Book Buyers

Our quarterly reading is coming up! This time we’re doing it a little differently - the featured readers will read their creative nonfiction works, but we’ll keep the open mic of poetry + fiction afterwards. August 3rd at 7:30pm!

Featured Readers:
Judy Goldman
Michael Kobre
Caroline Langerman

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Mark your calendars classical music collectors! You’re invited to a treasure hunt! We’re partnering with WDAV to host another one-day vinyl and CD sale this year on Saturday, August 24th, right outside our shop.

Flip through thousands of titles featuring the world’s greatest masterworks, lesser known gems, and everything in between. Most items will be priced at just one dollar! 💿🎶
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A small collection from The Franklin Library “100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature” printed in the 1980s, including works by William Carlos Williams, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Henry James, John Dos Passos, and Theodore Dreiser. They’re all in very good to fine condition. Very beautiful editions!
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🇺🇸📚Yes! We’re OPEN today, July 4th 10AM-5PM! Hope to see you soon.
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All right - here are your vacation reads that are all acquired trade-ins from this afternoon! Plus, we will be **OPEN** July 4th 10AM-5PM
•We have not one, not two, but FOUR Elin Hilderbrand novels:
*The Five-Star Weekend
*Silver Girl
*The Island
*The Hotel Nantucket
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•The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (**SOLD!**)
Annnnnnnnd Bridgerton: The Duke & I by Julia Quinn (**SOLD!**)

I don’t know about y’all, but this book 🧊 looks like a very good read right now…🥵☀️

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks - a Cool History of a Hot Commodity by Amy Brady. Hardcover, with dust jacket, $11.95.
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Just some of the CHESS books that we put out on the shelves today! ♟️📚
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A few notable fiction new arrivals for your hot summer Friday!
*Throne of Glass (paperback) by Sarah J. Maas
*Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano # # : SOLD! # # #
*Before We Say Goodbye (the fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Happy Father’s Day to this awesome man, Richard, our fearless leader! ❤️👴🏻📚
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**Edit** Today we got in an almost entire 56 volume Nancy Drew set - missing volume 28!

Looking for a gift for a young graduate? We have a nice ten volume boxes set of boxes the first Nancy Drew mysteries! If the set isn’t your style, we also have Nancy Drew bookmakers for sale (we sold out of the totes - sorry!).
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Looking for some recommended reads perfect for the summer? Here are some local suggestions from The Charlotte Ledger, including some from us!:

📚Get booked for the summer Plus: The news of the week — BofA Stadium renovation proposal revealed; 'Excessive' credit card charges at Aldersgate; Panthers preseason schedule announced; County tax rate hike approved

49 books in the Sweet Valley High series have newly arrived to the shop! 🏫
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A handful of 2023/2024 hardcover fiction for your Saturday!
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Make the most of your day off and visit your favorite book store!
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🍞 Happy Caturday! 😻

A large handful of Carter Brown paperback (with spicy covers) mysteries from the 1960s with which to start your Memorial Day weekend! Did you know that the success of this series also spawned a comic book series, the ‘Carter Brown Murder Mystery Hour’ on radio, three French films, a Japanese TV series, and a French literary award for ‘The most whiskies drunk in a single novel’?
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Soooo…the van is out of commission for a little bit (getting transmission rebuilt). Say “hello” to the modified truck parked near southbound Eastway Dr.!
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***SOLD!***

We have two paperback story collections by Alice Munro, who passed away yesterday:
*Runaway: Stories
*Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
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Short wall of Penguin Classics were acquired yesterday! Might take us a couple of days to clean up and price them…
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If you’d like to know more about butter churning, fiddle making, blacksmithing, shoemaking, banjos and dulcimers then we’ve got the books for you! We have in stock #’s 3-7 of the Foxfire series which teaches creative self-sufficiency and preserves the stories, crafts, and customs of Southern Appalachia.
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Tonight’s the night! Our Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading is happening - we’re honored to have poets Junious “Jay” Ward and Michael G. Cole and mystery and true crime writer Cathy Pickens as featured readers! Free wine and snacks - plus poetry + fiction open mic after the featured readers. Hope to see y’all!
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This Saturday! Our Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading is happening - we’re honored to have poets Junious “Jay” Ward and Michael G. Cole and mystery and true crime writer Cathy Pickens as featured readers! Free wine and snacks - plus poetry + fiction open mic after the featured readers. Hope to see y’all!
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This Saturday, May 4th, poet Michael G. Cole will be reading his amazing work alongside other amazing writers as part of Book Buyers' Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading ! Cole’s first chapbook, Rolled Here How Have You, was co-published by the Kenyon Review and The Group. His second chapbook, Time Lapse, was published by Charlotte’s own THRIFT Poetic Arts.

The event starts at 7:30pm, hope you can make it!

This Saturday, May 4th, mystery and true crime writer Cathy Pickens will be reading her amazing work alongside other amazing writers as part of Book Buyers' Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading ! Pickens’ first novel, Southern Fried, was St Martin’s Best New Traditional Mystery. (Now available from Joffe Books as The Blue Ridge Mountain Mysteries, including audiobooks.)

The event starts at 7:30pm, hope you can make it!

This Saturday, May 4th, poet Junious ‘Jay’ Ward will be reading his amazing work alongside other amazing writers as part of Book Buyers' Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading ! Ward is the author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Ward currently serves as Charlotte’s inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.

The event starts at 7:30pm, hope you can make it!

Happy National Poetry Month! Here’s a selection of poetry new arrivals from the likes of Eavan Poland, Czesław Miłosz, Sharon Olds, William Carlos Williams, Derek Walcot, C. K. Williams, John Ashbery and Stuart Dischell among others.
Speaking of POETRY, we’re having our Book Buyers' Spring 2024 Poetry + Fiction Reading on May 4th at 7:30pm!
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Our new neighbor Upcycle Arts is NOW OPEN! What’s Upcycle Arts all about? Well, Upcycle Arts collects materials from Charlotte businesses, individuals, and manufacturers to divert those materials from the landfill and provide you with low-cost art supplies. You can save the environment and be endlessly inspired to create! Check ‘em out and donate your crafty materials too!
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Here’s your chance to learn a LOT more about good ol’ Teddy Roosevelt. We have the three Edmund Morris books all in reissued hardcover with dust jackets:

*The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, has highlighting and pen marks, $9.95
*Theodore Rex, fine condition, $14.95
*Colonel Roosevelt, fine condition, $14.95
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A few sci-fi and fantasy new arrival hardcover novels for your Friday!
*Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, $14.95 ***SOLD!***
*Red Moon by Kim Stanley Gardner, $9.95
*The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, $15.95
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Junior was not impressed by today’s partial solar eclipse. We kept trying to tell him he had to look UP in the sky to see it, but he kept saying he couldn’t see anything with those glasses on…
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