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"Day in the Work Life": Bookstore Owner

On this week's 'A Day In the Work Life'...our regular look at how folks trade time for money...we settle in with a good bookstore owner... as she introduces a local author.

Skylight books is in Los Angeles. (Photo: Skylight Books)

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