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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Outlawed with Anna North + Girlhood with Melissa Febos (Postponed)
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: The publisher for the Anna North/Melissa Febos event next week just notified us that they have to reschedule for early 2021… We’re keeping the event up in the system pending rescheduling but this event will NOT take place on September 8th. We apologize for the inconvenience. \nJoin us for two great book discussions on Tuesday\, September 8th\, 3-4 p.m. Don’t forget to email mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your event link and password! \n \nOUTLAWED\nBloomsbury | January 26\, 2021 | 9781635575422 \nThe Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl\, a mysterious gang of robbers\, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. \nIn the year of our Lord 1894\, I became an outlaw. \nThe day of her wedding\, 17-year-old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband\, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother\, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy\, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches\, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. \nShe joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang\, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic\, grandiose\, and mercurial\, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality\, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she’s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. \nFeaturing an irresistibly no-nonsense\, courageous\, and determined heroine\, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing\, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death\, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear. \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\, America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016. She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\, BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. \nGIRLHOOD\nBloomsbury | March 30\, 2021 | 9781635572520 \nFor readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison\, a poignant\, universal story of the forces that shape girls and of a world where women are rarely free to define themselves. \nIn her dazzling new book\, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be a girl and the realities of growing up female in a world that prioritizes the feelings\, perceptions\, and power of men at girls’ expense. \nFebos was eleven when her body began to change\, and almost overnight\, the way people spoke to\, looked at\, and treated her changed with it. As she grew\, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. But in her thirties\, Febos began to question the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety\, happiness\, or freedom\, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. \nBlending investigative reporting\, memoir\, and scholarship\, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger\, hurt\, and grief women have long been taught to deny. \nFierce and breathtaking\, written with Febos’ characteristic lyricism and searing insights\, Girlhood is an anthem for women\, a powerful exploration of the forces that seek to confine them\, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood on a lifelong journey of discovery. \nMelissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. Her essays have appeared in Tin House\, The Believer\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. Febos is the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary and serves on the directorial board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-outlawed-with-anna-north-girlhood-with-melissa-febos-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Everything Sad is Untrue with Daniel Nayeri (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, September 3rd from 7-8 pm for an exciting discussion about EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE by Daniel Nayeri! \n\n“A modern epic.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review\n “A distinctive voice. A rare treasure of a book.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n “A story that soars. Readers will be transported.”—The Bulletin\, starred review\n\nAt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma\, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands\, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned\, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. \nBut Khosrou’s stories\, stretching back years\, and decades\, and centuries\, are beautiful\, and terrifying\, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them\, back to the sad\, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras\, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything\, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. \nWe bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past\, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh\, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. \nLike Scheherazade in a hostile classroom\, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). \nIt is Daniel’s. \nDaniel Nayeri is the publisher of Odd Dot\, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group\, where he oversees a team of designers\, editors\, and inventors creating joyful books for curious minds. Daniel was born in Iran and spent several years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers\, including Straw House\, Wood House\, Brick House Blow: Four Novellas and Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story). He is a former professional pastry chef\, and if he’s not writing or baking\, he’s likely playing board games\, or riding motorcycles. He lives with his family in New Jersey.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-everything-sad-is-untrue-with-daniel-nayeri-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Good Luck Stone with Heather Bell Adams
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, Aug 27th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for an entertaining discussion of Heather Bell Adams’ newly released novel\, The Good Luck Stone. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your confirmation link and password to attend. The book is available from us or click the link in the title to grab it from our Bookshop warehouse! \n\n\n\nHer desperate decision during World War II changed everything. Now\, 70 years later\, her secret is unraveling. \nAt ninety years old\, Audrey Thorpe still lives in a historic mansion on palm-tree-lined Victory Drive\, determined to retain her independence. But when her health begins to fade\, her family hires a part-time caregiver\, Laurel. The two women seem to bond-until Audrey disappears. Unbeknownst to Laurel\, Audrey has harbored a secret for 70 years\, since her time as a nurse in the South Pacific during World War II. \nAs the story moves between the verdant jungles of the war-torn Philippines and the glitter of modern-day Savannah\, Georgia\, friendships new and old are tested. Along the way\, Audrey grapples with one of life’s heart-wrenching truths: You can only outrun your secrets for so long. \nHeather Bell Adams is the author of the novels\, Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press 2017) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books 2020). Maranatha Road won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was named to Deep South Magazine‘s Fall/Winter Reading List. The Good Luck Stone\, which won the Grassic Short Novel Prize\, appears on Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List and Most Anticipated Small Press Novel Lists for The Big Other and BuzzFeed. \nHeather’s short fiction\, which has won the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award and James Still Fiction Prize\, appears in The Thomas Wolfe Review\, Atticus Review\, The Petigru Review\, Pisgah Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Broad River Review\, and other journals. \nHeather is originally from Hendersonville\, North Carolina and now lives in Raleigh where she works as a lawyer. A nationally-recognized scholar on the works of Ron Rash\, she also volunteers on the Raleigh Review fiction staff.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-the-good-luck-stone-with-heather-bell-adams/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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:Reader Meet Writer: Early Departures with Justin A. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 20th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for an enlightening discussion with Justin A. Reynolds about his novel\, Early Departures. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your link and password to attend\, and books can be ordered from us for pickup in store or click the title link above to grab from our Bookshop warehouse! \n\n\n\nJustin A. Reynolds\, author of Opposite of Always\, delivers another smart\, funny\, and powerful stand-alone YA contemporary novel\, with a speculative twist in which Jamal’s best friend is brought back to life after a freak accident…but they only have a short time together before he will die again. Jamal’s best friend\, Q\, doesn’t know he’s about to die…again. He also doesn’t know that Jamal tried to save his life\, rescuing him from drowning only to watch Q die later in the hospital. Even more complicated\, Jamal and Q haven’t been best friends in two years—not since Jamal’s parents died in a car accident\, leaving him and his sister to carry on without them. Grief swallowed Jamal whole\, and he blamed Q for causing the accident. \nBut what if Jamal could have a second chance? An impossible chance that would grant him the opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend? A new health-care technology allows Q to be reanimated—brought back to life like the old Q again. But there’s a catch: Q will only reanimate for a short time before he dies…forever. \nJamal is determined to make things right with Q\, but grief is hard to shake. And he can’t tell Q why he’s suddenly trying to be friends with him again. Because Q has no idea that he died\, and Q’s mom is not about to let anyone ruin the miracle by telling him. How can Jamal fix his friendship with Q if he can’t tell him the truth? \nJustin A. Reynolds has always wanted to be a writer. Opposite of Always\, his debut novel\, was an Indies Introduce selection and a School Library Journal Best Book\, has been translated into seventeen languages\, and is being developed for film with Paramount Players. He lives in northeast Ohio with his family. You can find him at www.justinareynolds.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-early-departures-with-justin-a-reynolds/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: How to Argue With a Racist w/ Adam Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, Aug 18th\, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for a candid chat with Adam Rutherford and his important work\, How to Argue with a Racist. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for the link and password to this event. Books can be ordered for pickup in store or click the link in the title above to grab from our warehouse bookshop!\n \n\n\n\nRacist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred\, feeding nationalism\, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on “science\,” because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically\, misconceptions are multiplying amid today’s unprecedented surge of research on human genetics. We’ve never had a clearer picture of who we are and where we come from\, and the science\, when accurately understood\, is a powerful and definitive ally against racism. But not nearly enough of these findings have made their way into the casual conversations we have about race. \nThis penetrating guide shows us how being a responsible and enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires us to know what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. Racial categories still vexing our societies do not align with observable genetic differences—and those differences are\, in fact\, so minute that they serve as evidence of our commonality. \nAdam Rutherford is a geneticist\, science writer\, and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London\, and during his PhD on the developing eye\, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian\, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC\, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science\, The Cell for BBC Four\, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of How to Argue With a Racist\, an incisive guide to what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference; The Book of Humans\, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the “human animal”; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation\, on the origin of life and synthetic biology\, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-how-to-argue-with-a-racist-w-adam-rutherford/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookstore Romance Day!
DESCRIPTION:Below is the Bookstore Romance Day 2020 Official Event Schedule for Saturday\, August 15th. Come join the fun online with some great events! NOTE: All times listed are EST \n\n9:00 am  Official opening/welcome with Ambassador Meg Cabot (On the Bookstore Romance Day YouTube channel)\n10:00 am Coffee Break with Mona Shroff (Then\, Now\, Always)\, Delores Fossen (Settling an Old Score) and Cara Bastone (Just a Heartbeat Away)\nNoon An exclusive video from author JR Ward (The Jackal) (On the Bookstore Romance Day YouTube channel)\n1:00 pm Lunch Date with Synithia Williams (Scandalous Secrets)\, Reese Ryan (A Reunion of Rivals)\, and Roan Parrish (Better Than People)\n2:00pm Avon Spotlight panel with Ambassador Meg Cabot (No Offense)\, Talia Hibbert (Take a Hint\, Dani Brown)\, and Alexis Daria (You Had Me at Hola). Moderated by Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly\n3:00pm Rom Coms for Readers from 13 to 113 with authors Sarah Morgenthaler (The Tourist Attraction)\, Annabeth Albert (Conventionally Yours)\, Suzanne Park (The Perfect Escape)\, Miranda Kenneally (Four Days of You and Me)\, K.L. Walther (If We Were Us)\, and Ann Marie Walker (Happy Singles Day)\n4:00pm Tea Time with authors RaeAnne Thayne (Summer at Lake Haven)\, Maisey Yates (The Hero of Hope Springs)\, and Melissa Senate (The Cowboy’s Comeback)\n6:00pm YA HEAs with authors Mason Deaver (I Wish You All the Best)\, Debbie Rigaud (Truly\, Madly\, Royally)\, Lucas Rocha (Where We Go From Here)\, and Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown)\n7:00pm Cocktail Hour with authors Audrey Carlin (What the Heart Wants)\, Jayci Lee (Secret Crush Seduction)\, and Elia Winters (Hairpin Curves)\n\nBONUS – Sunday\, August 16th\n7:00 pm (ET) Watch Party for The Princess Diaries\, with guest appearance by Meg Cabot
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bookstore-romance-day/
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SUMMARY:The Yellow House with Sarah M. Broom in Conversation with Imani Perry
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday August 13th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for a discussion about The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom! Make sure to email us for your confirming link and event password!\n\n\nTHE YELLOW HOUSE: Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction \nA brilliant\, haunting\, and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family\, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nWinner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction\, Sarah M. Broom has also published her work in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine\, among others. A native New Orleanian\, she earned her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley. She has been awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant\, and fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Harlem. \nImani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs\, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. She is the author of 6 books\, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry\, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography\, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship\, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also named a 2018 notable book by the New York Times\, and an a honor book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was a finalist for the African American Intellectual History Society Paul Murray Book Prize. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem\, winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies\, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction\, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction. Her most recent book is: Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Beacon Press\, 2019) which was a finalist for the 2020 Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/the-yellow-house-with-sarah-m-broom-in-conversation-with-imani-perry/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Rules for Being Dead w/ Kim Powers in Conversation w/ Louis Bayard
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday Aug 11th from 5:00 pm  – 6:00 pm for a conversation with author Kim Powers about the August 4th release of the Rules for Being Dead. Email or message us to get your confirming link and password to attend free\, and don’t forget to order a book from us for pickup in the store or at the link to the book on Bookshop\, our warehouse site!\n \n\n\n\nIt’s the late 1960s in McKinney\, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in\, movies—James Bond\, My Fair Lady\, Alfie\, and Doctor Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey\, Elvis\, his family\, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother. And no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell her either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McKinney\, trapped between life and death\, searching for a glimpse of her final moments on this earth. The shattering answer haunts Rules for Being Dead\, Kim Powers’ darkly humorous and incredibly moving novel. An unlikely love child of Mark Childress’ Crazy in Alabama and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones\, this book pays homage to the movies of the 1960s and vividly conjures the machinations of small-town Texas with a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected tenderness. Native Texan Kim Powers brings a steady hand to all proceedings\, including a ghostly mother\, an evil stepmother\, a clueless father\, and a full cast of misfits–all orchestrated within a lively plot which is anything but predictable. \nKim Powers is a two-time Emmy winner and author of the novels Dig Two Graves and Capote in Kansas\, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Book and Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Memoir of the Year. He also wrote the screenplay for the festival-favorite indie film Finding North and the new play Sidekicked\, a “one broad comedy” about Vivian Vance. Powers is the Senior Writer for ABC’s 20/20\, part of the team that has received an unprecedented three consecutive Edward R. Murrow Awards. A native Texan\, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 2007\, he was selected by Out Magazine for the influential “Out 100” list. He lives in Manhattan and Asbury Park\, NJ. \nIn the words of the New York Times\, Louis Bayard “reinvigorates historical fiction\,” rendering the past “as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.” His acclaimed historical novels include national bestseller Courting Mr. Lincoln\, Roosevelt’s Beast\, The School of Night\, The Black Tower\, The Pale Blue Eye and Mr. Timothy\, as well as the highly praised young-adult novel\, Lucky Strikes. A New York Times Notable author\, he has been nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards\, and his story\, “Banana Triangle Six\,” was chosen for The Best American Mystery Stories 2018. His reviews and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times and Salon. An instructor at George Washington University\, he is a board member for the PEN Faulkner Foundation and the author of the popular Downton Abbey recaps for the New York Times.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-rules-for-being-dead-w-kim-powers-in-conversation-w-louis-bayard/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Some Go Home - Odie Lindsey in Conversation with Chanelle Benz
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thu Aug 6th 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm for an enchanting conversation about Some Go Home by Odie Lindsey. Email us for your event link and the password\, delivered to you on the day of the event: \nSome Go Home is a searing debut novel following three generations fractured by murder in fictional Pitchlynn\, Mississippi that complicates notions of race\, class\, history\, and identity. \n\n\n\nColleen—an Iraq war veteran turned Mississippi homemaker—must reckon with a decades-old murder that has haunted her community\, her family\, and herself. When pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface\, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her. Her husband\, Derby\, is in turn preoccupied with the long-overdue retrial of his father\, Hare Hobbs\, for a Civil Rights-era murder. Central to Some Go Home is the town’s showpiece\, antebellum estate. More monument than manor\, it is both the scene of the murder and the proposed jewel of gentrified Pitchlynn. For Colleen and the others\, all of whom seek healing\, the estate comes to embody various paths to redemption—whether razed\, restored to a perceived greatness\, or stripped of all recognition. As the trial draws near\, questions of Hare’s guilt only magnify these tensions of class and race\, tied always to the land and who can call it their own. \nInformed by his work editing the Mississippi Encyclopedia\, Lindsey’s prose is insightful and wonderfully detailed\, steeped in the same cultural history the characters are forced to confront in the book. Part literary saga and part cultural provocation\, Some Go Home is a richly textured\, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy. \nOdie Lindsey is the author of We Come to Our Senses: Stories. He received an NEA-funded fellowship for veterans\, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University in Nashville\, Tennessee. \nChanelle Benz has published work inGuernica\, Granta.com\,The New York Times\,Electric Literature\,The American Reader\,Fence\, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collectionThe Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Deadwas published in 2017 by Ecco/HarperCollins. It was named a Best Book of 2017 byThe San Francisco Chronicleand one ofElectric Literature‘s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan Prize and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Story Prize. Her novelThe Gone Deadwas published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2019 and was aNew York Times Book ReviewEditor’s Choice and a Tonight Show Summer Reads Finalist. It was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It was also named a best new book of the summer byO\, The Oprah Magazine\,Time\,Southern Living\, andNylon. She lives in Memphis where she teaches at Rhodes College.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-some-go-home-odie-lindsey-in-conversation-with-chanelle-benz/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Lara Prescott and The Secrets We Kept
DESCRIPTION:Wrapping up July will be a special talk with Lara Prescott about the new hit release of The Secrets We Kept\, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick! \nLara Prescott Thursday\, JULY 30 / 7:00 PM\nLara Prescott received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas\, Austin. She was previously an animal protection advocate and a political campaign operative. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Hudson Review\, Crazyhorse\, Day One\, and Tin House Flash Fridays. She won the 2016 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for the first chapter of The Secrets We Kept. She lives in Austin\, Texas. \nThe Secrets We Kept\nPaperback: Vintage | June 30\, 2020 | 9780525566106 \nA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies\, of love and duty\, and of sacrifice–inspired by the real-life CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. \nAt the height of the Cold War\, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR\, where no one dare publish it\, and help Pasternak’s magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world–using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a novice and\, under Sally’s tutelage\, quickly learns how to blend in\, make drops\, and invisibly ferry classified documents. \nThe Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story–the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse\, Olga Ivinskaya\, who inspired Zhivago‘s heroine\, Lara–with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak’s country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag\, from Washington\, DC\, to Paris and Milan\, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature–told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the center of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-secrets-we-kept/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: SA Crosby's Blacktop Wasteland (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:S. A. Cosby Tuesday\, July 28 / 5:00 PM\nJoin us Tuesday for a fascinating virtual talk with Shawn A. Cosby from Southeastern Virginia\, now residing in Gloucester\, Virginia. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. His short story “The Grass Beneath My Feet” won the Anthony Award for best short story in 2019. He is also the author of My Darkest Prayer and Brotherhood of the Blade. His writing is influenced by his experience as a bouncer\, construction worker\, retail manager and for six hours a mascot for a major fast food chain inside the world’s hottest costume. When he isn’t crafting tales of murder and mayhem he assists the dedicated staff at J.K. Redmind Funeral home as a mortician’s assistant. He is an avid hiker and is also known as one hell of a chess player. \nBlacktop Wasteland\nFlatiron Books | July 14\, 2020 | 9781250252685 \n“The gritty\, brutal narrative is complemented by the author’s sublime use of sensory description and regional imagery. In addition\, the epic\, jaw-dropping chase sequences that figure prominently are reason alone to read this pedal-to-the-metal but profoundly sorrowful novel. Cosby is definitely a writer to watch.\n–Publishers Weekly \n“We’re in Elmore Leonard land… Bug’s got a conscience not typical of the thriller genre\, but other than that\, this novel recalls almost perfectly the classic heist thriller in the vein of Richard Stark’s “Parker” novels. It’ll go like hot cakes.”\n–Library Journal\, starred review \nCosby never misses a note in this high-energy read\, from Bug’s under-the-hood wizardry to the actual driving to the sensitive character building\, which gives depth to the entire cast\, including Bug’s hapless yet treacherous associates. A superb work of crime fiction\, uncompromisingly noir but deeply human\, too\, much like Lou Berney’s November Road.\n– ALA Booklist\, starred review \nBeauregard Montage knows how to fix any car—but that would be selling him short. He knows how to make an ordinary American car something that flies\, something that\, under his hands on the wheel\, can take its driver places. He came to that knowledge through heritage\, love and the lure of dangerous getaways. But he is in a town that has no call for those skills. \nHe’s got a repair shop that is floundering\, a wife and two sons\, a daughter from an earlier time\, and the car he inherited from his father\, a Plymouth Duster. Late at night\, when he races the car ten miles out from the fairgrounds in the back road illegal races\, he feels most like himself. He feels reconnected to the part of him that has no part in this other life he knows he needs to live for the people he loves. It’s always there though\, just below the surface\, that desire for one more getaway drive\, one more adrenaline-boosting race against the cops.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-sa-crosbys-blacktop-wasteland-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Jill McCorkle's Hieroglyphics (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jill McCorkle Thursday\, July 23 / 7:00 PM Reader Meet Writer\nJill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college\, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then\, she has published six novels and four collections of short stories\, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times\, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books\, and her most recent novel\, Life After Life\, was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for the New York Times Book Review\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Garden & Gun\, the Atlantic\, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard\, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University. \nHieroglyphics\nA mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations. Lil and Frank married young\, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly\, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Over time\, their marriage grew and strengthened\, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. \nNow\, after many years in Boston\, they’ve retired to North Carolina. There\, Lil\, determined to leave a history for their children\, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries— perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile\, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town\, where a young single mother\, Shelley\, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank’s repeated visits to Shelley’s house begin to trigger memories of her own family\, memories that she’d hoped to keep buried. Because\, after all\, not all parents are ones you wish to remember. \nHieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel\, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother\, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us\, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-jill-mccorkles-hieroglyphics-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer Virtual Event with Kristin Harmel!
DESCRIPTION:Remember to email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com to get your password and link to attend!\n\nKristin Harmel is the international bestselling author of a dozen novels including The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, The Room on Rue Amélie\, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. Her work has been featured in People\, Woman’s Day\, Men’s Health\, and Ladies’ Home Journal\, among many other media outlets. She lives in Orlando\, Florida. \nThe Book of Lost Names Gallery Books | July 21\, 2020 | 9781982131890\nEva Traube Abrams\, a librarian in Florida\, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II— an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. Highlighted is a religious text now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library. It appears to contain some sort of code\, though researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. But Eva does. \nA graduate student in 1942\, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father\, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town\, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price\, and\, along with an enigmatic forger named Rémy\, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed. \nSixty years later\, seeing the book in the New York Times photograph brings everything rushing back; it’s the book Eva believed had vanished forever\, the book that held so many secrets\, the book that might even hold the last message from Rémy. As the only one who knows what the code means\, she must find the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-virtual-event-with-kristin-harmel/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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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
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SUMMARY:Special Interactive Mixology Event: Which Fork Do I Use with my Bourbon?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this wonderful Reader Meet Writer interactive mixology event now on July 14th at 5 p.m. – HAPPY HOUR! \nDuring their travels in bourbon country and beyond to conduct tastings and seminars\, entertainment experts Peggy Noe Stevens and Susan Reigler often heard the question\, “How do I do this in my home?” This book is their definitive answer. Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon? offers a step-by-step guide to hosting a successful bourbon-tasting party—complete with recipes\, photos\, and tips for beginners and experienced aficionados alike. \nFrom decorations to glassware\, this one-stop resource will guide readers from the day they mail invitations to the moment they welcome guests through the door. Alongside their favorite snack\, entrée\, dessert\, and cocktail recipes\, Stevens and Reigler offer advice on how to set up a bar\, arrange tables\, and pair recipes. Once readers are ready\, Stevens and Reigler move on to advanced pairings for the bourbon foodie and present two innovative examples of tasting parties—a bourbon cocktail soiree and\, of course\, the traditional Kentucky Derby party. Inspired by the hosting traditions of five Kentucky distilleries\, this book promises to motivate bourbon lovers to start their own bourbon-tasting traditions and to expand the expertise of longtime bourbon enthusiasts. \nPeggy Noe Stevens is founder of the Bourbon Women Association and a master bourbon taster. A lifestyle expert\, she is also a professional speaker. As a Bourbon Hall of Fame inductee\, she has planned hundreds of events globally over the last thirty years\, often working with distilleries and master distillers. \nSusan Reigler is a former restaurant critic for the Louisville Courier-Journal and a current correspondent for Bourbon+ and American Whiskey magazines. She has also authored or coauthored six books on bourbon\, including Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide and The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/special-interactive-mixology-event-which-fork-do-i-use-with-my-bourbon/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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: Virtual Event with Marian Keyes and Grown Ups
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, July 7th at 3 p.m. for a Reader Meet Writer online chat with famed author Marian Keyes! She’s one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time. Though she had no intention of ever writing a novel (“It would take too long”) she sent her short stories to a publisher\, with a letter saying she’d started work on a novel. The publishers replied\, asking to see the novel\, and once her panic had subsided\, she began to write what subsequently became her first book Watermelon\, published in 1995. \nTo date\, the woman who said she’d never write a novel has published 13 of them. All have been bestsellers around the world\, with a total of over 30 million of her books sold to date in 33 languages. Anybody Out There won the British Book Awards award for popular fiction and the inaugural Melissa Nathan Prize for Comedy Romance. This Charming Man won the Irish Book Award for popular fiction. Marian’s latest book Grown Ups published in hardback and eBook in February 2020. As well as novels she has written short stories\, and articles for various magazines and other publications. \nKeyes was born in Limerick in 1963\, and brought up in Cavan\, Cork\, Galway and Dublin; she spent her twenties in London\, but is now living in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony. She includes among her hobbies reading\, movies\, shoes\, handbags and feminism. \nGrown Ups: Doubleday Canada | June 30\, 2020 | 9780385695886\n\nThey’re a glamorous family\, the Caseys. Johnny Casey\, his two brothers Ed and Liam\, their beautiful\, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together—birthday parties\, anniversary celebrations\, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife\, Jessie—who has the most money—insists on it. \nUnder the surface\, though\, conditions are murkier. While some people clash\, other people like each other far too much… \nStill\, everything manages to stay under control—that is\, until Ed’s wife\, Cara\, gets a concussion and can’t keep her thoughts or opinions to herself. One careless remark at Johnny’s birthday party\, with the entire family present\, and Cara starts spilling all their secrets. \nAs everything unravels\, each of the adults finds themselves wondering if it’s—finally—the time to grow up.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-virtual-event-with-marian-keyes-and-grown-ups/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,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!
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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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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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-the-book-of-lost-friends-by-lisa-wingate-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: 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
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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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: Mary Alice Monroe with On Ocean Boulevard (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, May 18th on 3 pm for a lowcountry favorite! Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books\, including the Beach House series: The Beach House\, Beach House Memories\, Swimming Lessons\, Beach House for Rent\, and  Beach House Reunion. She is a 2018 Inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame\, and her books have received numerous awards\, including the 2008 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing\, the 2014 South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence\, the 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award\, the RT Lifetime Achievement Award\, the International Book Award for Green Fiction\, and the 2017 Southern Book Prize for Fiction. Her bestselling novel The Beach House is also a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. An active conservationist\, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Visit her at MaryAliceMonroe.com and at Facebook.com/MaryAliceMonroe. \nOn Ocean Boulevard Gallery Books | May 19\, 2020 | 9781982146948\nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world. \nIt’s been sixteen years since Caretta “Cara” Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston\, South Carolina. Over those years\, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births\, struggles and joys. And now\, as Cara prepares for her second wedding\, her life is about to change yet again. \nMeanwhile\, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara’s niece Linnea returns to Sullivan’s Island to begin a new career and an unexpected relationship. Linnea’s parents\, having survived bankruptcy\, pin their hopes and futures on the construction of a new home on Ocean Boulevard. But as excitement over the house and wedding builds\, a devastating illness strikes the family and brings plans to a screeching halt. It is under these trying circumstances that the Rutledge family must come together yet again to discover the enduring strength in love\, tradition\, and legacy from mother to daughter to granddaughter. \nLike the sea turtles that come ashore annually on these windswept islands\, three generations of the Rutledge family experience a season of return\, rebirth\, and growth. “Authentic\, generous\, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews\, New York Times bestselling author)\,  On Ocean Boulevard is Mary Alice Monroe at her very best.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-mary-alice-monroe-with-on-ocean-boulevard/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Kristen Arnett with Mostly Dead Things (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 15th at 3:00 pm for a great discussion with Kristen Arnett\, a queer fiction and essay writer. She won the 2017 Coil Book Award for her debut short fiction collection\, Felt in the Jaw\, and was awarded Ninth Letter’s 2015 Literary Award in Fiction. Her debut novel\, Mostly Dead Things\, is now available in paperback from Tin House. She lives in Florida. Follow her on Twitter @Kristen_Arnett. \nMostly Dead Things: Tin House Books | April 21\, 2020 | 9781947793835\nThe celebrated New York Times Bestseller – A 2019 Best Book of the Year: New York Times\, NPR\, The New Yorker\, TIME\, Washington Post\, Oprahmag.com\, Thrillist\, Shelf Awareness\, Good Housekeeping and more. \nWhat does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton\, the question is not an abstract one. In the wake of her father’s suicide\, Jessa has stepped up to manage his failing taxidermy business while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the taxidermy shop to make provocative animal art\, while her brother\, Milo\, withdraws. And Brynn\, Milo’s wife—and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with—walks out without a word. It’s not until the Mortons reach a tipping point that a string of unexpected incidents begins to open up surprising possibilities and second chances. But will they be enough to salvage this family\, to help them find their way back to one another? Kristen Arnett’s breakout bestseller is a darkly funny family portrait; a peculiar\, bighearted look at love and loss and the ways we live through them together. \n\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-kristen-arnett/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Susan Beckham Zurenda with Bells for Eli (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 14th at 4 p.m. for a wonderful discussion with Susan Beckham Zurenda. Susan was meant to join us in person May 16th\, so we’re disappointed she can’t be with us live but look so forward to her virtual talk. She’s providing signed bookplates for those who grab their copy of her new novel at Main Street Reads! \nAfter teaching literature\, composition\, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years\, Susan turned her attention to putting a novel in her heart on paper\, the genesis of which started with a short story that won a fiction prize some years ago. She was delighted to present her debut novel\, Bells for Eli\, to readers on March 2\, 2020. During her years of teaching at Spartanburg Community College and then as an AP English teacher at Spartanburg High School\, Susan published short stories and won numerous regional awards such as the South Carolina Fiction Prize (twice)\, the Porter Fleming Competition\, The Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Fiction Contest\, The Hub City Hardegree Contest in Fiction\, Alabama Conclave First Novel Chapter Contest\, and The Jubilee Writing Competition (twice). Since 2018\, she has published six stories in literary magazines. \nBells for Eli: Mercer University Press | March 2\, 2020 | 9780881467376\n“A stunning debut\, Bells for Eli establishes Susan Beckham Zurenda as one of the most exciting new voices in Southern fiction\,” says Cassandra King Conroy\, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of five novels and the memoir Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. \nIn this tender\, beautifully-rendered novel\, the powerful connection between cousins Delia and Eli takes them on a journey fraught with longing\, desire\, and heartbreak. Through loss\, Delia comes to understand that the bonds of love can never truly be broken.” First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green are meant to grow up happily and innocently across the street from one another amid the supposed wholesome values of small-town Green Branch\, South Carolina\, in the 1960s and 70s. But Eli’s tragic accident changes the trajectory of their lives and of those connected to them. Shunned and even tortured by his peers for his disfigurement and frailty\, Eli struggles for acceptance in childhood as Delia passionately devotes herself to defending him. \nDelia’s vivid and compassionate narrative voice presents Eli as a confident young man in adolescence—the visible damage to his body gone—but underneath hide indelible wounds harboring pain and insecurity\, scars that rule his impulses. And while Eli cherishes Delia more than anyone and attempts to protect her from her own troubles\, he cares not for protecting himself. It is Delia who has that responsibility\, growing more challenging each year. Bells for Eli is a lyrical and tender exploration of the relationship between cousins drawn together through tragedy in a love forbidden by social constraints and a family whose secrets must stay hidden. \nSusan Beckham Zurenda masterfully transports readers into a small Southern town where quiet\, ordinary life becomes extraordinary. In this compelling coming of age story\, culture\, family\, friends\, bullies\, and lovers propel two young people to unite to guard each other in a world where love\, hope\, and connectedness ultimately triumph.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-susan-beckham-zurenda-with-bells-for-eli-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Katy Simpson Smith with The Everlasting (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 13th at 4 p.m. for this special virtual event with Katy Simpson Smith talking about her new novel\, The Everlasting. (Awesome cover\, right?!) \nKaty was born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South\, 1750-1835\, and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men. Her novel The Everlasting was published in March\, 2020. She lives in New Orleans\, and currently serves as the Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College. \nThe Everlasting: Publisher: Harper | March 24\, 2020 | 9780062873644\nSpanning two thousand years in and around Rome\, Katy Simpson Smith’s The Everlasting is a novel of intersecting love stories\, lifted by grand gestures and subversive power\, faith and mortal love. Smith joins the stories of four characters: an early Christian child martyr\, a twelve-year-old girl\, ignored\, picked on\, desperate for a big\, loud voice; a gay\, medieval monk at work in the putridarium\, who buries his queerness beneath his religious devotion; a Medici princess of African descent and dubious legitimacy who wields her identity like a weapon; and a contemporary field biologist\, whose research illuminates the beauty and fragility of the natural world and who is conducting an illicit affair. Through it all Satan travels with them\, narrating their struggles with\, by turns\, bitter and biting commentary\, offering counsel no one hears. \nSmith sought to write a grand novel about a grand city\, to show how history’s enormity can swallow the second century and spit out the twenty-first\, all in a blink. She recreates Rome again and again in vivid detail\, charting the illustrious growth of a city whose every stone is a moment in Western history\, though\, as Satan observes\, “This is the city for hustle\, for building permanent tokens on human transience\, and then building on top of those. No one is remembered except the pulsing city itself\, which—sack after sack—refuses to perish.” \nBut it is the small stories that feel most urgent in Smith’s pages. In the Distance author Hernán Díaz writes\, “In a rare display of lyrical erudition\, Katy Simpson Smith’s gorgeous novel lets us feel the depth and density of history by showing us how every life is both an echo of the past and a relic of the future.” It is a truth as deep and layered as Rome itself. \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-katy-simpson-smith-with-the-everlasting/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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