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So, We Bought a Book Shop — 46 episodes
046 What is it About Human-Made Beauty? (And Why AI Misses the Mark)
045 A Trip Overseas and the Fear that Comes With Success
044 What's Missing?
043 On Being Misunderstood as a Bookshop
042 New Challenges
041 How This Bookshop is Breaking Us Open
040 We Expanded! We Doubled Our Size! We're Exhausted!
039 An Exciting Announcement - Expansion!
038 A Book Written in One Sentence
037 How Books Connect Us to the Ones We've Lost
036 A Movie That Had Shawn Sobbing (And How Physical Spaces Nourish Us)
035 Rest, Wintering, and the Saying "This is Happiness"
034 It Finally Happened!
033 How These Booksellers Choose the Books We'll Read in 2026
032 Author Winnie Li on the Great American Road Trip
031 Ten Books From 2025 We Loved (Even Though Maile Hates Top 10 Lists)
030 The Monsters Among Us
029 Kaitlin Curtice is Enjoying the Seasons of Life
028 When Another Bookshop Opens Up Down the Street
027 Sara Billups On Anxiety, Caring for Parents, and Holy Indifference
026 The Books That Have Made Up Our Lives
025 Laura Tremaine Thinks You Should Read Horror
024 Five of Us Debate Our "Family Favorites" Book Shelf
023 A Son of the Bookshop
022 Evan Friss, Being Human, and The Bookshop
021 Jeff Chu, Compost, and His New Book Good Soil
020 Married With Children...and a Book Shop
019 "Good Gracious, We Have it Stacked Against Us"
018 When Water Comes Through the Ceiling
017 What We Learned In Our First Year
016 "If You Don't Do This," He Said, "Your Book Shop Will Fail"
015 Designing a Life of Courage at East Otis
014 Amy King Picks the Lock
013 Lore Wilbert Thinks She's a Scaredy-Cat
012 On Staring Down Our Book Shop Mortality
011 Bears Versus Men, Being Alone in the Store, and Vulnerability in Fiction
010 Ned Bustard and the Artist's Path of Courage, Creativity, and Rest
009 When Returning to the Dream is Tough (and the Death of Shawn's Books)
008 Regarding Competition, Banned Books, and What We're Taking Along
007 Time is Money...Until It Isn't
006 The Question We're Asked More Than Any Other
005 What It's Like to be a Writer Selling Other People's Stories
004 Our Fears About Owning a Book Shop, and Finding Hope
003 Is All Reading Beneficial?
002 How a Book Ends Up in Our Shop
001 So . . . We Bought a Book Shop