Gabriel Booke is one of the proprietors of Bell & Booke, a used-and-rare bookstore that, in one form or another, dates back to 1806. It's said that he never forgets a face or a request, even if visits to the store are decades apart. He seems to know everybody, and at least a little bit about everything. He'll occasionally barter favors rather than cash, and has had occasion to call in favors from all walks of society (including, rumor has it, former governor Zell Miller). What favors he might have done this individuals is unknown, as the store's business dealings are held in a confidence that the Swiss banking system only aspires to.

The store specializes in used and rare manuscripts, and is especially well-known for Mr. Booke's capacious memory, nearly limitless contacts, and his possession of some literally invaluable properties including an 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual, a 1543 edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (reputed to be the copy owened by Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe), and an issue of Action Comics #1. In the last decade or so, since the current Mr. Booke has taken over, a small section of new (neither used nor rare) books has entered and grown.

On any given afternoon (the store never opens before noon except by prior appointment with a customer), sounds of classic jazz fill the space, which every visitor remarks seems so much larger once inside the door than it does from the street. Either Mr. Booke or Ms. Bell is present between noon and late night, seven days a week.