{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Annie B. Jones","description":"Our conversation this week is with Annie B. Jones. She's the owner of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia, host of the 'From the Front Porch' podcast, and child of Tallahassee, Florida.  In this episode we explore the power of ordinary stories, the beauty and challenges of small-town life and business, how faith built The Bookshelf, her evolution as a From-Away in Thomasville, work as humility, her wonderful team of booksellers and communal support, an honest (and refreshing) take on Amazon, and the strength given by "weak ties" inside a bookshop.  Visit The Bookshelf in Thomasville! Listen to the From the Front Porch Podcast Mentioned in this episode: An Old Fashioned Girl and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut The Chumscrubber Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Wendell Berry Nora Ephron Documetary - Everything Is Copy Dragonfly Books in Decorah, Iowa Ernest & Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina A Novel Escape in Franklin, North Carolina Independent bookstores turn a new page on brick-and-mortar retailing Hollowing Out the Middle by Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas James 1:2 - 4 The Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin The From-Aways and The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser I'm nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson Sundog Books in Seaside, Florida Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward   ","author_name":"Story Made Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/storymadeproject.com","html":"