Main Street Reads

Reader Meet Writer: James Lee Burke Launches Every Cloak Rolled in Blood - VIRTUAL
2022-05-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
We’re uber-excited to co-host the exclusive virtual launch on May 24th for James Lee Burke’s new novel, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood.
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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’ll be in conversation with Reader Meet Writer host and SIBA’s 2022 Southern Book Prize winner for fiction, Wiley Cash. You can click on the book’s link above or on the images here, OR call us at 843-875-5171 to order your copy for in-store pickup. We’ll also have signed book plates for this title if you order from us.
ABOUT THE BOOK: In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws.
Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight.
Aaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next.
Drawn from James Lee Burke’s own life experiences, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood is a devastating exploration of the nature of good and evil and a deeply moving story about the power of love and family.
James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
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Third Thursday Book Signing: The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter!
2022-05-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us for a very special book signing for The Rice Birds by Lindy Keane Carter, which NYT bestselling authors are already calling brilliant!
“Like the hunted rice birds of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, two desperate women—an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved servant—flee antebellum Charleston in this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted odyssey to freedom. I loved it.” – Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including THE BEACH HOUSE series
“In a poignant story of two runaway women who befriend each other in 1849 Charleston to survive, The Rice Birds will steal your heart. The starving Irish immigrant and the enslaved house servant battle a common enemy while seeking to find their loved ones snatched from their arms. Lindy Carter’s transportive prose will carry you through this compelling and splendid story.” –Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author
“Lindy Keane Carter is a captivating writer of historical fiction and a powerful storyteller. The Rice Birds has tension on every page, truth that shocks and exposes, and characters we come to love. I am a big fan of Carter’s writing talent, and her latest novel is a first-class winner!” – Leah Weiss, bestselling author of If the Creek Don’t Rise and All the Little Hopes
The Rice Birds: In 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport. Only Nora is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her employer’s vast rice plantation, an enslaved worker— Pearl—befriends her. After one of them commits a crime, the girls flee to Charleston, a dangerous place for runaways. Nora frantically seeks to get back to her sister, while Pearl tries to find her mother before heading north.
Meanwhile, an old enemy’s illegal scheme is about to derail the girls’ plans.
Historically accurate, this newly published work from Evening Post Books draws upon interviews with academics, historians, and educators, as well as dissertations, histories, Gullah stories, cookbooks, and the diaries of Lowcountry rice planters. The Rice Birds takes the reader beyond the well-known narrative about Charleston’s history to reveal real events and lives that have seen little light in contemporary books. Some stories were so compelling, they needed little embellishment before being woven into this tale.
Lindy Keane Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. After writing non-fiction for 30 years, she signed up for a fiction-writing class at a community college in Maryland. Her short stories won awards in 2003 and 2009 in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Fiction Project contest. The Rice Birds is her third published novel. Lindy is the mother of two daughters and a son. Visit her at www.facebook.com/LindyCarterAuthor or www.LindyCarter.com.

Bestseller Book Club in May Featuring The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter
2022-05-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us for an exciting book club evening on the third Tuesday in May when we’ll be chatting about The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter and come back two days later to meet Lindy in person and get your book signed by the author! The club meets live and all are welcome – we’ll bring the treats, you bring yourselves! The book is available at the 10% off book club discount, too!
Third Thursday will feature this very special book signing for The Rice Birds by Lindy Keane Carter, which NYT bestselling authors are already calling brilliant!
“Like the hunted rice birds of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, two desperate women—an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved servant—flee antebellum Charleston in this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted odyssey to freedom. I loved it.” – Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including THE BEACH HOUSE series
“In a poignant story of two runaway women who befriend each other in 1849 Charleston to survive, The Rice Birds will steal your heart. The starving Irish immigrant and the enslaved house servant battle a common enemy while seeking to find their loved ones snatched from their arms. Lindy Carter’s transportive prose will carry you through this compelling and splendid story.” –Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author
“Lindy Keane Carter is a captivating writer of historical fiction and a powerful storyteller. The Rice Birds has tension on every page, truth that shocks and exposes, and characters we come to love. I am a big fan of Carter’s writing talent, and her latest novel is a first-class winner!” – Leah Weiss, bestselling author of If the Creek Don’t Rise and All the Little Hopes
The Rice Birds: In 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport. Only Nora is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her employer’s vast rice plantation, an enslaved worker— Pearl—befriends her. After one of them commits a crime, the girls flee to Charleston, a dangerous place for runaways. Nora frantically seeks to get back to her sister, while Pearl tries to find her mother before heading north.
Meanwhile, an old enemy’s illegal scheme is about to derail the girls’ plans.
Historically accurate, this newly published work from Evening Post Books draws upon interviews with academics, historians, and educators, as well as dissertations, histories, Gullah stories, cookbooks, and the diaries of Lowcountry rice planters. The Rice Birds takes the reader beyond the well-known narrative about Charleston’s history to reveal real events and lives that have seen little light in contemporary books. Some stories were so compelling, they needed little embellishment before being woven into this tale.
Lindy Keane Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. After writing non-fiction for 30 years, she signed up for a fiction-writing class at a community college in Maryland. Her short stories won awards in 2003 and 2009 in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Fiction Project contest. The Rice Birds is her third published novel. Lindy is the mother of two daughters and a son. Visit her at www.facebook.com/LindyCarterAuthor or www.LindyCarter.com.

Book Signing and Talk with Stacy Willingham: A Flicker in the Dark
2022-05-14 15:30 - 17:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
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We’re super excited to bring you a very special event with brilliant debut author Stacy Willingham, author of the new thriller, A Flicker in the Dark, already a New York Times bestselling book! We’ll begin with an “in conversation” with the author, followed by signing. Refreshments will be served!
HBO Max is developing the adaptation of A Flicker in the Dark into a limited series, to be available on their streaming network. Fruit Tree (run by Emma Stone and Dave McCary) and A24 are producing the series.
The book will ALSO be our June Thriller Book Club selection, so grab your copy now and be ready for a great talk about this compelling psychological thriller!
A New York Times Bestseller:
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren’t actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?
“A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” –Karin Slaughter
From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.

Stacy Willingham worked as a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies before deciding to write fiction full time. She earned her BA in Magazine Journalism from the University of Georgia and MFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
Her first novel, A Flicker in the Dark, was published on January 11, 2022 by Minotaur Books and February 3, 2022 by HarperCollins UK. She currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and her Labradoodle, Mako.
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Thriller Book Club in May: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
2022-05-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join our Thrill in the ‘Ville thriller book club at Main Street Reads the second Tuesday in May and enjoy a free book club journal, food, drink, and conversation about the fabulous debut thriller, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner.
“A twisty, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times, London) debut thriller, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets.
In this “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse that kept the twists coming until the very last moment” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Helen’s idyllic life–handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way–begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class.
There, she meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest, Helen’s a bit lonely herself. At least Rachel is fun to be with. She makes Helen laugh, invites her confidences, and distracts her from her fears.
But her increasingly erratic behavior is unsettling. And Helen’s not the only one who’s noticed. Her friends and family begin to suspect that her strange new friend may be linked to their shared history in unexpected ways. When Rachel threatens to expose a past crime that could destroy all of their lives, it becomes clear that there are more than a few secrets laying beneath the broad-leaved trees and warm lamplight of Greenwich Park.

About the Author

Katherine Faulkner, an award-winning journalist, studied history at Cambridge. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor and was formerly the joint Head of News at The Times (London). She lives in London, where she grew up, with her husband and two daughters. Greenwich Park is her first novel.

Book Signing: Kerry Peresta's Launch of The Rising
2022-05-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
On May 7th (hint – signed books make great Mother’s Day gifts!) Kerry Peresta will be here live, heading out on tour from Hilton Head, with her new release, The Rising, the second installment in the Olivia Callahan Suspense series (the first book, The Deadening, will be available as well).
ABOUT THE BOOK: Olivia Callahan’s quiet, orderly life is shattered when she regains consciousness in a hospital and discovers she is paralyzed and cannot remember a thing. The fragmented voices she hears around her help her piece together that an apparent assault landed her in the hospital, but nobody knows who attacked her, or why. After a chilling struggle to survive, she awakens from a coma unable to remember what happened to her or anything at all, except she has been told she is an entirely different person. Or is she?
Now, in spite of a brain injury that has rewired her personality, Olivia is on a mission to reclaim her life. As clarity surfaces and she starts to understand who she was, she is shocked. Had she really been that person? And if so, does she want her old life back?

About the Author

Kerry’s publishing credits include a popular newspaper and e-zine humor column, The Lighter Side, (2009-2011); and her debut novel, The Hunting, women’s fiction/suspense, Pen-L Publishing, released in 2013.

Before starting to write full-time, she spent twenty-five years in advertising as an account manager, creative director, and copywriter. She is past chapter president of the Maryland Writers’ Association and a current member and presenter of Hilton Head Island Writers’ Network, and the Sisters in Crime organization.

Recently, she worked as editor and contributor for Island Communications, a small, local publishing house. Her magazine articles have been published in Local Life Magazine, The Bluffton Breeze, Lady Lowcountry, and Island Events Magazine.

Her second book, The Deadening, suspense; released February, 2021, Kerry is the mother of four adult children. She lives in Hilton Head Island with her husband and three annoying cats. She has a bunch of wonderful grandkids who keep life interesting…

Meet Gregory Erich Phillips: A Season in Lights
2022-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us Sunday for a special book signing with Seattle’s award-winning novelist, Gregory Erich Phillips, author of The Love of Unfinished Years, The Exile, and his newest hit, A Season in Lights.
Passion, ambition and escape in the colorful artistic underworld off-Broadway.
Cammie, a dancer in her 30s, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. The early narrative follows the cast of the show, with a backstage glimpse into the chaotic and colorful world of struggling performers.
Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own.
Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed. The bright lights of the stage intoxicate, while degradation and despair lurk close behind the curtain. Their stories are marred by two viruses, AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today, both of which ravaged the performing arts community, leaving a permanent scar on those who lived through them.
Cammie thinks she finally has her chance in a major show, until COVID forces the unthinkable—Broadway being shut down. The physical, financial and emotional toll this takes on the dancers and musicians of the story is laid bare. The effort it took to survive even the next day in New York City becomes a stark reality for many of the characters. “It took a lot of lucky breaks to make it here. This pandemic would undo a lot of lucky breaks for a lot of people.”
Award-winning author Gregory Erich Phillips writes stories with strong characters whose lives, with their many challenges and joys, resonate with a wide audience. Raised in a literary family, Gregory began writing at the age of fourteen. His debut novel, Love of Finished Years, won the grand prize in the Chanticleer Reviews International Writing Competition and was an Amazon bestseller in historical fiction. It was praised by Publishers Weekly, which called it “beguiling.” His second novel The Exile won first place in mainstream fiction in the PNWA literary contest. A Season in Lights won the grand prize in the Chanticleer Reviews Somerset award for Contemporary and Literary Fiction and was named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2021 NYC Big Book Awards. The novel was also featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly (Aug. 30 2021). It was named the Best Book of the Year by Annie McDonnell of The Write Review. An accomplished tango dancer and musician, Gregory has impressed audiences from the West Coast to New York City with his drama and grace on the dance floor. Gregory lives in Seattle, Washington.

Independent Bookstore Day 2022: Book Fair on the Square
2022-04-30 09:30 - 16:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
One day. Hundreds of bookstores.
Fifty states. Join the celebration!
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. But in addition to authors, contests, and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Nowhere else.
At Main Street Reads we’ll be celebrating on the square with author chats and readings, live music, free treats and lots of giveaways and prizes!
Here’s the schedule of authors appearing, and below that featured titles (click on the image to learn more about each title, and pre-order your selections to have ready for Saturday signings!

Pulpwood Queens Bookclub: The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
2022-04-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
The wonderful book everyone’s talking about! Come join the discussion and enjoy free treats and a chance to ask the author your burning questions!
The club will be LIVE at Main Street Reads (refreshments provided) but anyone who’d prefer to join us remotely can access the evening’s festivities via Zoom w/these credentials:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85744865602?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 857 4486 5602 Passcode: [REDACTED]

WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred, uncanny gifts provoked, and secrets unearthed.

During a visit to Mistletoe, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine. A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise’s fascination with the Mayfields.Analeise’s burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly, ordinary life, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences-all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song.

“Following in the magnificent footsteps of Carson McCullers and Harper Lee, Robert Gwaltney creates a wonderful snapshot of the friendship that forms between Analeise and Etta Mae, two eleven-year-old girls in ’50s small town Georgia… This is a book to love and remember, and every book club in America would be wise to snap it up.”- Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The gothic beauty of a relentless Georgia summer is brought to life through Gwaltney’s deliberate details and exquisite imagery, while all the while evil lurks beneath the surface; from where or what the reader does not know but is as convinced by Gwaltney’s expert storytelling as he is.”-Zoe Fishman, bestselling author of Invisible Air and Georgia Author of the Year 2020
“Gwaltney’s Southern Gothic, THE CICADA TREE mesmerizes and seduces, the language redolent and deadly, the characters steeped in secrets and madness, and the whole of it an enthralling and perfect read. Easily my favorite book of the year.”-Kim Taylor Blakemore, bestselling author of After Alice Fell

Flower the Town: April's Third Thursday at Main Street Reads!
2022-04-21 17:30 - 20:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
On the third Thursday of each month Historic Downtown Summerville transforms into a special marketplace featuring local entertainment, craft vendors and artisans, to complement the extended hours of our eclectic shops, boutiques and restaurants.
This month’s theme is “Flower the Town” and we’ll be featuring plenty of gardening and art books to do just that!

Third Thursday traffic is rerouted 4:00pm until 9:00pm. from the following streets ; Little Main Street, W Richardson to Central (closed for traffic).
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There is plenty of FREE parking throughout the downtown including the town garage located behind Town Hall.

Living Large Book Club: Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
2022-04-19 18:30 - 20:00
We’re thrilled to have a chance to chat about this wonderful book Grounds-keeping by Lee Cole – join us live – refreshments will be served!
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK –
An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams–this is an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House).
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course.
Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks–a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma–who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants–struggles to understand Owen’s fraught relationship with family and home.
Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer.

Thriller Book Club: The Fields by Erin Young
2022-04-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young’s The Fields is a dynamite debut–crime fiction at its very finest.
Some things don’t stay buried.
It starts with a body–a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture.
When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind.
The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town.
Join us for an engaging discussion – refreshments will be served!

Book Signing / Talk: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth
2022-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
We are honored to host this signing and book discussion around the brand new release from Charleston’s own Evening Post Books: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth.
You’ll get to meet Summerville’s own Herb Frazier as well as contributing authors from the project, and we plan to engage in a substantive discussion… don’t miss this one, folks.
Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it. The personal accounts and insights from forty-five writers and poets will educate White Americans about the systematic racial bias employed to stymie African American progress.
Ukweli provides insight into the struggles Black people have faced as they’ve made substantial contributions to America, and helped to define its soul. It shows a part of American history often overlooked or misunderstood. Inspired by a poetry, lecture, and dialogue series of the same name organized by poet Horace Mungin in 2020 at Charleston’s McLeod Plantation, Evening Post Books released Ukweli in February 2022.
Following the signing from 3-4, we’ll have an open discussion (refreshments served). This is a limited seating event – the link to register is https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-talk-ukweli-searching-for-healing-truth-tickets-312465762507
Herb Frazier is special projects editor at the Charleston City Paper, a weekly newspaper in his hometown. He’s an author and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston. He has edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South. When he was on the staff of The Post and Courier in Charleston he was named the S.C. Press Association’s 1990 Journalist of the Year. He is a former Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has led journalism workshops in Africa and South America for a federal agency and a Washington, D.C.-based journalism foundation. He is a member of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission.

Book Signing: Meet Jack Russell and Fox World
2022-04-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
“I hope that everyone who cares about the future of planet Earth will fight to save places like Fox World’s forest and its inhabitants.” – Dr. Jane Goodall

Join us for a very special book signing with Jack Russell, the author of the entertaining and insightful Fox World.

Based on true events, Fox World takes the reader under the canopy of an urban forest on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. for a year-long walk with a weary sales executive and his muse, a wild red fox. Aged, ill and injured, both fox and man seek healing in their journey, not only for themselves, but for the ecologically stressed forest that is under siege by those set to exploit it.

They are joined on their five-hundred-mile walkabout by the fox’s forest friends – owl, buck deer, hawk, blue heron, and raccoon, and each animal’s story illustrates why this small forest is so soothing and majestic in its allure. Starting in brutally cold winter, followed by the hottest, wettest summer on record, fox and man face daunting life challenges in their walks, from a heart attack and arrhythmia which end the executive’s career to a coyote attack and serious illnesses faced by the elderly fox.
And through these debilitating and traumatic events, the two unite and bond for survival, and the fox’s wild perspective teaches his human friend unforgettable lessons about healing, coping, serenity, wonderment, mindfulness, and the simplest things (e.g., the sun setting atop the great oaks, an owl serenade under moonbeams, a shared cup of bison bone broth on an icy day).
Drawn in by the fox’s courage and the plight of his forest as tree canopy destruction looms, the man decides to take a stand and help the fox and his animal friends.

Richly graced with gorgeous nature photos and infused with insights that can only be imparted by those who have come to genuinely appreciate life, Fox World is an exhilarating walk in the woods that you’ll never forget.

“As a wildlife rehabilitator who works hands-on with red foxes every day, this book took my breath away. The author truly grasps the essence and magic of these beautiful, spiritual animals and he artfully employs a fox, Mr. Fox, as a co-narrator to describe the hardscrabble challenges of a fox in the wild. Fox World is a bookshelf staple for fox lovers and –for those who have been graced only once with seeing a distant fox walking the wood’s edge, and desire more– Fox World will transport you there.” – Elise Able, Founder, Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue, foxwoodwildliferescue.org

Jack Russell is a first-time author, not counting dozens of hundred-page PowerPoints written in Corporate World. Jack wrote Fox World after suffering sudden cardiac arrest and undergoing several heart procedures to save his life. Afterwards, he sought the calm refuge of a nearby forest in which to walk and relax, and there, he reunited with an aging red fox that he had helped as a pup. Fox World is based on true events and was a real-time composition as Jack wrote the 85,000-word book on his smartphone as he and his co-narrator, Mr. Fox, walked daily. He lives in Lake Frederick, Virginia with his wife, Susan, and their Jack Russell terriers.

Meet Stuart Bennett, Author of The Charleston Gambit!
2022-04-02 15:30 - 17:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
For all you history aficionados, this one’s for you! Meet the author and grab a copy of this brilliant book by Stuart Bennett, The Charleston Gambit.

The Charleston Gambit: In the spring of 1780 Polly Cooper, a young patriot, decides to smuggle rifles to her brothers defending Charleston against the British siege. As she approaches the city, she’s captured by 25-year-old Irish Colonel Lord Rawdon. So begins an improbable romance as Charleston falls and Rawdon spends the next year trying to subdue the South Carolina backcountry. Polly struggles with divided loyalties as Rawdon wins a succession of battles—only to discover that victory, in love and war, eludes him.

The cover of The Charleston Gambit, shown above, incorporates portraits of the two central characters. The young woman is from a 1778 print, “The Studious Beauty,” reproduced courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
The portrait of Lord Rawdon, probably painted in the later 1780s, is from a print in the author’s collection.

Stuart Bennett is an author and antiquarian bookseller in Charleston. He grew up in Southern California and is married to the Charleston artist Jennie Summerall.
He became a Christie’s auctioneer in London in 1976 and started his ongoing rare book business in 1980. After leaving England in 1989, he briefly practiced law in California. He then returned to writing and antiquarian bookselling, and watched his son grow up to become a competitive cyclist and coach.
The Charleston Gambit is the newest of Stuart’s four novels. He has also published widely on historical subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2008 he became president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and currently serves on the governing committee of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

NOTE: This event takes place on Saturday afternoon during Flowertown Festival; if you’d like to purchase the book in advance and have it personalized and pick up later, no worries – we can do that!

Book Signing: Mavens of Mystery Linda Lovely and Kerry Peresta!
2022-04-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Linda Lovely and Kerry Peresta will join us on Saturday, April 2nd from 1 – 3 pm and here’s your chance to get in on some uber-cool cozy mystery reading, at deals that’ll save you extra (for the gas pumps, eh?!) Here’s more about their featured books and the fabulous authors who wrote them!
With Neighbors Like These: HOA=DOA TERROR REIGNS…When a belligerent owner in another HOA is murdered, terror reigns. The Sheriff’s Department blames Ted for letting HOA feuds spiral into homicide. Kylee discovers links between the victims and suspects a recently-pardoned general is next. Authorities and the arrogant general dismiss her warning. Can she foil the third act in the crafty killer’s death-as-theater game or will she be the next corpse on display?
Dead Hunt: Three men want Riley Reid. One wants her dead.When a homegrown terrorist group threatens to turn prestigious Blue Ridge University into a funeral pyre, Riley Reid, Director of Security, is thrown into a shadow world where old hatreds run deep, family feuds poison relationships, and death and danger spill off the college campus into mountain wilderness. To survive, the former FBI agent must decide where to place her trust. Not easy when conflicting loyalties pose ethical dilemmas and the men in her life trigger emotions that war with logic.Dead Hunt is the second book in the Smart Women, Dumb Luck romantic thriller series. A college mentoring program-dumb luck-brings three smart women together. Riley Reid, an FBI agent, mentors coeds Nexi Ketts and Kate Johnson at her alma mater. A decade later, these fast friends know they can call on each other whenever dumb luck turns bad. In this series, each of these bright heroines faces a frightening array of killer choices.
The Deadening: Olivia Callahan’s quiet, orderly life is shattered when she regains consciousness in a hospital and discovers she is paralyzed and cannot remember a thing. The fragmented voices she hears around her help her piece together that an apparent assault landed her in the hospital, but nobody knows who attacked her, or why. After a chilling struggle to survive, she awakens from a coma unable to remember what happened to her or anything at all, except she has been told she is an entirely different person. Or is she? Now, in spite of a brain injury that has rewired her personality, Olivia is on a mission to reclaim her life. As clarity surfaces and she starts to understand who she was, she is shocked. Had she really been that person? And if so, does she want her old life back?
The Hunting: Top advertising salesperson at the Chatbrook Springs Sentinel newspaper, has a habit of falling in and out of marriage. After her last divorce, she’d shoved the emotional pain into a compartment in her brain to deal with later. With three teenagers to raise, bills to pay, and sales quotas to meet, introspection was a luxury she couldn’t afford. Her mind needed a happy place. When Isabelle (Izzy) discovered online dating, it immediately became her favorite stress reliever and best friend. Often, she’d steal into the night after her kids were asleep to meet someone new. One fateful evening, the hunt for the perfect guy took a sinister turn when the mystery man she met turned out to be her worst nightmare! Reluctantly pulled into a web of lies, Izzy is forced to confront her demons. Snarky, suspense-filled, and real, “The Hunting” is an exquisite entwining of the crippling emotional fallout of divorce with the quest for a healthy, fulfilling relationship. This inspirational story rivets!
A journalism major in college, Linda Lovely has spent most of her career working in PR and advertising-an early introduction to penning fiction. With Neighbors Like These is Lovely’s ninth mystery/suspense novel. Whether she’s writing cozy mysteries, historical suspense or contemporary thrillers, her novels share one common element-smart, independent heroines. Humor and romance also sneak into every manuscript. Her work has earned nominations for a number of prestigious awards, ranging from RWA’s Golden Heart for Romantic Suspense to Thriller Nashville’s Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery.
A long-time member of Sisters in Crime and former chapter president, Lovely also belongs to Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the South Carolina Writers Association. For many years, she helped organize the Writers’ Police Academy. She lives on a lake in Upstate South Carolina with her husband, and enjoys swimming, tennis, gardening, long walks, and, of course, reading
Kerry Peresta’s publishing credits include a popular newspaper and e-zine humor column, “The Lighter Side,” (2009-2011); and her debut novel, The Hunting, women’s fiction/suspense, Pen-L Publishing, released in 2013. Before starting to write full time, she spent twenty-five years in advertising as an account manager, creative director, and copywriter. She is past chapter president of the Maryland Writers’ Association and a current member and presenter of Hilton Head Island Writers’ Network, and the Sisters in Crime organization.
Recently, she worked as editor and contributor for Island Communications, a small, local publishing house. Her magazine articles have been published in Local Life Magazine, The Bluffton Breeze, Lady Lowcountry, and Island Events Magazine. Her second book, The Deadening, suspense; releases February, 2021, with Level Best Publishing. Kerry is the mother of four adult children. She lives in Hilton Head with her husband and three annoying cats. She has a bunch of wonderful grandkids who keep life interesting…

Book Signing: Bob Spearman
2022-04-01 15:30 - 17:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Bob Spearman, author of Then She Was Dead, Shrimpin’ Gold, and Turf and Surf will be signing at Main Street Reads on the first day of the Flowertown Festival, from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
The Lowcountry of South Carolina has proven a productive environment for this author. You may find him writing under an umbrella on any Carolina beach. Bob Spearman grew up in South Carolina. For thirty years, engineering and marketing jobs took him to Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Utah. After moving back to Charleston, he discovered a talent for writing fiction. He is active with local writer groups, has written several short stories in addition to his thriller suspense novels. Bob is a graduate of The Citadel and holds a master’s degree from the University of Texas.
Don’t miss this chance to grab signed copies of his thrilling works!

Virtual Event: Stop Buying Bins by Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson - Spring Cleaning INSPIRATION!
2022-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join the Zoom call FREE!
Ready to revisit resolutions and ramp up spring cleaning? We have the PERFECT virtual event – an interactive online hour with Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson, author of Stop Buying Bins: & other blunt but practical advice from a home organizer
Bring your burning organizational questions and let’s “get ‘er done” this year!

Decluttering our homes can be difficult.
Letting go of things can be challenging.
Living with less seems impossible.

Here’s the Zoom link info to attend:
Virtual Event: Stop Buying Bins by Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson – Spring Cleaning INSPIRATION!
Time: Mar 27, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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With wit and tough love, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we’ve tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter?
Told through individual client stories, Stop Buying Bins reveals the personality traits that create resistance to letting go, flips the switch on assigning value to objects, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to decide what goes and what to do with it.
Stop Buying Bins will have you coming to terms with some hard truths about your stuff as you realize you’ll enjoy what you have more if you have less.
Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has held positions as a senior national media buyer, museum store manager/buyer, and giftware/home decor account manager, in addition to being principal of Bonnie Lia Interiors, a home organizing and interior decorating firm.
Her varied work experience has given her a unique perspective in the home organizing arena—the belief that “lifestyle must take precedence over precision.”
Born and raised in New Jersey and having resided in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, for the last 22 years, Bonnie recently moved back to Amherst along with her daughter, a first-year college student, and her yellow lab.

Book Signing: What's Burning on the Inside with Lakosha Wade
2022-03-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us Sunday, March 27th from 2 – 4 pm to meet local author Lakosha Wade and engage in discussion of her 21 day guided journal and devotional, What’s Burning on the Inside.
Many people burn candles and incense in their homes, businesses, and other places. Sometimes the candles are for beauty, aromatherapy, or just to create a good mood. I’m sure many people have lit candles for all of these reasons and more, but there is another reason to light candles that most people don’t know about. There is a hidden spiritual meaning behind lighting candles that will help you grow closer to God.
What is inside the candle is what makes it fragrant. The more fragrant it is, the more value it has. What if we have God inside of us? Then, won’t He give off a sweet smell that attracts others to us?
Said Lakosha, “When God is inside of us, and we burn with his love and light, we become the sweet fragrance that draws other people to Him. We can’t just expect God to give us this life without doing anything for it ourselves. We need to “burn” with his desire and passion for people and attract them to our lives through Christ’s light within us.”
Lakosha Wade is a first-time author, born and raised in the small town of Estill SC. She is a wife and mother of two. Professionally she works as a nurse with hospice. She is passionate to serve others through her relationship with God; During her free time, she enjoys reading, playing games, and shopping.

Book Signing: The Charleston Tea Party by John R. Young
2022-03-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
A parliamentary duty on a common grocery item? The destruction of three shiploads of tea in one of the colonies’ largest ports? By the way, what happened to the cargo of tea shipped to Charleston?
What were the circumstances that brought colonial America’s favorite non-alcoholic beverage center stage in a face-off between the mother country and her obstreperous children? And how did the citizenry of Charleston react to this latest taxation-without-representation enactment? All these questions as well as many as-yet-unasked ones will be answered within the pages of The Charleston Tea Party.
Meet the author and get a signed copy at Main Street Reads!

Go Green and Win This Third Thursday!
2022-03-17 17:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
It’s St. Patrick’s Day which means any cover with green on it throughout the store is 10% off – PLUS get a map and participate in the Shamrock Scavenger Hunt and you’ll have the chance to turn in your map at Hanebrink Jewelers for a free prize (Main Street Reads is giving away five gift certificates among the prizes).
On the third Thursday of each month Historic Downtown Summerville transforms into a special marketplace featuring local entertainment, craft vendors and artisans, to complement the extended hours of eclectic shops, boutiques and restaurants.
Enjoy partying out on the square, sales and treats at Main Street Reads, and singer/ songwriter/guitarist Mike Kaltofen keeping the vibe cool and festive as we enjoy our downtown community and plenty of book love.
See you on Main Street!

Book Signing: Lynn Wogamon - Words for a Young Heart
2022-03-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Come meet Charleston author Lynn Wogamon at Main Street Reads and grab signed copies of her books, Words for a Young Heart, More Words for a Young Heart and Come and See…Jesus.
The Bible tells children about God and His love for them. Words for a Young Heart introduces fifteen verses specifically for young children, along with devotions to help them know how the verse applies to them. These short passages are perfect for morning devotions or bedtime prayers. More Words for a Young Heart, the second book in the series, introduces fifteen new verses specifically for young children
Come and see! The very words spark curiosity and excitement. When we receive this invitation, we immediately expect to find something wonderful. And when we ourselves have experienced something exciting, we eagerly share it with others. Jesus spoke the words “come and see…”to people he met as he journeyed during his time on earth. He invited them to see him and his truth as God’s Son. Others, after having seen Jesus for themselves, called to friends and family to “come and see”. And all who saw Jesus were changed forever. Come and See…Jesus tells the story of Jesus from his birth through his ascension as presented in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This paraphrase of the gospels allows readers to walk with Jesus during his time on earth, learning who he is and why he came to earth in human form.
Lynn S. Wogamon is a licensed school psychologist and teacher. She has worked in the public school system and is currently self-employed. Her background in music provided opportunities for her to work as a music minister and she is currently on the praise team at her church. Lynn and her husband, Chris, have four adult children, two daughters-in law, three grandsons, and a golden retriever, Belle. They live in Charleston, SC.

Dolly Parton & James Patterson Virtual Book Launch for Run Rose Run
2022-03-06 19:30 - 20:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
The perfect capper to our third birthday week: Join Dolly Parton and James Patterson for the exclusive Run, Rose, Run Virtual Book Launch on Sun, March 6 at 7:30 ET live on YouTube.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Join America’s most beloved superstar, Dolly Parton, and its greatest storyteller, James Patterson, in a virtual conversation about their novel, Run Rose Run, a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
Tickets include the purchase of the book FOR PICKUP ONLY. We will notify you as soon as your book is ready to be PICKED UP at Main Street Reads in Summerville. The link to the exclussive event will be sent the day before the event takes place..
Main Street Reads is partnering with publisher Hachette, the American Booksellers Association, and bookstores nationwide to present this one-night-only virtual program!
Your ticket includes admission to the exclusive event, a hardcover copy of Run, Rose, Run ($30 retail price), as well as sales tax. Please contact us with any questions. We can’t wait to see you there!
About the book: From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller—a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
Every song tells a story.
She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.
She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past.
Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her.
And destroy her.
Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire—a story that only America’s #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created.
Dolly Parton is a singer, songwriter, actress, producer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. The composer of more than 3,000 songs, she has sold over 100 million records worldwide, and has given away millions of books to children through her nonprofit, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author. The creator of Alex Cross, he has produced more enduring fictional heroes than any other novelist alive. He lives in Florida with his family.

Get your tickets HERE!

Birthday Bash - Beads & Reads Challenge Winners Announced - RSVP NOW!
2022-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Tuesday, March 1st, is our actual birthday – which happens to coincide with Mardis Gras this year, so we’ll have treats all day long at the store AND we’ll launch our Beads and Reads Challenge.

From Tuesday through Saturday, EACH ITEM purchased (book, candle, socks, cards, pencils, etc.) will earn you one strand of Mardis Gras beads. Why is this important?

Because on SATURDAY March 5th, from 3-5 p.m. we’ll host our official birthday bash (no one can properly party on a Tuesday, eh?!) and at 4 p.m. that day, we’ll award a $100 gift certificate to the reader who’s collected the most beads, PLUS four $25 gift certificates for the runners-up – $200 total.

In addition to the treats and giveaways all week long, every reader who pre-registers for Saturday’s party (the party is FREE but RSVPs help us know how much food to order) will get a Mardi Gras styled mask, enjoy storewide discounts, free treats and more!
RSVP HERE!

It's Our Third Anniversary: Celebrate Mardis Gras Style with Us
2022-03-01 10:00 - 18:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Here’s a happy coincidence – our official 3rd birthday is March 1st…. and that’s Fat Tuesday aka Mardis Gras this year, so we’re celebrating NOW through Sunday with days of revelry… Lots of freebies and fun to be had all week long!
On Saturday March 5th, we’ll award our Beads and Reads Challenge winners – RSVP here to guarantee yourself a free Mardis Gras mask!
RSVP to Saturday’s Birthday Bash – IT’S FREE!

Living Large Bookclub: The Violin Conspiracy
2022-02-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
This month’s Living Large Bookclub will take place on the 4th Tuesday of the month and feature a chat around the new incredible debut novel, The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. Grab it from Main Street Reads or our online shop HERE...
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. If he’s lucky, he’ll get a job at the hospital cafeteria. If he’s extra lucky, he’ll earn more than minimum wage. But Ray has a gift and a dream–he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.
When he discovers that his great-great-grandfather’s beat-up old fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach. Together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition–the Olympics of classical music–the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Ray will have to piece together the clues to recover his treasured Strad … before it’s too late.
With the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray’s great-great-grandfather asserting that the instrument is rightfully theirs, and with his family staking their own claim, Ray doesn’t know who he can trust–or whether he will ever see his beloved violin again.

Book Signing: One Acorn's Journey - the Legend of the Angel Oak with Rhonda Edwards
2022-02-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us for a booksigning with Rhonda S. Edwards, author of One Acorn’s Journey: The Legend of the Angel Oak as well as The Secret of Atalaya: a Carolina Cousin’s Mystery. Both copies will be available to be signed and personalized by the author!
Rhonda S. Edwards earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the College of Charleston, Charleston South Carolina; received national board certification as a middle childhood generalist; and completed a master’s degree in English from a join program with The College of Charleston and the Citadel. Edwards teaches fourth-grade GAE in North Charleston. She and her husband live in the South Carolina low country.

Third Thursday: Love is on the Square!
2022-02-17 17:30 - 20:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us for Third Thursday and enjoy free treats and a photo at our Kissing Booth, while the square will be filled with love and fun things to do and dine on…

Meet the Author: Live Booksigning with Julie Packett - Battling Bots!
2022-02-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Julie Packett is back with the second in her series: The Chronicles of Ms. Clarke’s Class. This time it’s Battling Bots so you can add to your collection that should already include Science Night, or you can grab ’em both at Main Street Reads, in paperback OR hardcover!
We look so forward to having Julie back at the store – help us give her a Summerville warm welcome!

Book Signing: South Carolina in 1865 by Karen Stokes!
2022-02-05 11:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC, 29483, United States
Join us on Saturday, February 5th when we welcome author Karen Stokes to Main Street Reads to sign copies of the fascinating new release: South Carolina in 1865 from History Press.
The year 1865 brought an end to the war in America, but it also ended a civilization that had existed for nearly two centuries in South Carolina. Plantations, churches, farms, factories and whole villages and towns were pillaged and burned by General William T. Sherman’s army, and a once-thriving and wealthy state was reduced to poverty.
While Columbia burned, besieging Union troops swept in and occupied the undefended city of Charleston, which Sherman called “a mere desolated wreck,” and then launched raids into the surrounding countryside, including the rich plantation lands of Berkeley County. The surviving records of this period are numerous and revealing, and author Karen Stokes presents many of the eyewitness accounts and memoirs of those who lived through it.
Karen Stokes has been an archivist at the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston for more than twenty-five years. Her special area of interest is the Confederate period, and she has authored and edited numerous books and articles on the subject, including three History Press publications: South Carolina Civilians in Sherman’s Path (2012), The Immortal 600: Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah (2013) and Confederate South Carolina: True Stories of Civilians, Soldiers and the War (2015). Her most recent scholarly books, published by Mercer University Press, are An Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina, 1861–1865 (2019), and Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton: A Memoir of Plantation Life, War, and Reconstruction in Georgia and South Carolina (2021).
