‘The world needs more independent bookstores’: Mission Hills bookshop plans to fill a void

When Patrick Stewart walked into the vacant building that would become the new Library Shop Mission Hills bookstore, he was hit by two feelings: It’s perfect. And oh, boy. The empty bookshelves lining the walls spoke volumes. But things needed to be spruced up and brought up to code. The building had housed the Mission Hills library from 1961 to 2019 and then sat unused for about five years, not counting the occasional squatter. “We saw a lot of potential,” said Stewart, the ch