chance to do a big feature post on Trans-Allegheny Books in Parkersburg, one of the coolest bookstores I will ever...
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The end: Borders to liquidate stores: UPDATED
The Borders Express store at the Charleston Town Center Mall as it looked on Monday morning. Later Monday, Borders officials announced the company would liquidate its remaining stores after failing to...
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Books-A-Million to replace Borders at W.Va. Book Festival
The Borders setup at last year’s West Virginia Book Festival. For the past several years, the West Virginia Book Festival has enjoyed a great relationship with our local Borders Express bookstore here...
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More on Borders: UPDATED
The Borders store in Vienna. Photo by Amy Phelps, Parkersburg News and Sentinel As I mentioned earlier this week, I’ll personally miss the Borders store at the Huntington Mall and the Borders Express...
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Local writers to mark Borders closing
The Borders Express store at the Charleston Town Center Mall on Friday. Mall marketing director Lisa McCracken said the store is set to close in September. "We're sorry to see them go," McCracken said....
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Borders stores in W.Va. to close on Monday
According to Borders, the company’s stores in Charleston, Barboursville and Parkersburg will close on Monday. Many stores in what used to be the second-largest bookstore chain in America have already...
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A tale of two bookstores
Over the past two weekends, I had two wildly differing bookstore experiences. Last Saturday, we went to the Borders store in the Huntington Mall, a couple of days before it closed its doors for good....
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Books-A-Million coming to Charleston mall
Books-A-Million’s store at the Dudley Farms Plaza in South Charleston has replaced bankrupt Borders as the official vendor of this year’s West Virginia Book Festival, and the company is replacing...
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Books-A-Million officially comes to the Town Center
As promised, Books-A-Million has replaced Borders stores in the Charleston Town Center Mall and the Huntington Mall. The new stores are part of a wave of 41 new BAM stores, many in former Borders...
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Flatwoods bookstore closing — but not for long
It’s a rotten feeling — and one book-lovers have had all too many times in recent years — when you head to a local bookstore and find that it’s closed down. So next month, if you’re visiting the...
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Clear your schedule — Free Comic Book Day
Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. I’m just sayin’. If you wanted to grab the kid (or not) and head to a local comic book shop, it should be a nice day to reminisce with old friends and...
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