Congratulations to Pilgrim's Way Community Bookstore & Secret Garden, Carmel, Calif., which was named "Best Bookstore--New" in Monterey Weekly's Best of Monterey County Readers Poll.
"This whole family-owned, community-centric shop is a garden, full of books for the flowering mind and flowers and plants and dreamcatchers and hidden pathways to help the senses blossom," the citation noted. "What started out 45 years ago as a specialty bookstore has evolved and expanded: It now carries the latest New York Times bestsellers, young adult and children's books, paperback novels, biographies, self-help and cookbooks, local interest, travel and adventure--plus T-shirts, music, greeting cards, plants, candles, wind chimes, thermometers, i.e., a lot. Customers who can't find parking can call ahead and when they drive by and their book is handed to them--which works as a microcosm of the personal hands-on attention that comes standard."
