Sadly we learned from the Anchorage Daily News that Patricia Tegtmeier, owner of A Novel View bookstore, Anchorage, Alaska, died yesterday. The store will be closed indefinitely, her husband, Matt, indicated.

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John Hughes, longtime owner of Pic-A-Book and the City News Agency, Spartanburg, S.C., died on Wednesday, according to the Spartanburg Herald Journal, which has a detailed, personal obituary. He was 87.