One of my father\u2019s most lasting gifts to me was the freedom to browse and buy from our local bookstore\u2014no questions asked. That gift led to a lifetime love of books, reading, and indie bookstores where the person behind the counter was a friend and neighbor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To continue to champion indie bookstores everywhere, I\u2019ve added Bookshop.org<\/a> buy links for my most recent titles. Shop online with them, and you\u2019ll be supporting local bookstores all across the country, guaranteeing that the friend behind the counter is always there waiting to help you choose the perfect read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my father\u2019s most lasting gifts to me was the freedom to browse and buy from our local bookstore\u2014no questions asked. That gift led to a lifetime love of books, reading, and indie bookstores where the person behind the counter was a friend and neighbor.\u00a0 To continue to champion indie bookstores everywhere, I\u2019ve added … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alixrickloff.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}