Following its debut as a pop-up store last year, Beyond Words Bookshop has opened a bricks-and-mortar store in Mesa, Ariz., 12News reported.
Owner Kelly Boggs welcomed customers to the store on July 5. Boggs is a former English teacher and she sells new and used titles with an emphasis on books for young readers. The bookshop is located at 40 N. Macdonald.
Boggs opened the bricks-and-mortar store with the help of a local grant providing six months of rent and utilities for a physical space in Mesa's Green Belt. She applied for the grant after hearing about it from local bookseller Alyssa Prewitt, owner of Twice Upon a Time Books.
"For another person that's in the same business--that she could have been competing for this--sent it to me," Boggs told 12News. "I was like, 'oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' "