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Last night, while out for a stroll, Torontoist stumbled upon a brand-new, two-story bookstore just east of Brunswick. It was rather late at night, yet the line-up at the cash register was still over twenty people deep. Lo and behold, it’s the newest location for one of the city’s finest used bookstores, BMV Books. You may recall it was announced this past summer that a new location was being built in the Annex, and yesterday was the grand opening.

. That’s right: nothing at any Indigo, Chapters, Coles, or World’s Biggest Book Store. What’s odder than the fact that a book translated into 20 different languages isn’t readily available at any of the chain's stores within the GTA is that this exactly what happened roughly a year ago when I tried to buy another book that gives an insightful look at another not-discussed-important-issue: And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts. That book provided a thorough history of the AIDS crisis, tracing it as far back as what was believed to be "Patient Zero"; it sold and inspired a movie. But good luck finding a copy at Indigo. Or in Toronto for that matter. My search in 2005 took me as far as Yonge-Eglinton, where I eventually found a copy at the reliable BMV Books.