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Join us in welcoming our new Chief Financial Officer, Lauren Ciborski, to the ABA team. 

W.G. Ellerkamp is a family-owned retail packaging company that offers everything from custom printed bags, wrapping paper, boxes, and tissue paper. The company also carries designs created specifically for indie booksellers. 

Bookselling This Week spoke with Jack Ellerkamp of W.G. Ellerkamp to learn more.

“Mendell Station is both comforting and catastrophic, often at the same time. It’s about the monotonous slog forward through grief and about the unique trauma of being a frontline worker in the early days of the pandemic. Mendell Station is a revelation. Do not miss out on it,” said Katherine Nazzaro of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Here is the Indie Comics and Graphic Works Bestseller List, including the Manga Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 13, 2025. 

“I mean it when I say this book is breathing life into me. Each story is a slow burning tale set in the South, braiding history, love, family, and self-discovery together with crisp prose and honest storytelling. It’s as if Moore has stamped cut outs of life and laid them on the pages for readers to experience an exact replica of reality,” said Nadi Hinojosa of Lark and Owl Booksellers in Georgetown, Texas.

This year marks ABA’s 125th year of helping indie bookstores thrive. As part of our 125th anniversary celebration, we’ll be sharing interviews with key figures in the industry and exploring how the organization has changed since its inception in 1900.

“Rosa Coelho leads a band of magical misfits on a journey to reclaim what the wealthy have taken from her friends and family. Along the way, they face monsters and plan a heist. This story invites you on a whirlwind adventure,” said Nicole Johnson of Baltimore Read Aloud in Baltimore, Maryland.