Union Ave Books

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Wander along, you guessed it, Union Avenue in downtown Knoxville, and you’ll find the charming Union Ave Books, with their Tennessee-orange bistro tables on the sidewalk inviting you to sit with a book and a snack from the neighboring coffee shop.

 

 

Inside the cozy bookshop are new releases, some second-hand options, bookish gifts, and an impressive selection of local-interest books.

 

 

 

Personally, we’re looking forward to a return visit and encourage you to stop in whenever you find yourself in the vicinity.

 

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“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.”

W. Somerset Maugham

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Cicero

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Marcel Proust

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

Helene Hanff

“What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books … birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them!”

Elizabeth von Arnim

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”

Neil Gaiman

“The art of reading is … an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us; when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“When I … looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness.”

Elizabeth von Arnim