Congratulations to the Silver Unicorn Bookstore, Acton, Mass., which marked its fifth anniversary this past weekend.
Founder and owner Paul Swydan has celebrated in part by creating a photo collage of nearly all the booksellers--plus a few others who are like family--who have worked at the store. As he wrote in an e-mail to customers, they are "the people who have looked at me and decided that I wasn't crazy, and that working here might be a good time. The people who put up with my terrible jokes and odd choices. The people who step up and run the store seamlessly when I step away for vacation or to tend to a personal matter. The people who have helped me grow this bookshop from a complete unknown to one that is considered among the best in the state. The people that I have the privilege of working with here are everything."
He also offered "some nerdy data stuff": a list called "the 100-copy club"--titles that the store has sold 100 or more copies of during the past five years. Strikingly, more than 200 books are on the list, which our data calculation says means that the Silver Unicorn has sold at least 20,000 copies of these titles. Congratulations again!