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SUMMARY:A Special Meet the Author: Yasmin Angoe - They Come at Knight
DESCRIPTION:You’ll all remember last year’s wonderful signing and book club with Yasmin Angoe’s Her Name is Knight. Now comes They Come at Knight and Yasmin will be here LIVE on Tuesday\, September 13th (prior to our thriller book club). We’ll then discuss the book at October’s Thrill in the ‘Ville! \nAt 7 p.m. there’ll be a Zoom meeting to invite everyone in from coast to coast to meet Yasmin and learn more about the book! Zoom info to login: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81733528743?pwd=ZDl2TnIwY2hsdWVTckN3ZWRrLzZPdz09\nMeeting ID: 817 3352 8743  Passcode: 091322 \nYasmin Angoe’s They Come at Knight is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her family. \nFor elite assassin Nena Knight\, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe\, a powerful business syndicate in Africa\, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena\, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it’s an organization that supports the African people—until it turns on itself. \nAs Nena embarks on a new mission\, a violent siege by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos\, and mysterious acts of violence plague the Tribe’s territories. As the attacks escalate\, Nena suspects a different kind of enemy at play: someone on the inside\, determined to undermine the Tribe’s leaders. \nAs this new threat closes in on her own family\, Nena enlists a team to root out the danger. But as she gets closer to the truth\, she will have to risk everything to protect the future she holds dear—even if it means facing off with an enemy she never expected. \n \nYasmin Angoe is the author of the critically acclaimed Her Name Is Knight\, first book in the Nena Knight trilogy. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and the recipient of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color. Her Name Is Knight came in #1 on multiple Amazon Bestseller charts and is an Editor’s Pick for Best Mystery\, Thriller\, & Suspense. \nYasmin is a nominee for the Anthony Awards for Best First Book and the AAMBC Awards for Debut Author of the Year. Her work has received numerous recognitions\, Best Of lists\, and a Library Journal Starred Review. Her book has appeared in Woman’s World Book Club\, POPSUGAR\, Nerd Daily\, the Washington Independent Review of Books\, Oprah Daily and other platforms. Yasmin is a former educator and received a Kirkus Review calling Her Name Is Knight\, “A parable of reclaiming personal and tribal identity by seizing power at all costs”.
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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Southern Lit Spectacular!
DESCRIPTION:GRAB YOUR TICKETS HERE!\nThis will be THE event of the season at Main Street Reads – four incredible authors\, four seriously amazing books\, UNPLUGGED at the wonderful James Dean Theatre\, followed by a book signing and private reception for ticket holders back at the bookstore! \nDramatic readings and conversations with these wildly popular\, award-winning novelists will be the centerpiece of this Southern Lit Spectacular at 2 p.m. Sept. 4 at the James Dean Theater right up the block from us.\n\n\nThe program will include The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock\, The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney\, One Good Mama Bone by Bren McClain\, and the all-new edition of Gradle Bird by JC Sasser. A portion of book sales will benefit the Timrod Library. \n\nGeneral tickets include a gift certificate to use towards any of the books and a souvenir program signed by all the authors\, as well as food and drink at the signing reception following the performance! VIP tickets include seating in the first five rows and one each of ALL four books. Seating is limited – reserve your tix today!\n\n \nMeet the Authors\nKimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare (Harper Muse) and her award-winning debut\, The River Witch. Eleanor Dare spent three weeks on The Southern Independent Booksellers Bestseller List. A former actor and special needs educator\, in 2014\, Kimberly founded Tinderbox Writer’s Workshop\, a transformative creative experience for women in the arts. Kimberly has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national groups\, including The Women’s Fiction Writer’s annual conference and The Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. www.kimberlybrockbooks.com \nRobert Gwaltney\, award-winning writer of southern fiction\, is a graduate of Florida State University. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the literary community. By day\, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia\, Inc.\, Children Services\, a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as The Signal Mountain Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Robert also serves as Prose Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. His debut novel\, The Cicada Tree\, was awarded the Somerset Award for literary fiction. www.robertlgwaltney.com \nBren McClain is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel\, One Good Mama Bone\, from Pat Conroy’s Story River Books. described as “Charlotte’s Web for grown-ups.” It won the 2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and the 2018 Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature. It was also named Pulpwood Queen 2017 Book of the Year\, a 2017 Great Group Reads by the Women’s National Book Association\, and a Southeastern Independent Booksellers (SIBA) Okra pick. She is at work on her next novel\, TOOK\, which was named gold medalist in the 2016 William Faulkner –William Wisdom Novel-in-Progress. Bren makes her home in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. www.brenmcclain.com \nJ.C. Sasser started her professional career at age twelve\, working as a dishwasher\, waitress\, and cook at a truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. Over her life\, she’s worked as an envelope licker\, tortoise tagger\, lifeguard\, Senate page\, model\, editor\, water-polo coach\, marine biologist\, plant grower\, software consultant\, and 6-Sigma Black Belt. Her debut novel\, Gradle Bird\, won the 2018 Southern Book Prize and the IBPA’s Benjamin Franklin award for Best New Voice in Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. She currently lives in the south Georgia woods in an old WWII barracks with her husband\, Thomas\, their two sons\, T.C. and Robert Esten\, and dogs Boo Reedy and Batman. www.jcsasserbooks.com \nMeet the Books\nThe fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery\, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured Commonplace Book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World\, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it\, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. \nIn the waning days of World War Two\, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell\, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past\, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter\, Penn\, in tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor’s book is finally found\, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare. \nIn this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock\, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \n“Some things in this world are meant to burn …” The summer of 1956\, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia\, a natural event with supernatural repercussions\, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell\, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence\, dark obsessions are stirred\, uncanny gifts provoked\, and secrets unearthed. \nDuring a visit to Mistletoe\, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family\, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa\, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty.  A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise’s fascination with the Mayfields. \nAnaleise’s burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly\, ordinary life\, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation\, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences—all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song. \nA novel of courageous parental love and the instructive\, healing bonds that form between humans and animals. Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina\, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer’s quest to find her mama bone\, after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor\, a woman she calls Sister. When her husband drinks himself to death\, Sarah\, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due\, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah’s fear that her mother’s words\, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six\, were a prophesy\, You ain’t got you one good mama bone in you\, girl. \nWhen Sarah reads in the local newspaper that a boy won $680 with his Grand Champion steer at the recent 1951 Fat Cattle Show & Sale\, she sees this as their financial salvation and finds a way to get Emerson Bridge a steer from a local farmer to compete in the 1952 show. But the young calf is unsettled at Sarah’s farm\, crying out in distress and growing louder as the night wears on. Some four miles away\, the steer’s mother hears his cries and breaks out of a barbed-wire fence to go in search of him. The next morning Sarah finds the young steer quiet\, content\, and nursing a large cow. Inspired by the mother cow’s act of love\, Sarah names her Mama Red. And so Sarah’s education in motherhood begins with Mama Red as her teacher. \nBut Luther Dobbins\, the man who sold Sarah the steer\, has his sights set on winning too\, and\, like Sarah\, he is desperate\, but not for money. Dobbins is desperate for glory\, wanting to regain his lost grand-champion dynasty\, and he will stop at nothing to win. Emboldened by her lessons from Mama Red and her budding mama bone\, Sarah is committed to victory even after she learns the winning steer’s ultimate fate. Will she stop at nothing\, even if it means betraying her teacher? \nA wildly inventive novel that stretches the boundaries of what it costs to love and be loved. Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa\, Leonard\, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey\, Gradle is plunged into a lush\, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came.     \nHere she meets Sonny Joe Stitch\, a Siamese fighting fish connoisseur overdosed on testosterone\, a crippled\, Bible-thumping hobo named Ceif “Tadpole” Walker\, and the only true friend she will ever know\, a schizophrenic genius\, music-man\, and professional dumpster-diver\, D-5 Delvis Miles. As Gradle falls deeper into Delvis’s imaginary and fantastical world\, unsettling dangers lurk\, and when surfaced Gradle discovers unforeseen depths in herself and the people she loves the most.     \nGradle Bird is an unusual tale of self-discovery and redemption that explores the infirmities of fatherly love\, the complexities of human cruelty\, and the consequences of guilt\, proving they are possible to overcome no matter how dark and horrible the cause.  
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/southern-lit-spectacular/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thursday August PQ Book Club: Every Now and Then by Lesley Kagen
DESCRIPTION:For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land comes a heartfelt story about three young girls searching for adventure during the summer of 1960 from the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark. \nCome join us for treatss and book talk! Open to all… \nThat summer would change us . . . forever. \nThe summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit\, Wisconsin. For kids seeking relief from the heat\, there was a creek to be swum in\, sprinklers to run through\, and ice cream at Whitcomb’s Drugstore. But for Frankie\, Viv\, and Biz\, eleven-year-old best friends\, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town–and took their young lives as they’d known them as a souvenir. \nWith a to-do list in hand\, the girls set forth from their hideout to make their mark on that summer\, but when three patients escape from Broadhurst Mental Institution\, their idyllic lives take a sinister turn. Determined to uncover long-held secrets\, the girls have no idea that what they discover could cost them their lives and the ones they hold dear. \nSix decades later\, Biz\, now a bestselling novelist\, remembers that long ago summer and how it still haunts her and her lifelong friends in Every Now and Then\, a story about the ties that bind us\, the timelessness of grief and guilt–and the everlasting hope for redemption.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/august-pulpwood-queens-book-club-every-now-and-then-by-lesley-kagen/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookstore Romance Day 2022: Welcome Dorothy St. James
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy St. James\, author of cozy mysteries with romantic twists\, will be our Romance Day guest from 1 – 3 pm – We adore all Dorothy’s work; you will too! \n\nMystery author Dorothy St. James was born in New York but raised in South Carolina. She is a former Folly Beach beach bum. And now is a hectic suburb mom\, living in Mt. Pleasant\, South Carolina\, with her husband\, precocious daughter\, slightly (OK\, terribly) needy dogs\, and the friendliest cat you’d ever meet. Though writing has always been a passion for her\, she pursued an undergraduate degree in Wildlife Biology and a graduate degree in Public Administration and Urban Planning. She put her educational experience to use\, having worked in all branches and all levels of government including local\, regional\, state\, and federal. She even spent time during college working for a non-profit environmental watchdog organization. \n* Dorothy St. James is the alter-ego of award-winning multi-published author\, Dorothy McFalls. She enjoys writing in several different genres. Her works have been nominated for many awards including: Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award\, Reviewers International Organization Award\, National Reader’s Choice Award\, CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Award\, and The Romance Reviews Today Perfect 10! Award. Reviewers have called her work: “amazing”\, “perfect”\, “filled with emotion”\, and “lined with danger.” \n\nWhat is Bookstore Romance Day?\nBookstore Romance Day is a day designed to give independent bookstores an opportunity to celebrate Romance fiction—its books\, readers\, and writers—and to strengthen the relationships between bookstores and the Romance community
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bookstore-romance-day-2022/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:August Living Large Book Club: Florida Woman by Deb Rogers
DESCRIPTION:August’s “Living Large book club selection\, Florida Woman\, offers a perfect blend of humor\, intrigue and quirkiness wrapped in a southern fiction blanket – we think you’re going to love it! \nA gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell\, about one young woman’s sensational summer at a Floridian wildlife center for exotic monkeys \nJamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach\, thrives in humidity\, has weathered more hurricanes than she can count\, and now\, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit in the first place\, she has the requisite headline to her name. But when the chance comes for her to escape viral infamy and imminent jail time by taking a community service placement at Atlas\, a shelter for rescued monkeys\, it seems like just the fresh start Jamie needs to finally get her life back on track — until it’s not. \nSomething sinister stirs in the palmetto woods surrounding her cabin\, and secrets lurk among the three beguiling women who run the shelter and affectionately take Jamie under their wing for the summer. She hears the distant screams of monkeys each night; the staff perform cryptic\, lakeside sacrifices to honor Atlas; and the land\, which has long been abandoned by citrus farmers and theme park developers alike\, now proves to be dangerously\, relentlessly untamed. \nAs Jamie ventures deeper into the offbeat world and rituals of Atlas\, her summer is soon set to inspire an even stranger Florida headline than she ever could’ve imagined. \nTreats served\, join the fun!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/august-living-large-book-club-florida-woman-by-deb-rogers/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Celebration,Writers Group
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club August: The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for treats and book talk! The New York Times bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his “best plot twist yet.” (People\, Best Summer Books) Be careful what you watch for . . .  Casey Fletcher\, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press\, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon\, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce\, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. \n\n\n\nThey make for good viewing–a tech innovator\, Tom is powerful; and a former model\, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake\, Casey saves Katherine from drowning\, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other–and the longer Casey watches–it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. \n\n\n\nWhen Katherine suddenly vanishes\, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye–and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters\, psychological suspense\, and gasp-worthy plot twists\, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake is the ultimate es
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-august-the-house-across-the-lake-by-riley-sager/
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 July: The Bloomsbury Girls
DESCRIPTION:Join us for fun\, food\, and lively discussion around The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner! \n*Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media\, the CBC\, the Globe and Mail\, BookBub\, POPSUGAR\, SheReads\, Women.com and more!*\n\nNatalie Jenner\, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society\, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London\, a century-old bookstore\, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls. \nBloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years\, run by men and guided by the general manager’s unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950\, the world is changing\, especially the world of books and publishing\, and at Bloomsbury Books\, the girls in the shop have plans: \nVivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II\, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances–most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough\, the Head of Fiction. \nGrace Perkins: Married with two sons\, she’s been working to support the family following her husband’s breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own. \nEvie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree\, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she’s working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future. \nAs they interact with various literary figures of the time–Daphne Du Maurier\, Ellen Doubleday\, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell)\, Samuel Beckett\, Peggy Guggenheim\, and others–these three women with their complex web of relationships\, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-bookclub-july-the-bloomsbury-girls/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thriller Bookclub July: The Ravaged!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for lively discussion\, treats and talk about The Ravaged by Norman Reedus. Free and open to all! \nThe highly anticipated debut novel from Norman Reedus\, acclaimed star of The Walking Dead \nThis country wasn’t built on good–only fought for with good intentions. \nJack’s dying mother told him\, Run and never look back. He spent his life amassing wealth\, but after losing his family\, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack\, he heads to South America\, where people with nothing teach him what matters. \nAfter thrashing his dog-abusing boss\, Hunter learns of his father’s death in a mysterious fire. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Stories from his father’s life help ease the struggles of small-town Americans. Hunter discovers a secret past. \nSeventeen-year-old Anne flees Tennessee after her older brother attacks her. She whacks him with a skillet and hops a freight to Alabama with her best friend. Living hand to mouth\, they build friendships\, uncovering something they never had: family. \nThe Ravaged is a fast-paced\, up-in-your-face novel of gritty realism\, exploring three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes. \n 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-bookclub-july-the-ravaged/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Signing and Talk: Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People by George McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special signing and talk with George McDaniel for his new (April) release of Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People. \nA new portrayal of this 18th-century icon among America’s historic sites\, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People is the first book in the nation to focus on a site’s recent history using interviews with descendants (both White and Black)\, board members\, staff\, donors\, architects\, historians\, preservationists\, tourism leaders\, and more. \nLike different mosaic pieces\, each interview combines with others to create an engaging picture of this one place\, revealing never-before-shared family moments\, major decisions in preservation and site stewardship\, and pioneering efforts to transform a Southern plantation into a site for racial conciliation. Readers will see Drayton Hall’s people not as stereotypes\, but as the real people they were — and are. \nMaps\, photographs\, lines of descent\, interview questions\, a how-to guide\, and related website\, all provide blueprints for readers who wish to undertake similar endeavors to build community in today’s world. \nDrayton Hall has experienced prosperous times and lean times\, but few people have had a greater impact than George W. McDaniel\, Ph.D.\, executive director for over 26 years. George retired from his post in 2015\, leaving a legacy of visionary preservation\, education and community building.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-and-talk-drayton-hall-stories-a-place-and-its-people-by-george-mcdaniel/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:PQ Book Club June: The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock
DESCRIPTION:Join the Pulpwood Queens book club discussion in June when we chat about the new hit from Kimberly Brock\, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare. \nThe fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. \nWhat happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery\, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World\, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it\, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. \nIn the waning days of World War II\, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell\, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past\, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter\, Penn\, in tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor’s book is finally found\, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare. \nIn this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock\, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \nPraise for The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare:  \n“From the haunting first line\, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare transports the reader to a mysterious land\, time and family . . . the captivating women of the Dare legacy must find their true inheritance hiding behind the untold secrets.” —Patti Callahan\, New York Times bestselling author \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nKimberly Brock is the award-winning author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare and The River Witch. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. Visit her online at kimberlybrockbooks.com; Instagram: @kimberlydbrock; Facebook: @kimberlybrockauthor; Twitter: @kimberlydbrock.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/pq-book-club-june-the-lost-book-of-eleanor-dare-by-kimberly-brock/
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 June: The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
DESCRIPTION:We loved The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek\, and we’re loving The Book Woman’s Daughter just as much! Come join us for an evening of refreshments\, camaraderie and engaging discussion about this important work of historical fiction! BOTH books are available at the 10% off book club discount… \nTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \n“A powerful portrait of the courageous women who fought against ignorance\, misogyny\, and racial prejudice.” -William Kent Krueger\, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning Strike \nThe new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek! \nBestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Lovett\, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman\, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free. \nIn the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains\, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned\, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian\, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned\, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free\, or risk being sent away for good. \nPicking up her mother’s old packhorse library route\, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive. But the route can be treacherous\, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way. \nIf Honey wants to bring the freedom books provide to the families who need it most\, she’s going to have to fight for her place\, and along the way\, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-june-the-book-womans-daughter-by-kim-michele-richardson/
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 June: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
DESCRIPTION:We know how much you all enjoyed her book signing May 14th – and on June 14th we’ll be chatting about the NYT-bestselling A Flicker in the Dark. \nStacy will join in at the beginning (Zoom details below for those who’d like to join in remotely!) \nWe still have signed copies available at the store – get ’em quick before they’re gone. Our “Thrill in the ‘Ville” club meets the second Tuesday of each month. We’ll supply the refreshments and book club journals to new members – you bring your burning questions! \n\nHBO Max is developing the adaptation of A Flicker in the Dark into a limited series\, to be available on their streaming network. Fruit Tree (run by Emma Stone and Dave McCary) and A24 are producing the series. \nIf you’d like to join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88467392053?pwd=TUgxTlcrMXlSVHRvNkptN2ZNcjF3QT09 Meeting ID: 884 6739 2053 Passcode: 153929 \nA New York Times Bestseller: \nWhen Chloe Davis was twelve\, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer\, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life\, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. \nNow twenty years later\, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve\, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing\, and then another\, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid\, seeing parallels from her past that aren’t actually there\, or for the second time in her life\, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? \n“A smart\, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” –Karin Slaughter \nFrom debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done\, lyrical thriller\, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.  \n\n\n\nStacy Willingham worked as a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies before deciding to write fiction full time. She earned her BA in Magazine Journalism from the University of Georgia and MFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art & Design. \nHer first novel\, A Flicker in the Dark\, was published on January 11\, 2022 by Minotaur Books and February 3\, 2022 by HarperCollins UK. She currently lives in Charleston\, South Carolina\, with her husband\, Britt\, and her Labradoodle\, Mako.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-june-a-flicker-in-the-dark-by-stacey-willingham/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Booksigning - Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
DESCRIPTION:Come on out and meet Sophia Alexander and get a copy of each of the first two award-winning books in her trilogy – Silk: Caroline’s Story AND the brand new release of Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel \nThe trilogy began with Silk: Caroline’s Story that released last summer. It’s 1899\, and Caroline Corbett is ready for the twentieth century. She’s excited to find work and meet new people—but gets more than expected when a rough-hewn Lowcountry farmer and a small-town doctor both engage her affections. \nThe broad-shouldered\, genial farmer is clear about his desires\, and he’s there for her. The doctor is sophisticated\, educated\, and obviously the right choice—but sees no reason to dwell on certain realities. In trying to decide between them\, Caroline fails to consider the girl Jessie. A young sociopath bent on her own way\, Jessie Bell sees very good reasons to dredge up unpleasant realities—and to create new ones. Before long\, this South Carolina landscape is riddled with the detritus of her intense jealousies\, which have set astonishing and horrifying events into motion.\n \nTapestry released just two weeks ago and promises new adventures: If your stepmother were a sociopath\, how would you know? And who would you turn to? \nLife is not as ordinary as it seems for Gaynelle and Vivian\, who only understand that the woman they now call ‘Mama’ is complicated and difficult to please. Is the romantic love that Gaynelle finds at a too-tender age going to last? And will Vivian uncover the truth about her parentage while recovering from a strange illness? \nRural South Carolina meets the Roaring 20’s in this tale of two sisters who face separation and trauma with the resilience of the young and find their way\, despite everything. \nSophia Alexander is the mother of two college-age children and a number of manuscripts. Her character-driven historical fiction grips readers’ emotions and surprises them with unexpected twists. A full-time author with a passion for genealogy\, she resides near the beautiful Southern city of Savannah\, Georgia\, but studied in the magnificent Pacific Northwest at Bastyr University\, where she earned a doctorate in naturopathic medicine-and so her characters are often found swallowing decoctions or slathering on herbal salves. Her narratives have appeared in local anthologies\, and she was awarded first place in the Savannah Authors 2017 Short Story Contest. Her first novel\, Silk: Caroline’s Story\, debuted Summer 2021 and garnered several accolades: awarded the IndieBRAG medallion\, finalist in the Shelf Unbound 2021 Best Indie Book Awards\, finalist in the category of historical fiction in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, finalist in the category of Family Saga in the 2021 American Fiction Awards\, and shortlisted for the 2021 Goethe Awards by Chanticleer International.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/lowcountry-rapunzel/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:Pulpwood Queens Bookclub for May: Goodbye Orchid by Carol van den Hende
DESCRIPTION:A wonderful pick this month from a wonderful author\, Goodbye Orchid has garnered international attention as a book club read. All are welcome and treats will be served at our book club shindig the fourth Thursday of May! \nWinner of the American Fiction Award and Pinnacle Achievement Award. Can love blossom after life changes in an instant? \nOne July morning in Manhattan\, handsome athlete and entrepreneur Phoenix Walker accompanies his love\, half-Asian beauty Orchid\, to the airport. Neither believes today is goodbye. \nBut after she leaves\, disaster strikes. Phoenix wakes in the hospital\, broken\, forever changed. He longs for Orchid but remembers the tragedy in her past that makes her panic over images of trauma. \nNow\, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean leaving her without explaining why? \nRising from ashes is hard. Giving up the one you love is harder. \nThose of you wishing to join in via Zoom can do so here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86113409135?pwd=TVNaUHFlRElsMGdOREVUbVdvME80Zz09\nMeeting ID: 861 1340 9135\nPasscode: 072714 \n“A tale of sacrifice and rebirth; heroism is in the details.” -SSGT Aaron Michael Grant\, author of TAKING BAGHDAD: Victory in Iraq With the US Marines \nIf you like heart-warming stories of resilience and magnanimous heroes\, then you’ll love this award-winning tale that’s inspired by combat-injured veterans. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars\, Goodbye\, Orchid asks… \n“What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?” \nOrder your copy of Goodbye\, Orchid and immerse yourself in this beautiful love story.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/pulpwood-queens-bookclub-for-may-goodbye-orchid-by-carol-van-den-hende/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: James Lee Burke Launches Every Cloak Rolled in Blood - VIRTUAL
DESCRIPTION:We’re uber-excited to co-host the exclusive virtual launch on May 24th for James Lee Burke’s new novel\,  Every Cloak Rolled in Blood. \nREGISTER HERE TO ATTEND FREE! \nJames Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author\, two-time winner of the Edgar Award\, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’ll be in conversation with Reader Meet Writer host and SIBA’s 2022 Southern Book Prize winner for fiction\, Wiley Cash. You can click on the book’s link above or on the images here\, OR call us at 843-875-5171 to order your copy for in-store pickup. We’ll also have signed book plates for this title if you order from us. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In his most autobiographical novel to date\, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws. \nNovelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community\, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman\, a far-from-holy minister\, a biker club posing as evangelicals\, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. \nAaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse\, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her\, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is\, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up\, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next. \nDrawn from James Lee Burke’s own life experiences\, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood is a devastating exploration of the nature of good and evil and a deeply moving story about the power of love and family. \nJames Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author\, two-time winner of the Edgar Award\, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula\, Montana. \nREGISTER HERE TO ATTEND FREE!!!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-james-lee-burke-launches-every-cloak-rolled-in-blood/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Bestseller Book Club in May Featuring The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting book club evening on the third Tuesday in May when we’ll be chatting about The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter and come back two days later to meet Lindy in person and get your book signed by the author! The club meets live and all are welcome – we’ll bring the treats\, you bring yourselves! The book is available at the 10% off book club discount\, too! \nThird Thursday will feature this very special book signing for The Rice Birds by Lindy Keane Carter\, which NYT bestselling authors are already calling brilliant! \n“Like the hunted rice birds of South Carolina’s Lowcountry\, two desperate women—an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved servant—flee antebellum Charleston in this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted odyssey to freedom. I loved it.” – Mary Alice Monroe\, New York Times bestselling author of 27 books\, including THE BEACH HOUSE series \n“In a poignant story of two runaway women who befriend each other in 1849 Charleston to survive\, The Rice Birds will steal your heart. The starving Irish immigrant and the enslaved house servant battle a common enemy while seeking to find their loved ones snatched from their arms. Lindy Carter’s transportive prose will carry you through this compelling and splendid story.” –Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times bestselling author \n“Lindy Keane Carter is a captivating writer of historical fiction and a powerful storyteller. The Rice Birds has tension on every page\, truth that shocks and exposes\, and characters we come to love. I am a big fan of Carter’s writing talent\, and her latest novel is a first-class winner!” – Leah Weiss\, bestselling author of If the Creek Don’t Rise and All the Little Hopes \nThe Rice Birds: In 1849\, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport. Only Nora is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her employer’s vast rice plantation\, an enslaved worker— Pearl—befriends her. After one of them commits a crime\, the girls flee to Charleston\, a dangerous place for runaways. Nora frantically seeks to get back to her sister\, while Pearl tries to find her mother before heading north. \nMeanwhile\, an old enemy’s illegal scheme is about to derail the girls’ plans. \nHistorically accurate\, this newly published work from Evening Post Books draws upon interviews with academics\, historians\, and educators\, as well as dissertations\, histories\, Gullah stories\, cookbooks\, and the diaries of Lowcountry rice planters. The Rice Birds takes the reader beyond the well-known narrative about Charleston’s history to reveal real events and lives that have seen little light in contemporary books. Some stories were so compelling\, they needed little embellishment before being woven into this tale. \nLindy Keane Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. After writing non-fiction for 30 years\, she signed up for a fiction-writing class at a community college in Maryland. Her short stories won awards in 2003 and 2009 in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Fiction Project contest. The Rice Birds is her third published novel. Lindy is the mother of two daughters and a son. Visit her at www.facebook.com/LindyCarterAuthor or www.LindyCarter.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestseller-book-club-in-may-featuring-the-rice-birds-by-lindy-carter/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Signing and Talk with Stacy Willingham: A Flicker in the Dark
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE FOR YOUR GUARANTEED SEAT!\nWe’re super excited to bring you a very special event with brilliant debut author Stacy Willingham\, author of the new thriller\, A Flicker in the Dark\, already a New York Times bestselling book! We’ll begin with an “in conversation” with the author\, followed by signing. Refreshments will be served! \nHBO Max is developing the adaptation of A Flicker in the Dark into a limited series\, to be available on their streaming network. Fruit Tree (run by Emma Stone and Dave McCary) and A24 are producing the series. \nThe book will ALSO be our June Thriller Book Club selection\, so grab your copy now and be ready for a great talk about this compelling psychological thriller! \nA New York Times Bestseller: \nWhen Chloe Davis was twelve\, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer\, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life\, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. \nNow twenty years later\, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve\, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing\, and then another\, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid\, seeing parallels from her past that aren’t actually there\, or for the second time in her life\, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? \n“A smart\, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” –Karin Slaughter \nFrom debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done\, lyrical thriller\, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.  \n\n\n\nStacy Willingham worked as a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies before deciding to write fiction full time. She earned her BA in Magazine Journalism from the University of Georgia and MFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art & Design. \nHer first novel\, A Flicker in the Dark\, was published on January 11\, 2022 by Minotaur Books and February 3\, 2022 by HarperCollins UK. She currently lives in Charleston\, South Carolina\, with her husband\, Britt\, and her Labradoodle\, Mako. \nREGISTER HERE FOR YOUR GUARANTEED SEAT
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-and-talk-with-stacy-willingham-a-flicker-in-the-dark/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club in May: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
DESCRIPTION:Join our Thrill in the ‘Ville thriller book club at Main Street Reads the second Tuesday in May and enjoy a free book club journal\, food\, drink\, and conversation about the fabulous debut thriller\, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner. \n“A twisty\, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times\, London) debut thriller\, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train\, about impending motherhood\, unreliable friendship\, and the high price of keeping secrets. \nIn this “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse that kept the twists coming until the very last moment” (Ruth Ware\, #1 New York Times bestselling author)\, Helen’s idyllic life–handsome architect husband\, gorgeous Victorian house\, and cherished baby on the way–begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class. \nThere\, she meets Rachel\, an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes\, drinks\, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still\, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest\, Helen’s a bit lonely herself. At least Rachel is fun to be with. She makes Helen laugh\, invites her confidences\, and distracts her from her fears. \nBut her increasingly erratic behavior is unsettling. And Helen’s not the only one who’s noticed. Her friends and family begin to suspect that her strange new friend may be linked to their shared history in unexpected ways. When Rachel threatens to expose a past crime that could destroy all of their lives\, it becomes clear that there are more than a few secrets laying beneath the broad-leaved trees and warm lamplight of Greenwich Park. \n\nAbout the Author\n\nKatherine Faulkner\, an award-winning journalist\, studied history at Cambridge. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor and was formerly the joint Head of News at The Times (London). She lives in London\, where she grew up\, with her husband and two daughters. Greenwich Park is her first novel.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-in-may-featuring-greenwich-park-by/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Meet Gregory Erich Phillips: A Season in Lights
DESCRIPTION:Join us Sunday for a special book signing with Seattle’s award-winning novelist\, Gregory Erich Phillips\, author of The Love of Unfinished Years\, The Exile\, and his newest hit\, A Season in Lights. \nPassion\, ambition and escape in the colorful artistic underworld off-Broadway. \nCammie\, a dancer in her 30s\, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. The early narrative follows the cast of the show\, with a backstage glimpse into the chaotic and colorful world of struggling performers. \nCammie’s lover\, Tom\, an older piano player\, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. \nThrough their triumphs and failures\, both learn the fleetness of glory\, the sweetness of new love\, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed. The bright lights of the stage intoxicate\, while degradation and despair lurk close behind the curtain. Their stories are marred by two viruses\, AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today\, both of which ravaged the performing arts community\, leaving a permanent scar on those who lived through them. \nCammie thinks she finally has her chance in a major show\, until COVID forces the unthinkable—Broadway being shut down. The physical\, financial and emotional toll this takes on the dancers and musicians of the story is laid bare. The effort it took to survive even the next day in New York City becomes a stark reality for many of the characters. “It took a lot of lucky breaks to make it here. This pandemic would undo a lot of lucky breaks for a lot of people.” \nAward-winning author Gregory Erich Phillips writes stories with strong characters whose lives\, with their many challenges and joys\, resonate with a wide audience. Raised in a literary family\, Gregory began writing at the age of fourteen. His debut novel\, Love of Finished Years\, won the grand prize in the Chanticleer Reviews International Writing Competition and was an Amazon bestseller in historical fiction. It was praised by Publishers Weekly\, which called it “beguiling.” His second novel The Exile won first place in mainstream fiction in the PNWA literary contest. A Season in Lights won the grand prize in the Chanticleer Reviews Somerset award for Contemporary and Literary Fiction and was named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2021 NYC Big Book Awards. The novel was also featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly (Aug. 30 2021). It was named the Best Book of the Year by Annie McDonnell of The Write Review. An accomplished tango dancer and musician\, Gregory has impressed audiences from the West Coast to New York City with his drama and grace on the dance floor. Gregory lives in Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/gregory-erich-phillips-season-lights/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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SUMMARY:Pulpwood Queens Bookclub: The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
DESCRIPTION:The wonderful book everyone’s talking about! Come join the discussion and enjoy free treats and a chance to ask the author your burning questions! \nThe club will be LIVE at Main Street Reads (refreshments provided) but anyone who’d prefer to join us remotely can access the evening’s festivities via Zoom w/these credentials:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85744865602?pwd=Tm0wQ3d0enU4QVgxTGJFc3JoRjZWUT09\nMeeting ID: 857 4486 5602  Passcode: 929698 \n\nWHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD\, WHISKY DRINKING\, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY\, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956\, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence\, Georgia\, a natural event with supernatural repercussions\, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell\, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence\, dark obsessions are stirred\, uncanny gifts provoked\, and secrets unearthed.\n\nDuring a visit to Mistletoe\, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family\, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa\, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty\, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine. A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise’s fascination with the Mayfields.Analeise’s burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly\, ordinary life\, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation\, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences-all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song.\n\n“Following in the magnificent footsteps of Carson McCullers and Harper Lee\, Robert Gwaltney creates a wonderful snapshot of the friendship that forms between Analeise and Etta Mae\, two eleven-year-old girls in ’50s small town Georgia… This is a book to love and remember\, and every book club in America would be wise to snap it up.”- Robert Goolrick\, #1 New York Times bestselling author\n\n\n“The gothic beauty of a relentless Georgia summer is brought to life through Gwaltney’s deliberate details and exquisite imagery\, while all the while evil lurks beneath the surface; from where or what the reader does not know but is as convinced by Gwaltney’s expert storytelling as he is.”-Zoe Fishman\, bestselling author of Invisible Air and Georgia Author of the Year 2020\n“Gwaltney’s Southern Gothic\, THE CICADA TREE mesmerizes and seduces\, the language redolent and deadly\, the characters steeped in secrets and madness\, and the whole of it an enthralling and perfect read. Easily my favorite book of the year.”-Kim Taylor Blakemore\, bestselling author of After Alice Fell
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-pulpwood-queens-bookclub-cicada/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Large Book Club: Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to have a chance to chat about this wonderful book Grounds-keeping by Lee Cole – join us live – refreshments will be served! \nA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK –  \nAn indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams–this is an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations (Ann Patchett\, best-selling author of The Dutch House). \nIn the run-up to the 2016 election\, Owen Callahan\, an aspiring writer\, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties\, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college\, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. \nHere he meets Alma Hazdic\, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks–a prestigious position\, an Ivy League education\, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship\, and as they grow closer\, Alma–who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants–struggles to understand Owen’s fraught relationship with family and home. \nExquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision\, restraint\, and depth of feeling\, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-groundskeeping-by-lee-cole/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: The Fields by Erin Young
DESCRIPTION:A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted\, Erin Young’s The Fields is a dynamite debut–crime fiction at its very finest. \nSome things don’t stay buried. \nIt starts with a body–a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield\, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. \nWhen Sergeant Riley Fisher\, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office\, arrives on the scene\, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend\, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind. \nThe investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in\, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town. \nJoin us for an engaging discussion – refreshments will be served!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-the-fields-erin-young/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing / Talk: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth
DESCRIPTION:We are honored to host this signing and book discussion around the brand new release from Charleston’s own Evening Post Books: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth. \nYou’ll get to meet Summerville’s own Herb Frazier as well as contributing authors from the project\, and we plan to engage in a substantive discussion… don’t miss this one\, folks. \nUkweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it. The personal accounts and insights from forty-five writers and poets will educate White Americans about the systematic racial bias employed to stymie African American progress. \nUkweli provides insight into the struggles Black people have faced as they’ve made substantial contributions to America\, and helped to define its soul. It shows a part of American history often overlooked or misunderstood. Inspired by a poetry\, lecture\, and dialogue series of the same name organized by poet Horace Mungin in 2020 at Charleston’s McLeod Plantation\, Evening Post Books released Ukweli in February 2022. \nFollowing the signing from 3-4\, we’ll have an open discussion (refreshments served). This is a limited seating event – the link to register is https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-talk-ukweli-searching-for-healing-truth-tickets-312465762507 \nHerb Frazier is special projects editor at the Charleston City Paper\, a weekly newspaper in his hometown. He’s an author and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston. He has edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South. When he was on the staff of The Post and Courier in Charleston he was named the S.C. Press Association’s 1990 Journalist of the Year. He is a former Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has led journalism workshops in Africa and South America for a federal agency and a Washington\, D.C.-based journalism foundation. He is a member of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-and-talk-ukweli-searching-for-healing-truth/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Meet Jack Russell and Fox World
DESCRIPTION: “I hope that everyone who cares about the future of planet Earth will fight to save places like Fox World’s forest and its inhabitants.” – Dr. Jane Goodall\n\nJoin us for a very special book signing with Jack Russell\, the author of the entertaining and insightful Fox World.\n\nBased on true events\, Fox World takes the reader under the canopy of an urban forest on the outskirts of Washington\, D.C. for a year-long walk with a weary sales executive and his muse\, a wild red fox.  Aged\, ill and injured\, both fox and man seek healing in their journey\, not only for themselves\, but for the ecologically stressed forest that is under siege by those set to exploit it.\n\nThey are joined on their five-hundred-mile walkabout by the fox’s forest friends – owl\, buck deer\, hawk\, blue heron\, and raccoon\, and each animal’s story illustrates why this small forest is so soothing and majestic in its allure.  Starting in brutally cold winter\, followed by the hottest\, wettest summer on record\, fox and man face daunting life challenges in their walks\, from a heart attack and arrhythmia which end the executive’s career to a coyote attack and serious illnesses faced by the elderly fox.\nAnd through these debilitating and traumatic events\, the two unite and bond for survival\, and the fox’s wild perspective teaches his human friend unforgettable lessons about healing\, coping\, serenity\, wonderment\, mindfulness\, and the simplest things (e.g.\, the sun setting atop the great oaks\, an owl serenade under moonbeams\, a shared cup of bison bone broth on an icy day).\nDrawn in by the fox’s courage and the plight of his forest as tree canopy destruction looms\, the man decides to take a stand and help the fox and his animal friends.\n\nRichly graced with gorgeous nature photos and infused with insights that can only be imparted by those who have come to genuinely appreciate life\, Fox World is an exhilarating walk in the woods that you’ll never forget.\n\n\n“As a wildlife rehabilitator who works hands-on with red foxes every day\, this book took my breath away. The author truly grasps the essence and magic of these beautiful\, spiritual animals and he artfully employs a fox\, Mr. Fox\, as a co-narrator to describe the hardscrabble challenges of a fox in the wild. Fox World is a bookshelf staple for fox lovers and –for those who have been graced only once with seeing a distant fox walking the wood’s edge\, and desire more– Fox World will transport you there.” – Elise Able\, Founder\, Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue\, foxwoodwildliferescue.org\n\nJack Russell is a first-time author\, not counting dozens of hundred-page PowerPoints written in Corporate World. Jack wrote Fox World after suffering sudden cardiac arrest and undergoing several heart procedures to save his life.  Afterwards\, he sought the calm refuge of a nearby forest in which to walk and relax\, and there\, he reunited with an aging red fox that he had helped as a pup.  Fox World is based on true events and was a real-time composition as Jack wrote the 85\,000-word book on his smartphone as he and his co-narrator\, Mr. Fox\, walked daily. He lives in Lake Frederick\, Virginia with his wife\, Susan\, and their Jack Russell terriers.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-meet-jack-russell-and-fox-world/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Stop Buying Bins by Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson - Spring Cleaning INSPIRATION!
DESCRIPTION:Join the Zoom call FREE! \nReady to revisit resolutions and ramp up spring cleaning? We have the PERFECT virtual event – an interactive online hour with Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson\, author of Stop Buying Bins: & other blunt but practical advice from a home organizer \nBring your burning organizational questions and let’s “get ‘er done” this year! \n\nDecluttering our homes can be difficult.\nLetting go of things can be challenging.\nLiving with less seems impossible.\n\nHere’s the Zoom link info to attend: \nVirtual Event: Stop Buying Bins by Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson – Spring Cleaning INSPIRATION!\nTime: Mar 27\, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81470927045?pwd=OFgwNVhHbkZRQXYvREFpSlpCMkVMZz09\nMeeting ID: 814 7092 7045 Passcode: 550563 \nWith wit and tough love\, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we’ve tackled those questions\, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter? \nTold through individual client stories\, Stop Buying Bins reveals the personality traits that create resistance to letting go\, flips the switch on assigning value to objects\, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to decide what goes and what to do with it. \nStop Buying Bins will have you coming to terms with some hard truths about your stuff as you realize you’ll enjoy what you have more if you have less. \nBonnie Borromeo Tomlinson\, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, has held positions as a senior national media buyer\, museum store manager/buyer\, and giftware/home decor account manager\, in addition to being principal of Bonnie Lia Interiors\, a home organizing and interior decorating firm.  \nHer varied work experience has given her a unique perspective in the home organizing arena—the belief that “lifestyle must take precedence over precision.” \nBorn and raised in New Jersey and having resided in the Maryland suburbs of Washington\, DC\, for the last 22 years\, Bonnie recently moved back to Amherst along with her daughter\, a first-year college student\, and her yellow lab.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/virtual-event-stop-buying-bins-by-bonnie-borromeo-tomlinson-spring-cleaning-inspiration/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: What's Burning on the Inside with Lakosha Wade
DESCRIPTION:Join us Sunday\, March 27th from 2 – 4 pm to meet local author Lakosha Wade and engage in discussion of her 21 day guided journal and devotional\, What’s Burning on the Inside. \nMany people burn candles and incense in their homes\, businesses\, and other places. Sometimes the candles are for beauty\, aromatherapy\, or just to create a good mood. I’m sure many people have lit candles for all of these reasons and more\, but there is another reason to light candles that most people don’t know about. There is a hidden spiritual meaning behind lighting candles that will help you grow closer to God. \nWhat is inside the candle is what makes it fragrant. The more fragrant it is\, the more value it has. What if we have God inside of us? Then\, won’t He give off a sweet smell that attracts others to us? \nSaid Lakosha\, “When God is inside of us\, and we burn with his love and light\, we become the sweet fragrance that draws other people to Him. We can’t just expect God to give us this life without doing anything for it ourselves. We need to “burn” with his desire and passion for people and attract them to our lives through Christ’s light within us.” \nLakosha Wade is a first-time author\, born and raised in the small town of Estill SC. She is a wife and mother of two. Professionally she works as a nurse with hospice. She is passionate to serve others through her relationship with God; During her free time\, she enjoys reading\, playing games\, and shopping.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-whats-burning-on-the-inside-with-lakosha-wade/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Charleston Tea Party by John R. Young
DESCRIPTION:A parliamentary duty on a common grocery item? The destruction of three shiploads of tea in one of the colonies’ largest ports? By the way\, what happened to the cargo of tea shipped to Charleston? \nWhat were the circumstances that brought colonial America’s favorite non-alcoholic beverage center stage in a face-off between the mother country and her obstreperous children? And how did the citizenry of Charleston react to this latest taxation-without-representation enactment? All these questions as well as many as-yet-unasked ones will be answered within the pages of The Charleston Tea Party. \nMeet the author and get a signed copy at Main Street Reads!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-the-charleston-tea-party-by-john-r-young/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Large Bookclub: The Violin Conspiracy
DESCRIPTION:This month’s Living Large Bookclub will take place on the 4th Tuesday of the month and feature a chat around the new incredible debut novel\, The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. Grab it from Main Street Reads or our online shop HERE... \nGrowing up Black in rural North Carolina\, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. If he’s lucky\, he’ll get a job at the hospital cafeteria. If he’s extra lucky\, he’ll earn more than minimum wage. But Ray has a gift and a dream–he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist\, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother\, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. \nWhen he discovers that his great-great-grandfather’s beat-up old fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius\, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach. Together\, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition–the Olympics of classical music–the violin is stolen\, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Ray will have to piece together the clues to recover his treasured Strad … before it’s too late. \nWith the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray’s great-great-grandfather asserting that the instrument is rightfully theirs\, and with his family staking their own claim\, Ray doesn’t know who he can trust–or whether he will ever see his beloved violin again.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/december-living-large-bookclub-cloud-cuckoo-land/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220219T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: One Acorn's Journey - the Legend of the Angel Oak with Rhonda Edwards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a booksigning with Rhonda S. Edwards\, author of One Acorn’s Journey: The Legend of the Angel Oak as well as The Secret of Atalaya: a Carolina Cousin’s Mystery. Both copies will be available to be signed and personalized by the author! \nRhonda S. Edwards earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the College of Charleston\, Charleston South Carolina; received national board certification as a middle childhood generalist; and completed a master’s degree in English from a join program with The College of Charleston and the Citadel. Edwards teaches fourth-grade GAE in North Charleston. She and her husband live in the South Carolina low country.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-one-acorns-journey-the-legend-of-the-angel-oak-with-rhonda-edwards/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220212T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220212T123000
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Live Booksigning with Julie Packett - Battling Bots!
DESCRIPTION:Julie Packett is back with the second in her series: The Chronicles of Ms. Clarke’s Class. This time it’s Battling Bots so you can add to your collection that should already include Science Night\, or you can grab ’em both at Main Street Reads\, in paperback OR hardcover! \nWe look so forward to having Julie back at the store – help us give her a Summerville warm welcome! \n \n 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-the-author-live-booksigning-with-julie-packett-battling-bots/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reading
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