The Bookstore in Haines, Alaska, will open this week, during the city's monthly First Friday event, KHNS reported.
Located on Main Street, the store will sell new and used books for all ages, and it resides in the same storefront that has housed a variety of indie bookstores over the years, including The Babbling Book, The Babbling Book and Dragon's Nook and, most recently, The Moosterious Emporium.
Since taking over the space earlier this winter, owner Amy Kane has renovated the store and built her inventory. She's put in new floors, opened the space up with wall-to-wall bookshelves, brought in military furniture dating back to World War II and added a mural to the store's back wall.
While Kane has no prior experience in bookselling, she did work at the Denver Public Library for a few years and more recently owned and operated a cafe in Sitka, Alaska, for seven years. The cafe frequently hosted musicians, and Kane hopes to continue that tradition with The Bookstore.