From loaning to owning: Former librarians open community bookstore

TURNING THE PAGE: Sisters Caroline Vericker and Mads Vericker gave up their jobs as librarians and opened Heartleaf Books in Providence in September.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS
TURNING THE PAGE: Sisters Caroline Vericker and Mads Vericker gave up their jobs as librarians and opened Heartleaf Books in Providence in September.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Sisters Caroline and Mads Vericker grew up among the dusty stacks of the North Smithfield Public Library, where their grandmother worked as library director. It’s no wonder both became librarians. But in a pandemic-inspired plot twist, both gave up their librarian gigs in favor of starting a cooperative bookstore together. V as in Victor LLC,

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