loading . . . It was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires Nikki High’s Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena was spared by the fire, but touched by change, it became a hub of relief https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/california-wildfires-pasadena-bookstore-octavias-bookshelf
