In a public message, she wrote: On December 31, after a bookselling career that began 35 years ago and encompassed four stores, I hung up my book bag and retired. The legendary Barbara Meade, who for many years owned Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C., with the late Carla Cohen, has officially retired, after serving for the past year and a half as an adviser to the store's new owners, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine. The staff have good knowledge of customers. "It's a very solidly community-based bookstore that reflects the interests of the community," Dawson explained. I have a house full of books." The store will undergo some renovations, but not much more change "than a new carpet and a lick of paint," the paper wrote. I devour a lot of books-travel books, mystery stories, modern literature. ![]() That's one of the main motivations for doing it." He added: "It's what I always wanted to do when I retired. The three-Brian Sullivan, Peter Dawson and George Laframboise-"met years ago while working at the National Research Council of Canada Sullivan and Dawson are physicists and Laframboise was a technologist." Sullivan, a longtime customer of the store, said, "We're not experts in the book business. The new owners of Books on Beechwood, the Ottawa bookstore that nearly closed late last year, are a trio who own Iridian Spectral Technologies, which makes optical filters used in telecommunications, 3-D cinema and spectroscopic instrumentation, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
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