Sleepless in Miami

Dadeland South is twenty minutes by train from Miami's culture-free city centre, and the family-run secondhand bookshop The Kendall Bookshelf (my comments on Evelyn Leeper's worldwide bookshop site here) is one place I usually head to grab a free coffee and pick up a few oddities and rarities, as well as drop into the fairly decent Borders nearby.

When you walk in the door of you'll probably be yapped at by Lilly, the stores's fearsome daschund guard dog, then she keeps watch on you but runs away when you try to go near her. The Kendall Bookshelf is mostly a paperback exchange and doesn't have too many SF first editions unless they happen to be paperbacks (and they have a large selection of SF), and their stock of hardbacks is mostly mainstream fiction and non-fiction. Even though the owners and their son Steve are happy to pull out a few boxes from the backroom to see what other titles they might have, they do have another store better-stocked with SF ten minutes drive away which I've never visited depite them giving me directions far too many times...