Bookends on Main, Menomonie, Wisconsin formerly The Bookends, has a new owner. Harriet Christy handed over the keys on July 1, 2009 to Susan Schoenbauer Thurin, a retired English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Scroll down to see our pictures.

Bookstore owners must love books. Harriett’s previous work included being a librarian and teaching teaching children’s literature while Susan’s was being an English teacher. Owning the bookstore culminates her lifelong love of books and writing, starting with the childhood pleasure of curling up with a good book. Like many other English teachers, she started writing stories in grade school and made her career choice in eighth grade.