Road (Bookstore) Trip

Rainbeau: Karen Hayes & Ann Patchett's bookstore, home to adorable shop dogs.

Rainbeau: "No bookstore ever made a strip mall look better than Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif. Every author you could hope to see comes to read at Book Passage." -Ann Patchett (NY Times)

Rainbeau: "It’s one of the most beautiful bookstores I know, and the sheer unlikelihood of its presence makes a traveler feel she’s stumbled into an oasis in the Mississippi Delta." -Ann Patchett (NY Times)

Rainbeau: Sells discount books and provides space for author events for Square Books.

Rainbeau: “What are you waiting for? We won’t be here forever.”

Rainbeau: "Jeff Kinney took part of the proceeds from his series “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and built his hometown a four-story bookstore — the ultimate fulfillment of literary civic duty." -Ann Patchett (NY Times)

Rainbeau: Tiny but brilliant bookstore.

Rainbeau: Buy a book, and visit the confessional box.

Rainbeau: Founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953.

Rainbeau: I mean, duh... of course.

Rainbeau: The store, founded in 1927, is famous for its claim of having 18 miles of books in stock.

Rainbeau: Not far from the University of Iowa, known for its Writers' Workshop. President Obama stopped by in 2010, and bought books by Eva Ibbotson and Lynn Dornell.