Want some great book & graphic novel titles this season for your bookshelf?

Find out by joining us for:

15 for the Fall
Diverse, Heroic, & Exciting Lit Picks, from the Queen City’s Top Indie Booksellers

Wednesday, September 16th, 7:00-8:30pm
Online via ZOOM  & posted on our Facebook Page

FULL TITLE LIST

RSVP Here

For our first Fall 2020 Event, WNBA-Charlotte welcomes reps to three Charlotte-based independent bookstores. We’ll ask them about their stores, strategies for sales and marketing during the “new normal”, and most importantly, to showcase top book picks for the Fall (15 in total)!

Discover new fiction, gothic thrillers, literary biography & memoir, women’s fiction & more.  Three lucky attendees will each get a book of their choice! Full booklist to be available before the event.

MEET THE PANEL

Abbigail Glen is the Owner of Shelves Bookstore.  After working for years in the field of Human Resources Abbigail opened her business in 2019 as a mobile/pop-up store, with scheduled stations at local businesses and events throughout the city. She currently sells online and hopes to open a brick-and-mortar store in the near future.
Shelves Bookstore is a pop-up, online bookstore, offering a curated selection of Adult, Children’s Middle School, and YA titles, featuring diverse authors and stories.

Karla Southern is the Event & Media Coordinator for Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find. Prior to joining the store in 2012, Karla was a graphic designer at The Lincoln Times-News.
Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find opened in 1980 in Charlotte’s Elizabeth neighborhood. It is one of the top comic book retailers in the US. They carry comics, manga, graphic novels, collectibles and more. They have a big presence at local and national comic shows, and carry their own line of comic collecting supplies.

Meghan Anderson is the Event Coordinator & Bookseller at Park Road Books. Prior to jher current role, Meghan was a HS English teacher in Nashville, TN and a member of AmericaCorps.
Park Road Books opened in 1977, and is Charlotte NC’s sole independent, full-service bookstore. They host author events, as well as offer sales programs to local self-published authors and discounts to local bookclubs.

Titles Below. All available for purchase the presenter’s bookstore. Three lucky attendees will win a listed book of their choice! 

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Presented by Abbigail Glen (owner, Shelves Bookstore)

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Atria, HC)

• Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Knopf, HC)

• Bunheads by Misty Copeland (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, HC)

• Dear Justyce by Nic Stone (Crown Books for Young Readers, HC)

• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Teagen Books, HC)

Presented by Meghan Anderson (Event Coordinator, Park Road Books)

• Furia by Saied Yamile Mendez (Algonquin, HC)

• Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith (Penguin, TP)

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Ray, HC)

• Transcendent Kingdom By Yaa Gyasi (Knopf, HC)

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books, HC)

Presented by Karla Southern (Event Coordinator, Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find)*

*to order from Heroes, call 704.375.7462

• Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (First Second, TP)

• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Marino Tamaki (First Second, TP)

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics, TP)

• Paperbacks from Hell: the Twisted History of 70’s and 80’s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books, TP)**

• The Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books, TP)**

(**Picked by Rachel Feldman, WNBA Charlotte President. Order from these and other stores)