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World Book Night is a campaign to find light or non-readers in the community and hand them each a book. Sign up by February 1 to be a book giver on World Book Night! All you need to become a giver is a little time, a love of books, and the desire to give something to your community.
Twelve authors based in or near Western North Carolina celebrate Malaprop's 30th Anniversary with their contributions to the serial collaborative novel, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper. John P. McAfee, Susan Reinhardt, Vicki Lane, Tommy Hays, Wayne Caldwell, Fred Chappell, Alan Gratz, Annette Clapsaddle, Gene Cheek, and Linda Marie Barrett outdid themselves as they built upon a story arc brilliantly imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and brought to a laugh-out-loud finish by Tony Earley.
Gina, in addition to being one of our booksellers, is the Mistress of Cards & Sidelines, our graphic novel specialist, and guru of all things Neil Gaiman, SciFi/Fantasy. Jonathan Carroll, comic book, Doctor Who, and geek culture. Her favorite books ever are: American Gods, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Sparrow, and The Shadow of the Wind. She loves dogs, playing the ukulele, eating sushi, and peeling old tape off of things. She is a Libra, and she believes in ghosts.