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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200728T170000
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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.
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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: 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
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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
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SUMMARY:The Art of Etiquette: Adult Coloring Book Author Signing In Store!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, July 18th\, you’ll be able to grab a SIGNED copy of Cynthia Wein Lett’s The Art of Etiquette\, a truly unique adult coloring book! \nMaking others feel special\, cared for and important is the reason we offer hospitality and the reason for good manners. Practicing good etiquette makes others feel good being with us. As you color these lovely scenes\, learn a little of the etiquette and history related to the subjects of the pictures to make them come alive. \nWe WILL be practicing social distancing and we already have copies of the work in the store so you can call and have us hold one for you; we can have the author personalize it as you wish and meet her on Saturday!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/the-art-of-etiquette-order-a-personalized-copy-of-this-adult-coloring-book/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing
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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
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration,Virtual Author Event
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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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CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reading,Virtual Author Event
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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
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-carter-sickels-with-the-prettiest-star/
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: 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.
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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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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Mary Kay Andrews with Hello Summer! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 12\, 5 p.m. for a special chat with Mary Kay Andrews\, the New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including THE WEEKENDERS\, BEACH TOWN\, LADIES’ NIGHT\, SUMMER RENTAL\, SUNSET BEACH\, DEEP DISH and HISSY FIT. \nA native of St. Petersburg\, Florida\, Mary Kay received a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia and was a newspaper reporter for 14 years. The last ten years of her career were spent as a features reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News\, The Marietta Journal and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction. Her first novel\, EVERY CROOKED NANNY\, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name. In 2002\, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of SAVANNAH BLUES. In 2006\, HISSY FIT became her first New York Times bestseller\, followed by eleven more New York Times\, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. \n\n\nHello\, Summer: St. Martin’s Press | May 5\, 2020 | 9781250256928\nIt’s a new season…\nConley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper\, The Silver Bay Beacon\, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper\, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington\, D.C. Or so she thinks. \nFor small town scandals…\nWhen the new job goes up in smoke\, Conley finds herself right back where she started\, working for her sister\, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat—and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column\, “Hello\, Summer.” \nAnd big-time secrets.\nThen Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman—a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story\, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites\, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer. \n\n\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-mary-kay-andrews-with-hello-summer/
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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-a-good-marriage-with-kimberly-mccreight-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: 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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-kaitlin-b-curtice-discusses-native-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-the-lincoln-conspiracy-with-brad-meltzer-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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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!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-caroline-b-cooneys-before-she-was-helen-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: A Leader's Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this great talk with Donald J. Palmisano on Thursday\, April 30th at 4 pm – Email mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your link and password to attend. \nA good leader must be intelligent\, charismatic\, strong\, and inspiring. A good leader must stir passion and instill knowledge in the minds of followers\, whether in the field of business\, medicine\, politics\, sports\, or entertainment. A memorable speech is a powerful tool for demonstrating leadership and inspiring listeners for years to come. You can give a stirring\, memorable speech\, and be seen as a real leader\, and Donald J. Palmisano can help you. \nHere Palmisano shares proven tips on delivering an inspiring and motivating speech. Drawing from his popular seminar at Tulane University School of Medicine and over 1\,000 speeches and interviews\, Dr. Palmisano teaches readers how to: \n\nUse rhetorical devices effectively\nStay on message\nPractice delivery\nGlean lessons from great speeches of powerful leaders from the past\, such as Cicero\, Winston Churchill\, Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Ronald Reagan\nOrganize speeches to emphasize the message\nWeave in stories that are unforgettable\nAnd more!\n\nIf you are a professor or teacher\, if you are a CEO or manager\, if you are thinking of running for office or trying to raise money\, then A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech belongs on your bookshelf. It’s a great gift for anyone with aspirations of teaching\, leading\, or managing. \n \nDonald J. Palmisano\, M.D.\, J.D.\, FACS\, a New Orleans native\, retired surgeon\, and USAF veteran\, is the principal of Donald J Palmisano Consulting (Intrepid Resources). This book derived from Dr. Palmisano’s popular Tulane University School of Medicine seminar “How to Give a Memorable Speech” that he teaches to medical students and faculty using lessons learned from his extensive experience of over 1000 speeches and interviews worldwide. He is a frequent keynote conference speaker and trains executives on leadership and effective speech delivery. \nDr. Palmisano served as American Medical Association (AMA) President in 2003-2004 and President of the Louisiana State Medical Society from 1984-1985\, where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame. Prior to his latest book\, Dr. Palmisano published On Leadership and The Little Red Book of Leadership Lessons
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-a-leaders-guide-to-giving-a-memorable-speech-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 29th at 5 pm for a chat with Marie Benedict\, author of The Other Einstein. The first author in the #SaveIndieBookstores series is Marie Benedict. Marie Benedict is the author of The Other Einstein\, Carnegie’s Maid\, The Only Woman in the Room\, and Lady Clementine. She is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms and for Fortune 500 companies. Visit her online at authormariebenedict.com.\n\nThe Other Einstein is one of a limited number of titles that simply by purchasing\, you are supporting indie bookstores\, and if you’d like to do more\, visit SaveIndieBookstores.com. Marie will be talking with us about her book The Other Einstein and answering your questions. Join us and let’s raise some money for indie bookstores.\n\n“Beautifully written…a finely drawn portrait of a woman in love with the wrong man.” – Jillian Cantor\, author of Margot and The Hours Count\n\nDate: Wednesday\, April 29\, 2020\nTime: 5:00 p.m.\nRSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com\nAttendance is limited. If you elect to attend\, we will email you on Wednesday morning with the link and password to attend this virtual event. To grab your copy of The Other Einstein\, call us at 843-875-5171 or CLICK HERE to order from our Bookshop page!\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-other-einstein-by-marie-benedict/
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Kristy Woodson Harvey Discusses Feels Like Falling (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Let us deliver authors to your living room.  The next author in the Okra Pick series is Kristy Woodson Harvey\, the bestselling author of DEAR CAROLINA\, LIES AND OTHER ACTS OF LOVE\, SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF SIMPLE\, THE SECRET TO SOUTHERN CHARM and THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF PARADISE. \nKristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing\, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. Her work has been optioned for film and her books have received numerous accolades. Harvey’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and websites\, including Southern Living\, Traditional Home\, Parade\, USA Today\, Domino\, Our State and O. Henry. \nShe has been seen in Today.com\, Women’s Health\, The Washington Post\, US News and World Report\, The Huffington Post\, Marie Claire’s The Fix\, Woman’s World\, Readers’ Digest\, Bustle\, New York Live and North Carolina Bookwatch\, among others. \nFeels Like Falling\, Gallery Books | April 28\, 2020 | 9781982117702 From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness. \nIt’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy. Unless\, that is\, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer\, your sister to her extremist husband\, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life\, she inadvertently gets a stranger\, Diana Harrington\, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. \nDiana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job\, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her\, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience. With Gray’s kindness\, Diana’s tide begins to turn. \nBut when her first love returns\, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And\, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail\, she discovers\, with Diana’s help\, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all. In her warmest\, wisest novel yet\, Kristy Woodson Harvey delivers a discerning portrait of modern womanhood through two vastly different lenses. Feels Like Falling is a beach bag essential for Harvey fans—and for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nHere are the details you need: \nDate: Tuesday\, April 28\, 2020 Time: 3:00 p.m. RSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com Attendance is limited. If you elect to attend\, we will email you on Tuesday morning with the link and password to attend this virtual event\, plus the link to purchase books. \nFor a free sneak peek chapter\, CLICK HERE!\nTo view/shop all Kristy’s books\, including the new release\, CLICK HERE.\n \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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