The Littlest Library, which opened on Independence Square last week, offers romance and fantasy genres and books in Spanish. It also features a hidden event space.

America Fontenot didn’t plan to launch her new Independence bookstore on national Small Business Saturday — the busiest shopping weekend of the year — but renovation delays just kept pushing back the opening, she said.

So while many small shops were offering Black Friday-adjacent deals to get customers in the front door, Fontenot’s The Littlest Library invited shoppers to open the store’s first chapter at 112 N. Liberty St. on Independence Square with a grand opening ribbon cutting, live DJ, and free books.

“Everyone is already in the shopping mood and spirit,” she said.

The crowd streamed in again Sunday, as shoppers peru

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