Laura Keys

Owner, Blue Elephant Book Shop, Decatur.

What’s selling: “That vampire-romance series [including ‘Breaking Dawn’] by Stephenie Meyers is selling pretty briskly for us. We’ve had a lot of demand for ‘The Last Lecture’ [by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow] since Pausch died. What I’d like to be selling is ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ [by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows], a novel set in England right after World War II two ends. It’s an epistolary novel that tells a story of people who lived on Guernsey during the war. I liked it a lot.”

What’s not selling: “We haven’t had very much interest in Olympic stuff. I thought we’d have more interest in China.”

What customers are asking for: “Former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan wrote ‘Ignorance Is No Defense: A Teenager’s Guide to Georgia Law,’ and we’ve sold quite a few of those. A grandmother brought it to my attention, and after I ordered it, she bought a copy for each grandchild. We just had somebody ask for ‘Freakonomics’ [by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner], which hasn’t been out in paperback. We’ve had people asking us for months. It’s due any time now.”