A dedicated following turns out to browse at this warm and wonderful little independent shop. Enjoy the upstairs antiquarian room, which specializes in art books and first editions. If that's not enough intellectual stimulation for you, the shop hosts free lectures from noted authors, experts, and personalities almost nightly, from Monica Lewinsky to Martin Amis. At another location (933...
For those fortunate enough not to live among the industrial areas of the Texas Gulf Coast, the landscape of refineries and their intricate tangle of pipes, their forests of cooling towers and stacks, and their fields of tanks are as exotic as the Zanzibar coast. If you find this sort of thing intriguing, you can take a free boat ride on the M/V Sam Houston, which tours the upper 7 miles of the...
Knowledgeable staffers, an intimate atmosphere and an incredible reading series give this indie bookstore an edge over the big chains.:
In Short
After almost twenty years at their original location, Books & Books has relocated to a fully renovated Mediterranean-style building just down the street. More than twice the size...