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SUMMARY:Pulpwood Queens Book Club at Main Street Reads
DESCRIPTION:The PQ bookclub meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. On September 24th we’re discussing Dragonfly by Leila Meacham!\n \nJoin us live in the store at 6:30 OR via Zoom. ALL ARE WELCOME!  \n\nAt the height of WWII\, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS\, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds–a Texan athlete with German roots\, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman\, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman\, an orphaned fashion designer\, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer from Princeton — all answer the call of duty\, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately\, in a group code-named DRAGONFLY. \nSoon after their training\, they are dropped behind enemy lines and take up their false identities\, isolated from one another except for a secret drop-box\, but in close contact with the powerful Nazi elite who have Paris under siege. \nThus begins a dramatic and riveting cat-and-mouse game\, as the young Americans seek to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But…is everything as it seems\, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft? \n\nThe book is available at the book club discount price at Main Street Reads! Prefer to order the book online? Use our easy link! https://bookshop.org/shop/mainstreetreads \nLeila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio\, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses\, Somerset and Tumbleweeds.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/pulpwood-queens-book-club-at-main-street-reads/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:“Wine and Words” Author Carol Van Den Hende in Conversation with Main Street Reads (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:So here’s an uber-cool event! Author and friend of Main Street Reads’ Carol Van Den Hende’s new book releases on October 1st and as an early winner of the American Fiction award\, Goodbye Orchid is already predicted to be a bestseller. So\, on Wednesday\, September 9th we’re going to pour a glass of wine and toast this important work LIVE on Zoom (simulcast on Facebook Live) with Carol\, in conversation with fellow author and screenwriter Meredith Stack\, whose current project is Cannes Film Fest bound! Scroll down for login link and password… \n\n\n\nRising from ashes is hard. Giving up the one you love is harder.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThirty-two-year-old Phoenix Walker is an entrepreneur who has built an agency with a heart almost as big as his own. To add to his good fortune\, he’s falling for Orchid Paige\, the beautiful half-Asian marketer who’s collaborated with him on a winning military campaign. They’ve grown close after months working and traveling together. She’s even divulged the trauma in her past that makes her panic over images of injured vets. He’s trying not to cross their professional boundary. Their relationship is at a precipice. Until an accident changes him forever. \nNow\, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life: Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean leaving her without explaining why? \nFor fans of ME BEFORE YOU and THE FAULT IN OUR STARS\, GOODBYE\, ORCHID asks…what choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart? \nCarol Van Den Hende is an author and American Fiction Award winner who pens stories of resilience and hope. She’s also a speaker\, strategist\, and serves on nonprofit boards. One secret to her good fortune? Her humorous husband\, fun-loving twins\, and rescue cat\, who prove that love really does conquer all. NOTE: This debut novel by Carol Van Den Hende is inspired by and researched with combat-wounded veterans. A portion of the earnings benefits military personnel and other non-profits. \nHere are the Zoom link and password details:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81155277763?pwd=ME9SR3hudzdCQ29zM241MFdHVHJXUT09\nMeeting ID: 811 5527 7763\nPasscode: 518149 \nBring the wine\, we’ll bring the party!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/wine-and-words-author-carol-van-den-hende-in-conversation-with-meredith-stack-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration,Reader Meet Writer,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200820T190000
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SUMMARY:Meet Grandparenting Experts and Authors at a Virtual 3rd Thursday Special Event!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Third Thursday event virtually\, with California authors and grandparenting/mindfulness experts Pam Siegel to talk about how we can\, as parents and especially grandparents\, support the kiddos during this back-to-school time. \nWhether attending live or virtual classes\, whether you’re able to get together with family in person or online\, Pam and Leslie offer up useful tips on how to get and keep connected! \nTheir book\, Grandparenting: Renew\, Relive\, Rejoice\, is available from Main Street Reads or our bookshop warehouse. It’s a super colorful\, easy to navigate book filled with 52 ways to mindfully connect and grow with your grandchildren. \nLearn more at their insightful website and bring your questions to the meeting – link details below! \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85613056099?pwd=eU1kS25NdWZjM0xpREk0RW82eVdTZz09\nMeeting ID: 856 1305 6099\nPasscode: 202020 \nPam Siegel\n\nPam Siegel MPH\, MFT is a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice in West Los Angeles. She has a master’s in health education from UCLA and an additional master’s in counseling from California State University\, Northridge. She is a certified mindfulness therapist and implements meditation and other mindfulness tools to help her clients with a variety of issues. For over twelve years\, Pam has led a weekly mindfulness support group. She is actively involved in the mindfulness and yoga community and has her own daily practice and website\, www.pamsiegel.com. \nLeslie Zinberg\n\nLeslie Zinberg has a BS in elementary education from the University of Texas at Austin\, and has co-written two successful parenting books\, The Pink and Blue Baby Pages\, written in 1995\, and The Pink and Blue Toddler Pages\, written in 1999. Both books were featured in national publicity campaigns\, with appearances on the Today Show\, QVC\, and local television and radio segments across the country. Leslie is the cofounder of the grandparent website\, www.grandparentslink.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-grandparenting-experts-and-authors-at-a-virtual-3rd-thursday-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Reading,Third Thursday,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY Story Time at Main Street Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us every WEDNESDAY morning at 9:30 a.m. for “Stories on the Square\, our outdoor storytime adventures with reading by Colleen Rackleff – kids of all ages welcome! Treats served and student discounts to ALL attendees! \n \nColleen’s Story Time at Main Street Reads has become one of our featured events and we’re so excited to be back\, doing the events outside to ensure proper social distancing. We have lots of chairs for younger listeners and plenty of juice boxes and fruit snacks to munch while they listen. \n 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/wednesday-story-time-at-main-street-reads/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading,Story Time
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200716T200000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Virtual Book Talk for All the Songs We Sing
DESCRIPTION:North Carolina is home to a dazzling array of African-American writers who have been meeting and working for more than twenty-five years in service to their craft. Together\, they form the Carolina African-American Writers’ Collective\, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with the book we’ll be talking about on Thursday\, July 16th at 7 p.m.! \nAll the Songs We Sing is an anthology of works by members of the collective\, edited by its founder and world-renowned poet\, Lenard D. Moore. \nNorth Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green introduces the anthology\, which includes works by Lenard D. Moore\, Bridgette A. Lacy\, Crystal Simone Smith\, Evie Shockley\, Camille T. Dungy\, Carole Boston Weatherford\, and many others. Individually\, these poems\, stories\, and essays have helped these Carolinians voice their experiences. They remind us of our history\, insist on change\, and gathered together\, their chorus amplifies and demands to be heard. These writers have shaped the modern literary landscape of the Carolinas for the last twenty-five years and will continue to influence and inspire African-American writers for generations to come. \nJoining in the discussion will be:\nLenard D. Moore\, internationally-acclaimed poet\, anthologist\, and professor\, is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective. His works\, including The Geography of Jazz\, A Temple Looming\, Desert Storm: A Brief History\, Forever Home\, The Open Eye and others\, have been published in more than fifteen countries. \nJaki Shelton Green is the current Poet Laureate of North Carolina. She is the first African American and third woman to hold the honor. She was named an Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets. Her books include Breath of the Song\, singing a tree into dance\, Dead on Arrival\, Conjure Blues\, and I Want to Undie You.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-virtual-book-talk-for-all-the-songs-we-sing/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200709T190000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: NYT Bestselling Author Silas House! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us July 9th at 7 p.m. for a special chat with NYT bestselling author Silas House! You must email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com to confirm participation. PLUS: Those attending this virtual event will receive a book buck to redeem on any of Silas’ titles in the store. Be sure to call us to reserve yours\, or visit the links below to order from our online shop and visit us for your book buck! \nSilas House is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels\, one book of creative nonfiction\, and three plays. His writing has appeared frequently in the New York Times and has been published in Time\, Newsday\, Garden & Gun\, the Oxford American\, and many other places. House is the winner of an E.B. White Award\, the Nautilus Award\, the Intellectual Freedom Prize from the National Council of Teachers of English\, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation\, and many other honors\, as well as being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He teaches at Berea College and in the Spalding University School of Writing. \nClay’s Quilt\nIn his New York Times best-selling novel Silas House introduced himself as an important voice for Appalachia and\, indeed\, for the entire rural South. In Clay’s Quilt\, now a touchstone for his many fans\, House takes us to Free Creek\, KY\, where a motherless young man forges his path to adulthood surrounded by ancient mountains and his blood relatives and adopted kin: his Aunt Easter tied to her faith and foreboding nature; his Uncle Paul\, the quilter; the wild girls Evangeline and Alma; and a fiddler whose music calls to Clay’s heart. As he struggles to stitch up the void created by his mother’s death\, Clay pieces together his own life’s quilt\, all masterfully wrought by House.\nBlair brings this novel into a beautiful new paperback edition\, along with two other Silas House novels\, A Parchment of Leaves\, and The Coal Tattoo. The three novels\, which share a common setting and some characters are companion novels. They may be read individually\, in any order\, but collectively\, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century. \nA Parchment of Leaves \nIn this nationally best-selling novel\, A Parchment of Leaves\, Silas House produced an iconic story of 1900s rural mountain Kentucky that remains a favorite of his many fans.\nOn his way to find work in the Redbud Camp\, Saul Sullivan encounters a Cherokee girl who is said to possess a beauty that brings death to the men who see her. Saul\, however\, is irrevocably drawn to Vine the moment he lays eye on her and believes they are meant to be married\, over the objections of her mother and his. Despite her misgivings\, Saul’s mother\, Esme\, and his brother\, Aaron\, take to Vine from the moment she comes to God’s Creek. In fact\, Vine realizes from the start that Aaron’s interest in her is far more than brotherly. When Saul must leave Vine behind for a year of work\, troubling and violent events follow his departure\, and Vine’s spirit and her love are put to the ultimate test.\nThis novel was the winner of the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize. \nThe Coal Tattoo\nThe Coal Tattoo takes place in World War II-era rural Kentucky\, where twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth\, her teenaged sister\, lose their parents young and now must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music\, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart\, or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice of the sisters’ time and place\, Silas House brings readers a rich and moving story of coal country.\nThis novel was named the Appalachian Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-nyt-bestselling-author-silas-house-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: TJ Klune's The Extraordinaries! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 11th\, the last Reader Meet Writer Virtual Event before a two-week summer break for an engaging chat with TJ KLUNE\, a Lambda Literary Award-winning author. His novels include the Green Creek series\, The House on the Cerulean Sea and The Exraordinaries. Being queer himself\, TJ believes it’s important—now more than ever—to have accurate\, positive\, queer representation in stories. \nNOTE: You must email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com by 9 a.m. on the day of the event to receive the event link and password to attend.  \nThe Extraordinaries\nTor Teen | July 14\, 2020 | 9781250203656 \nSome people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune’s YA debut\, The Extraordinaries\, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves. Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower\, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star\, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush)\, Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he’ll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray\, Nick’s best friend (and maybe the love of his life). Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl meets Marissa Meyer’s Renegades in TJ Klune’s YA debut. \nThe House in the Cerulean Sea\nTor Books | March 17\, 2020 | 9781250217288 \nLinus Baker is a by-the-book caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe\, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. \nThe House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story\, masterfully told\, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours. \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-tj-klunes-the-extraordinaries-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Special Reader Meet MURDER Virtual Event: Meet Author Beverly Bell!
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL READER MEET MURDER EVENT!\nThe Murder of Marion Miley by Beverly Bell\nNOTE: You must email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com by 9 a.m. on the day of the event to receive the event link and password to attend. The event takes place at 3 pm EST\, June 9th \nAuthor Beverly Bell explains How Not to Get Away with Murder in the 1940s as she traces the path the killers took: how they got in\, how they got out and how they made their escape. \nToday\, the name Marion Miley is largely unrecognizable\, but in the fall of 1941\, she was an internationally renowned golf champion\, winning every leading women’s tournament except the elusive national title. This unassuming twenty-seven-year-old girl was beloved by all she met\, including celebrities like jazz crooner Bing Crosby. With ambitions to become a doctor\, it seemed Marion Miley was headed for greatness. \nBut on September 28\, six gunshots broke through the early morning stillness of the Lexington Country Club. Marion had been brutally murdered. News of her death spread quickly\, headlining major papers such as the New York Times. Support flooded in\, spurring police in the hunt for her killers. However\, the bombing of Pearl Harbor less than two months later would redirect public attention and sweep Marion’s story to a forgotten corner of time—until now. \nThe Murder of Marion Miley recounts the ensuing manhunt and trial\, exploring the impact of class\, family\, and opportunity in a world where steely determination is juxtaposed with callous murderous intent. As the narrative voice oscillates between Marion’s father\, her best friend\, and one of her killers\, an ever-present specter of what could have been—not just for Marion\, but for all those affected by her tragic death—is conjured. By blending intensive research with the true crime genre\, Beverly Bell succeeds in producing a passionate homage to one of the greatest golfers of the early twentieth century. \nBeverly Bell is an award-winning magazine and crime writer whose work has appeared in Arizona Highways\, Indianapolis Monthly\, Keeneland Magazine\, and Kentucky Monthly. Bell is also a featured consultant in Kentucky Education Television’s recent documentary Forgotten Fame: The Marion Miley Story. \n\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/special-reader-meet-murder-virtual-event-meet-author-beverly-bell/
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life by Ruby McConnell (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, June 2nd at 5 p.m to learn about Ruby McConnell’s newest book Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life\, released by Overcup Press in April 2020. McConnell is a registered geologist and outdoor adventurer who writes about nature\, art\, and culture with a particular emphasis on the intersection of the environment and human experience. \nA recipient of numerous honors\, including the Literary Arts Oregon Literary Fellowship\, McConnell has written extensively about the Pacific Northwest and the environment in scientific and literary journals. She is the author of two previous titles\, A Girl’s Guide to the Wild and A Woman’s Guide to the Wild\, and lives in Oregon with her husband\, Paul. \nGround Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life\nOvercup Press | May 5\, 2020 | 9781250256928 \nRuby McConnell morphs natural history and memoir to portray the forces and landscapes that have helped shape a region and the people who live in it. Challenging the notions of the region\, McConnell explores the Northwest and the decades-long struggle over resources since the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in May 1980. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-ground-truth-a-geological-survey-of-a-life-by-ruby-mcconnell-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T190000
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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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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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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
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-pale-by-edward-farmer-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author 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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-the-boys-of-alabama-by-genevieve-hudson-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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: 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: 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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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer Southern Series: Ruthie Lindsey's There I Am (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special event on April 22 at 5:00 p.m. \n“Ruthie is a gifted storyteller with the unique ability to make you feel her emotions as if they’re your own. Her book is somehow both bold and tender and utterly\, truthfully\, authentically her. She doesn’t hide from heartbreak or fail to experience the fullness of all the beauty life can hold.” —Rachel Hollis\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl\, Wash Your Face and Girl\, Stop Apologizing \nBrain on Fire meets Carry On\, Warrior. There I Am is an arresting inspirational memoir about one woman’s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy\, redemption\, and healing. \nAt seventeen years old\, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She’s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery\, Ruthie defies the odds\, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. \nJust a few years later\, newly married and living in Nashville\, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing\, imaging\, and treatment\, they prescribe narcotic painkillers—lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden\, dependent on painkillers\, and hopeless\, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery\, she could well become paralyzed\, but in many ways\, she already is. \nRuthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain\, dependent on prescription painkillers\, and leaves that way. She can still walk\, but has no idea where she’s going. As her life unravels\, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers\, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing—of coming home to her body. \nRaw and redemptive\, There I Am isn’t just about the magic of optimism\, but the work of it. Ruthie’s extraordinary memoir urges us to unlearn the stories of brokenness that we tell ourselves and embrace the wholeness\, joy\, and healing that lives inside all of us. \n“Ruthie Lindsey’s voice speaks directly to the heart. There I Am is a testament to the things that break us\, heal us\, and make us who we are.” —Glennon Doyle\, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising \n“This book is an incredible gift. One of the most moving life stories I’ve ever read. Or heard of. It has reframed how I see pain\, death\, and the whole experience of life. I immediately put it up there with the great memoirs\, The Glass Castle\, Wild\, and Educated.” —Jedidiah Jenkins\, New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self \n“Consistently readable and inspirational\, Lindsey keeps readers in suspense about whether she will be able to fully enjoy her life. At the end\, the author addresses readers directly and asks them to focus on healing what is broken in their own lives. Illness memoirs from noncelebrities often get lost in the stacks. This one deserves greater attention.” —Kirkus Reviews \nORDER HERE: There I Am: The Journey From Hopelessness to Healing
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-southern-series-ruthie-lindseys-there-i-am-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:The Coyotes of Carthage (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:We’re delivering authors to your living room! The next author in the Okra Pick series is Steven Wright.  He will be talking with us about his debut novel The Coyotes of Carthage and answering your questions. Steven is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room. \n“Steven Wright’s The Coyotes of Carthage is a novel steeped in atmosphere and laced with menace. It’s a political potboiler masking as a buddy drama\, a treatise on race and class packaged as a fish-out-of-water tale. Wright’s novel is what so few novels are: a page-turner with a conscience\, a burner of a read with something to say. If House of Cards and True Detective made a novel\, it would be Coyotes of Carthage. It’s a great novel and one hell of a debut.” – Wiley Cash\, 2020 Conroy Legacy Award Recipient \nHere are the details you need:\nDate: April 16\nTime: 5 PM EDT\nRSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com\nAttendance is limited. \nWhen you elect to attend\, we will email you on Thursday morning with the link to this virtual event and the password\, plus the link to purchase books if you so choose! Happy Reading! You can order The Coyotes of Carthage ONLINE or call us with your order – we can ship direct to you or bring it to you curbside. \nMeet Steven Wright\nSteven Wright is a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School\, where he codirects the Wisconsin Innocence Project. From 2007 to 2012 he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. He has written numerous essays about race\, criminal justice\, and election law for the New York Review of Books. \nThe Coyotes of Carthage: Ecco | April 14\, 2020 | 9780062951663\nRead a FREE Sample Chapter HERE\n“With this splendid debut\, Steven Wright announces his arrival as a major new voice in the world of political thrillers. I enjoyed it immensely.” —John Grisham \nA blistering and thrilling debut—a biting exploration of American politics\, set in a small South Carolina town\, about a political operative running a dark money campaign for his corporate clients \nDre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant\, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss\, Mrs. Fitz\, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250\,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the highest bidder. \nDre arrives in God-fearing\, flag-waving Carthage County\, with only Mrs. Fitz’s well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan as his team. Dre\, an African-American outsider\, can’t be the one to collect the signatures needed to get on the ballot. So he hires a blue-collar couple\, Tyler Lee and his pious wife\, Chalene\, to act as the initiative’s public face. \nUnder Dre’s cynical direction\, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined\, Dre’s increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the last remnants of his own humanity. \nA piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man’s unraveling\, The Coyotes of Carthage paints a disturbingly real portrait of the American experiment in action.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/steven-wright-the-coyotes-of-carthage-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Booksigning: Growing Up Gullah in the Lowcountry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Growing Up Gullah in the Lowcountry when author Josie Olsvig will be here to sign copies – a perfect time to launch this important book as we wrap up African American History Month! \nThis is a bright\, colorful and informative children’s book about the Gullah culture derived from West African slave descendants. It is a book that may be used to explain differing cultures and black history. The author acquaints the reader with heirs’ property\, the parcels of land many of the Gullah live on in the Lowcountry and surrounding Sea Islands acquired by freedmen after the Civil War. \nOther numerous aspects of the Gullah culture are introduced including sweetgrass basket making\, a time-honored tradition brought from West Africa\, herbal medicines\, Southern cooking which incorporates many plants and vegetables brought from Africa\, as well as the importance of faith and family. Certain points about the Civil War are discussed and the African American hero Robert Smalls is introduced. All of this is conveyed through the use of thirty colorful illustrations designed by a Lowcountry artist. \nA parent/teacher guide\, as well as discussion questions\, are included in the work. \nAbout Josie Olsvig \nFollowing more than thirty years in public service as an attorney and human rights advocate\, Josie retired and moved along with her husband to the Charleston\, South Carolina area. After experiencing a series of vivid dreams about an enslaved woman and her white master\, the author began to research the Gullah culture\, race-based slavery and the history of Charleston. Based on five years of research\, site visits and interviews with Gullahs\, the author penned this book for children and a soon to be released historical novel.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/booksigning-growing-up-gullah-in-the-lowcountry/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reading
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SUMMARY:Our Prince of Scribes Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:Calling all you writers! On November 23\, the Our Prince of Scribes Writers Conference will take place at the James Dean Theatre\, brought to you by a powerhouse team that includes the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the South Carolina Writers Association (SCWA)\, the Flowertown Players and of course\, Main Street Reads! \nJoin Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy contributing writers Margaret Evans\, Jonathan Haupt\, Jonathan Sanchez\, Alex Sanders\, Sean Scapellato\, and Lynn Seldon–along with special guests MacKenzie Collier and Cele Seldon–for a lively series of four writers workshops and a panel discussion at Summerville’s Flowertown Players Theatre on Saturday\, November 23. \nALL-DAY REGISTRATION (includes all 4 workshops and the panel discussion; lunch on your own): $50 for SCWA members and $70 for non-members. \nFor Readers:\nOUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES panel discussion only (does not include workshops): $10.00. \nREGISTER HERE!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/our-prince-of-scribes-writers-conference/
LOCATION:James Dean Theatre\, 133 S Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration,Reading,Writers Group
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SUMMARY:Booksigning and Discussion: The Dog Went Over the Mountain by Peter Zheutlin
DESCRIPTION:We’re super excited to host Peter Zheutlin\, author of the New York Times bestseller Rescue Road: One Man\, Thirty Thousand Dogs and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway this Saturday! Peter will be at Main Street Reads to discuss his eighth book release: THE DOG WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN: Travels with Albie: An American Journey  \n\n\n\nIn his latest book\, Peter embarks on a journey to take the measure of America with a loyal friend. On the cusp of turning sixty-five\, Peter and his beloved Albie\, a rescue dog of similar vintage\, take a poignant\, often bemusing\, and keenly observed journey across America and discover a big-hearted\, welcoming country filled with memorable characters. \n\n\n\nThey come away with a newfound appreciation for the life they temporarily left behind\, and a determination to live more fully in the moment as old age looms. \n\n\n\nInspired by John Steinbeck\, this 9\,000-mile odyssey allows Zheutlin to experience all that America is and means today\, and having Albie by his side opens up people and pockets of this country (and a few new smells). Similar in approach and tone to Bill Bryson’s bestselling travel classics\, but with an endearing canine sidekick\, The Dog Went Over the Mountain will delight dog lovers\, baby boomers\, and anyone who seeks to experience life on the open road with a four-legged companion. \n\n\n\n“Peter Zheutlin has written a lovely\, moving\, important book about a subject that is both heartbreaking and joyful. [Dogs] are one way God tests our compassion.”  —Dean Koontz\n\n\n\n“Heartwarming doesn’t suffice to describe it: this tale of stray\, unwanted\, and abandoned dogs\, and the people who devote their lives to saving them\, restores faith in humanity.” —Alexandra Horowitz\, New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog\n\n\n\n“Peter Zheutlin takes us on a dog lover’s ultimate road trip. A canine caravan with heart and soul.” —Teresa Rhyne\, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Dog Lived\, And So Will I\n\n\n\nBook Discussion Followed by Signing\n\n\n\nPeter will have a Power Point presentation at 11 a.m.\, followed by signing of his work. Seating is limited so we suggest you get here early! REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED! \n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Zheutlin\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Zheutlin is a freelance journalist and author whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Zheutlin has also written for The Los Angeles Times\, Parade Magazine\, AARP Magazine and numerous other publications in the U.S. and abroad. \n\n\n\nHe is the author of The New York Times best seller Rescue Road: One Man\, Thirty Thousand Dogs and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway (Sourcebooks\, 2015)\, Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride (Citadel Press\, 2007) and Rescued: What Second Chance Dogs Teach Us About Living with Purpose\, Loving with Abandon\, and Finding Joy in the Little Things (TarcherPerigee\, October\, 2017). His newest book is The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels with Albie\, An American Journey (Pegasus Books\, September\, 2019)\, inspired by a re-reading of John Steinbeck’s beloved classic\, Travels With Charley: In Search of America.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/1268/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reading
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SUMMARY:Booksigning: Meet Jewel Sweeney and The Fire Breathing Dragon!
DESCRIPTION:Local author Jewel Sweeney’s newest installment in the Bugaboo and the Ladybug series will be at Main Street Reads on Friday\, August 16\, just in time for our Back to School weekend celebration! \nHere’s Jewel’s full lineup of her popular children’s book series: \n\nUp\, Up\, & Away: Join Bugaboo & Ladybug as they take a trip in the bright blue skies. Watch them soar like the birds of the air. As the storm approaches\, will they be okay?\nOut of This World: Bugaboo & Ladybug have a long trip to take. They will join the space team to blast off to Planet Mormorfar! Join them as they meet out of this world friends.\nThe Fire Breathing Dragon: Oh no! The fire breathing dragon has awakened and is making his way through Buggleland. Knight Bugaboo must defeat the dragon to save Princess Ladybug.\n\nJewel is also the author of adult titles: A Time to Walk\, The Path Unseen\, Running 101 and Conditioning 201\, which will also be available for signing at her book event!\nRead more in this Summerville Journal Scene profile by arts columnist Mary Regan!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/booksigning-meet-jewel-sweeney-with-the-launch-of-the-fire-breathing-dragon/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Celebration,Reading,Story Time
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SUMMARY:Poetry Booksigning: Blunt Tongue with Courtney Bates
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, August 10th when author and poet Courtney Bates will be at Main Street Reads signing her new release\, Blunt Tongue! Refreshments will be served. \nBlunt Tongue is a collection of poetry by Courtney Bates. Experiences in death\, grief\, sex\, happiness\, and misadventures in coping are all explored in this provocatively open series of poems. Courtney is no stranger to the arts world as an Executive Director for a live theatre company (The Flowertown Players!)\, an actor\, director\, and singer – she has filled her life with artistic endeavors. \nWriting and publishing a book of poetry still seemed far from reach\, but as this 30-year-old knows: life doesn’t wait for you to jump on\, you have to be an active participant in it. Having lost her parents at a young age and being married and divorced\, Courtney has seen a lot\, yet you will find humor and compassion in her writing that speaks to us all. \nAccompanying Courtney’s 30+ poems is stunning photography by Mauricio Arias and Raheel Gauba of Chrisman Studios. The soft female form is confronted with hard elements as a testament to the heroine nature of women. Together\, the poems and photographs create a beautiful representation of the resilience and strength that all women possess. \nCourtney grew up in Charleston (James Island) with a passion for the arts at a young age\, playing violin\, singing\, and performing in theatre. She received her BA in Arts Management from the College of Charleston in 2012. She was the previous Executive Director for Threshold Repertory Theatre in downtown Charleston and has been the current Executive Director with The Flowertown Players for two years. Her writing started with songs and poetry inspired by artists like Alanis Morrisette and Ani Difranco and has matured as she has over the last 15 years. \nAside from being a newly published author\, Courtney is an actor\, director\, karaoke enthusiast\, and cat mom.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/poetry-booksigning-blunt-tongue-with-courtney-bates/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Reading
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SUMMARY:Prince of Scribes: Booksigning
DESCRIPTION:New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions\, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his 50-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy\, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on 20th- and 21st-century literary life in and well beyond the American South. \nFeatured writers for this discussion are co-editor Jonathan Haupt and novelists Stephanie Austin Edwards and John Warley. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices\, a vibrant\, multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man. Sales of Our Prince of Scribes support the educational mission of the nonprofit Conroy Center. \nPRAISE FOR OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES\n“A moving tribute to the legacy of one of the South’s brightest lights.”—Garden & Gun’s Talk of the South \n“Our Prince of Scribes isn’t just a collection of homages but also a delightful introduction to Conroy’s vast and talented circle of talented friends.”—Washington Post \n“More than 60 writers–from Pulitzer Prize winners to Conroy relatives to Barbra Streisand–fill Our Prince of Scribes with personal stories about [Pat Conroy’s] impact…. The result is a moving\, entertaining read as genuine as the icon himself.”—Charleston Magazine \n“In these essays\, you’ll meet a man who was troubled\, tormented\, angry\, scathing\, outrageous\, hilarious\, tender\, noble\, brave\, and generous beyond measure. But most of all\, you’ll meet a man who damn-well knew how to love. And thanks to the devoted efforts of co-editors Jonathan Haupt and Nicole Seitz\, and the work of 67 very fine writers\, his legion of fans will come to love Pat Conroy even more than they already do.”—Lowcountry Weekly \nABOUT THE FEATURED WRITERS\nStephanie Austin Edwards\, a former dancer and costumer\, is a novelist\, writing teacher\, and author consultant. Her twenty-two-year career in theater began in San Diego and moved her to New York City. She worked on Broadway and in film and on television with such talents as Liza Minnelli\, Michael Jackson\, Lauren Bacall\, Woody Allen\, Martin Scorsese\, Hal Prince\, Stephen Sondheim\, Bill Cosby\, and Michael Bennett. \nLater\, she returned to her roots in the South Carolina lowcountry where she now facilitates writers’ groups\, teaches writing workshops\, and volunteers at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Her debut novel\, What We Set in Motion\, won a Best Submission Award at the Atlanta Writer’s Club Conference. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the founding director of the annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival\, and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. With novelist and artist Nicole Seitz\, he is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, Haupt’s articles\, book reviews\, and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post & Courier\, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine\, Pink magazine\, Shrimp\, Collards & Grits magazine\, Fall Lines\, and the Conroy Center’s Porch Talk blog. He serves as an associate producer and consultant to the SCETV author interview program By the River\, on the board of directors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries\, on the American Writers Museum affiliates steering committee\, and on the South Carolina Humanities advisory committee. \nJohn Warley\, a native South Carolinian\, is a graduate of The Citadel and the University of Virginia School of Law. Now a full-time writer\, he divides his time between Beaufort\, South Carolina\, and San Miguel de Allende\, Mexico. Warley is the author of the novels Bethesda’s Child\, The Moralist\, The Moralist II\, A Southern Girl\, and The Home Guard. He is also the author of the nonfiction book Stand Forever\, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century and “The Citadel at War\,” a narrative history of the college etched into the granite walls of The Citadel War Memorial\, which opened to the public in October 2017. \nFeatured authors’ books will be on hand for signing!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/prince-of-scribes-booksigning/
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Celebration,Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading and Booksigning w/Jackie Morfesis Mermaid Crossing: Mythic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Our first ever poetry reading and signing at Main Street Reads will feature Jackie Morfesis and her newly released Mermaid Crossing: Mythic Poetry. \nFresh off a performance at Piccolo Spoleto\, Jackie Morfesis is an author\, artist\, and advocate. Mermaid Crossing speaks to her mythic journey through the eyes of a mermaid\, filled with love\, betrayal\, transformation\, and healing. Jackie is dedicated to the creative process as a vehicle for healing and community empowerment. \nMermaid Crossing is a deep dive into a mythic world filled with adventure\, love\, betrayal\, heartache\, transformation\, and healing\, one that explores the powerful intersection between dreams and reality\, and takes readers on a journey that speaks to their soul. \nJackie will be with us from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and will do a reading at 11\, followed by open discussion – don’t miss this very special event!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reading-and-booksigning-w-jackie-morfesis-mermaid-crossing-mythic-poetry/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Reading
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