Pocket Books Opening Next Month in Lancaster, Pa.

Pocket Books in progress.

Pocket Books, a 1,000-square-foot bookstore selling predominantly new books, will open next month in Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster Online reported. Co-owners Jessica Callahan, Austin Carter and Julie Ross, who met in graduate school, are shooting for an April 21 opening date.

The bookstore will be located on the ground floor of a two-and-a-half-story building that the co-owners purchased last month for $450,000. Currently Callahan and Ross live on the building's second floor, though they told Lancaster Online that they may eventually use that space for the bookstore.

The store's inventory will include mostly new fiction titles, along with a smattering of used books, and in general the stock will "speak to feminist ideals and be queer welcoming," Callahan explained. "We want it to be a safe space for everybody."

The ownership trio met while attending grad school in Ohio. Callahan and Ross, who are from Texas and Massachusetts, respectively, both studied sociology. Carter, originally from Lititz, Pa., studied English. They chose to move to the Lancaster area to open the bookstore they "long dreamed of having."

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