Gallery Bookshop and Bookwinkle?s Children?s Books in Mendocino, California, a small New England style sea village on the coast of Northern California, is my all time favorite bookstore. I daydream about owning that bookstore. During my worst days when I hear ?Mommie? hundreds of times in an hour, dinner is once again ?Domino?s Delivers!? and the plumbing is taking the day off, I call my husband and ask him to contact a broker to buy the store. When life is too much; this is my escape dream. I first visited the Gallery Bookshop almost twenty years ago when it was a small shop on a side street ? I thought of the original Gallery Bookshop while reading about Harry Potter?s room under the stairs. The last time I returned the store had expanded to a space four times larger with windows across the front overlooking a full view of the dark, rocky cliffs and the Pacific. The store is filled with light, warmth and thousands of books. It supports local authors with a significant collection of their works.
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