Independent Bookstore Day!

From the venue:

Celebrate this year’s #IndieBookstoreDay at Charis Books and More on Saturday, April 26th. We will be celebrating all day long with exclusive Independent Bookstore Day merchandise & freebies, book signings with Mo Netz & Tara Roberts, and an in-person open mic in celebration of Lesbian Day of Visibility! 

Also on Saturday--we will have hidden a Libro.fm golden ticket somewhere in the store. Will you be the one to find it and win 12 free audiobook credits from Libro.fm?!

Exclusive Indie Bookstore Day Merch

2025 Independent Bookstore Day Tote Bag 
Frog and Toad Coloring Book
Horror Movie Indie Bookstore Exclusive Edition 
Late Night Book Club Hat
Late Night Book Club Mini Tote
Signed Copy of On Again, Awkward Again with Embroidered Patch 
What You Are Looking For Is In The Library - IBD Exclusive Paperback
AND assorted IBD freebies!

Book Signings 

Mo Netz will be signing books from 1:00PM - 2:00PM EST. Mo is an author of spooky tales for MG and YA audiences. His work includes the award-nominated MG novel The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines and stories in forthcoming MG and YA anthologies showcasing work by disabled horror and fantasy writers. 

Tara Roberts will be signing books from 2:30PM - 3:30PM EST. Tara spent the last six years following, diving with, and telling stories about Black scuba divers as they searched for and helped document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her journey was turned into an award-winning National Geographic-produced podcast called “Into the Depths” and featured in the March issue of National Geographic magazine. Tara became the first Black female explorer ever to be featured on the cover of Nat Geo. In 2022, Tara was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Currently, she is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. And her book Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging hit the stands in January 2025.Tara is also a former magazine editor and indie publisher, a nonprofit communications director and editor of several non-fiction books for girls.She calls Atlanta home but loves to hit the road ... Her motto is - have suitcase, will travel.

Lesbian Day of Visibility Open Mic

This year, Independent Bookstore Day and Lesbian Visibility Day fall on the same Saturday. The BEST place to celebrate BOTH is Charis!

Join us in the evening for an open mic designed for your lesbian poetry, short fiction, music, and dyke drama (no judgement)! Bring us your recountings of love at first sight, U-Haul woes, piercing and tattoo chronicles, staying besties with your ex, kinky explorations, and Subaru adventures - we want it all! The personal is political!

We will have a sign-up sheet with 5-minute slots for readers and performers available at the front at 7:15pm.