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wednesday, December 2, 1992
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Sam Warden, Edmond, Okla., senior, and Scott Werner, Duncan, Okla., senior, examine a Native-American art print selection at Terra Nova, a new alternative bookstore in Lawrence.
Bookstore offers cultural variety
The store also carries children's
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
A fountain filled with fish and surrounded by greenery is not all that makes Terra Nova Books, 920 Massachusetts St., different from its competitors.
The home atmosphere, complete with classical music playing in the background, overstuffed chairs and a marble entryway, may differentiate the store from others in town, but it is actually the selection that makes the store different, said manager Barbara Clark.
"It is a sincere intent of ours to be a cultural resource for the Lawrence
A variety of books on African-American, Native-American and gay and lesbian cultures are available as well as books on women's issues, the environment and comparative religions. The store also offers a selection of general literature from contemporary fiction to classics, cookbooks to self-help.
Three Lawrence residents, Michael Nelson, Debra Nelson and Charles Dedmon, opened the store two weeks ago with hopes of addressing all of Lawrence's literary needs. Clarksaid.
books that reflect the store's goal of multiculturalism. Clark said the bookstore had more multicultural literature than anywhere in town, esp. in New York.
Employee Enicia Fisher, who helped put the section together, said the books addressed a wide variety of women's issues.
"It's unusual to find in a bookstore a section that addresses so many issues in so many angles," she said. "They're very diverse in styles."
State-of-the-art software programs allow customers to search for books by subject, author, title and key word. Clark said the technology allowed the store to do special orders and book searches.
Lisa Elitet, supervisor and main buyer at Mount Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union, said the new bookstore would benefit the community. She said an increase in the number of bookstores usually increased readership at each bookstore.
Because of a closed campus and lack of close parking it is often hard for people not involved with KU to get to Mount Oread Bookshop during the day, Eitner said. She said Mount Oread Bookshop offered a wide variety of multicultural literature as well as reference books, popular fiction
and nonfiction books. She said Terra
Nova Books would serve people who
were not part of the University but
interested in multicultural literature.
Terra Nova Books will not only sell books but will become involved in the book
Starting the beginning of next year, the bookstore will sponsor an adult literacy program, Clark said. The store will also have a poetry or literature reading on Friday nights. At 8 p.m. this Friday, author Denise Low, a professor at Haskell Indian Junior College, will read from her new book "Tulip Elegies: An Alchemy of Writing," which deals with Native-American issues.
It's an alternative to going to the movies," Clark said. "Friday night is a good night to get people out."
In celebration of the bookstore's grand opening, children's books will be read at 11 a.m. on Saturday, and live music will be featured throughout the day.
New titles keep coming in daily as the store continues to build its play, poetry, literary criticism and regional/local author selections, Clark said.
"We're continually learning every day," she said. "There's a new challenge every day but it's been a good feeling."
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