BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Main Street Reads - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Main Street Reads X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mainstreetreads.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Main Street Reads REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240428T035104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240601T152525Z UID:8534-1718645400-1718649000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Young Reader Book Club JUNE DESCRIPTION:You asked – we answered: we’ve started an all-new young reader book club! As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Monday\, June 17th\, we’ll discuss the second book in the Islander series\, The Islanders: Search for Treasure. The target age range for this book is 8-11. \n\n\n\nAnd on July 15th\, we’ll talk about the third all-new book in the series\, coming out June 18th\, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this on Saturday\, June 22nd. \n\n\n\nInfo about the book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next club selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021. \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nThe sequel to New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s The Islanders\, an “exciting\, tender\, and absolutely wonderful” (Kirkus Reviews\, starred review) story of friendship\, loss\, and the healing power of nature. \n\n\n\nJake Potter is back on Dewees Island for another summer with his beloved grandmother\, Honey. This time\, Jake is excited that his dad will be there as he continues to recover from his injuries sustained in Afghanistan. \n\n\n\nBut Jake also knows they both need get used to a new normal\, which isn’t easy. Jake also discovers that his two best friends\, Macon and Lovie\, are struggling as well. Macon is adjusting to being a big brother\, while Lovie is navigating a new relationship with her dad\, who has long been absent in her life. \n\n\n\nTo cheer everyone up\, Jake decides that the trio needs a new mission\, just like they had the previous summer in saving the turtles. He discovers that his dad loved spending time in an old tree fort on the island\, and there is a special treasure box hidden somewhere nearby. Jake just knows if he can find it\, maybe his dad will be happy again–and he knows Macon and Lovie are the perfect fellow treasure hunters! \n\n\n\nTheir search leads them to discover there might be actual buried treasure somewhere on Dewees\, all while they battle some unwelcome guests on the island\, of both the two- and four-legged kind! On the three friends’ biggest quest yet\, they realize that the treasures they really want in life were with them all along. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/young-reader-book-club-june/ CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Young-Readers-6-17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240512T032719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T032720Z UID:8575-1718130600-1718136000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Thrill in the Ville June: The Institution by Helen Fields DESCRIPTION:Ooh\, this one will be a seriously thrilling discussion. The Institution by Helen Fields As always\, our book club selections are 10% off. You bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats (and wine\, of course). \n\n\n\nThey’re locked up for your safety. Now\, you’re locked in with them. \n\n\n\nDr Connie Woolwine has five days to catch a killer. On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital\, a scream shatters the night. The next morning\, a nurse’s body is found and her daughter has been taken. A ransom must be paid\, and the clock is ticking. \n\n\n\nForensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now\, she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late. But as the walls close in around her\, can Connie get the killer before The Institution gets her? \n\n\n\n\n“The Institution is filled with many twists and turns…and will be popular with [readers] of twisted and dark psychological thrillers.” \nBooklist URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-june-the-institution-by-helen-fields/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/June-thriller.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240429T165035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T165108Z UID:8554-1717698600-1717704000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Bookclub: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo DESCRIPTION:This is likely to be our biggest fab fantasy gathering to date – we look so forward to you joining the chat! As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all: you bring the thoughts\, we’ll bring the treats (and wine\, always wine). \n\n\n\nThis month’s pick – The Familiar by the fabulous Leigh Bardugo! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 by The Washington Post\, NPR\, Goodreads\, LitHub\, The Nerd Daily\, Paste Magazine\, Today.com\, and more! \n\n\n\n“A must-read for those who are seeking a little magic in their lives.” –Deborah Harkness\, #1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches \n\n\n\nIn a shabby house\, on a shabby street\, in the new capital of Madrid\, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles\, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family’s social position. \n\n\n\nWhat begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez\, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada\, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen–and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes\, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists\, holy men and hucksters\, where the lines between magic\, science\, and fraud are never certain. \n\n\n\nBut as her notoriety grows\, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive–even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel\, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-bookclub-the-familiar-by-leigh-bardugo/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fab-fantasy-june.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240512T042242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T171016Z UID:8583-1717336800-1717344000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Nicole Seitz: The Remnant! DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to have acclaimed lowcountry author Nicole Seitz return to Main Street Reads for the debut of her new novel\, the third book in the House of Heaventree series. Come get Nicole’s books personalized by the author – all three will be available for signing! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s time to bring the remnant home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen an earthquake endangers believers in hiding\, it’s time for new assignments. Cornelius and Josh must partner to find their friends on the outside\, but when they discover a pocket of refugees underground will it lead to recovery of the remnant or expose them to even more danger? \n\n\n\nBack at Heaventree\, Flare unearths new questions about the Book of the Martyrs\, while Joe and Nattie work on a top secret project. In The Remnant\, the students of Heaventree are begining to piece together just how close they are to Christ’s imminent return. This third book in the House of Heaventree series explores themes of family\, prophecy and collaboration\, shedding needed light on the future and on our world today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNICOLE SEITZ is the acclaimed author of 12 books\, an editor\, educator and illustrator/artist. She paints the covers of her novels and teaches visual arts and creative writing at a Christian K-12 school. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism\, Seitz also has a degree in Illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Visit heaventreebooks.com or nicoleseitz.com for more. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-with-nicole-seitz/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Nicole-Seitz-Remnant.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240405T212723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T212724Z UID:8419-1716921000-1716926400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:May Bestseller Book Club: A Short Walk Through a Wide World DESCRIPTION:Super excited about this month’s pick – A Short Walk through a Wide World by debut novelist Douglas Westerbeke is part Addie LaRue\, part Starless Sea\, part Life of Pi and ALL mesmerizing! \n\n\n\nAs always\, this book club pick is available for 10% off (book club pricing) and the evening at our in-house book club includes free treats and wine – you just bring the scintillating conversation – and we expect some incredible conversation around this winner! \n\n\n\nThink The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi or A Starless Sea. This is an epic debut that chronicles an incredible life of a woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a curse that will kill her if she stops too long in any one place! Intriguing\, right? \n\n\n\nIt all begins in Paris in 1885\, when nine-year-old Aubry Tourvel\, a spoiled and stubborn childl\, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her way home from school. She tosses it over the fence\, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later\, at the family dinner table\, she suddenly begins to bleed to death. \n\n\n\nWhen medical treatment only makes her worse\, she flees to the outskirts of the city\, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that inexplicably keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition\, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor –and here’s the kicker– return to any place where she’s already been. \n\n\n\nFrom the dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard\, to the shelves of an infinite underground library\, we are tethered to Aubry as she is tethered to her curse. She learns what it takes to survive and ultimately\, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others\, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s… \n\n\n\nForced to be fiercely independent and yet somehow hopeful and full of longing\, Aubry becomes an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders\, all to find a safe place she can call home. This really is a spellbinding and inspiring story about discovering meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible. And at its core\, it should remind each of us that it’s not the destination\, but rather the journey\, that makes us who we are. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/may-bestseller-book-club-a-short-walk-through-a-wide-world/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/May-Bestseller-Bookclub-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T183000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240428T034023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T180813Z UID:8527-1716226200-1716229800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:NEW! Young Reader Book Club DESCRIPTION:You asked – we answered: we’re starting an all-new young reader book club! \n\n\n\nWe’re going to kick off the May/June/July meetings with a wonderful series by New York Times bestselling authors Mary Alice Monroe and Angela May: The Islanders\, with a target age range of 8-11. As with all our clubs\, book club selections are always 10% off the list price: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook one\, The Islanders\, will take place May 20th. On Monday\, June 17th\, we’ll discuss the second book in the series\, The Islanders: Search for Treasure. \n\n\n\nAnd on July 15th\, we’ll talk about the third all-new book\, coming out June 18th\, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this on Saturday\, \n\n\n\nInfo about the first book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance\, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next two selections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021. \n\n\n\nAbby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2. \n\n\n\nWe all look forward to seeing you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nFrom New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes a beautiful story of friendship\, loss\, and the healing power of nature in her first book for middle grade readers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan\, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake’s spending the summer on tiny Dewees Island with his grandmother. \n\n\n\nThe island is a nature sanctuary–no cars or paved roads\, no stores or restaurants. To make matters worse\, Jake’s grandmother doesn’t believe in cable or the internet\, which means Jake has no cell phone\, no video games…and no friends. \n\n\n\nThis is going to be the worst summer ever! \n\n\n\nHe’s barely on the island before he befriends two other kids–Macon\, another “summer kid\,” and Lovie\, a know-it-all who lives there and shows both Jake and Macon the ropes of life on the island. All three are struggling with their own family issues and they quickly bond\, going on adventures all over Dewees Island. \n\n\n\nUntil one misadventure on an abandoned boat leads to community service. Their punishment? Mandatory duty on the Island Turtle Team. The kids must do a daily dawn patrol of the beach on the hunt for loggerhead sea turtle tracks. \n\n\n\nWhen a turtle nest is threatened by coyotes\, the three friends must find a way to protect it. Can they save the turtle nest from predators? Can Jake’s growing love for the island and its inhabitants (be they two-legged\, four-legged\, feathered\, or finned) help to heal his father? URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/new-young-reader-book-club/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Young-Readers-5-20.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240505T050433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240505T050435Z UID:8562-1715846400-1715878800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Third Thursday: Take the Challenge! DESCRIPTION:This month’s Third Thursday theme is “Take the Challenge” – there’ll be plenty of music and challenges on the square. \n\n\n\nOur challenge to you? Pick a book in a genre you wouldn’t normally read. Hooked on fantasy? Give non-fiction a whirl. Love historical fiction? Try something in sci-fi… You might just discover a whole new world… URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-take-the-challenge/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Third-Thursday-May-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240405T204420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T204435Z UID:8414-1715711400-1715716800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to read and talk about Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher at our in-house thriller book club; this one is getting lots of buzz! And\, since it’s one of our rare paperback releases\, it’s perfect to take with to the beach. As always\, our book club selections are 10% off. You bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats (and wine\, of course). \n\n\n\n“The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!” –Colleen Hoover \n\n\n\nIris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped–so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister’s fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there was anything to investigate. With Piper presumed a runaway and no evidence to go on but Iris’s scattered memories\, the case quickly goes cold.Ever since that terrible day\, Iris’ search for Piper has bordered on obsession. Chasing leads across years and following clues that all seem to point to a single name\, Iris does everything she can to get close to the only person who might know the answer to the question that still haunts her: where did Piper go? \n\n\n\nAnd if the police still won’t help\, she’ll just have to find the answer herself–using her criminal psychology degree to intern at the isolated psychiatric hospital on Shoal Island\, where secrets lurk in the shadows and are kept under lock and key. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the Shoal\, and that the patients aren’t the only ones being observed… \n\n\n\nLooking for more captivating reads by Tarryn Fisher? Don’t miss: \n\n\n\n\nNever Never (with Colleen Hoover)\n\n\n\nAn Honest Lie\n\n\n\nThe Wives\n\n\n\nThe Wrong Family URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-good-half-gone-by-tarryn-fisher/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MAY-2024-THRILLER-CLUB.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240412T144952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240428T044815Z UID:8431-1715425200-1715432400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: Jewel Sweeney DESCRIPTION:Join us Mother’s Day weekend for a special signing with local favorite author Jewel Sweeney\, debuting another star in her lineup\, Beach Days! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCasey has lived her life for her family. She is the ideal wife and mother\, working and taking care of everyone. Her husband was just not willing to make the same sacrifices. \n\n\n\nIn an instant\, Casey’s world is turned upside down. Will she ever be able to find the woman she once was? \n\n\n\nOther books in Jewel’s lineup will be available for purchase/signing as well. AND\, our Mother’s Day weekend festivities include a Blind Date with a Book promotion\, so when you buy a book – you get a blind date FREE! \n\n\n\nCome join the fun and we’ll see you on Main Street… URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-jewel-sweeney/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jewel-Sweeney-Beach-Days.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240407T121843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T065142Z UID:8423-1715104800-1715112000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Launch Party: When Cicadas Cry with Caroline Cleveland DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting a very special launch party for When Cicadas Cry by Caroline Cleveland\, and you’re invited! Your ticket includes the book\, in-store treats during our author Meet & Greet\, AND 10% off your check at Frothy Beard next door that evening. Make a night of it\, bring your friends and enjoy some books and brew! (Store receipt required for the 10% off at Frothy Beard.) \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE – SAME AS BOOK PRICE – JUST $18.99\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney\, Zach Stander\, a lawyer with a past\, and Addie Stone\, his indomitable detective and lover\, find themselves entangled in secrets\, lies\, and murder in a small Southern town. \n\n\n\nA high-profile murder case–A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro\, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins\, a Black man\, is found covered in blood\, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension\, this is not only a murder case\, but a powder keg. A haunting cold case–Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach\, an hour southeast of Walterboro\, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander’s case? A killer who’s watching–Stander takes on Jenkins’s defense\, but he’s up against a formidable solicitor with powerful allies. Worse\, his client is hiding a bombshell secret. When Addie Stone reopens the cold case\, she discovers more long-buried secrets in this small town. Would someone kill again to keep them? \n\n\n\nIdeal for fans of mystery\, suspense\, and thrillers in the vein of Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls and Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark\, as well as for readers who followed the high-profile Murdaugh murder trial\, held in the same small town as in When Cicadas Cry. \n\n\n\nGET YOUR TIX HERE – JUST $18.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline Cleveland credits growing up in the rural South and its quieter way of life for her lifelong passion for books and storytelling. As an adolescent\, she devoured classics like Old Yeller and The Yearling\, discovered Agatha Christie and Steven King in her teenage years\, and\, later\, was mesmerized reading thrillers by authors including John Grisham\, Michael Connelly\, Karin Slaughter and Mary Kubica. \n\n\n\nHer dedication to the written word led her to law school at the University of South Carolina\, where she earned her degree in 1991. She is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in labor and employment law and is the founding partner of Cleveland & Conley\, LLC. \n\n\n\nCaroline draws on her rich and varied life experience working in the law for her writing. She elaborates\, “Law school students are warned the first day that the law is a jealous mistress\, and there is a reason for that. But I have always made time to read for pleasure. Eventually\, it dawned on me that I\, too\, have entertaining and powerful stories to tell. As a writer\, I gravitate toward mystery and suspense\, as I cannot resist a character who has a dark secret or is wrestling with inner demons. I have lived in the South all my life\, so my stories inevitably come from a Southern perspective\, featuring deceptively peaceful small towns and strong\, complex characters who rely on their Southern sense of values.” URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/launch-party-when-cicadas-cry-with-caroline-cleveland/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/When-Cicadas-Cry-Launch-Party.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240412T145733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T045131Z UID:8434-1714917600-1714924800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Final Victory by Roger Jones DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host Roger Jones\, author of the brand new hit\, The Final Victory\, in-store on Sunday afternoon\, May 5th! Read on for more on this incredible release and its inspiring author: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a novel that fuses the riveting action of The Boys in the Boat with the emotional heft of The Fault in Our Stars\, twenty cancer patients compete in a grueling race only to discover that real victory is achieved within. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter he is diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer\, Tripp Avery feels like all is lost. He finds himself coaching a team of twelve men and eight women with cancer diagnoses of their own\, hoping to qualify for the Mixed Masters Dragon Boat national championship and defy their prognoses. If they win\, they will represent the United States at the International Dragon Boat races in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nBut things soon get complicated\, as four of his teammates struggle against their physical limitations and the psychological weight of their conditions. In the summer heat of Chattanooga\, their resolve grows thin–along with Tripp’s patience. After a devastating loss to the defending national champions\, Tripp can only see the finish line\, and he pushes the team even harder. Soon\, the team starts to fall apart. \n\n\n\nAs members of the team collapse under the pressure and one is hospitalized\, Tripp must confront his failings and find a way to move forward. He begins to question his motives\, wondering if the win is worth the trauma and what that says about him. Despite the odds\, he resolves to rally the team toward a comeback that seems impossible\, if only for one final victory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoger Jones\, businessman\, philanthropist\, humanitarian and avid athlete has founded numerous business and community organizations. In 1996\, he started Companion Associates\, Inc.\, one of South Carolina’s largest privately held real estate development firms. He has helped establish and launch non-profit organizations including Reading Partners of South Carolina\, Charleston Social Venture Partners\, and The Charleston Paddle Club. \n\n\n\nDuring a 2012 trip to East Germany to receive a newly developed intensive radiation treatment for Neuroendocrine Cancer\, Roger decided to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. The Final Victory is his first novel. Married for forty-seven years\, Roger is the proud father of three children and grandfather of three grandchildren. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-the-final-victory-by-roger-jones/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ROGER-JONES-FINAL-VICTORY.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240405T194140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T195325Z UID:8409-1714674600-1714680000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:May Fab Fantasy Book Club: The Butcher of the Forest DESCRIPTION:Join us at our in-house Fab Fantasy book club on May 2nd\, when we’ll be chatting about The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed – a new hit available at the 10% off book club discount. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the wine and treats! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A perfect mix of horror and fantasy.”–The New York Times \n\n\n\n“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars.”–The Washington Post“The Grimm brothers can’t hold a candle to Premee Mohamed and her fever dream of a fantasy novella.”–Polygon \n\n\n\nA world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark\, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed. \n\n\n\nAt the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild\, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn–the only one to ever enter the forest and survive–is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant’s missing children. \n\n\n\nInside await traps and trickery\, ancient monsters\, and hauntings of the past. One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/may-fab-fantasy-book-club-the-butcher-of-the-forest/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fab-Fantasy-May-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20231130T211508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T033428Z UID:8049-1714208400-1714240800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:2024 Indie Bookstore Day! DESCRIPTION:The highlight of indie bookstores from coast to coast each year – a day celebrating indie stores and our incredible readers! As always\, we’ll have exclusive products on the big day\, author appearances\, and more\, beginning with Storytime for our young readers at 9 a.m. and continuing right on through the day with treats\, specials\, appearances by favorite local authors and more! \n\n\n\nAUTHOR LINEUP!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt 9:00 a.m.\, local children’s book authors Jewel Sweeney (at left) and Marybeth Wishart (right) will be reading Bugaboo Adventures (Jewel) and Parker the Purple Penguin (Marybeth) out loud to young fans. Like our usual storytime adventures\, complimentary juice boxes and fruit snacks will be available. Jewel and Marybeth will also be signing copies of their books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt 11 a.m.\, we’re treating readers to two wonderful local authors\, Angie Mizzell (left) and Marissa Hale (right). Angie will be signing copies of her recent and wonderfully insightful memoir release\, Girl in the Spotlight. Marissa will be signing American Wild\, the historical novel that has been steadily growing a historical fiction fan base! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt noon\, we’re delighted to have Regina Williams (at left) join us with her popular short story collection\, Promise. And at 1:00 p.m.\, southern fiction prize winner Bren McClain (at right) will join us to sign copies of the stunning One Good Mama Bone! \n\n\n\nThen\, at 2 p.m.\, Jewel Sweeney will be back to sign copies of her young adult and adult titles! \n\n\n\nGIFTS AND GOODIES:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhen you visit Main Street Reads on April 27th\, Everyone Gets: \n\n\n\n\nAn Independent Bookstore Day Bookmark\n\n\n\nAn “I Visited An Independent Bookstore” Sticker\n\n\n\nA Free Book Buck To Use On Any In-Store Purchase\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPLUS – we’ll be sending you to favorite local eateries to try their literary-themed item for the big day. (HINT: Coastal Coffee will once again regail readers with its famed Hemingway blend\, crafted specifically for the day. Frothy Beard next door has promised something delightful\, as has Eva’s on Main… watch our socials for these! \n\n\n\nAnd NOW… drum roll please! Here’s a look at items you won’t find before Indie Bookstore Day – and quantities are limited\, so once they’re gone\, they’re gone! Free items shown below will be offered as gifts w/purchase on a first-come/first-served basis. Meaning\, you can take your pick of one of the freebies when you check out… earlier you get there\, the better chance you’ll get your choice! \n\n\n\nSee you on Main Street\, April 27th… \n\n\n\nIndie Bookstore Day Exclusive Items:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBLACKWING PENCILS: Six Sets Available Blackwing & Independent Bookstore Day have teamed up for the third consecutive year to create a new setof pencils exclusively for independent bookstores. Each year the interest and popularity of these limited edition pencils continues to grow. The pencils feature a design inspired by independent bookstores and the printed word. $30.00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEAT SLEEP READ LOCAL MAGNET: Five Available Inspired by the popular IndieBound posters (you’ve seen one in our store)\, readers can show their support for independent bookstores in their community on their refrigerator\, shelf\, or other magnetic surfaces. $3.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“READ TO ME” ONESIE: Five Available This adorable striped baby bodysuit is the perfect gift for any book-loving parent. It fits most 6–12-month-olds and was designed exclusively for Indie Bookstore Day by Out of Print. $24.00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“BANS OFF OUR BOOKS!” POUCH: Six Available Take a stand against censorship with this gorgeous\, retro zippered pouch designed by Ash + Chess for Out of Print. Keep your pencils and post-its handy\, or use it as a cosmetic bag or catch-all bag in your book tote. $16.00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n “THE FUTURE IS INDIE” MUG: Eight Available Sip from this “The Future is Indie” mug as a reminder of championing individuality and celebrating the boundless possibilities of independent creativity with every brew. This glossy exterior mug with glossy white interior\, black rim\, and speckles is microwave-safe. $15.99 \n\n\n\nIndie Bookstore Day Exclusive BOOKS:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPAPERBACK EDITION OF A STROKE OF THE PEN: Eight Available A delightfully funny\, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett\, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove — featuring charming woodcut illustrations and a new cover — is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for British newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. The stories have never been attributed to him until now\, and might never have been found — were it not for the efforts of a few dedicated fans. $18.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBECOMING WHO WE ARE GRAPHIC NOVEL: Three AvailableReal Stories About Growing Up Trans. Nine members of the trans community share their real-life childhood experiences\, which include much more than just their gender journeys. Their courageous yet relatable stories will inspire readers as they see these musicians\, teachers\, scientists and activists overcome the various challenges of growing up to discover who they truly are. This Independent Bookstore Day exclusive edition comes with a foil logo and a fold in poster of the cover art. Lilah Sturges is the writer of numerous comics\, including the PRISM Award-winning Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass and The Magicians and Legendary Comics’ upcoming The Science of Ghosts\, as well as many other titles from DC\, Marvel\, IDW\, and others. $16.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSIGNED 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE FIELD GUIDE TO DUMB BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA: Ten AvailableThis exclusive signed edition also includes a dumb birds sticker sheet and a letter from the author\, Matt Kracht\, to the readers that made this book a bestseller for the past five years. Matt Kracht is the author of the bestselling The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America and its sequel\, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World. Based in Seattle\, he enjoys gazing out the window at the beautiful waters of Puget Sound and making fun of birds. He also likes bees. Like\, a lot. $15.95 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSIGNED COPY OF BUBBLY BEAUTIFUL KITTY-CORN: Three AvailableFrom bestselling Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn creators Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham comes another heartwarming and hilarious Kitty and Unicorn story about big dreams\, self-esteem\, the enduring magic of true friendship…and mermaids! Each book will come with a signed bookplate affixed to the title page and a tattoo sheet. LeUyen Pham and Shannon Hale are the team behind the bestselling picture books Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn and Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn\, the bestselling graphic novels Real Friends\, Best Friends\, and Friends Forever\, and\, with Dean Hale\, the early chapter book series\, The Princess in Black. $19.99 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAN EXCELLENT HOST SIGNED PAPERBACK: Six AvailableIn An Excellent Host\, modern dating goes wildly awry (at least when Chelsea G. Summers is in charge of the Airbnb booking). Somewhere in Brooklyn\, a feast awaits its guests\, a man cannot believe his great good luck\, and ancient gods get ready to receive their due in this horror-fantasy updating of Greek myths. Chelsea G. Summers is a writer whose work focuses on sex\, politics\, tech\, fashion and culture. She is a former academic and professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature\, a discipline that has proven to be shockingly useful when writing about contemporary culture. $14.95 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY TOTE BAG: 20 AvailableThe 2024 Independent Bookstore Day tote bag has a gusseted bottom. The tote bags are made available to Independent Bookstore Day stores and sold individually. 10 oz natural-color cotton canvas 18 in. x 14.5 in. flat-cut bag with 9 in. natural handles. $14.99 or FREE w/purchase of $75 or more. \n\n\n\nIndie Bookstore Day Exclusive FREEBIES:\n\n\n\nPick one of these with your purchases\, ’til they run out! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREBEL GIRLS EXCLUSIVE STICKER SHEET – Three AvailableAn exclusive sticker sheet with over 15 stickers\, featuring fun illustrations and empowering sayings in the signature Rebel Girls style. Rebel Girls is a global empowerment brand dedicated to raising the most inspired and confident generation of girls. We believe in empowering girls to dream big\, that amplifying stories of real-life women can lead to a more equal world\, and that girls can and should do everything! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST CAT IN SPACE MOON COMIX: One AvailableExclusively for Independent Bookstore Day 2024\, an 8-page\, full-color comic by award winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris\, based on their massively popular\, action-packed and hysterical graphic novel series\, The First Cat in Space! Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor-winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn.  Shawn Harris’ first illustrated book\, Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers\, received seven starred reviews\, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book\, an ALA Notable\, and a PW Best Book of the Year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN OF BLOOD & BONE INDIE METAL BOOKMARK: Six AvailableAn exclusive designed and etched metal bookmark inspired by bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi’s upcoming novel\, Children of Anguish and Anarchy\, publishing on June 25\, 2024. The earth-shaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Children of Orisha Series (Children of Blood and Bone\, Children of Virtue and Vengeance) is the final installment of the thrilling YA fantasy series that became a global phenomenon. The bookmark incorporates design elements from the book’s cover. Named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people\, Tomi Adeyemi is a Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Nigerian-American writer and storyteller based in Los Angeles\, California. In 2020\, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHAT’S NOT MY® COLORING BOOKLET: Four Available2024 marks 25 years of Usborne’s globally bestselling touchy-feely series\, THAT’S NOT MY®. To celebrate the occasion\, a limited edition 8-page THAT’S NOT MY® coloring book\, made up of popular characters from the series. Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing.  She is the sixth biggest-selling UK children’s author\, with over 10 million of her books sold in the UK since records began. Rachel Wells is a successful illustrator and author\, best known for illustrating all of the THAT’S NOT MY® books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHAND-SIGNED PRINT FROM MILK AND HONEY: Ten AvailableIn celebration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the New York Times bestselling milk and honey by Rupi Kaur: an exclusive signed print of a poem from the book\, packaged in a protective envelope. Rupi Kaur is a poet\, artist\, and performer. As a 21-year-old university student\, Rupi wrote\, illustrated\, and self-published her first poetry collection\, milk and honey. Next came its artistic siblings\, the sun and her flowers and home body. These collections have sold over 11 million copies and have been translated into over 43 languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWE LOVE INDIES COLORING BOOK: Five AvailableWe asked our favorite Quarto authors and artists to submit coloring pages of their favorite local\, independent bookstores\, and they delivered! Includes a short quote from the author on what they LOVE best about their favorite Indie bookstore and a coloring page inspired by each store. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSET OF 3 GREETING CARDS FROM BE YOU!: Fifty AvailableA set of three greeting cards with envelopes\, designed to be an inspiring message to new graduates! Using art and messaging from the picture book Be You! By Peter H. Reynolds. One pack is 3 cards with envelopes\, belly banded together. Peter H. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of many books for children\, including Happy Dreamer\, The Word Collector\, Say Something!\, Be You!\, and Our Table. He is also the illustrator of When Things Aren’t Going Right\, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni. His books have been translated into over 25 languages around the globe and are celebrated worldwide. In 1996\, he founded FableVision with his brother\, Paul\, as a social change agency to help create “stories that matter\, stories that move.” URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/2024-indie-bookstore-day/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Special Sale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-30-at-3.56.50 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240324T060139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T060140Z UID:8370-1713897000-1713902400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:April Bestsellers Book Club: The Women by Kristin Hannah DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to be featuring The Women by Kristin Hannah in this month’s bestsellers book club. As always\, the book is available at 10% off special book club pricing. Our clubs are free and open to all – you bring the conversation\, we’ll supply the treats! \n\n\n\nA #1 bestseller on The New York Times\, USA Today\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women–at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. \n\n\n\nWomen can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words\, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched\, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents\, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. \n\n\n\nBut in 1965\, the world is changing\, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam\, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight\, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. \n\n\n\nEach day is a gamble of life and death\, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war\, she meets–and becomes one of–the lucky\, the brave\, the broken\, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. \n\n\n\nThe real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America\, to angry protesters\, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war\, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. \n\n\n\nA novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism\, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-bestsellers-book-club-the-women-by-kristin-hannah/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bestsellers-Club-April-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240414T104622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T104624Z UID:8459-1713461400-1713470400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Third Thursday: Flower the Town! DESCRIPTION:This month’s Third Thursday theme is “Flower the Town” to celebrate all the new flowers you’ve seen being installed around town\, including on the post just outside Main Street Reads! \n\n\n\nTimely\, since next Monday is Earth Day\, so we’ll begin our Earth Day celebrations early with 10% off gardening\, conservation and climate change books\, PLUS we’ll be giving out free Hawaiian flower leis to customers this evening – COME JOIN THE FUN! \n\n\n\nIf you haven’t been to Third Thursday\, you’re missing our town’s awesome monthly block party – live bands\, food trucks\, booths\, and late hours for downtown businesses – this night is our town’s monthly block party\, just for YOU! \n\n\n\nSee you on Main Street… URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-flower-the-town/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale,Third Thursday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Flower-the-Town.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240324T054712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T054713Z UID:8364-1712687400-1712692800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:April Thriller Book Club: The Fury DESCRIPTION:As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all – you bring the chatter\, we’ll provide the treats! And the book is available at Main Street Reads for the 10% off book club price. \n\n\n\nThis month\, it’s the incomparable Alex Michaelides\, back with another psychological thriller\, The Fury. \n\n\n\nA masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient \n\n\n\nThis is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart\, it’s a love story\, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year\, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. \n\n\n\nI tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids\, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. \n\n\n\nWhat followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits\, full of twists and turns\, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death\, as one of us was found murdered. \n\n\n\nBut who am I? My name is Elliot Chase\, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard… URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-thriller-book-club-the-fury/ CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Thriller-Club-April-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240331T054520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240331T054521Z UID:8396-1712484000-1712494800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: Meet Margaret Seidler! DESCRIPTION:We have a special “Meet the Author” on Sunday with Margaret Seidler – here’s your chance to grab a copy of Payne-ful Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth and get it signed by the author! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis elegant\, historically important book follows Margaret Seidler’s mission to learn and process her family’s genealogical past. Margaret will be at Main Street Reads on Sunday during the Flowertown Festival to meet readers and sign books\, so come on out if you want a personalized copy. \n\n\n\nUsing extensive research and personal experience\, Margaret discusses the realities of Charleston’s racial history while highlighting the historians\, journalists\, and community members who work to reconcile those truths. The book features authentic\, historic slave advertisements brought to life by vivid paintings by artist John W. Jones that uncover the humanity hidden beneath the detached advertisement descriptions. \n\n\n\nSeidler hopes that acknowledging a more complete truth about our past will motivate us to bridge today’s racial divide. Born and raised in Charleston\, Margaret\, in the aftermath of the Mother Emanuel massacre\, worked with former City Police Chief Greg Mullen to lead the Charleston Illumination Project\, a year-long effort\, designed to give all parts of the community a voice. She continues to lend her talents to give voice to our lowcountry past\, present and future. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-meet-margaret-seidler/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Seidler-Book-Signing-April-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240325T043648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T043649Z UID:8391-1712307600-1712505600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Flowertown Festival! DESCRIPTION:The Flowertown Festival is the Y’s premiere fundraiser founded in 1973 to support health and wellness programs at the Y. \n\n\n\nEvery spring\, thousands of people visit Summerville to see nature’s bounty awash in color\, from the hot pink azaleas\, to the purple wisteria\, to the delicate white dogwood. \n\n\n\nOn this three-day weekend\, festival-goers take in the flowers and hospitality and attend one of the largest arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast. \n\n\n\nAt Main Street Reads\, shoppers can leave their purchases and shop the fest so you don’t have to carry them – so long as you’re back to pick them up within half an hour of festival ending (6:30 p.m. on Fri/Sat and 4:30 p.m. Sunday). \n\n\n\nWe’ll also be featuring plenty of local authors and store specials – see you on Main Street! \n\n\n\nSHOW HOURS:\n\n\n\n\nApril 5: 9-6pm\n\n\n\nApril 6: 9-6pm\n\n\n\nApril 7: 9-4pm URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/flowertown-festival/ CATEGORIES:Art Show,Special Sale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/scaled_768.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240323T201848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T055106Z UID:8359-1712255400-1712260800@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:April Fantasy Book Club: An Education in Malice DESCRIPTION:The first Thursday of each month celebrates a new fantasy read and this month it’s An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson! \n\n\n\nSumptuous and addictive\, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood\, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson\, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. \n\n\n\nDeep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient\, it is not a place for timid girls. Here\, secrets are currency\, ambition is lifeblood\, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. \n\n\n\nOn her first day of class\, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together\, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor\, De Lafontaine\, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla. \n\n\n\nBut as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious\, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics\, bloodthirsty professors and magic\, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/april-fab-fantasy-an-education-in-malice/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Fantasy-Club-April-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20220402T202950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T061958Z UID:6111-1711706400-1711821600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Easter Egg "Not-A-Hunt" DESCRIPTION:Here’s an egg-cellent chance to win egg-citing prizes during our egg-straordinary “Not a Hunt” — We’re putting all our eggs in one basket (should we stop now?) and each in-store purchase wins you an egg! \n\n\n\nBesides a couple of surprise sweet treats inside each egg\, there’ll be a prize for a free giveaway item from the store – it may be a print\, a candle\, a book\, a book buck or a gift certificate…you won’t know ’til you crack open your egg! \n\n\n\nPrizes all day long Friday and Saturday (or ’til we run out of eggs!) \n\n\n\nCome join the fun and celebrate spring with us at Main Street Reads! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/easter-egg-not-a-hunt/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/easter-egg-hunt.png ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240218T062658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240218T062802Z UID:8301-1711477800-1711483200@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Bestsellers Book Club: Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham DESCRIPTION:Unlike the live chat with Stacy – this club WILL be full of spoilers as y’all have had a month to dig into this great dark academia thriller! As always\, treats will be provided – you bring the chatter! \n\n\n\nA sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic\, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot\, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one\, the careful one\, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year\, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe\, and asks her to room together\, something in Margot can’t say no–something daring\, or starved\, or maybe even envious. \n\n\n\nAnd so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls\, Lucy\, the ringleader; Sloane\, the sarcastic one; and Nicole\, the nice one\, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high school\, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends\, but by the middle of their sophomore year\, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace. \n\n\n\nFrom the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging\, about loyalty\, envy\, and betrayal–another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-book-club-only-if-youre-lucky-by-stacy-willingham/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/March-Living-Large-Lucky.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240224T042111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T042113Z UID:8318-1711188000-1711213200@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Summerville Spring Sidewalk Sale! DESCRIPTION:Join us and downtown merchants for a special spring sidewalk sale – we’ll be featuring hundreds of books 50-75% off – you won’t want to miss it! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/summerville-spring-sidewalk-sale/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Sale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/spring-sidewalk-sale-header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T150000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240224T040751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T042202Z UID:8314-1710583200-1710601200@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Shamrockin' on the Square! DESCRIPTION:Shamrockin’ on the Square happens on March 16th from 10 am-3 pm. Get your “Luck of the Irish” on and search for clovers at participating businesses in historic downtown. Hint: There will be a map! When you find a clover\, return it to the DREAM tent on the square and pull a gift card from the pot! \n\n\n\nIn addition to the shamrock hunt\, several special activities will be taking place\, including live music on Hutchinson Square stage\, Irish Dancers\, and expanded entertainment on Short Central. There’ll be green treats at Main Street Reads\, so come on out and enjoy the fun! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/shamrockin-on-the-square/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/shamrockin-on-the-square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240215T220441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T220443Z UID:8292-1710268200-1710273600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:March Thrill in the 'Ville Thriller Book Club: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins DESCRIPTION:Our March thriller book club will be dishing on the latest hit from Rachel Hawkins: The Heiress. As always\, the book is at the 10% off book club price in-store\, and we’ll have treats and libations to stimulate the conversations 🙂 \n\n\n\nAn Indie Next AND Library Reads Pick: “The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly \n\n\n\nTHERE’S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies\, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman\, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over\, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House\, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. \n\n\n\nBut in the aftermath of her death\, her adopted son\, Camden\, wants little to do with the house or the money–and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead\, he rejects his inheritance\, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules\, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. \n\n\n\nTen years later\, his uncle’s death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever\, its rooms just as elegant\, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable. And as Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden\, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. \n\n\n\nWas there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands\, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? \n\n\n\nSoon\, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will–and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/march-thrill-in-the-ville-thriller-book-club-the-heiress-by-rachel-hawkins/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MARCH-Thriller-The-Heiress.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240128T064032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240128T070413Z UID:8228-1710079200-1710086400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Meet NYT Bestselling Author Brad Taylor! DESCRIPTION:YES! The Timrod Library and Main Street Reads are THRILLED to bring another New York Times bestselling author to Summerville! This is both the 25th anniverary year of Timrod’s popular author series\, plus March is when we’re celebrating our FIFTH birthday. What better way to celebrate with y’all then to bring another literary rock star to town\, with the launch of his newest book! \n\n\n\nYou can grab your tickets at Main Street Reads (for the same price as the featured book) or at our Eventbrite site. Your ticket includes the book\, the author talk\, and the post-talk reception (with wonderful food and wine). Books will be available for pickup with your ticket OR at the event. The reception is also where you can have your copy of Dead Man’s Hand personalized by Brad Taylor\, and purchase more of his best-selling books to add to your collection (or pick out an early Easter or Father’s Day gift). \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrad Taylor\, author of multiple New York Times bestselling books\, will introduce Dead Man’s Hand\, a topical edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring Pike Logan going head-to-head with Vladimir Putin’s henchmen. Taylor is a twenty-one-year veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces\, includ­ing eight years with Delta Force. He has written seventeen New York Times bestsellers and lives in Charleston\, South Carolina\, with his wife and two daughters. \n\n\n\nThe event begins with a presentation by the author at 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Bethany United Methodist Church\, 118 W. Third St.\, followed by a reception and book signing at the Timrod Library. Main Street Reads will have additional copies on sale there for friends and family\, as well as other titles by Taylor. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE!\n\n\n\n\nFor Timrod Library Members\, discounted tix are available at the Timrod Library. Call 843-871-4600\, visit the Timrod Library at 217 Central Ave.\, or purchase online HERE. \n\n\n\nDead Man’s Hand:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo finally end the war between their nations\, a rogue band of Ukranian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. \n\n\n\nBut Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It’s a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO–by assassinating a deputy minister of foreign affairs. \n\n\n\nAfter receiving intelligence about the threat in Sweden\, the United States sends Pike Logan to identify Petrov’s target–only for him to get caught in the crossfire between Putin’s agents and the Wolves. When the smoke clears\, Pike makes no effort to stop the Wolves on their ultimate mission\, believing it just\, until he discovers that their operation has unimaginable consequences. \n\n\n\nFor Putin is preparing a devastating endgame: activating the Dead Man’s Hand nuclear response that will launch Russia’s missiles in the event of his death. Read a free excerpt HERE. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-nyt-bestselling-author-brad-taylor/ CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BRAD-TAYLOR-DEAD-MANS-HAND.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240215T211748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T044449Z UID:8287-1709836200-1709841600@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:March Fab Fantasy Book Club: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson DESCRIPTION:Join us for Fab Fantasy on Thursday\, March 7th when we’ll be diving into Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson\, author of several mega-popular fantasy books at Main Street Reads\, including former club pick Tress of the Emerald Sea! \n\n\n\nAs always\, you bring the chatter\, we’ll supply the treats – and our book club selections are always 10% off retail price\, so come and grab yours soon! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:\n\n\n\nFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson–creator of The Stormlight Archive\, the Mistborn Saga\, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy–comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid\, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster. \n\n\n\nYumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience\, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society–but she longs for even a single day as a normal person. \n\n\n\nPainter patrols the dark streets dreaming of being a hero–a goal that has led to nothing but heartache and isolation\, leaving him always on the outside looking in. In their own ways\, both of them face the world alone. Suddenly flung together\, \n\n\n\nYumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives\, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it’s too late\, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them\, but the very worlds they’ve always struggled to protect. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/march-fab-fantasy-book-club-yumi-and-the-nightmare-painter-by-brandon-sanderson/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/March-7-Fab-Fantasy-Yumi.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240105T020017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240121T184741Z UID:8173-1709058600-1709064000@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:February Living Large Book Club: Blackouts by Justin Torres DESCRIPTION:For all you fans of the incomparable Justin Torres and his debut hit\, We the Animals\, he’s back with Blackouts\, which we chose even before we knew it had won the National Book Award! We’re excited to discuss this one – hope you are\, too. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs always\, the book is available at our 10% off book club discount. We’ll bring the eats and drink – y’all bring your insights – this is going to be quite a discussion! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, Time\, BookPage\, The New York Public Library\, Powell’s A Must-Read: The New York Times\, Time\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, The Guardian\, Boston Herald\, Literary Hub\, The Rumpus\, The Bay Area Reporter\, Datebook\, Electric Literature\, The Stacks\, Them\, Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Sweeping\, ingenious . . . A kiss to build a dream on.” \n–Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air\n\n\n\nFrom the bestselling author of We the Animals\, Blackouts mines lost histories–personal and collective. Out in the desert in a place called the Palace\, a young man tends to a dying soul\, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur\, child lost and found and lost\, guardian of the institutionalized\, Juan has a project to pass along\, one built around a true artifact of a book–Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns–and its devastating history. \n\n\n\nThis book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher\, Jan Gay\, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee\, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered\, muted\, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text\, which\, in Juan’s tattered volumes\, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. \n\n\n\nAs Juan waits for his end\, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves\, lives\, mothers\, fathers\, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book\, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us\, beside us\, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? \n\n\n\nA book about storytelling–its legacies\, dangers\, delights\, and potential for change–and a bold exploration of form\, art\, and love\, Justin Torres’s Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. \n\n\n\nA marvel of creative imagination\, it draws on testimony\, photographs\, illustrations\, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made–a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. \n\n\n\nA reclamation of ransacked history\, a celebration of defiance\, and a transformative encounter\, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-living-large-book-club-blackouts-by-justin-torres/ CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FEBRUARY-THRILLER-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240128T144132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240128T144134Z UID:8249-1708018200-1708027200@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Third Thursday Book Signing: American Wild by Marissa Hale DESCRIPTION:On Third Thursday\, we’ll be celebrating one of our own! A few years back\, Marissa Hale was workshopping this beautiful piece of historical fiction with us. Now American Wild has been birthed and is ready to meet the world! Based on true events\, this is the inspiring story of a French widow thrust alone into the New World after her husband’s murder… \n\n\n\nAmerica. L’Amérique. A foreign land threatens to take French-born Vittorie LeClerc’s love during a revolution and ultimately succeeds during questionable peace. She watches his last breath evaporate into nothing\, leaving her to survive with only her will\, a knife and a few gold buttons. \n\n\n\nWith the help of a mysterious man of the woods and other pioneers\, Vittorie navigates uncharted territory\, language barriers\, fractious warring nations\, suspicious settlers\, underground slave kings\, and a burgeoning new government. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBased on true events and historical figures during and after the Revolutionary War\, American Wild is the unforgettable story of a woman’s odyssey into significance\, a searchlight into heart\, mind\, history\, and spirit. \n\n\n\nMeet Marissa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnamored of the natural world and the human experience in it\, Marissa Hale has traveled to eleven countries on three continents and visited thirty-eight of the fifty United States. She learned French at a young age\, studied in Paris\, France at the American University there\, and graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in Communications. \n\n\n\nMarissa began researching the story of Frenchman’s Knob shortly after her own move to Hart County\, Kentucky in December 2007. Fresh off the road from touring with her sisters in her band and feeling for the first time like she was terrible at everything she tried to do in her new life\, she felt lost\, ill-equipped\, and alone. The band had broken up\, her dyed-red hair seemed misplaced among her sweet Amish neighbors\, and she was practically the only woman within a 50-mile radius who wasn’t married with children or a fabulous cook. \n\n\n\nWhen a neighbor delivered Florence Edwards Gardiner’s little green book of her father’s (Cyrus Edwards) stories about the landscape and its people and casually said\, “I’ve always thought someone should make a movie out of the second story\, the one about Frenchman’s Knob…” Marissa was hooked. Because of her previous experience in France and knowledge of the language\, the highest peak in Kentucky being named “Frenchman’s Knob” and the accompanying story captured her attention. \n\n\n\nMarissa knew storytelling. She could research. And she did. \n\n\n\nBefore becoming a historical fiction author with American Wild\, Marissa wrote songs and screenplays\, performed for crowds of thousands\, and taught elementary school art. In addition to writing\, she now owns a general contracting company and makes her home in South Carolina with her husband\, children\, and grandchildren. URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-book-signing-american-wild-by-marissa-hale/ CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Celebration,Third Thursday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Marissa-American-Wild.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20240104T200940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T193729Z UID:8168-1707849000-1707854400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:February Thrill in the 'Ville: Anna O by Matthew Blake DESCRIPTION:Our February thriller book club will be dishing on Anna O by Matthew Blake. As always\, the book is at the 10% off book club price in-store\, and we’ll have treats and libations to lubricate the conversations 🙂 \n\n\n\nThis book is already being touted as one of THE thrillers of the year – for anyone who enjoyed Alex Michelaides’ The Silent Patient\, we know you’ll love this one! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining the ranks of Gillian Flynn\, A. J. Finn\, and Alex Michaelides\, Matthew Blake delivers the thriller of the year: a dark\, twisty\, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking\, and then never opens her eyes again. \n\n\n\nWhat if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? \n\n\n\nWe spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens\, and what are we capable of\, when we sleep? \n\n\n\n\n“A riveting\, unsettling crime novel that will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime. Is Anna O a sleeping beauty or a sleeping killer? Matthew Blake’s tension-filled thriller is as elusive and mysterious as sleep itself.” \n—Nita Prose\, #1 New York Times author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest\n\n\n\nAnna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then\, one night\, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive–and hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids\, Anna’s condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as “resignation syndrome.” \n\n\n\nDr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope of solving the infamous “Anna O'”case and waking Anna up so she can stand trial. But he must be careful treating such a high-profile suspect–he’s got career secrets and a complicated personal life of his own. \n\n\n\nAs Anna shows the first signs of stirring\, Benedict must determine what really happened and whether Anna should be held responsible for her crimes. \n\n\n\nOnly Anna knows the truth about that night\, but only Benedict knows how to discover it. And they’re both in danger from what they find out. \n\n\n\nMatthew Blake is a London-based author who has also worked as a screenwriter with the BBC\, ITV Studios\, and numerous other UK indies. \n\n\n\nCan’t make the live? Join in via Zoom: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83115591753?pwd=bGwyNlJITDZvNUcxdU9kckNDSE1Zdz09Meeting ID: 831 1559 1753Passcode: 29483 URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-thrill-in-the-ville-anna-o-by-matthew-blake/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/February-13th-Thriller.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T143933 CREATED:20210926T062332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240204T120229Z UID:5287-1707732000-1708106400@mainstreetreads.com SUMMARY:Spann Elementary School Spirit Week at Main Street Reads DESCRIPTION:We’re super excited to host another school spirit week fundraiser for Spann Elementary School at Main Street Reads. Spann is located less than a mile from us on John McKissick Way\, and we love partnering with them to encourage reading and raise money for their literacy initiatives. \n\n\n\nHere’s how it works: Shop us ALL WEEK LONG February 12-16th and 10% of ALL BOOK SALES at the store will be gifted to Spann Elementary School! BE SURE TO MENTION you’re supporting Spann’s School Spirit week so we can let the school know how many students\, parents and fans they had come to visit. \n\n\n\nAfter the week is up we’ll tell you how great you did and how much we all raised for Spann Elementary and then we’ll present them with the gift. And as always\, we ALSO give discounts to STUDENTS and TEACHERS – let us know if you need help finding the perfect read… \n\n\n\nWe’re so honored and proud to partner with local schools and organizations on reading initiatives\, and we thank you all for helping us make that possible. \n\n\n\nToday’s Readers = Tomorrow’s Leaders! URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/spann-reads-spirit-week-at-main-street-reads/ LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States CATEGORIES:Celebration,School Spirit Week ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mainstreetreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SPANN.png ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR