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The Bank Street Book Nook, New Milford, Conn., is for sale but will close if a purchaser is not found, the Danbury News Times reported. Owner Janet Olsen Ryan and her husband, Sean, have sold the building in which the store is located, and she said, "I have other passions I want to pursue."
A weekend Facebook post said that the store will be open through January but will close for good "sometime after that."
Ryan bought the store seven years ago, when Blanche Bailey decided to sell the building and close her store, called Baileywick Books. The Ryans initially were interested only in buying the building, but, as the paper wrote, the store's closing "tugged at Janet Ryan's heart and she agreed to take over the business."
She told the News Times that being a bookseller had been "a lot of fun, and I've liked being part of New Milford's downtown. But it's been a seven-day a week responsibility and I never really intended to do retail."
Ryan is a former psychotherapist who may reopen her practice and will focus for now on her children.