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Endless ideas, other lands and worlds, characters and people she could never otherwise meet and, of course, entertainment. They are the reasons Annie Carl, owner of The Neverending Bookshop in Perrinville Town Center, loves books.

“The books I’ve read and loved become so much more than stories,” she said. “I go back to them over and over. With each reread, I gain something new from them. That’s an incredibly personal experience I hold close.”

The literary journey that led Carl to her current bookstore started at age 14, when she worked at Mr. B’s Bookery in Kingston. She was...