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On the last day at her bookshop, Karen Kropp remains surrounded by stories. In the days after the 78-year-old owner of the Book Rack in Arcadia announced she was closing the store after 40 years, ...

The Book Rack in Arcadia is closing down after serving the community for 40 years. Karen Kropp has worked at the store for most of that time and in the last two decades has owned the used bookstore ...

“Welcome to the Book Rack,” Karen Kropp says, her eyes panning the increasingly sparse shelves inside her bookstore. “It used to be a lot fuller.” After 40 years — the last half under Kropp’s ...