What's your favorite bookstore or library?

I’m having a great time reading this book, and I just re-remembered how much I love Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, CO, where I inevitably spend $100 or so every February. I think I like it so much because it’s not gigantic, but always has a fantastic selection of heady and interesting titles—a great substance to fluff ratio. It’s human-scaled in size, but doesn’t suffer from a lack of variety or quality. Having “shop” in the name gives it a touch of old-world flair (without the olde worlde) and sort of evokes the scent new books and the crispness of plain brown wrapper. Every purchase comes with a parking token—something I never use because we always pay the meter before our stroll down main street and because the bookstore is usually our last stop before we get on the road back to Albuquerque.

What’s your favorite? Regale us with some prose.