Northwood Books — Attraction in Chambersburg

While I'm not a big reader, I love this bookstore. You can tell it's been around for a while because it has so much character and the owner is such a genuine sweetheart. There are family pictures on the wall and decorations that bring personality to the store. I bought a gift certificate here and it surpassed my expectation completely! I expected to receive a small printed slip of paper or typical gift card, but the owner hand wrote the gift certificate (with beautiful cursive handwriting) and added a free bookmark and piece of candy with it! The store gives that classic old bookstore feel. They offer free books outside. There's seating inside if you want to hang out and read. Limited hours of operation, but their hours make sense. A great place to pop into as you go to or leave the...

There are so many books here! When we walked in she said they had 90k! All separated by genre and in alphabetical order. The owner was helping other people and I overheard her talking about all kinds of books and specific authors and she recommended an author for me that wrote historical fiction. In the back there is a section for local authors that I did end up purchasing a book from so I could support small authors. I also easily found an orson Scott card book I haven’t been able to find anywhere else so that was a nice score. I will definitely be back to give them more of my money since book shopping is better...

Closed! Again on the day that I drive the hour over. You do know that you can edit your hours in Google when you are going to be closed during your regular hours like today. Call this store before you drive to it if you are not local because I always seem to hit them when they are closed and they do not update their...