For many, an independent bookshop is much more than a storefront.
The shop specializes ins arts-related works and regularly stocks more than 8,000 plays.
Theres even a section on acting, auditioning and working on both stage and screen.
It also hosts weekly events that are recorded live and featured onThe Drama Book Show!podcast.
Hanging from the ceiling is an impressive 140-foot-long bookworm.
Photo-eye Bookstorein Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is dedicated to photography books.
The store hosts a Redacted Reads book club featuring banned books.
For Keeps Booksfor Black, rare and classic books in Atlanta.
The bookstore has a program that helps put new and local Pima County authors on its shelves.
Many of these books are signed by the author.
Antigone also hosts live readings.
