The Bookshop on Church Street
The used bookshop owner and the chain-store manager across the street have one thing in common: a quiet reader who keeps buying the same novel.
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Mae Doucette runs Second Story Books above a bakery on Church Street, with a cash register from 1987 and a strict no-returns policy. When a shiny chain bookstore opens across the pedestrian mall, its manager, Theo Park, is polite, organized and everything Mae resents. Then she notices a mystery reader buying the same out-of-print novel from both shops, one copy at a time. A playful rivals romance for anyone who has ever fallen for a bookshop.
The chain store opened on a Saturday in September with balloons, a string quartet and a line of people out the door. Mae Doucette watched from the window of Second Story Books, above the bakery, with a cinnamon twist in one hand and a grudge in the other. Her shop had nine thousand used books, three armchairs that did not match and a cash register that printed receipts only when it felt like it. Across Church Street, the new place had a coffee bar, a children’s corner shaped like a castle and a
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Callie Rowan
I fix other people’s commas for a living, which means I spend all day reading and most of the night wanting to write something with more kissing in it. I grew up on a dairy farm outside St. Albans, moved to Burlington for college and never left, mostly because of the lake. My books are set in the Vermont I know: sugarhouses in March, bookshops with creaky floors, town meeting arguments and roads that close the minute it snows. My heroines have opinions and my heroes own flannel for practical reasons. I live in a second-floor apartment on North Street with too many plants and a cat named Semicolon.
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