Watershed Books in Lakeport, CA

Your local independent bookstore. New, Used, and Rare books. Kids, Young Adults, Romance, Mystery, Western, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Biographies, Special Interest, Libros en Espanol, and more.

• Manifesto

WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories. We believe in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We believe in surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelf. We believe in five-year-olds inking their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We believe in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We believe in turning off the screens and unplugging the networks once in awhile. We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words and checking the references. We believe in holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together. We believe in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books; we believe in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a good bookstore. We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic. If you believe, please join us: SAVE THE WORLD. BUY A BOOK.

The Bookstore Manifesto
Many thanks to Gallery Bookshop

2 Responses to “• Manifesto”

  1. Carol Cole-lewis says:
    September 17, 2012 at 2:13 am

    I am so thrilled you are in Lake County! Local book stores are vital to any community, and you provide a great place to read, socialize and get connected. Three cheers for Watershed Books!

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  2. watershedbookco says:
    October 31, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    Thanks Carol;
    I’m honored to be a part of this community.
    cher

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