Reply #16: "The Fresco" by Sheri S. Tepper

[Tesha]

While not *ABOUT* bookselling or booksellers, Sheri
S. Tepper's 2000 sci-fi novel The Fresco features
as its heroine a woman who makes her living managing
(throughout the course of the plot) several bookstores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper

The novel is also interesting in that it hypothesises
unique solutions to a number of our society's most-
vexing problems, not the least of which is how religions
misinterpret practically everything.

Tesha