The Harbor Village bookstore carries a large selection of periodicals. Storeowner Carole Brehm carries something for every taste.
“I get a lot of ‘People’ and ‘Elle,’” she said, noting that she expected to sell to beachgoers looking for a little escapism. But she was a little surprised at the relatively high-brow interests of her magazine buyers.
 Carole Brehm has one of the Coastside's largest collections of magazines at her Harbor Books. |
Other top sellers reflect the varied interests of the Coastside.
Brehm said “Wooden Boat,” a title devoted to afficienadoes of, well, wooden boats, sells well at Harbor Books. Other magazines that are moving off the shelves include “Mental Floss,” (which describes itself as “an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways…”) and “Foreign Affairs.”
As you might expect, surfing magazines sell well. Brehm says “Surfer’s Path” is the genre king at her place.
-- Clay Lambert
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