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Bloomington, Ind., store helps customers get hard-to-find books.

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From: Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN)
Date: 20040920
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Byline: Laura Lane

Sep. 20--Joie Canada spends more than 40 hours a week running her downtown bookstore.

For fun, she plays clarinet in the Bloomington Community Band and tenor horn in the Bloomington Brass Band.

But in her spare time, she often can be found browsing the shelves of a competitor of sorts.

"I'm a regular at Caveat Emptor," she said, referring to a near-famous used bookstore on the Bloomington square, which is also where Canada's Howard's Bookstore is located. Browsing there not long ago, she discovered a copy of Charles Reade's The Cloister and ...

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