Independent bookstores aren’t as abundant as they once were, but readers are thankful to have an outlier in the Writer’s Block, the Downtown destination that houses nearly 20,000 titles, an in-house coffee shop and an artificial bird sanctuary. 519 S. 6th St. #100, thewritersblock.org.

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