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Maureen Palacios
Maureen loves her life
as a bookseller, even though it ironically doesn’t afford her
much time to read! Managing the business is more than a
full-time job, but the best part of the job is getting
children excited about reading and seeing them come back in to
ask for the next book in a series. In her spare time, she
likes to play with her lab, Lucky, bake new creations with her
two daughters, and go to movies with her patient husband
Jorge. |
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Jorge Palacios
Jorge spends any free
time he has gardening and taking care of his prized roses and
camellias. He works as a Computer Numerical Control Programmer
in the sheet metal industry. He enjoys reading the new picture
books and is taking up the mantle that Mr. Bob had, by loving
to show off the puppets to the younger set! |
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Jessica Palacios
Jessica Palacios is an
9th grader who loves math, reading and long earrings!
Her current favorites are Stephenie Meyer “Twilight” books,
Starganza trilogy, “City of Mask” and “Tthe
Declaration”.
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Amelia Palacios
Amelia Palacios is a
8th grader who still loves soccer, piano, singing, making
people laugh, cats and reading.
Her latest favorite books are Agatha Christie’s classic
“And Then There Were None”, Naomi Hirahara’s “1001 Cranes” and
Mary Pearson’s “The Adoration of Jenna Fox.” |
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Nikki
Nikki has worked at Once Upon a
Time since 1999 and was an enthusiastic customer for 13 years
before that. She orders our greeting cards, and with Maureen,
our gift items, and enjoys planning special events for the
shop. She has a degree in Literature with a specialization in
children’s literature, and was a preschool teacher/director
and a volunteer in the schools, library and Girl Scouts. She
enjoys photography, making scrapbooks, travel, and – guess
what?—READING! |
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Gayle Taylor
Gayle has been with ONCE UPON A
TIME since 2001 and has numerous
interests and passions. She is a voracious reader enjoying a
variety of literature. Gayle has been a docent at Descanso
Gardens for almost ten years and also loves animals. A retired
marriage and family therapist, working in a bookstore fulfills
a long-standing dream which she hopes to continue as long as
she can still stand up. She is a grandmother to three
wonderful children. |
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Kitty Mama
We adopted Kitty Mama From
the Glendale Humane Society
http://www.glendalehumane.org/ this spring.
Kitty thinks she is in seventh heaven now that we have
moved between two restaurants. The smells from Zeke’s BBQ
& Rocky Cola Cake keep her in a continual good
mood. |
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Carolyn Beaty
Carolyn has been working
at Once Upon a Time since the fall of 2005.
She currently attends the University of California,
Berkeley and is majoring in English Literature. She wishes she
could read for fun more often, but a little thing called
school gets in the way of that.
When not reading for
school, Carolyn enjoys doing yoga, reading McSweeny's
quarterly concern, and sitting in cafes.
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Jacqui Teruya
Jacqui has been working
at Once Upon a Time since the summer of 2004. She studied
Religion and Writing at Bard College in New York, and spends
most of her free time working on her fiction. Some of her
favorite authors are Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Alice
Munro, Naguib Mahfouz, and Barbara Kingsolver.
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Mallory LeeWong is away at college in
Colorado. A few of her favorite writers are Khaled
Hosseini, Jasper Fforde, Maria Amparo Escandon, James Joyce,
Joan Didion, and Ian McEwan, Margaret Mitchell and J.K.
Rowling. Her favorite poet at the moment is ex-poet laureate
Billy Collins. In addition to reading Mallory likes to work
out, play basketball, be outdoors, cook and bake, play guitar
and piano, volunteer, and be with family and
friends.
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Judy Krueger has been an avid reader all
her life. She once tried to read all the fiction in the
library, just like Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Actually, she is still trying to do that. She loves her job at
Once Upon A Time because, “Working here I get to play with
books all day. My favorite thing is helping someone discover
just the right book.”
Since she has read a large percentage of our adult fiction
section, she can usually do just that!
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A British expatriate, who graduated High School as a
junior, Spencer Young currently is finishing
up his stay at Glendale Community College and plans on
transferring to UCLA or other UC school where he will study
politics with a focus on rebellion and insurgency. Spencer has
worked at the store since October 2006 and his interests are
politics, sports and history. A spends most of his time
discussing current events. He enjoys reading satirical novels
by authors such as, Anthony Burgess and Chuck Palahnuik. Some
of his favorite books are “A Clockwork Orange”, “Middlesex”,
“The Doctor is Sick” and “Rant”.
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Riley Newman is a junior at Crescenta
Valley High. He loves drama, books, performing, books and more
books! Everyone at CV knows him and we are so glad we can keep
him occupied. |
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Rebecca Decker is away at college in New
York. She has shown us her dramatic side as she read with
gusto to the children during storytimes. |
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Katherine Skylar
Katherine is away at
Drexler University in Philadelphia where she is studying
Communication and Design. She loves Dia del Muerte artifacts
and likes to travel to Costa Rica, among other places. We
can't wait for her to return. |
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Judy Pfeiffer has worked at the shop since
2006. She enjoys reading almost anything and is currently
working her way through the fantasy and science fiction
section. She really enjoys working at the shop – she likes all
the customers, the staff and the merchandise! She is
responsible for the design and look of our current location.
Her creative talents are Unlimited and we are blessed to have
her. |
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Kyle Johnson is a freshman at North Park
University in Chicago, where he is studying Communications. He
still finds the time to return to the store to perform Pajama
Storytime and play guitar
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