Food, coffee & shops / Ferndale
Chosen Books of Michigan
Closed – archive entry · 2012
A long-running LGBT bookstore that spent nearly two decades in Royal Oak, reopened in Ferndale in 2007 and closed for good in 2012.
01 / The story of this place
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Chosen Books of Michigan was a long-running LGBT bookstore that sold books, cards and videos. It spent almost two decades in Royal Oak; that location closed in 2006, and in 2007 the store reopened in a larger, free-standing building on Hilton Road in Ferndale. It closed for good in 2012. We keep it as part of our historical archive.
- Nearly 20 years in Royal Oak
- Moved to Ferndale in 2007
- Books, cards and videos
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An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
03 / Events
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