LVBookFest

One Day. THIS SATURDAY. Fifty States. YUP - ALL 50!! 1600+ Indie bookstores - NO TWO ALIKE!!!! ♥️Exclusive merchandise made JUST FOR TODAY - bags, books, stickers, coloring books, pencils and more. ♥️♥️Indie bookstores fit their community, they offer 3rd spaces, they work together to defend the write to read, they advocate together for equality, they support the people in their community, they host events, they produce book festivals! ♥️♥️♥️Retail? Yes, we guess??? but so much more! 📍Visit your local indie this Saturday and share the love! Tell your friends and family that may not have an indie near them to check the @americanbooksellers map of indie bookstores in a city or state near them. 🎟️Check out @librofm map to see indie bookstores (and novel models like @thegildedprose ). 🏴‍☠️Join us at @theendbookstore in Allentown and meet & greet our friends from Neverland thanks to @astorybookparty & @astorybookpartysleepovers (1:30pm). 📚The Lehigh Valley and surrounding area has a number of novel models, used bookstores, used and new bookstore, and all-new bookstores. Go to one, go to all! Dump the Billionaires, and buy books from people that READ THEM! Easton - @bookandpuppet & @thequadrantbookmart , Bethlehem - @sorcery_and_scripts & @semicolonbooks.pa (NEW), Emmaus - @apportusedbooks & @nowandthenbooks , a little west in Kutztown - @fireflybookstore ! Learn more @americanbooksellers @naibabooksellers #indiebookstoreday #Lehighvalley #playbooks #theend

Signed copies left from last months LEHIGH VALLEY BOOK FESTIVAL on display and prepped for @indiebookstoreday ! Join the hundreds of independent bookstore members of the @americanbooksellers and in our region the @naibabooksellers this Saturday, April 25! #lvbookfest #lehighvalleypa #playbooks #theend

Clay McLeod Chapman was a favorite at this year’s book festival! There are still some signed copies at @theendbookstore - but they’re moving fast. Tonight IT’s THE END! book club is discussing one of these, but we guess they’ll end up discussing a number of them! 😈 ❓ do you have a favorite of Clay’s? ❓❓ are you an avid horror reader? ❓❓❓ are you new to horror and need some suggestions? Here we go! Answer one of these questions and you may be given one of Clay’s books on @indiebookstoreday ! No purchase necessary, this giveaway is not associated with meta. #shopindie #readindie #readhorror #bookclub #theend

This wasn't your 1970's Dating Game ... This was Romance Book Event of the year! Three romance authors, with three to four books each, equals up to TWELVE possible choices! The Lehigh Valley Book Festivals' DATING GAME was THE BEST!!!! Thanks to Wallie & Jarlyn for putting a spark of an idea into motion, and hosting a fabulous event! Thanks to @nowherecoffeeco for providing the perfect venue (and incredible coffee) and @xmascityspirits for the extra fun. All three attendees that played the DATING GAME with our three romance authors were FABULOUS. We missed the lovely @victoria_schade but her books were represented well by our dear friend Asmaa, and @xioaxelrod & @authorsophieandrews were delightful and funny! How will we ever top this???? We are thinking of making it a semi-annual event - perhaps @bkstoreromanceday (August) & the @lvbookfest (March) - kind of perfect?! With much love, The End!

Kory Stamper (right), a lexicographer and bestselling author of Word for Word, in conversation with author and adjunct professor Megan Angelo (left) in celebration of Stamper’s new book True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color – from Azure to Zinc Pink. After the program, Kory signed books, and we enjoyed an interactive art experience led by Lauren Beck, from Bloomery, Art Co! What an INCREDIBLE program! Thank you to @cedarcrestcollege for hosting the closing session of the 2026 Lehigh Valley Book Festival! Photos by Patrick Montero.

Signed copies of the fabulous ROMANCE panel are waiting for their match! Have you read @xioaxelrod @authorsophieandrews and/or @victoria_schade ? @wallie.reads helped us choose at The Dating Game from a few of their books, but there are so many more!!! These are just some of what we still have signed copies of at @theendbookstore ! #Romancereads #ReadRomance #Spicyreads #theend

Signed advanced reading copies of THE FRANCHISE by Thomas Elrod! Last Saturday, debut novelist @tomelrod86 moderated a fabulous panel at the @lvbookfest and thanks to @torbooks we have a few signed copies to give away. No purchase necessary - just a visit to @theendbookstore A Most Anticipated Title from Men’sHealth, FanFiAddict, The Nerd Daily, and Transfer Orbit! Game of Thrones meets The Truman Show in this epic tale of a Hollywood-owned fantasy world where nothing is quite as it seems to the people who live and die at the studio’s whim. “Fascinatingly entertaining Truman Show–like story... A daring debut.” —Booklist, starred review Thomas Elrod lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Independent Weekly, and elsewhere. The Franchise is his first novel. #thefranchise #theend

You know what is NOT a mystery? How fabulous last Saturday’s mystery panel was!!! It’s a Mystery - Whether it’s a psychological thriller, suspense set against a suburban backdrop, a historical detective story or a twisty time loop mystery – these books will keep you guessing and leave you wanting more. Kristine Delano, The Lies We Trade, Christina Kovac, Watch Us Fall, Rob Osler, The Case of the Murdered Muckraker & Katie Siegel, Out of the Loop, hosted by middle-grade author Paul Acampora. Signed stock at @theendbookstore ( for now 😜)! #lvbookfest #lvbookfest26 #theend

SIGNED COPIES - Saturday’s @lvbookfest Are We Frightened? panel - signed stock, including titles that have not yet released!!! 😈 From the spine-tingling to the truly terrifying, these authors know how to get your heart racing and the wheels in your head spinning. Edward Ashton, Clay McLeod Chapman & De Elizabeth, This Raging Sea with Thomas Elrod, author of the upcoming debut, The Franchise.

Stacks & stacks of fabulous new titles! Including @harmless_drudge TRUE COLOR which released today! Thank you to all of the authors that attended and signed stock!!! ( not even close to all of the books are featured here 🤣) #indiebookstore #community #shopindie #shopindiebookstores #theend

So many SIGNED books from this weekends Lehigh Valley Book Festival left the library and made their way to @theendbookstore !

The Lehigh Valley book festival is not over! Join us today at 2 PM at Cedarcrest College for a genuinely fantastic and interesting book talk with @harmless_drudge & @meganangelo followed by a creative optional art session with @bloomeryart.co ! Thanks to @crayola for inspiring more and more colors to donate to attendees & accompany the books we’re donating to the @bgcallentown !!! See you this afternoon!!!