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SUMMARY:Books & Banter Bookclub September: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nThis month we’re chatting about The Bookbinder by Pip Williams. A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is 1914\, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight\, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude\, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious\, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books\, not read them–but as she folds and gathers pages\, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street\, where the female students of Oxford’s Somerville College have a whole library at their fingertips.  \n\n\n\nMaude\, meanwhile\, wants nothing more than what she has: to spend her days folding the pages of books in the company of the other bindery girls. She is extraordinary but vulnerable\, and Peggy feels compelled to watch over her. Then refugees arrive from the war-torn cities of Belgium\, sending ripples through the Oxford community and the sisters’ lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can educate herself and use her intellect\, not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world\, her love for a Belgian soldier–and the responsibility that comes with it–threaten to hold her back.The Bookbinder is a story about knowledge–who creates it\, who can access it\, and what truths get lost in the process. Much as she did in the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words\, Pip Williams thoughtfully explores another rarely seen slice of history through women’s eyes.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-bookclub-september-the-bookbinder-by-pip-williams/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:NEW! Kiss & Tell Romance Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot\n\n\n\nYep\, it was inevitable – we’re kicking off an all new romance club! We’ll vary up selections between contemporary romance\, historical\, spicy and romantasy. We’re kicking off this month because we know a lot of you already have this awesome new release from a lowcountry based author… \n\n\n\nWine and treats served – come join the fun! \n\n\n\nLaurie Devore’s The Villain Edit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Villain Edit is a bit of everyone’s favorite Emily Henry (Happy Place) meets The Bachelor! This sexy dramedy has all the fun and feels\, beginning with a cynical romance novelist\, Jacqueline Matthis. Her career has tanked and she’s ditched the bright lights of New York City for her more affordable South Carolina hometown. \n\n\n\nDesperate\, Jac dreams up a comeback plan: to be a contestant on the 1\, the most-watched reality dating show in the world. Jac is a romance writer after all. She knows how to pull off a meet-cute and create a spicy plotline better than most of us. \n\n\n\nBut Jac soon discovers that while she may have just met the love of her life\, the producers are turning her into the show’s villain. \n\n\n\nGood villains make good TV\, right? On set\, Jac quickly establishes herself as a front-runner for bachelor Marcus’s heart\, but she’s shocked to discover who’s actually pulling the strings. How was she to know that Henry Foster\, her last one-night stand before the show\, was actually a longtime producer on the 1? Henry is just as horrified…but they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other. \n\n\n\nLaurie Devore\n\n\n\nJac knows that she’s getting the villain edit. And they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity\, but as Jac’s secret plan begins crumbling around her\, she’s not so sure. What happens if Marcus chooses her? Worse\, what happens if her affair with Henry comes to light? What if\, in trying to save her career\, she instead will further wreck her mess of a life? \n\n\n\nSmart\, funny\, and sexy\, with a lowcountry twist\, anyone who has ever secretly rooted for the villain (or has been one) will love it. Grab now for a perfect end of summer read!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/new-kiss-tell-romance-book-club/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Adventures in Reading: Young Reader Book Club
DESCRIPTION:ou asked – we answered: our new young reader book club is picking up steam! As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price. On Monday\, September 16th\, we’ll chat about Legends of Lotus Island. The target age range for this book is 8-12.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Christina Soontornvat comes a compelling and immersive young middle grade fantasy series for readers who love stories about animals\, magic\, and kids like them embracing their power to change the world. \n\n\n\nYoung Plum is shocked to discover that she’s been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island\, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians\, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn to fight\, so they can protect the defenseless if needed. \n\n\n\nTo her dismay\, Plum struggles at school. While her classmates begin to transform into amazing creatures\, Plum can’t even seem to magic up a single feather! If she can’t embrace her inner animal form soon\, she’ll have to leave school ― and lose the first group of real friends she’s ever known. \n\n\n\nModerating the book club is local teacher\, Miss Abby! Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/young-reader-book-club-september/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the ‘Ville Bookclub September: What Have You Done?
DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nThis month’s selection is What Have You Done by Shari Lapena. Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill\, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked. But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield\, circled by vultures\, discovered by a local farmer.  \n\n\n\nHow quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly\, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects\, a place of fear and paranoia. Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-bookclub-september-what-have-you-done/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:September Fab Fantasy Club: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
DESCRIPTION:Join the Fab Fantasy book club fun! As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nSeptember’s pick is The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table\, only to find that he’s too late. King Arthur died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann\, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left. The survivors aren’t the heroes of legend like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table\, like Sir Palomides\, the Saracen Knight\, and Sir Dagonet\, Arthur’s fool\, who was knighted as a joke.  \n\n\n\nThey’re joined by Nimue\, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill. But it’s up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance\, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods return\, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again–but first they’ll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely\, brilliant King Arthur fell.  \n\n\n\nThe first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium\, The Bright Sword is steeped in tradition\, complete with duels and quests\, battles and tournaments\, magic swords and Fisher Kings. It’s also a story about imperfect men and women\, full of strength and pain\, trying to reforge a broken land in spite of being broken themselves. \n\n\n\nIf you love King Arthur as much as I do\, you’ll love Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword\, a fresh and engrossing take on the Matter of Britain featuring a colorful cast of Round Table knights who don’t often get as much story time as they deserve. The creator of The Magicians has woven another spell.” –George R. R. Martin\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/september-fab-fantasy-club-the-bright-sword-by-lev-grossman/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Living Large Bookclub August: The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nThis month: The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender\, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the “bona fide international hit” (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop  \n\n\n\nIn Nina George’s New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop\, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a floating bookstore after reading a seminal pseudonymous novel about a young woman with a remarkable gift. The Little Village of Book Lovers is that novel.“Everyone knows me\, but none can see me. I’m that thing you call love.” In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s\, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of infant orphan Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl\, Marie-Jeanne realizes that she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her–tiny glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long\, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker\, bringing true loves together in her village. As she grows up\, Marie-Jeanne helps her foster father\, Francis\, begin a mobile library that travels throughout the many small mountain towns in the region of Nyons.  \n\n\n\nShe finds herself bringing soulmates together every place they go–and there are always books that play a pivotal role in that quest. However\, the only person that Marie-Jeanne can’t seem to find a soulmate for is herself. She has no glow of her own\, though she waits and waits for it to appear. Everyone must have a soulmate\, surely–but will Marie-Jeanne be able to recognize hers when Love finally comes her way?
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-bookclub-august/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Young Reader Book Club August: Escape to the River Sea
DESCRIPTION:Our young reader book club will be reading Escape to the River Sea by Emma Carroll for the August club. As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price. \n\n\n\nThe target age range for this book is 9-12 (but we adults loved it too!).  \n\n\n\nInfo about the book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the pizza and dessert! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on continued club selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club is Miss Abby. Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021. \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nBeautiful and full of adventure\, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll’s compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson’s bestselling\, classic masterpiece\, Journey to the River Sea.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1946\, Rosa Sweetman\, a young Kindertransport girl\, is longing for her family to claim her. The war in Europe is over and she is the only child left at Westwood\, a rambling country estate in the north of England\, where she’d taken refuge seven years earlier.  \n\n\n\nThe arrival of a friend of the family\, Yara Fielding\, starts an adventure that will take Rosa deep into the lush beauty of the Amazon rainforest in search of jaguars\, ancient giant sloths and somewhere to belong.  \n\n\n\nWhat she finds is Yara’s lively\, welcoming family on the banks of the river and\, together\, they face a danger greater than she could ever have imagined.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing places and characters known and loved by fans of Journey to the River Sea\, this spectacular new story tells of the growing threats to the Amazon rainforest that continue to this day.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/young-reader-book-club-august-escape-to-the-river-sea/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the 'Ville Bookclub August: Extinction by Douglas Preston
DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nThis month’s book is Extinction by Douglas Preston. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Extinction\, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.  \n\n\n\nErebus Resort\, occupying a magnificent\, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies\, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths\, Irish Elk\, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat\, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists\, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.  \n\n\n\nAs killings mount and the valley is evacuated\, Cash and Colcord must confront an ancient\, intelligent\, and malevolent presence at Erebus\, bent not on resurrection–but extinction.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-bookclub-august-extinction-by-douglas-preston/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Book Club August: Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova
DESCRIPTION:Join the fun! As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nAugust’s pick is Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore\, from an assured new voice in genre fiction. As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd\, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites\, bargaining with kikimoras\, and slaying bloodsucking upirs. There’s only one monster she can’t defeat: her ex\, the Zmey\, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times and now he’s hunting her.  \n\n\n\nBetrayed by someone close to her\, Kosara’s only choice is to trade her shadow–the source of her powers–for a quick escape. Unfortunately\, Kosara soon develops the deadly sickness that plagues shadowless witches–and only reclaiming her magic can cure her. To find it\, she’s forced to team up with a suspiciously honorable detective. Even worse\, all the clues point in a single direction: To get her shadow back\, Kosara will have to face the Foul Days’ biggest threats without it. And she’s only got twelve days.  \n\n\n\nBut in a city where everyone is out for themselves\, who can Kosara trust to assist her in outwitting the biggest monster from her past?
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-book-club-august/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Living Large Book Club July: In the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf
DESCRIPTION:Your Living Large Book Club will take place one week later this month to account for the 4th of July holiday\, pushing all the clubs forward for the month. \n\n\n\nAs always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nIn the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf\n\n\n\n$28.99 Book club price: $26.09 – 9780778310495 Hardcover\, 288 pphttps://bookshop.org/a/89/9780778310495Sensational southern gothic! In a small town in Appalachia\, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen called upon\, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives–only once\, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price\, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her unfamiliar ways when they don’t. \n\n\n\nWeatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift: she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident\, Adaire saw something unnerving\, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered–never thinking for a moment that it was an accident. But when Weatherly\, for the first time\, is unable to talk the death out of the mayor’s son\, the whole town suspects she is out for revenge\, that she wouldn’t save him. \n\n\n\nWith the help of clues Adaire left behind and her family’s Granny Witch recipe box\, Weatherly sets out to find the truth behind her cousin’s death\, whatever it takes. Imbued with magic\, witchery\, and suspense\, Dana Elmendorf’s In the Hour of Crows is a thrilling tale of friendship\, identity\, and love. . \n\n\n\n“In the Hour of Crows enchants with its haunting plot and vivid prose\, offering a compelling exploration of the human spirit against the backdrop of Appalachia’s mystique.” –Booklist
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-july-in-the-hour-of-crows-by-dana-elmendorf/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the 'Ville Book Club July: The Good Ones by Polly Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Your Thrill in the ‘Ville Trhiller Book Club will take place one week later this month to account for the 4th of July holiday\, pushing all the clubs forward for the month. \n\n\n\nAs always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nThe Good Ones by Polly Stewart\n\n\n\n$18.99 Book club price: $17.09 – 9780063234161 Paperback\, 304 pphttps://bookshop.org/a/89/9780063234161A Today.com & Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2024An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and the costs of being good when the rules for women begin to chafe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home\, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle–as well as her grieving husband and young daughter–behind. \n\n\n\nNow\, nearly twenty years later\, Nicola\, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend\, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola\, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she’s reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly\, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls\, Nicola obsessively searches the internet\, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren’s ultimate fate. \n\n\n\nDriven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend\, Nicola takes a job in her hometown\, determined to uncover any bit of information\, any small clue\, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel\, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past–or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence? \n\n\n\n“Polly Stewart’s The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed.” –S. A. Cosby\, NYT bestselling author of Razorblade Tears \n\n\n\n“A riveting\, unflinching exploration of adolescent female friendships\, small-town pressures to conform\, and the true crime lover’s tendency to conflate empathy and voyeurism\, The Good Ones drew me in from the first lines and still hasn’t released me\, days after finishing.” –Katie Gutierrez\, nationally bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-book-club-july-the-good-ones-by-polly-stewart/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Young Reader Book Club JULY
DESCRIPTION:You asked – we answered: we’ve started an all-new young reader book club! As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Monday\, July 15th\, we’ll discuss the third book in the Islander series\, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. The target age range for this book is 8-11. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this wonderful new release on Saturday\, June 22nd. \n\n\n\nInfo about the book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next club selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021.  \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nJake\, Macon\, and Lovie fight to survive at sea in this third high-stakes adventure in the middle grade\, New York Times bestselling The Islanders series by Mary Alice Monroe!  \n\n\n\nJake Potter’s biggest dream finally comes true: he gets his very own boat! And it’s just in time for another summer of fun on Dewees Island with his best friends\, Macon and Lovie.  \n\n\n\nBut on their very first fishing trip\, the engine dies\, and the three friends find themselves adrift at sea. When a storm carries them to a small\, uninhabited island far from Dewees\, the kids must use every ounce of their strength\, courage\, and knowledge to survive as they wait for rescue.  \n\n\n\nWill their friendship survive the ultimate test?
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/young-reader-book-club-july/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:July Fab Fantasy Bookclub: Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
DESCRIPTION:Fab Fantasy Book Club will take place one week later this month to account for the 4th of July holiday. \n\n\n\nAs always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\nFive Broken Blades by Mai Corland\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$32.99 Book club price: $29.69 – 9781649376909 Hardcover\, 512 pphttps://bookshop.org/a/89/9781649376909t’s the season for treason…The king of Yusan must die. \n\n\n\nThe five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand\, the nobles flourish\, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned\, ruined…or sold. \n\n\n\nAnd now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness–from the hired hit man seeking atonement\, a lovely assassin who seeks freedom\, or even the prince banished for his cruel crimes. None can resist the sweet\, icy lure of vengeance.They can agree on murder. \n\n\n\nThey can agree on treachery. But for these five killers–each versed in deception\, lies\, and betrayal–it’s not enough to forge an alliance. To survive\, they’ll have to find a way to trust each other…but only one can take the crown. Let the best liar win. \n\n\n\n“This dazzling fantasy has it all: a richly developed world\, a captivating ensemble cast\, and a twisty\, action-packed quest.” –Karen M. McManus\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying \n\n\n\n“The heist is suspenseful\, the characters are well-shaded\, and the world is richly imagined. Skillfully combining espionage\, fantasy\, romance\, and a quest for justice\, this marks Corland as an exciting new voice.” –Publishers Weekly
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/july-fab-fantasy-bookclub/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:June Bestsellers Discussion: The Titanic Survivors Book Club!
DESCRIPTION:Nothing like a book club theme for a book club night… This month we’re dishing about The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert. As always\, our book club selections are 10% off. You bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats (and wine\, of course). \n\n\n\nFrom the author of The Perfume Thief\, a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances\, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors.  \n\n\n\nFor weeks after the sinking of the Titanic\, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line\, his job was to curate the ship’s second-class library. But the day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock. After the ship’s sinking\, Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris.  \n\n\n\nSoon after\, he receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors where he encounters other ticket holders who didn’t board the ship. Haunted by their good fortune\, they decide to form a book society\, where they can grapple with their own anxieties through heated discussions of The Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray. \n\n\n\nOf this ragtag group\, Yorick finds himself particularly drawn to the glamorous Zinnia and the mysterious Haze\, and a tangled triangle of love and friendship forms among them.  \n\n\n\nYet with the Great War on the horizon and the unexpected death of one of their own\, the surviving book club members are left wondering what fate might have in store. Elegant and elegiac\, The Titanic Survivors Book Club is a dazzling ode to love\, chance\, and the transformative power of books to bring people together.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/june-bestsellers-discussion-the-titanic-survivors-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Young Reader Book Club JUNE
DESCRIPTION:You asked – we answered: we’ve started an all-new young reader book club! As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Monday\, June 17th\, we’ll discuss the second book in the Islander series\, The Islanders: Search for Treasure. The target age range for this book is 8-11. \n\n\n\nAnd on July 15th\, we’ll talk about the third all-new book in the series\, coming out June 18th\, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this on Saturday\, June 22nd. \n\n\n\nInfo about the book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next club selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021.  \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nThe sequel to New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s The Islanders\, an “exciting\, tender\, and absolutely wonderful” (Kirkus Reviews\, starred review) story of friendship\, loss\, and the healing power of nature.  \n\n\n\nJake Potter is back on Dewees Island for another summer with his beloved grandmother\, Honey. This time\, Jake is excited that his dad will be there as he continues to recover from his injuries sustained in Afghanistan.  \n\n\n\nBut Jake also knows they both need get used to a new normal\, which isn’t easy. Jake also discovers that his two best friends\, Macon and Lovie\, are struggling as well. Macon is adjusting to being a big brother\, while Lovie is navigating a new relationship with her dad\, who has long been absent in her life.  \n\n\n\nTo cheer everyone up\, Jake decides that the trio needs a new mission\, just like they had the previous summer in saving the turtles. He discovers that his dad loved spending time in an old tree fort on the island\, and there is a special treasure box hidden somewhere nearby. Jake just knows if he can find it\, maybe his dad will be happy again–and he knows Macon and Lovie are the perfect fellow treasure hunters!  \n\n\n\nTheir search leads them to discover there might be actual buried treasure somewhere on Dewees\, all while they battle some unwelcome guests on the island\, of both the two- and four-legged kind! On the three friends’ biggest quest yet\, they realize that the treasures they really want in life were with them all along.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/young-reader-book-club-june/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the Ville June: The Institution by Helen Fields
DESCRIPTION:Ooh\, this one will be a seriously thrilling discussion. The Institution by Helen Fields As always\, our book club selections are 10% off. You bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats (and wine\, of course). \n\n\n\nThey’re locked up for your safety. Now\, you’re locked in with them. \n\n\n\nDr Connie Woolwine has five days to catch a killer. On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital\, a scream shatters the night. The next morning\, a nurse’s body is found and her daughter has been taken. A ransom must be paid\, and the clock is ticking. \n\n\n\nForensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now\, she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late. But as the walls close in around her\, can Connie get the killer before The Institution gets her? \n\n\n\n\n“The Institution is filled with many twists and turns…and will be popular with [readers] of twisted and dark psychological thrillers.”  \nBooklist
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-june-the-institution-by-helen-fields/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Bookclub: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
DESCRIPTION:This is likely to be our biggest fab fantasy gathering to date – we look so forward to you joining the chat! As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all: you bring the thoughts\, we’ll bring the treats (and wine\, always wine). \n\n\n\nThis month’s pick – The Familiar by the fabulous Leigh Bardugo! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 by The Washington Post\, NPR\, Goodreads\, LitHub\, The Nerd Daily\, Paste Magazine\, Today.com\, and more!  \n\n\n\n“A must-read for those who are seeking a little magic in their lives.” –Deborah Harkness\, #1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches  \n\n\n\nIn a shabby house\, on a shabby street\, in the new capital of Madrid\, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles\, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family’s social position.  \n\n\n\nWhat begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez\, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada\, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen–and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes\, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists\, holy men and hucksters\, where the lines between magic\, science\, and fraud are never certain.  \n\n\n\nBut as her notoriety grows\, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive–even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel\, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-bookclub-the-familiar-by-leigh-bardugo/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:May Bestseller Book Club: A Short Walk Through a Wide World
DESCRIPTION:Super excited about this month’s pick – A Short Walk through a Wide World by debut novelist Douglas Westerbeke is part Addie LaRue\, part Starless Sea\, part Life of Pi and ALL mesmerizing! \n\n\n\nAs always\, this book club pick is available for 10% off (book club pricing) and the evening at our in-house book club includes free treats and wine – you just bring the scintillating conversation – and we expect some incredible conversation around this winner! \n\n\n\nThink The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi or A Starless Sea. This is an epic debut that chronicles an incredible life of a woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a curse that will kill her if she stops too long in any one place! Intriguing\, right? \n\n\n\nIt all begins in Paris in 1885\, when nine-year-old Aubry Tourvel\, a spoiled and stubborn childl\, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her way home from school. She tosses it over the fence\, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later\, at the family dinner table\, she suddenly begins to bleed to death. \n\n\n\nWhen medical treatment only makes her worse\, she flees to the outskirts of the city\, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that inexplicably keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition\, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor –and here’s the kicker– return to any place where she’s already been. \n\n\n\nFrom the dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard\, to the shelves of an infinite underground library\, we are tethered to Aubry as she is tethered to her curse. She learns what it takes to survive and ultimately\, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others\, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s… \n\n\n\nForced to be fiercely independent and yet somehow hopeful and full of longing\, Aubry becomes an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders\, all to find a safe place she can call home. This really is a spellbinding and inspiring story about discovering meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible. And at its core\, it should remind each of us that it’s not the destination\, but rather the journey\, that makes us who we are.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/may-bestseller-book-club-a-short-walk-through-a-wide-world/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:NEW! Young Reader Book Club
DESCRIPTION:You asked – we answered: we’re starting an all-new young reader book club! \n\n\n\nWe’re going to kick off the May/June/July meetings with a wonderful series by New York Times bestselling authors Mary Alice Monroe and Angela May: The Islanders\, with a target age range of 8-11. As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook one\, The Islanders\, will take place May 20th. On Monday\, June 17th\, we’ll discuss the second book in the series\, The Islanders: Search for Treasure. \n\n\n\nAnd on July 15th\, we’ll talk about the third all-new book\, coming out June 18th\, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this on Saturday\,  \n\n\n\nInfo about the first book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next two selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021.  \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nFrom New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes a beautiful story of friendship\, loss\, and the healing power of nature in her first book for middle grade readers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan\, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake’s spending the summer on tiny Dewees Island with his grandmother.  \n\n\n\nThe island is a nature sanctuary–no cars or paved roads\, no stores or restaurants. To make matters worse\, Jake’s grandmother doesn’t believe in cable or the internet\, which means Jake has no cell phone\, no video games…and no friends.  \n\n\n\nThis is going to be the worst summer ever!  \n\n\n\nHe’s barely on the island before he befriends two other kids–Macon\, another “summer kid\,” and Lovie\, a know-it-all who lives there and shows both Jake and Macon the ropes of life on the island. All three are struggling with their own family issues and they quickly bond\, going on adventures all over Dewees Island.  \n\n\n\nUntil one misadventure on an abandoned boat leads to community service. Their punishment? Mandatory duty on the Island Turtle Team. The kids must do a daily dawn patrol of the beach on the hunt for loggerhead sea turtle tracks.  \n\n\n\nWhen a turtle nest is threatened by coyotes\, the three friends must find a way to protect it. Can they save the turtle nest from predators? Can Jake’s growing love for the island and its inhabitants (be they two-legged\, four-legged\, feathered\, or finned) help to heal his father?
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/new-young-reader-book-club/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to read and talk about Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher at our in-house thriller book club; this one is getting lots of buzz! And\, since it’s one of our rare paperback releases\, it’s perfect to take with to the beach. As always\, our book club selections are 10% off. You bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats (and wine\, of course). \n\n\n\n“The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!” –Colleen Hoover \n\n\n\nIris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped–so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister’s fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there was anything to investigate. With Piper presumed a runaway and no evidence to go on but Iris’s scattered memories\, the case quickly goes cold.Ever since that terrible day\, Iris’ search for Piper has bordered on obsession. Chasing leads across years and following clues that all seem to point to a single name\, Iris does everything she can to get close to the only person who might know the answer to the question that still haunts her: where did Piper go?  \n\n\n\nAnd if the police still won’t help\, she’ll just have to find the answer herself–using her criminal psychology degree to intern at the isolated psychiatric hospital on Shoal Island\, where secrets lurk in the shadows and are kept under lock and key. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the Shoal\, and that the patients aren’t the only ones being observed… \n\n\n\nLooking for more captivating reads by Tarryn Fisher? Don’t miss: \n\n\n\n\nNever Never (with Colleen Hoover)\n\n\n\nAn Honest Lie\n\n\n\nThe Wives\n\n\n\nThe Wrong Family
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-good-half-gone-by-tarryn-fisher/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:May Fab Fantasy Book Club: The Butcher of the Forest
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our in-house Fab Fantasy book club on May 2nd\, when we’ll be chatting about The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed – a new hit available at the 10% off book club discount. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the wine and treats! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A perfect mix of horror and fantasy.”–The New York Times  \n\n\n\n“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars.”–The Washington Post“The Grimm brothers can’t hold a candle to Premee Mohamed and her fever dream of a fantasy novella.”–Polygon \n\n\n\nA world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark\, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.  \n\n\n\nAt the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild\, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn–the only one to ever enter the forest and survive–is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant’s missing children.  \n\n\n\nInside await traps and trickery\, ancient monsters\, and hauntings of the past. One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/may-fab-fantasy-book-club-the-butcher-of-the-forest/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:April Bestsellers Book Club: The Women by Kristin Hannah
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to be featuring The Women by Kristin Hannah in this month’s bestsellers book club. As always\, the book is available at 10% off special book club pricing. Our clubs are free and open to all – you bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats! \n\n\n\nA #1 bestseller on The New York Times\, USA Today\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women–at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. \n\n\n\nWomen can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words\, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched\, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents\, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing.  \n\n\n\nBut in 1965\, the world is changing\, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam\, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight\, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war.  \n\n\n\nEach day is a gamble of life and death\, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war\, she meets–and becomes one of–the lucky\, the brave\, the broken\, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends.  \n\n\n\nThe real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America\, to angry protesters\, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war\, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten.  \n\n\n\nA novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism\, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-bestsellers-book-club-the-women-by-kristin-hannah/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:April Thriller Book Club: The Fury
DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all – you bring the chatter\, we’ll provide the treats! And the book is available at Main Street Reads for the 10% off book club price. \n\n\n\nThis month\, it’s the incomparable Alex Michaelides\, back with another psychological thriller\, The Fury.  \n\n\n\nA masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient  \n\n\n\nThis is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart\, it’s a love story\, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year\, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island.  \n\n\n\nI tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids\, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge.  \n\n\n\nWhat followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits\, full of twists and turns\, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death\, as one of us was found murdered.  \n\n\n\nBut who am I? My name is Elliot Chase\, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard…
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-thriller-book-club-the-fury/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:April Fantasy Book Club: An Education in Malice
DESCRIPTION:The first Thursday of each month celebrates a new fantasy read and this month it’s An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson! \n\n\n\nSumptuous and addictive\, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood\, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson\, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. \n\n\n\nDeep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient\, it is not a place for timid girls. Here\, secrets are currency\, ambition is lifeblood\, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. \n\n\n\nOn her first day of class\, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together\, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor\, De Lafontaine\, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla. \n\n\n\nBut as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious\, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics\, bloodthirsty professors and magic\, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-fab-fantasy-an-education-in-malice/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Bestsellers Book Club: Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
DESCRIPTION:Unlike the live chat with Stacy – this club WILL be full of spoilers as y’all have had a month to dig into this great dark academia thriller! As always\, treats will be provided – you bring the chatter! \n\n\n\nA sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic\, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot\, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one\, the careful one\, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year\, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe\, and asks her to room together\, something in Margot can’t say no–something daring\, or starved\, or maybe even envious. \n\n\n\nAnd so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls\, Lucy\, the ringleader; Sloane\, the sarcastic one; and Nicole\, the nice one\, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high school\, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends\, but by the middle of their sophomore year\, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace. \n\n\n\nFrom the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging\, about loyalty\, envy\, and betrayal–another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-book-club-only-if-youre-lucky-by-stacy-willingham/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:March Thrill in the 'Ville Thriller Book Club: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
DESCRIPTION:Our March thriller book club will be dishing on the latest hit from Rachel Hawkins: The Heiress. As always\, the book is at the 10% off book club price in-store\, and we’ll have treats and libations to stimulate the conversations 🙂 \n\n\n\nAn Indie Next AND Library Reads Pick: “The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly \n\n\n\nTHERE’S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies\, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman\, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over\, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House\, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  \n\n\n\nBut in the aftermath of her death\, her adopted son\, Camden\, wants little to do with the house or the money–and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead\, he rejects his inheritance\, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules\, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.  \n\n\n\nTen years later\, his uncle’s death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever\, its rooms just as elegant\, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable. And as Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden\, questions about the infamous heiress come to light.  \n\n\n\nWas there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands\, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place?  \n\n\n\nSoon\, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will–and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/march-thrill-in-the-ville-thriller-book-club-the-heiress-by-rachel-hawkins/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:March Fab Fantasy Book Club: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Fab Fantasy on Thursday\, March 7th when we’ll be diving into Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson\, author of several mega-popular fantasy books at Main Street Reads\, including former club pick Tress of the Emerald Sea! \n\n\n\nAs always\, you bring the chatter\, we’ll supply the treats – and our book club selections are always 10% off retail price\, so come and grab yours soon! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:\n\n\n\nFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson–creator of The Stormlight Archive\, the Mistborn Saga\, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy–comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid\, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster. \n\n\n\nYumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience\, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society–but she longs for even a single day as a normal person.  \n\n\n\nPainter patrols the dark streets dreaming of being a hero–a goal that has led to nothing but heartache and isolation\, leaving him always on the outside looking in. In their own ways\, both of them face the world alone. Suddenly flung together\,  \n\n\n\nYumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives\, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it’s too late\, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them\, but the very worlds they’ve always struggled to protect.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/march-fab-fantasy-book-club-yumi-and-the-nightmare-painter-by-brandon-sanderson/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:February Living Large Book Club: Blackouts by Justin Torres
DESCRIPTION:For all you fans of the incomparable Justin Torres and his debut hit\, We the Animals\, he’s back with Blackouts\, which we chose even before we knew it had won the National Book Award! We’re excited to discuss this one – hope you are\, too. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs always\, the book is available at our 10% off book club discount. We’ll bring the eats and drink – y’all bring your insights – this is going to be quite a discussion! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, Time\, BookPage\, The New York Public Library\, Powell’s A Must-Read: The New York Times\, Time\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, The Guardian\, Boston Herald\, Literary Hub\, The Rumpus\, The Bay Area Reporter\, Datebook\, Electric Literature\, The Stacks\, Them\, Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Sweeping\, ingenious . . . A kiss to build a dream on.”  \n–Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air\n\n\n\nFrom the bestselling author of We the Animals\, Blackouts mines lost histories–personal and collective. Out in the desert in a place called the Palace\, a young man tends to a dying soul\, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur\, child lost and found and lost\, guardian of the institutionalized\, Juan has a project to pass along\, one built around a true artifact of a book–Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns–and its devastating history.  \n\n\n\nThis book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher\, Jan Gay\, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee\, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered\, muted\, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text\, which\, in Juan’s tattered volumes\, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page.  \n\n\n\nAs Juan waits for his end\, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves\, lives\, mothers\, fathers\, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book\, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us\, beside us\, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?  \n\n\n\nA book about storytelling–its legacies\, dangers\, delights\, and potential for change–and a bold exploration of form\, art\, and love\, Justin Torres’s Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative.  \n\n\n\nA marvel of creative imagination\, it draws on testimony\, photographs\, illustrations\, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made–a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.  \n\n\n\nA reclamation of ransacked history\, a celebration of defiance\, and a transformative encounter\, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-living-large-book-club-blackouts-by-justin-torres/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:February Thrill in the 'Ville: Anna O by Matthew Blake
DESCRIPTION:Our February thriller book club will be dishing on Anna O by Matthew Blake. As always\, the book is at the 10% off book club price in-store\, and we’ll have treats and libations to lubricate the conversations 🙂 \n\n\n\nThis book is already being touted as one of THE thrillers of the year – for anyone who enjoyed Alex Michelaides’ The Silent Patient\, we know you’ll love this one!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining the ranks of Gillian Flynn\, A. J. Finn\, and Alex Michaelides\, Matthew Blake delivers the thriller of the year: a dark\, twisty\, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking\, and then never opens her eyes again. \n\n\n\nWhat if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? \n\n\n\nWe spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens\, and what are we capable of\, when we sleep? \n\n\n\n\n“A riveting\, unsettling crime novel that will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime. Is Anna O a sleeping beauty or a sleeping killer? Matthew Blake’s tension-filled thriller is as elusive and mysterious as sleep itself.” \n—Nita Prose\, #1 New York Times author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest\n\n\n\nAnna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then\, one night\, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive–and hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids\, Anna’s condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as “resignation syndrome.” \n\n\n\nDr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope of solving the infamous “Anna O'”case and waking Anna up so she can stand trial. But he must be careful treating such a high-profile suspect–he’s got career secrets and a complicated personal life of his own. \n\n\n\nAs Anna shows the first signs of stirring\, Benedict must determine what really happened and whether Anna should be held responsible for her crimes. \n\n\n\nOnly Anna knows the truth about that night\, but only Benedict knows how to discover it. And they’re both in danger from what they find out. \n\n\n\nMatthew Blake is a London-based author who has also worked as a screenwriter with the BBC\, ITV Studios\, and numerous other UK indies. \n\n\n\nCan’t make the live? Join in via Zoom: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83115591753?pwd=bGwyNlJITDZvNUcxdU9kckNDSE1Zdz09Meeting ID: 831 1559 1753Passcode: 29483
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-thrill-in-the-ville-anna-o-by-matthew-blake/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:February Fab Fantasy Book Club: Witch King by Martha Wells
DESCRIPTION:Join us for February’s first book club of the month when the Fab Fantasy club gathers to discuss Martha Wells’ Witch King! As always\, the book is 10% off book club priced at Main Street Reads. All our clubs are free and open to all – we’ll supply the treats\, you bring the chatter! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:  \n\n\n\nFrom the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship\, of trust and betrayal\, and of the families we choose. “I didn’t know you were a… demon.”“You idiot. I’m the demon.”Kai’s having a long day in Martha Wells’ WITCH KING….After being murdered\, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap\, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?  \n\n\n\nKai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions. He’s not going to like the answers.  \n\n\n\nWITCH KING is Martha Wells’s first new fantasy in over a decade\, drawing together her signature ability to create characters we adore and identify with\, alongside breathtaking action and adventure\, and the wit and charm we’ve come to expect from one of the leading writers of her generation.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-fab-fantasy-book-club-witch-king-by-martha-wells/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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