Prairie Path Books reopened last month in its new location at 107 W. Willow St., Wheaton, Ill. The Daily Herald reported that "cookbooks and cooking events have been a keystone of Sandy Koropp's 10-year journey" as the bookshop's owner, so "the possibility of having a full kitchen on the first floor of a two-story house in the city's downtown helped clinch Koropp's decision when she considered a relatively spontaneous move from a Wheaton shopping center."
"Really, the kitchen probably was the reason I moved," she said. "It felt like home to me, and I like to have my work and home collide in all the best ways. So it's going to smell like love; as my Grandma put it, a house needs to smell like love."
Describing the new store as "more intimate than the space in Town Square that Prairie Path Books occupied for nearly five years," the Daily Herald wrote that "it's a fully realized version of her initial store in a model apartment in the former Toms-Price Home Furnishings store near the Wheaton Public Library."
Within the tastefully designed and freshly painted interiors of the circa-1905 building, Prairie Path Books specializes in fiction, new releases, children's and young adult books, self-development, women's features, gift cards, and "a whole lot of cookbooks," Koropp said, adding: "Only the best."