This Friday and Saturday, October 4-5, the Booksellers on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, celebrates its grand opening with a 20% discount off everything in the store, free coffee, free cupcakes for children and a $300 gift card raffle. In addition, there will be signings and discussions by Heinrich Tolzmann, author of The Over the Rhine Tour Guide and Christian Moerlein: The Man and his Brewery; Jim LaBarbara, author of Jim LaBarbara: The Music Professor; Randy McNutt, author of Ghosts: Ohio's Haunted Landscapes and Lost Ohio: More Travels into Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives; and Robert Webster, author of The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire.
The 6,500-square-foot store has a café and offers books, games, Rookwood Pottery, Spartina bags and scarves, Thymes Fragrances, Lilly Pullitzer, Jonathan Adler, Crane Stationery, Charlie Harper gift items, Natural Life, Baggallini, Cincy T-shirts, gifts, toys and more.
Owner and resident Neil Van Uum commented: "We're thrilled to officially open our doors to our fellow Cincinnatians this weekend for our grand opening. Our core team members are all veteran booksellers, with an average of 17 years of book experience among us. The Booksellers on Fountain Square is truly a labor of love for all of us, and we can't wait to share our passion for books with our neighbors and friends."
Van Uum is also owner of the Booksellers at Laurelwood, Memphis, Tenn., which was once a Davis-Kidd bookstore and for a time was part of Joseph-Beth Booksellers. Van Uum was the longtime co-owner of Joseph-Beth.