Black Ribbon Books, a new and used bookstore with a diverse selection of titles, opened earlier this month in Hot Springs, Ark., the Sentinel-Record reported.
Owner Nannette Crane-Post welcomed customers for the first time on July 13. Located in the shopping mall level of the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa in downtown Hot Springs, the bookstore sells books for all ages and features a tented reading corner for children as well as multiple tables and seating options for all patrons. There is a working typewriter in store on which customers are welcome to write notes, and she is working on creating a coffee corner.
Crane-Post's event plans include things like book clubs and author readings. She told the Sentinel-Record she wants to support local authors as much as she can, and wants to start doing events with them soon.
In addition to being a bookseller, Crane-Post is an English professor at National Park College in Hot Springs. She has wanted to open a bookstore of her own for years, and she hopes Black Ribbon Books grows to be "a place where people feel welcome and hang out and be part of the community."