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<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''B'''ook Bizarre, for those of you new to the district, is an independent bookstore specializing in murder mysteries and supernatural fiction. The bookstore occupies all four floors of the historic McMurtrie Building. | <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''B'''ook Bizarre, for those of you new to the district, is an independent bookstore specializing in murder mysteries and supernatural fiction. The bookstore occupies all four floors of the historic McMurtrie Building. | ||
While nowhere near as large as million-volume Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, USA, Book Bizarre nonetheless is estimated to contain a hundred thousand books. Part of the second floor is home to the coffee shop, <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''Unhallowed Grounds''', offering a wide selection of gourmet coffees, teas and fresh pastries. Bizzy invites you to come in, relax and enjoy their warm hospitality. Because of the balconies extending from the second level, on fair days patrons may take their refreshments outdoors and read their books to the soothing moans of the shambling zed crowds shuffling along the streets below. Music's in the air and it isn't just jazz quartets and swing from The Mighty Wurlitzer, the jukebox still pristine even after all the travail. | While nowhere near as large as million-volume Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, USA, Book Bizarre nonetheless is estimated to contain a hundred thousand books. Part of the second floor is home to the coffee shop, <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''Unhallowed Grounds''', offering a wide selection of gourmet coffees, teas and fresh pastries. Bizzy invites you to come in, relax and enjoy their warm hospitality. Because of the balconies extending from the second level, on fair days patrons may take their refreshments outdoors and read their books to the soothing moans of the shambling zed crowds shuffling along the streets below. Music's in the air and it isn't just jazz quartets and swing from The Mighty Wurlitzer, the jukebox still pristine even after all the travail. | ||
[[Image:Winter Wonderland.jpg|550px|center]]<br>{{ThumbRight| | [[Image:Winter Wonderland.jpg|550px|center]]<br>{{ThumbRight|Mend and make-do, quilts from the rest.jpg|350px|'''Mending and quilting'''}} | ||
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<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''W''' | <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''W'''inter is always a very special time at Unhallowed Grounds. Some Yule decorations are still up and everyone is looking forward to better times in the spring. The smaller zeds are frozen solid until the thaw and the larger ones are slowed down by the snow. This relatively quiet time of the year is spent mending clothing and gear, making do with what we've scrounged during our time out and about. The bits that can't be darned up are cut into quilt squares or shredded for the stuffing. The rhythmic stitch-work is calming and everyone tells stories. There're breaks for mugs of coffee or chocolate and thick, rib-sticking soups served up with hot, crusty bread fresh-baked that morning. Many quilts are produced each winter and the days seem to pass quickly in the warm shop surrounded by friends. | ||
{{ThumbRight| | {{ThumbRight|Beautiful yew tree.jpg|500px|'''Beautiful yew tree'''}} | ||
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<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''T'''he shop is conveniently located four blocks from the '''[[The Burchell Arms|Burchell Arms [89,17]]]'''. The quickest revives may be had at '''[[Cemetery 88,13|cemetery [88,13]]]'''. After you're revived, while away your afternoon in Book Bizarre next door, then slip your '''Yaktrax''' over your boots for traction on the ice and run the four blocks to the '''Burchell Arms'''. Their ale is the stuff of legend! All of the holiday parties at Book Bizarre are catered by the Burchell Arms Regulars. These stalwarts have never yet let the community down. Bizzy's buffet table is always a splendid spread that fills half of Unhallowed Grounds. (Where ''do'' those deer keep coming from?)<br> | <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''T'''he shop is conveniently located four blocks from the '''[[The Burchell Arms|Burchell Arms [89,17]]]'''. The quickest revives may be had at '''[[Cemetery 88,13|cemetery [88,13]]]'''. After you're revived, while away your afternoon in Book Bizarre next door, then slip your '''Yaktrax'''* over your boots for traction on the ice and run the four blocks to the '''Burchell Arms'''. Their ale is the stuff of legend! All of the holiday parties at Book Bizarre are catered by the Burchell Arms Regulars. These stalwarts have never yet let the community down. Bizzy's buffet table is always a splendid spread that fills half of Unhallowed Grounds. (Where ''do'' those deer keep coming from?)<br> | ||
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<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''P'''yewacket, the shop's cat, enjoys the snow. He's always ready to explore his Winter Wonderland. His Winter treat is a bowl of cream. | <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''P'''yewacket, the shop's cat, enjoys the snow. He's always ready to explore his Winter Wonderland. His Winter treat is a bowl of cream. | ||
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true," Bizzy assures us with a wink and encouragement to finish our coffee cake. She thanks us for coming by to interview her and bustles off, exuding an air of invincibility, to polish some brass or whip up a new batch of | true," Bizzy assures us with a wink and encouragement to finish our coffee cake. She thanks us for coming by to interview her and bustles off, exuding an air of invincibility, to polish some brass or whip up a new batch of | ||
delicious treats in her fabulous shop. | delicious treats in her fabulous shop. | ||
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{{ThumbRight|Snowflake coffees.jpg| | {{ThumbRight|Snowflake coffees.jpg|375px|'''Soothing hot drinks'''}} | ||
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[[Image:Winter Wonderland for two.jpg| | [[Image:Winter Wonderland for two.jpg|400px|left]]<br>[[Image:Mend and make do.jpg|350px|left]]{{ThumbRight|Bits and bobs.jpg|400px|'''Scraps and patches make a quilt'''}} | ||
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[[Image: | [[Image:Malton dusted with snow.jpg|frame|center|alt=Alt text|'''Lovely Malton frosted with snow''']][[Image:Luncheon break at the quilting club.jpg|frame|center|alt=Alt text|'''Luncheon break at the quilting club''']]{{ThumbRight|It's coming together.jpg|470px|'''Another quilt coming together'''}}[[Image:Special cupcakes.jpg|500px|left]][[Image:All the little zeds are frozen in the snow.jpg|frame|center|alt=Alt text|'''The smaller zeds freeze solid until the thaw''']] | ||
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{{ThumbRight|Barricaded door.jpg|470px|'''Book Bizarre is always barricaded to EHB<br> for the comfort and safety of our patrons.'''}} | {{ThumbRight|Barricaded door.jpg|470px|'''Book Bizarre is always barricaded to EHB<br> for the comfort and safety of our patrons.'''}} | ||
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{{ThumbRight|The bigger zeds, who are not frozen, are much slower in the snow.jpg|470px|'''Zeds are much slower in the snow'''}} | {{ThumbRight|The bigger zeds, who are not frozen, are much slower in the snow.jpg|470px|'''Zeds are much slower in the snow'''}} | ||
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[[User:Catherine Cushing#Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers|<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:small">'''Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers'''</span>]] [[User talk:Catherine Cushing|<span style="color:#F74A4A;font-size:small;font-family:Goudy Old Style">(talk)</span>]]<br> | [[User:Catherine Cushing#Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers|<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:small">'''Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers'''</span>]] [[User talk:Catherine Cushing|<span style="color:#F74A4A;font-size:small;font-family:Goudy Old Style">(talk)</span>]]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:28, 2 October 2019
The McMurtrie Building, Rolt Heights [88,12]
Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers of Malibu, California, USA, is the proprietor of Book Bizarre in the beautiful McMurtrie Building [88,12] in Rolt Heights. She was visiting cousins in Malton when the outbreak began, trapping her as it did so many others.
The shop is conveniently located four blocks from the Burchell Arms [89,17]. The quickest revives may be had at cemetery [88,13]. After you're revived, while away your afternoon in Book Bizarre next door, then slip your Yaktrax* over your boots for traction on the ice and run the four blocks to the Burchell Arms. Their ale is the stuff of legend! All of the holiday parties at Book Bizarre are catered by the Burchell Arms Regulars. These stalwarts have never yet let the community down. Bizzy's buffet table is always a splendid spread that fills half of Unhallowed Grounds. (Where do those deer keep coming from?)
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