1.   And an informal survey of experienced home cooks, food writers, cookbook editors and authors and bookstore owners and buyers indicated that my experience is anything but unique.

2.   Bob is an author himself, a former bookstore owner, a television reviewer and a past president of the American Booksellers Association.

3.   Bookstore owners and college teachers shake their heads when asked about grammar software.

4.   Bookstore owners advance a similar argument.

5.   A discreet, fearful silence unites usually voluble local politicians, authors, and bookstore owners.

6.   A hapless London bookstore owner finds his life disrupted when a famous movie star enters his store and shoplifts his heart.

7.   A retired bookstore owner stopped into a bar for a drink and heard a television droning in the background.

8.   After falling under the spell of Lewis Michaux, the bookstore owner and orator, he resolved to write.

9.   But assessing other aspects of North Beach life, bookstore owner Cavalli sighs.

10.   But the bookstore owner, Bruce Kerschner, said in an interview Tuesday that he had been misquoted and he did not know if the men knew each other.