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BOOKSTORE FIGHTS TO SURVIVE IN MIDDLE OF GLOBAL PANDEMIC Senator Kamala Harris – Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News

BIDEN’S V.P. PICK OF KAMALA HARRIS PRAISED BY PARTY LEADERS

Arcadia’s best-loved used book shop faces unique challenges

‘Joe Biden nailed this decision’ Barack Obama Terry MILLER

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The presumptive Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, has named Kamala Harris as his running mate, making the California senator the first Black and South Asian American woman to run on a major political party's presidential ticket. "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021," the presidential nominee wrote in an email Tuesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden says he picked Sen. Harris as his running mate in part because she "is ready to lead" and "understands the pain that so many people in our nation are suffering.” Former President Barack Obama was delighted with his former vice president's running mate selection. "Joe Biden nailed this decision," the former president said. "By choosing Senator Kamala Harris as America's next vice president, he's underscored his own judgment and character," Obama added. Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth says she has "never been more confident" that Biden is the leader the country needs after he announced Harris as his running mate.

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here’s nothing like the smell of a book shop, especially one that specializes in used books. In Arcadia, there is a little book shop that has been doing business for over 30 years and miraculously survives during this pandemic. It’s definitely a labor of love. To paraphrase the Beatles’ song “Paperback Writer,” please sir or madam will you take a look it took years to build — business that is — will you buy a book? The COVID-19 pandemic has hit us hard; perhaps none more so than small businesses, like restaurants and local retailers, like Karen Kropp, owner of the classic paperback bookshop known simply as The Book Rack. Seventeen years ago, Kropp took over the business from the SEE BOOKSTORE PAGE 4

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