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    Posted: Jan 21 2015 at 8:56pm

Posted: 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015

New bookshop opens in Middletown

By Ed Richter

Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN 

    As a student writing his first book, Braydon Soale said finding a quiet place to read and write as well as get a cup of coffee was hard to come by in Middletown.

    So he decided to open his own bookstore. After a year of rehabbing the building at 1385 Central Ave., Soale has opened Crab Apple Books, a store that caters to book lovers and also serves coffee, tea and other beverages.

    “I wanted to have something where people can find new and used fiction, nonfiction and history books as people like buying half-price books,” he said. “I’m still trying to figure out what Middletown likes to read.”

    Soale, who co-owns Crab Apple Books with his mother, Brenda, said wi-fi should be up and running in a few weeks and he will be selling gourmet coffee from whole beans as well as teas at the bookstore. The store also has small rooms where someone can sit and read a book or do some work.

    In the two weeks since its opening, Soale said the store has already generated business from Cincinnati State students as well as Middletown residents.

    He said the building itself built before the Great Flood of 1913. Soale said it was Middletown’s original Kroger grocery store from 1910 to 1925 and from the 1930s to post-World War II it was a clothing store. In the late 1950s and early  1960s, it was a paint and wallpaper store and it was later used as an office by Armco Steel Co. in the late 1970s as a employee office. Soale said Armco refurbished and updated the building in the early 1980s. After Armco sold it, he said the building was in disrepair until he acquired it just more than a year ago.

    Soale is originally from Camden, and his father owned B&B Automotive Repair on First Avenue for a number of years.   Soale started college at Miami University Middletown and the history major graduated with an education degree from Miami’s Oxford campus. He previously worked as a teacher for Lakota Local Schools.

    He is also active with Heritage Hall in Hamilton as its curator and as a board member and said books and history are his main passions and collects first editions books of American classics from the 1800s.

    His interest in history led Soale to write and self-publish his own book, “From Foggia to Freedom” which is the story of 50 World War II veterans that were held as prisoners of war in Germany. Soale hopes to share his experiences in self-publishing his books to budding authors.

    “I would love to help people get published,” he said.

    Toward that end, Soale is planning to renovate the building’s basement to accommodate book signings of local authors to sign their books and for writers workshops.


CRAB APPLE BOOKS

WHERE: 1385 Central Ave., Middletown

HOURS: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; closed Sundays

MORE INFO: www.facebook.com/crabapplebooks

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Anyone have a phone number for Crab Apple Book store?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote spiderjohn Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Jan 23 2015 at 3:38pm
no--however I have visited the business
Very nice owner--hope that he does well, and will support his efforts
Hopefully everyone here will patronize the place
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