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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us through Main Street Reads for the special virtual event on May 5th and get your pre-orders in now! Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com to get your link and password. Want to read a FREE sample chapter? CLICK HERE \nBefore She Was Helen\nFrom the international bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney comes Before She Was Helen\, an absorbing mystery that brings decades-old secrets to life and explores what happens when the lie you’ve been living falls apart and you’re forced to confront the truth. \nHer life didn’t turn out the way she expected—so she made herself a new one… \nWhen Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom\, he isn’t there. But something else is. Something stunning\, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet\, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture? \nAnd although what Clemmie finds is a work of art\, what the police find is a body. . . in a place where Clemmie wasn’t supposed to be\, and where she left her fingerprints. Suddenly\, the bland\, quiet life Clemmie has built for herself in her sleepy South Carolina retirement community comes crashing down as her dark past surges into the present. \nCaroline B. Cooney is the author of more than 90 suspense\, mystery\, and romance novels for teenagers\, which have sold over 15\,000\,000 copies and are published in several languages. The Face on the Milk Carton has sold over 3\,000\,000 copies and was made into a television movie. Her books have won many state library awards and are on many booklists\, such as the New York Public Library’s annual teen picks. Caroline grew up in Old Greenwich\, Connecticut\, and spent most of her life on the shoreline of that state but is now in South Carolina near her family. She has three children and four grandchildren. She was a church organist for many years\, accompanied the choirs at her children’s schools\, and now plays keyboard for musicals. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Lincoln Conspiracy with Brad Meltzer! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join Us to Talk About The Lincoln Conspiracy! In 2019\, #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer\, with Josh Mensch\, wrote THE FIRST CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington\, a national bestseller that was widely praised by critics\, historians\, and two U.S. Presidents for its meticulous research and propulsive narrative. Meltzer and Mensch return to uncover another fascinating episode previously lost to history in THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It Failed (Flatiron Books; May 5\, 2020). \nIn our current climate of uncertainty and fear\, the book is a reminder of the capacity for American greatness in the form of one of its most lauded and inspirational heroes\, Abraham Lincoln. “THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY is a story few people know\, one that’s set in a time of deep political division in America\,” Meltzer says. “It shows us what good leaders can do in times of strife – perfectly on point for where our country is today.” \nWritten in the same page-turning style as Meltzer’s other bestsellers\, THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY offers a fascinating new look at one of the most important figures in American history. \nThe story opens in 1861 on a train traveling from Philadelphia to Washington DC in the dark of night\, days before Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration. Having just won the presidency by a slim margin\, Lincoln is headed to the White House deeply hated by the slaveholding Southern states\, who began to secede only weeks after he was elected. Now a group of pro-slavery\, white supremacist conspirators want to go further than delegitimizing Lincoln’s presidency. They want him dead. \nThe assassins don’t know it\, but someone is on to them. America’s most famous private detective\, Allan Pinkerton\, just discovered their plot and is trying to defeat it. He’s assembled a team that includes the first known female detective in the U.S.\, Kate Warne. In the middle of the night\, Lincoln boards a train disguised as an invalid\, wearing a shawl and a low-brimmed hat. \nThe goal? Get to Washington\, D.C. undetected – and save the new President’s life. President Lincoln would go on to lead the United States during one of the most tumultuous times in its history. Thanks to Meltzer and Mensch\, we learn how dangerously close the killers came to changing everything. \nBarbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation Gala Writer’s Luncheon at the home of Terri and Jon Havens\nBrad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist and many other bestselling thrillers\, as well as the “Ordinary People Change the World” series. He is also the host of the History Channel TV shows Brad Meltzer’s Decoded and Brad Meltzer’s Lost History\, which he used to help find the missing 9/11 flag that the firefighters raised at Ground Zero. He lives in South Florida with his family. Josh Mensch is a New York Times bestselling author and documentary television producer with a focus on American history and culture. He is co-author with Brad Meltzer of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington. For television\, he has written\, directed\, and been a showrunner on nonfiction series for the History Channel\, PBS\, National Geographic\, and many other networks. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York with his wife and children. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Kaitlin B. Curtice Discusses NATIVE  (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 7th at 3 p.m.for a fascinating talk with Kaitlin B. Curtice about Native: Identity\, Belonging\, and Rediscovering God (Publisher: Brazos Press | May 5\, 2020 | 9781587434310) DON’T FORGET: You must email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your confirming link and password! \nNative is about identity\, soul-searching\, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian\, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics. In this book\, she shows how reconnecting with her Potawatomi identity both informs and challenges her faith. \nCurtice draws on her personal journey\, poetry\, imagery\, and stories of the Potawatomi people to address themes at the forefront of today’s discussions of faith and culture in a positive and constructive way. She encourages us to embrace our own origins and to share and listen to each other’s stories so we can build a more inclusive and diverse future. Each of our stories matters for the church to be truly whole. As Curtice shares what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her Indigenous heritage\, she reveals that a vibrant spirituality has its origins in identity\, belonging\, and a sense of place. \nKaitlin B. Curtice is a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation as well as a Christian\, public speaker\, and poet. She travels around the country speaking on faith and justice within the church as it relates to Indigenous peoples and has been a featured speaker at Why Christian\, Evolving Faith\, Wild Goose Festival\, The Festival of Faith & Writing\, The Revolutionary Love Conference\, and more. Curtice is a monthly columnist for Sojourners\, has contributed to On Being and Religion News Service\, and has been featured on CBS and in USA Today and the New Yorker for her work on having difficult conversations within the church about colonization. She is the author of Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places and writes on her blog at www.kaitlincurtice.com. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: A Good Marriage with Kimberly McCreight (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a chat with Kimberly McCreight\, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia\, when she’ll be talking to us about her new novel\, A Good Marriage. (Harper | 9780062367686 | May 5\, 2020). Remember to email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com to reserve your spot; we’ll send you the confirming link and password on the morning of the event! \nBig Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia\, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together. \nLizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane\, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently\, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant\, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then\, suddenly\, it all fell apart. \nNo. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden\, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes. \nThe last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help—even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife\, Amanda\, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach’s the primary suspect. \nAs Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope\, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren’t what they seemed—and that their friends\, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school\, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end\, she’s left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved\, but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place. \nKimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia\, which was nominated for the Edgar\, Anthony\, and Alex Awards; Where They Found Her; and The Outliers young adult trilogy. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Carter Sickels Discusses The Prettiest Star (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Wednesday\, 3 p.m. to meet Carter Sickels\, author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, VCCA\, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications\, including Guernica\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and BuzzFeed. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University\, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. \nThe Prettiest Star Publisher: Hub City Press | May 19\, 2020 | 9781938235627\nSmall-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die. \nSet in 1986\, a year after Rock Hudson’s death brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America\, Lambda Literary award-winning author Carter Sickels’s second novel shines light on an overlooked part of the epidemic\, those men who returned to the rural communities and families who’d rejected them. \nSix short years after Brian Jackson moved to New York City in search of freedom and acceptance\, AIDS has claimed his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. \nThe Prettiest Star is told in a chorus of voices: Brian’s mother Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister\, Jess\, as she grapples with her brother’s mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer. \nCarter Sickels’s stunning novel is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, of sex and shame. Above all\, The Prettiest Star explores the bounds of family and redemption. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, centering on the moments where those two forces stretch toward each other and sometimes touch. \n\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!\n \n\n+ Google Calendar
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Yaffa S. Santos with A Taste of Sage (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom on Thursday\, May 21st at 3 p.m. when Yaffa S. Santos will discuss her acclaimed new novel\, A Taste of Sage. \nA Taste of Sage Harper Paperbacks | May 19\, 2020 | To read a free preview chapter\, CLICK HERE!\nFrom talented new writer\, Yaffa S. Santos\, comes A Taste of Sage\, an unforgettable\, heartwarming\, and hilarious rom-com about chefs\, love\, and self-discovery that is the perfect cross between The Hating Game and Sweetbitter. \nLumi Santana is a passionate chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Inspired by a mix of Dominican cuisines\, Lumi opens Caraluna\, a nontraditional fusion restaurant in Inwood\, NY\, only to succumb to financial struggles shortly after. Julien Dax\, a celebrated chef known for his acid tongue and brilliant smile\, is dedicated to the faultless preparation of classic French cuisine\, offering no room for personal flair at his successful\, midtown Manhattan restaurant\, DAX. \nWhen both restauranteurs meet at a catering gig\, Lumi is struck by Julien’s ravishing looks while Julien is excited by her firecracker tongue. Lumi is quickly turned off by Julien’s critiques of her passion-filled dishes but feels she is left with no other choice but to take a position as a sous chef at his staid\, traditional French restaurant when the opportunity presents itself. \nIrritated by his smug attitude\, Lumi silently vows to never taste Julien’s cooking. However\, as time passes\, Lumi finds herself yearning for the mouthwatering dishes created by Julien’s strong hands\, each dish more tempting than the last. The overwhelming aromas and gorgeous presentations entice Lumi to sneak a bite\, but she isn’t prepared for the feelings that will follow\, complicating her love life and her professional plans. \nYaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. A solo trip to Dominican Republic in her teenage years changed her relationship to her Dominican heritage and sparked a passion for cooking and its singular ability to bring people together. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, where she studied writing and visual art. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA). She has lived in New York\, Philadelphia\, Santo Domingo\, and now lives in Florida with her family. \n\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-yaffa-s-santos-with-a-taste-of-sage-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, May 26th at 5 p.m. for a special talk with Genevieve Hudson\, author of the newly released Boys of Alabama. \nO\, The Oprah Magazine • “31 LGBTQ Books That’ll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020” | Lit Hub • “Most Anticipated Books by LGBTQ Authors For the First Half of 2020”\n“A gripping\, uncanny\, and queer exploration of being a boy in America\, told with detail that dazzles and disturbs.” ―Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \nIn this bewitching debut novel\, a sensitive teen\, newly arrived in Alabama\, falls in love\, questions his faith\, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past\, shy Max thrives in the thick heat. Taken in by the football team\, he learns how to catch a spiraling ball\, how to point a gun\, and how to hide his innermost secrets. \nMax already expects some of the raucous behavior of his new\, American friends―like their insatiable hunger for the fried and cheesy\, and their locker room talk about girls. But he doesn’t expect the comradery―or how quickly he would be welcomed into their world of basement beer drinking. In his new canvas pants and thickening muscles\, Max feels like he’s “playing dress-up.” That is until he meets Pan\, the school “witch\,” in Physics class: “Pan in his all black. Pan with his goth choker and the gel that made his hair go straight up.” Suddenly\, Max feels seen\, and the pair embarks on a consuming relationship: Max tells Pan about his supernatural powers\, and Pan tells Max about the snake poison initiations of the local church. The boys\, however\, aren’t sure whose past is darker\, and what is more frightening―their true selves\, or staying true in Alabama. \nWriting in verdant and visceral prose that builds to a shocking conclusion\, Genevieve Hudson “brilliantly reinvents the Southern Gothic\, mapping queer love in a land where God\, guns\, and football are king” (Leni Zumas\, author of Red Clocks ). Boys of Alabama becomes a nuanced portrait of masculinity\, religion\, immigration\, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity. \nGenevieve Hudson is the author of the novel Boys of Alabama: a novel (2020)\, which O\, the Oprah Magazine\, Ms Magazine and Lit Hub selected as a recommended book to read in 2020. Other books include the critical memoir A Little in Love with Everyone (2018)\, and Pretend We Live Here: Stories ( 2018)\, which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist and named a Best Book of 2018 by Entropy. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Pale by Edward Farmer (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 27th at 3 p.m. for an engaging discussion with Edward Farmer\, author of the new novel\, Pale. Farmer is a native of Memphis\, Tennessee\, where he journaled and cultivated stories his entire childhood. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in English and psychology\, and recipient of the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award for creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Pasadena\, California. \nPALE: The summer of 1966 burned hot across America\, but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position\, a black woman accepts her brother’s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family where she enters a web of hostility and deception. With a dazzling new voice of emotional tension\, Pale explores how quickly humanity can fade and return us to our primal ways. \n\n\n\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!\n \n\n\n\n\n\n+ Google Calendar
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 28th at 7 p.m. for a special evening with Lisa Wingate\, author of The Book of Lost Friends. SPECIAL LOST & FOUND EVENT! Join Lisa Wingate and special guest Diane Plauche\, of the Historic New Orleans Collection\, in conversation with author Kristy Woodson Harvey about a fascinating and little-known facet of American life. \nLouisiana\, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction\, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia\, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane\, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie\, Lavinia’s former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas\, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane\, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation\, but for Hannie\, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery’s end\, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly limitless frontiers of Texas and\, improbably\, hope. \nLouisiana\, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva\, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in Augustine\, Louisiana. The tiny\, out-of-step Mississippi River town seems suspicious of new ideas and new people\, and Benny can hardly comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and rundown plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women\, a long-ago journey\, and a hidden book that could change everything. \nLisa Wingate is a former journalist\, an inspirational speaker\, and the author of numerous novels\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours\, which has sold more than 2.2 million copies. The co-author\, with Judy Christie\, of the nonfiction book\, Before and After\, Wingate is a two-time ACFW Carol Award winner\, a Christy Award nominee\, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist\, and a Southern Book Prize winner. She lives with her husband in North Texas. \nDiane Plauche is a volunteer with the Historic New Orleans Collection museum. In 2015\, she began assisting the museum in creating a database of historical Lost Friends advertisements\, through which formerly enslaved people desperately tried to find their lost families in the decades following emancipation. After reading Lisa Wingate’s 2017 novel\, Before We Were Yours\, Diane wrote to Lisa about the Lost Friends ads\, saying\, “There is a story in each one of the ads.” To date\, Diane has entered over 2500 unique ads\, and tens of thousands of names in the museum’s database\, preserving the histories of thousands of families. Diane’s work\, and the stories of the real-life Lost Friends inspired Lisa’s newest novel\, The Book Of Lost Friends. \nKristy Woodson Harvey is the bestselling author and the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Her novel Lies and Other Acts of Love was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. Her work has been optioned for film and her books have received numerous accolades. Read more about Kristy \n\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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