Kristina Forest

And because a lot of the time, the big bestsellers are the ones that are driving the revenue and

But he's very, very solid in the fact that he only wants to sell older used books at the store.

So that's where that name came from.

And then also HeartBeach Books is the bookstore in HeartBeach.

That name is just, you know, there's only one bookstore in HeartBeach, so it's called HeartBeach Books.

But yes, Noelle is a book lover and she discovered a love for reading when she was, after she had to drop out of college and her mom was going through some health struggles.

She found reading and she found

reading to be a safe space.

I think the way that many of us come to reading or what we love about reading is that it provides an escape.

And she just became a very avid reader.

And she had a very wonderful interaction with a librarian who took her around the library and just gave her a bunch of recommendations.

And she realized that she wanted to be able to be that person for someone else who was going through a hard time and was shown kindness

and patience and was provided with a bunch of really good books to read to help her get through a tough time in her life.

So that becomes her goal.

She loves to read, but she also wants to share the love of reading with other people.

Yes.

I just have a lot of student loans because I went to grad school in New York City.

And I remember thinking, and this was early on of when I was in the preliminary stages of working on, of thinking of the idea of the summer girlfriend, of fleshing it out.

And I thought, oh, I wish somebody would just come along and give me a bunch of money and

You know, I wish someone would just come along and pay off those loans for me.