The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
"A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken." -- Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and The Friend Zone
I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.
When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.
And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.
To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.
Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- November 1, 2022
- ISBN
- 9781728246444
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks Landmark
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- BISAC
- Fiction, Women, Literary, Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, African American & Black
- Themes
- Feminine, African American
- Related subjects
- Bookstores, Booksellers and bookselling, Book clubs (Bookselling)
From our booksellers
Maggie Banks takes over a small town bookstore bound by old literary rules forbidding modern books (can you imagine?!) To save the bookstore, she starts a secret book club celebrating new stories. When she uncovers a town secret, Maggie must choose between honoring tradition or embracing change. A charming, feel-good story about friendship, love, community, and finding balance between honoring the past and embracing the present.