BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Main Street Reads - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mainstreetreads.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Main Street Reads REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240910T190005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T190007Z UID:8923-1727980200-1727985600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:October Fab Fantasy Book Club: The Games Gods Play DESCRIPTION:Come join the discussion – wine and apps are free and as always our clubs are free and open to all\, PLUS the book club picks are offered at the 10% off book club discount. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrab now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last―featuring gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork\, as well as exclusive endpapers and special design features. This breathtaking collectible is only available on a limited first print run\, a must-have for any book lover while supplies last in the US and Canada only. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe gods love to play with us mere mortals. And every hundred years\, we let them… I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it\, thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves\, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won’t notice me. Not an easy feat\, given San Francisco is Zeus’ patron city\, but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god. \n\n\n\nThe worst god. Hades. For the first time ever\, the ruthless\, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible–the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles\, the gods name mortals to compete in their stead. \n\n\n\nSo why in the Underworld did Hades choose me–a sarcastic nobody with a curse on her shoulders–as his champion? And why does my heart trip every time he says I’m his? I don’t know if I’m a pawn\, bait\, or something else entirely to this dangerously tempting god. How can I\, when he has more secrets than stars in the sky? Because Hades is playing by his own rules…and Death will win at any cost. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-fab-fantasy-book-club-the-games-gods-play/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/OCTOBER-FAB-FANTASY.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240901T050410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T231917Z UID:8869-1727974800-1727982000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Launch: She Tames the Sea by E.M. Etheridge DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to have lowcountry author E.M. Etheridge here on Thursday evening\, October 3\, with the launch of her dark fantasy novel\, She Tames the Sea. We’re hosting this before Fab Fantasy book club begins so our fantasy readers can meet the author! \n\n\n\nMen fear a woman on the sea. They say women bring about bad luck and anger from the gods who rule the waters. Estella Bohem fears being aboard Captain Eric Price’s ship\, amongst the pirates who kidnapped her for her abilities. It was the Bohem family who used magic to tame the beast of the sea decades ago. They trapped it in an ancient spell to make the waters safe to travel\, but it was the vagabonds of the sea who wanted to free it\, tame it\, and use it for their own ambitions. \n\n\n\nAll her life Estella never had control of her future. But as the notoriously brutal Captain Edward Laggatt hunts her down for the key to the beast’s cage\, she has no choice but to trust the same men who stole her away from her socialite life in Charleston South Carolina. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe Tames The Sea is an adult dark fantasy novel that delves into the complications of familial relations\, magic and mythology. \n\n\n\nE.M. Etheridge was one of the original members of Main Street Writes. She has been writing since she was a teenager and dreaming since she was a child. \n\n\n\nThat love for the written word inspired her to get a masters in English and creative writing\, and write all of the books she wanted to read. Emily aims to tie lore\, magic\, and her knowledge of classic literature into all of her stories to create engaging and inspiring books for her readers so they can find their own wonder in this world. \n\n\n\nThis is her first published novel. Big congrats to one of our own! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fantasy-book-launch-she-tames-the-sea-by-e-m-etheridge/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Book Signing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/She-Tames-Signing.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240908T030058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240908T032959Z UID:8895-1727802000-1727809200@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: Diane C. McPhail with Follow the Stars Home DESCRIPTION:Over the moon excited to have Diane C. McPhail join us for a special signing of her gorgeous new release\, Follow the Stars Home\, (PLUS we’ll have copies of her other works\, including The Abolitionist’s Daughter and The Seamstress of New Orleans available for purchase and signing! \n\n\n\nFollow the Stars Home is captivating historical fiction\, with a gorgeous cover to boot. This acclaimed author brings to life Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt’s defiant journey of 1811 in this evocative biographical novel for fans of Paula McLain\, Gill Paul\, Allison Pataki. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s a journey that most would call impossible. Yet on October 20th\, 1811\, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt–daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol–fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow\, Lydia is fiercely independent. Against her father’s wishes\, she’s already married his much older business colleague\, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt–builder of the New Orleans. But the stakes for this trip are much higher. \n\n\n\nIf Nicholas’s untried steamboat reaches New Orleans\, it will serve as a profitable packet ship between that city and Natchez\, proving the power of steam as it travels up and down the Mississippi. Success in this venture would revolutionize travel and trade\, open the west to expansion\, and secure the Roosevelts’ future. \n\n\n\nCapable and adventurous\, Lydia believes herself ready for all the dangers ahead–growing unrest among native people\, disease\, and the turbulent Falls of the Ohio\, a sixty-foot drop long believed impassable in such a large boat. \n\n\n\nJust imagine being a woman of that era\, pregnant\, enduring violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississippi River and redefine America. To our delight\, and enlightenment\, the author has. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane C. McPhail is an artist\, minister\, and acclaimed author of Follow the Stars Home\, The Abolitionist’s Daughter\, and The Seamstress of New Orleans\, which was a finalist for the Thomas Wolf Fiction Award and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award. A graduate of Ole Miss\, Duke Writers\, University of Iowa Distance\, and the Yale Writers’ Conference\, she is a member of NC Writers Network and the Historical Novel Society. She was born in Jackson\, MS\, raised on the Mississippi Delta only miles from the river\, and now lives in Highlands\, North Carolina with her husband and dog URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-diane-c-mcphail-with-follow-the-stars-home/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Diane-McPhail-Follow-the-Stars-Home.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T150000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240825T053459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240825T053501Z UID:8838-1727614800-1727622000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: Lowcountry Lost by T.I. Lowe! DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to host author T.I. Lowe at Main Street Reads September 29th\, to celebrate the launch of her newest hit\, Lowcountry Lost. Treats will be on hand and you’ll have the chance to meet this popular author of two bestselling novels\, Indigo Isle and Under the Magnolias. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“T.I. Lowe delivers a soul-stirring\, unforgettable romance\, pairing a couple’s redemption story with the restoration of a deserted town.” BookPage\, starred review \n\n\n\n“…[A] heartfelt tale of loss\, healing\, and second chances . . . this story will also attract the HGTV crowd\, particularly fans of shows like Fixer Upper and Home Town.”Booklist \n\n\n\nSometimes what haunts you most is wondering what could have been. \n\n\n\nAvalee Elvis prides herself with being able to fix just about anything. . . except her past. Unable to put the puzzle of her life together\, she pours heart and soul into making neglected places whole again. As the owner of Lowcountry Lost\, Avalee spends her days in hot-pink Carhartt overalls and a tool belt reclaiming Lowcountry properties. Making them beautiful again releases the deep sigh that soothes the hurt she holds. \n\n\n\nAvalee’s latest project takes her to tiny Somewhere\, South Carolina\, a long-abandoned town. She ignores its ghostly folklore but can’t miss the shock of hearing the familiar Irish brogue that materializes on the job site—the voice of the man she never wanted to see again. \n\n\n\nRowan Murray is a structural engineer hired by investors to oversee the redevelopment of the quaint downtown Avalee is bringing back to life. Once upon a time\, he was also the man who knew Avalee better than anyone else—or so he thought. Six years ago\, neither of them was prepared for the tragedy they would face together or what would happen in its wake. But as they work together to complete the rehabbing of Somewhere\, their broken pieces and the pain that nearly consumed them begin to lose its grip\, and both begin to wonder if it’s not too late for a restoration of their own. \n\n\n\nFrom the author of the breakout Southern fiction bestseller Under the Magnolias comes a story of loss and abandonment\, forgiveness\, and the beauty of undying love. \n\n\n\n\nContemporary Southern romance with a second chance romance trope\n\n\n\nSpecial features include: discussion questions for book clubs\, recipes\, and a playlist inspired by Avalee and Rowan’s love story\n\n\n\nContains themes of loss and restoration\n\n\n\nFor fans of HGTV shows like Fixer Upper\, Home Town\, and Good Bones\n\n\n\n\nT. I. Lowe is an ordinary country girl who loves to tell extraordinary stories.She is the author of twenty novels\, including the bestselling Indigo Isle; the 1 international bestseller and critically acclaimed Under the Magnolias; and her debut breakout\, Lulu’s Café. She lives with her husband and family incoastal South Carolina. Find her at tilowe.com or on Facebook (T.I.Lowe)\,Instagram (tilowe)\, and Twitter (@TiLowe). URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-lowcountry-lost-by-t-i-lowe/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/LOWCOUNTRY-LOST-signing.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240825T044257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240901T051858Z UID:8831-1727202600-1727208000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-09-01-at-1.17.41 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240831T220619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240901T162555Z UID:8852-1726597800-1726603200@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Kiss-and-Tell.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240818T050106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T231345Z UID:8805-1726507800-1726511400@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/kids-club.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240825T040255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240825T040256Z UID:8827-1725993000-1725998400@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sep-Thriller.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240825T034859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240825T035153Z UID:8822-1725561000-1725566400@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sep-Fab-Fantasy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240721T072827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240825T061353Z UID:8756-1724783400-1724788800@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LIVING-LARGE.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240825T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240825T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240803T230843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T182656Z UID:8776-1724603400-1724610600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Not What She Seems: Book Launch Signing & Reception with Yasmin Angoe! DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, August 25th\, we have a very special signing and reception when the incomparable Yasmin Angoe returns to Main Street Reads with her fourth novel\, Not What She Seems. This is a departure from her popular “Knight” series\, a twisty\, standalone suspense novel that takes place right in South Carolina. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re giving you a heads-up on this event because tickets ARE ON SALE NOW. Your ticket includeS the hardcover book ($27.95 so LESS than the book cover price)\, the signing and a meet-and-greet reception with Yasmin! \n\n\n\nHer Knight series books will also be on sale that day for registered guests. \n\n\n\nORDER NOW! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/yasmin-angoe/ CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Yasmin-at-MSR.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240819T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240819T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240618T034044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240618T034045Z UID:8690-1724088600-1724092200@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/escape-to-river-sea-book-club.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240804T072800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240804T072802Z UID:8781-1723903200-1723914000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Bookstore Romance Day: Meet Laurie Devore and Marissa Eller! DESCRIPTION:August 17th is National Bookstore Romance Day and we have TWO very special authors with brand new books joining us from 2-5 p.m. \n\n\n\nPLUS – grab one or both these books and get a “Blind Date with a Book” FREE! We’ll also have treats all day long and some special romance sales. \n\n\n\nScreenshot\n\n\n\nHere’s more info on these wonderful reads – we’ll see you on Main Street! \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 beach read; get it personalized by Laurie in August! \n\n\n\nMarissa Eller’s Joined at the Joints\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarissa’s book is Joined at the Joints and it’s a delightful read for young readers as well as those of us with a few more books under our belts. When baking-obsessed Ivy meets a boy who shares her rare diagnosis\, sparks fly outside of the kitchen for the first time in her life. \n\n\n\nChronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed inside baking all summer. Pies are better than people\, and they don’t trigger her social anxiety. So when her mom and sister\, who also suffer from chronic illness\, cook up their plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group\, Ivy doesn’t expect to participate much. \n\n\n\nAnd she doesn’t expect Grant. Grant is class-clown cute\, perfectly-messy-hair cute\, will-always-text-you-back cute. There’s an instant connection between them. And he has the same chronic illness as her\, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He can empathize with Ivy’s world. \n\n\n\nMarissa Eller\n\n\n\nBut understanding her pain isn’t the same as taking it away\, as much as she wishes he could because it’s getting worse. Ivy has always tried her best to seem “normal\,” but between symptom management\, new treatment plans\, and struggling with medical self-advocacy\, being sick feels more and more difficult. Even her bestie starts drifting away and Ivy begins to wonder\, what if Grant does\, too? \n\n\n\nMarissa Eller serves up a sweet\, satisfying romcom that tackles the reality of chronic illness–and coming-of-age milestones from friend breakups to first kisses—with humor and heart. Readers will fall for Eller’s voice in this sweet debut that offers all the right ingredients. It’s a recipe for a delicious read! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bookstore-romance-day-meet-laurie-devore-and-marissa-eller/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/BRD-at-MSR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240813T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240813T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240721T071722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240721T071723Z UID:8752-1723573800-1723579200@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/THRILLER.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240721T065901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240721T070121Z UID:8747-1722537000-1722542400@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/FANTASY.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240607T055057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T055058Z UID:8670-1722364200-1722369600@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Living-Large-July-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240716T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240716T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240607T051901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T053658Z UID:8660-1721154600-1721160000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Thriller-July-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240715T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240715T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240428T041218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T180513Z UID:8538-1721064600-1721068200@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Young-Readers-7-15.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240607T050005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T053421Z UID:8656-1720722600-1720728000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Fab-Fantasy-July-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240512T034242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T034243Z UID:8579-1719340200-1719345600@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/june-bestsellers.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T113000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240525T003000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240602T020510Z UID:8614-1719050400-1719055800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Shipwrecked: Signing on the Square! DESCRIPTION:PRE-ORDER NOW FOR SIGNED PICKUP AT THE STORE AND SAVE!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re thrilled to collaborate with the Timrod Library once again for the exciting launch of the third book in the Islanders trilogy by NYT bestselling authors Angela May and Mary Alice Monroe! \n\n\n\nThe signing will take place Saturday\, June 22 at 10 a.m. on Hutchinson Square\, right across from Main Street Reads\, with a portion of proceeds benefitting our local Timrod Literary and Library Association! \n\n\n\nAuthor Angela May will be on hand to talk about the book and answer reader questions\, and we’ll have books pre-signed by both authors (Miss Angela will be happy to personalize any for you as well!). \n\n\n\nAngela May\n\n\n\nAngela is the founder of May Media and PR and a former award-winning television news journalist who helps promote great books and share important community stories as a media specialist. She has been working with famed author Mary Alice Monroe for more than a decade. The Islanders series is their first collaborative writing venture! Angela’s husband is a middle school assistant principal. They have two children and live in Mount Pleasant\, South Carolina. Connect with her at AngelaMayBooks.com. \n\n\n\nIntroducing…Shipwrecked!\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 Angela May and Mary Alice Monroe! \n\n\n\n\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? \n\n\n\nFeatured in Book Club!\n\n\n\nOn Monday\, July 15th\, we’ll discuss Shipwrecked in our Young Readers Book Club. 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! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/shipwrecked-signing-on-the-square/ CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Shipwrecked_and-series_The-Islanders-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240428T035104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240601T152525Z UID:8534-1718645400-1718649000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Young-Readers-6-17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240512T032719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T032720Z UID:8575-1718130600-1718136000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/June-thriller.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240429T165035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T165108Z UID:8554-1717698600-1717704000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fab-fantasy-june.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240405T212723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T212724Z UID:8419-1716921000-1716926400@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/May-Bestseller-Bookclub-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240428T034023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T180813Z UID:8527-1716226200-1716229800@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Young-Readers-5-20.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240405T204420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T204435Z UID:8414-1715711400-1715716800@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MAY-2024-THRILLER-CLUB.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240407T121843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T065142Z UID:8423-1715104800-1715112000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Launch Party: When Cicadas Cry with Caroline Cleveland DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting a very special launch party for When Cicadas Cry by Caroline Cleveland\, and you’re invited! Your ticket includes the book\, in-store treats during our author Meet & Greet\, AND 10% off your check at Frothy Beard next door that evening. Make a night of it\, bring your friends and enjoy some books and brew! (Store receipt required for the 10% off at Frothy Beard.) \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE – SAME AS BOOK PRICE – JUST $18.99\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney\, Zach Stander\, a lawyer with a past\, and Addie Stone\, his indomitable detective and lover\, find themselves entangled in secrets\, lies\, and murder in a small Southern town. \n\n\n\nA high-profile murder case–A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro\, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins\, a Black man\, is found covered in blood\, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension\, this is not only a murder case\, but a powder keg. A haunting cold case–Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach\, an hour southeast of Walterboro\, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander’s case? A killer who’s watching–Stander takes on Jenkins’s defense\, but he’s up against a formidable solicitor with powerful allies. Worse\, his client is hiding a bombshell secret. When Addie Stone reopens the cold case\, she discovers more long-buried secrets in this small town. Would someone kill again to keep them? \n\n\n\nIdeal for fans of mystery\, suspense\, and thrillers in the vein of Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls and Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark\, as well as for readers who followed the high-profile Murdaugh murder trial\, held in the same small town as in When Cicadas Cry. \n\n\n\nGET YOUR TIX HERE – JUST $18.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline Cleveland credits growing up in the rural South and its quieter way of life for her lifelong passion for books and storytelling. As an adolescent\, she devoured classics like Old Yeller and The Yearling\, discovered Agatha Christie and Steven King in her teenage years\, and\, later\, was mesmerized reading thrillers by authors including John Grisham\, Michael Connelly\, Karin Slaughter and Mary Kubica. \n\n\n\nHer dedication to the written word led her to law school at the University of South Carolina\, where she earned her degree in 1991. She is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in labor and employment law and is the founding partner of Cleveland & Conley\, LLC. \n\n\n\nCaroline draws on her rich and varied life experience working in the law for her writing. She elaborates\, “Law school students are warned the first day that the law is a jealous mistress\, and there is a reason for that. But I have always made time to read for pleasure. Eventually\, it dawned on me that I\, too\, have entertaining and powerful stories to tell. As a writer\, I gravitate toward mystery and suspense\, as I cannot resist a character who has a dark secret or is wrestling with inner demons. I have lived in the South all my life\, so my stories inevitably come from a Southern perspective\, featuring deceptively peaceful small towns and strong\, complex characters who rely on their Southern sense of values.” URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/launch-party-when-cicadas-cry-with-caroline-cleveland/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/When-Cicadas-Cry-Launch-Party.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240412T145733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T045131Z UID:8434-1714917600-1714924800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Final Victory by Roger Jones DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host Roger Jones\, author of the brand new hit\, The Final Victory\, in-store on Sunday afternoon\, May 5th! Read on for more on this incredible release and its inspiring author: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a novel that fuses the riveting action of The Boys in the Boat with the emotional heft of The Fault in Our Stars\, twenty cancer patients compete in a grueling race only to discover that real victory is achieved within. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter he is diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer\, Tripp Avery feels like all is lost. He finds himself coaching a team of twelve men and eight women with cancer diagnoses of their own\, hoping to qualify for the Mixed Masters Dragon Boat national championship and defy their prognoses. If they win\, they will represent the United States at the International Dragon Boat races in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nBut things soon get complicated\, as four of his teammates struggle against their physical limitations and the psychological weight of their conditions. In the summer heat of Chattanooga\, their resolve grows thin–along with Tripp’s patience. After a devastating loss to the defending national champions\, Tripp can only see the finish line\, and he pushes the team even harder. Soon\, the team starts to fall apart. \n\n\n\nAs members of the team collapse under the pressure and one is hospitalized\, Tripp must confront his failings and find a way to move forward. He begins to question his motives\, wondering if the win is worth the trauma and what that says about him. Despite the odds\, he resolves to rally the team toward a comeback that seems impossible\, if only for one final victory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoger Jones\, businessman\, philanthropist\, humanitarian and avid athlete has founded numerous business and community organizations. In 1996\, he started Companion Associates\, Inc.\, one of South Carolina’s largest privately held real estate development firms. He has helped establish and launch non-profit organizations including Reading Partners of South Carolina\, Charleston Social Venture Partners\, and The Charleston Paddle Club. \n\n\n\nDuring a 2012 trip to East Germany to receive a newly developed intensive radiation treatment for Neuroendocrine Cancer\, Roger decided to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. The Final Victory is his first novel. Married for forty-seven years\, Roger is the proud father of three children and grandfather of three grandchildren. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-the-final-victory-by-roger-jones/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ROGER-JONES-FINAL-VICTORY.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T071149 CREATED:20240405T194140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T195325Z UID:8409-1714674600-1714680000@mainstreetreads.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fab-Fantasy-May-2024.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR