Winner 'Best Interiors Book' - Homemaker Art & Craft Book Awards 2016 Have you ever wondered what the homes of the owners of these beautiful retail spaces might be like? Caroline Rowland visits both the stores and the homes of more than 30 of the most stylish independent lifestyle retailers to give you a peek behind the scenes. This gorgeous stylish design book gives core interior decorating advice using elements from the shopkeepers’ stores and homes, describes inspirational furniture and lighting ideas and suggests ways to store and display everything from books to quirky collections, as well as offering advice on layout, walls and floors too. Join Caroline Rowland as she takes us through her personal curation of independent stores from across the globe, ranging from lifestyle stores to vintage emporia, homewares to crafts shops in retail spaces, converted barns to repurposed gas stations, as well as more conventional places with traditional shopfronts. From the avenues of the USA and the streets of the UK, to hidden corners of Europe, this sumptuous interiors book explores retail outlets and stylish interior design ideas, providing you with inspiration direct from the owners of the most stylish independent lifestyle retailers and allowing you an insight into how their retail life inspires their home and vice versa.

Small stores are experiencing a rebirth. Driven by the personalities behind them and featuring select products, atmospheric interiors, and impeccable service, these spaces offer promising alternatives to webshops and chains.

A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work.

Come along with a simple shopkeeper in Jerusalem and experience the mystifying, life-changing events of a week that begins with a parade and ends in an empty grave.

In World War II–torn England, a young woman must fight to keep her family together, whatever the cost Ginnie Travis has been working in her father's shop for the past five years, trying to keep it afloat. When scandal rocks her family just as relentless Nazi raids threaten their very lives, Ginnie and her sister are forced to flee and stay with their aunt in the North of England. The last thing she expects to find in the quiet countryside is love, especially with an American soldier. A soldier who has secrets of his own. Tragedy strikes, the horror of war rages on, and Ginnie will do whatever she must to protect everything she holds dear.

A sourcebook of highly original ideas for new retail environments that reflect the way contemporary makers do business—full of ideas for how best to market, display, and sell Despite many predictions that the internet and e-commerce would kill brick-and-mortar, independent retail is far from dead. While big-chain retailers have suffered through lack of originality, new independent retailers are rapidly growing in number, rejuvenating neighborhoods across the world. Flexible, pop-up shops are becoming an increasingly popular and effective strategy not only for kickstarting new businesses but also for energizing established brands. To catch the attention of busy customers passing by and to build an engaging shopping environment that stands out from the competition, the savvy shopkeeper needs to get creative—and can do so on a budget. This timely book features the best and most beautiful independent retail spaces from around the world, which combine marketing savvy with interior design. Organized by themes—Props & Icons, Navigation & Choice, Journey & Discovery, Craft & Process, Edit & Abundance, Staging & Scenery, Highlights & Lowlights, Glimpses & Visions, Gestures & Details, and Digital & Graphic—the book presents a dazzling spectrum of case studies and offers highly imaginative and cost-effective solutions for this increasingly popular area of design.

In 1886 Philadelphia, Hannah Willer begins employment as a maid for Isabelle Martin, the pregnant wife of a prosperous shopkeeper. When the man dies under suspicious circumstances, Hanna finds herself thrust into the midst of a murder trial.