Big city left with no bookstore
By Ed Lavandera, CNN
Laredo, Texas (CNN) — The bookstore was Zhuara Rivera’s magical “Neverland.” It offered a fairy tale world for 14-year-old Rivera to get lost in stories and words.
But the books are gone. On January 16, Barnes & Noble, which owns B. Dalton, closed the store inside Laredo’s Mall del Norte.
That leaves Laredo, Texas, population of 250,000, one of the largest cities in the United States without a bookstore.
The closest bookstore is now 150 miles away, in San Antonio, Texas.