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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Sweetheart Dessert Stroll in Historic Downtown Summerville!
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sweet snack while you shop and dine in historic downtown Summerville’s amazing small businesses!! Participating shops will have extended hours (til 8 pm) February 9th. \n\n\n\nRight – we don’t make desserts here — but we’ll have ’em anyway\, provided by (it’s a surprise) so stop on by for a free treat! \n\n\n\nWe’re not the only ones – there’ll be sweet treats all around town – stay tuned below…
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/sweetheart-dessert-stroll-in-historic-downtown-summerville/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:February Fab Fantasy Book Club: Witch King by Martha Wells
DESCRIPTION:Join us for February’s first book club of the month when the Fab Fantasy club gathers to discuss Martha Wells’ Witch King! As always\, the book is 10% off book club priced at Main Street Reads. All our clubs are free and open to all – we’ll supply the treats\, you bring the chatter! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:  \n\n\n\nFrom the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship\, of trust and betrayal\, and of the families we choose. “I didn’t know you were a… demon.”“You idiot. I’m the demon.”Kai’s having a long day in Martha Wells’ WITCH KING….After being murdered\, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap\, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?  \n\n\n\nKai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions. He’s not going to like the answers.  \n\n\n\nWITCH KING is Martha Wells’s first new fantasy in over a decade\, drawing together her signature ability to create characters we adore and identify with\, alongside breathtaking action and adventure\, and the wit and charm we’ve come to expect from one of the leading writers of her generation.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/february-fab-fantasy-book-club-witch-king-by-martha-wells/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Living Large Book Club January 2024: Let Us Descend
DESCRIPTION:Our first Living Large bestsellers book club selection of 2024 will by Jesmyn Ward’s hit and newest Southern Fiction award winner\, Let Us Descend. As always\, book clubs are free and open to all – you bring the chat\, we’ll supply the treats – and the book is available in-store at the 10% off book club price! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – Instant New York Times Bestseller – Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence \n\n\n\nFrom Jesmyn Ward–the two-time National Book Award winner\, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction\, and MacArthur Fellow–comes a haunting masterpiece\, sure to be an instant classic\, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.  \n\n\n\n“‘Let us descend\, ‘ the poet now began\, ‘and enter this blind world.'” —Inferno\, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery\, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching\, harrowing\, replete with transcendent love\, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.  \n\n\n\nAnnis\, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her\, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march\, Annis turns inward\, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout\, she opens herself to a world beyond this world\, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water\, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give\, and those who manipulate and take.  \n\n\n\nWhile Ward leads readers through the descent\, this\, her fourth novel\, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation\, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land–the rich but unforgiving forests\, swamps\, and rivers of the American South.  \n\n\n\nLet Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet\, a masterwork for the ages.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-january-2024-let-us-descend/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Stacy Willingham Returns for Only If You're Lucky!
DESCRIPTION:Here comes the “three-peat” — Stacy Willingham celebrating her third blockbuster release with us in Summerville\, this time featuring the launch of Only If You’re Lucky\, releasing January 16\, 2024! Her Summerville launch party will take place Monday\, January 22\, with our literary partners\, the Timrod Library. This will be our biggest event yet with Stacy\, with room for up to 250 in the Fellowship Hall at Bethany United Methodist Church (just across 3rd St. from the Timrod).  \n\n\n\nStacy will be in conversation with Main Street Reads’ Shari Stauch\, followed by signing and reception at the Timrod (with plenty of catered eats and treats!) \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE!\n\n\n\n\nStacy’s newest book is INCLUDED in your ticket price as well as the signing/ reception. If you’d like to pick your book up on release day the week before\, one will be at Main Street Reads in your name. \n\n\n\n\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\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. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE! (Or Order Direct at Main Street Reads)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacy Willingham is the New York Times\, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark\, All the Dangerous Things and now Only If You’re Lucky.  \n\n\n\nHer debut\, A Flicker in the Dark\, was a 2022 finalist for the Book of the Month’s Book of the Year award\, Goodreads Choice Best Debut award\, Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award\, and ITW’s Best First Novel award. Her work has been translated in more than thirty languages.  \n\n\n\nBefore turning to fiction\, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\nShe currently lives in Charleston\, South Carolina\, with her husband\, Britt\, and Labradoodle\, Mako. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE! (Or Order Direct at Main Street Reads)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/stacy-willingham-returns-for-only-if-youre-lucky/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Reader Meet Writer
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T200000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday: 2024 Winter Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:What better way to get inspired than joining your community at Summerville’s fantastic monthly block party! Every Third Thursday features fun on the square\, including food trucks\, special events\, live music\, and late opening hours for shops around town. \n\n\n\nHere at Main Street Reads you can visit our 2024 Inspiration Station – full of great ideas to motivate you throughout the new year. We’ll see you here!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-2024-winter-inspiration/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Third Thursday
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Thrill in the 'Ville Book Club - The Paleontologist
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO TUESDAY’S STORM’S\, WE’VE RESCHEDULED TO WEDNESDAY\, JANUARY 10TH\, 7 PM – APOLOGIES BUT KEEPING EVERYONE SAFE! \n\n\n\nOur first thriller book club of the year will be dishing on The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas! 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\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLERA haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel.  \n\n\n\nCurator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown\, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister\, Morgan\, was abducted from the museum under his watch\, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him\, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished\, in search of the bones they never found.  \n\n\n\nBut from the moment he arrives\, things aren’t what he expected. The Hawthorne is a crumbling ruin\, still closed amid the ongoing pandemic\, and plummeting toward financial catastrophe. Worse\, Simon begins seeing and hearing things he can’t explain. Strange animal sounds. Bloody footprints that no living creature could have left. A prehistoric killer looming in the shadows of the museum.  \n\n\n\nTerrified he’s losing his grasp on reality\, Simon turns to the handwritten research diaries of his predecessor and uncovers a blood-soaked mystery 150 million years in the making that could be the answer to everything.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-book-club-january-2024-the-paleontologist/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Book Club January 2024: Bookshops & Bonedust
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Fab Fantasy gathering of 2024 when we’ll be diving into Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree\, author of another mega-popular fantasy book at Main Street Reads\, Legends & Lattes! \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\n\n\n\n\nWhen an injury throws a young\, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path\, she may find that what we need isn’t always what we seek. Set in the world of New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes\, Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust takes us on a journey of high fantasy\, first loves\, and secondhand books.  \n\n\n\nViv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer\, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk–so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted\, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine. Still\, adventure isn’t all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray\, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder\, a summer fling\, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.  \n\n\n\n“Take a break from epic battles and saving the world. This is a low-stakes fantasy that delivers exactly what’s advertised: a wholesome\, cozy novel that feels like a warm hug. This is my new comfort read.”–Genevieve Gornichec\, author of The Witch’s Heart\, on Legends & Lattes
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-book-club-january-2024-bookshops-bonedust/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author! Angie Mizzell Signing "Girl in the Spotlight"
DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting a special book signing on December 9th when TV journalist Angie Mizzell will be at Main Street Reads to sign her fascinating new memoir\, Girl in the Spotlight. Especially excited about this one\, readers\, since Angie and I had the privilege of serving on Charleston’s Center for Women board together – and she’s fantastic! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy age 25\, Angie Mizzell was a morning news anchor at a top-rated television station. She had married her college sweetheart\, and scenes from their wedding day ran on the evening news. She’d achieved everything her mom had wanted for her and what she thought she wanted for herself.  \n\n\n\nBut after signing with an agent who promised to take her career to the next level\, Angie began to realize that a future in the spotlight would not dim a past filled with childhood trauma and loss. As a television journalist\, she’d made a living by exploring and reporting other people’s stories; it was time to examine her own. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her coming-of-age memoir\, “Girl in the Spotlight\,” Angie shares a heartfelt and hopeful story of arriving at a crossroads\, getting lost in the darkness\, learning to let go\, and finding her way back home. \n\n\n\nAngie Mizzell is a writer\, a mom and a former local TV news anchor. She’s the author of “Hello Friday\,” a weekly newsletter on Substack where she explores ways to feel at home where we live\, in our relationships\, in our work and within. She lives in West Ashley with her husband and their three children.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-the-author-angie-mizzell-signing-girl-in-the-spotlight/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Bookclub: Iron Flame!
DESCRIPTION:Ahhh…Iron Flame\, the much-anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing is here and it’s the December book club pick! As always\, book club is free and open to all – we bring the treats\, you bring the lively discussion! \n\n\n\n“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” –Xaden Riorson Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College–Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed\, the unworthy\, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins\, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal\, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance.  \n\n\n\nIt’s the new vice commandant\, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is-unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s\, she still has her wits–and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College–and nothing\, not even dragon fire\, may be enough to save them in the end.  \n\n\n\nThe Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.Reading Order:Book #1 Fourth WingBook #2 Iron Flame
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-bookclub-iron-flame/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Bestsellers Book Club: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman - WED This Month!
DESCRIPTION:This month\, because of Tuesday’s tree lighting and festivities in the square\, the Living Large Bookclub has decided to meet on Wednesday\, one day later\, November 29th. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be chatting about the newest hit by Alice Hoffman\, The Invisible Hour. As always\, book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book is eligible for the 10% book club discount. Refreshments will be served\, come join the fun! \n\n\n\nFrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love\, heartbreak\, self-discovery\, and the enduring magic of books. \n\n\n\nOne brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive\, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier\, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother\, Ivy\, and their life inside the Community–an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden\, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her?  \n\n\n\nThrough a journey of heartbreak\, love\, and time\, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. As she does\, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you\, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine\, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you. As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time.  \n\n\n\nBut what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die? Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” This is the story of one woman’s dream. For a little while it came true…
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-book-club-the-invisible-hour-by-alice-hoffman-wed-this-month/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Reading Jane with Susannah Kennedy!
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be a part of this eastern leg of Susannah’s tour – come join in the fun and enjoy refreshments and some stimulating conversation. The book will be available to be signed by the author that day! \n\n\n\nReading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir and the book tour “Surviving the Narcissistic Mother” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs the estimation of narcissism and its impact on children grows\, more people are identifying as the children of such an upbringing. They have been raised by a parent whose sense of self-importance overshadowed the child\, the child existing rather as an extension of a parental self that lacks empathy and often exploits their child. It’s estimated that nearly 60 million people are damaged by such relational patterns. Children of such parents are vulnerable to poor self-esteem\, lack of boundaries\, and co-dependence. \n\n\n\nHaving emerged on the other side of this phenomenon\, Susannah Kennedy\, author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir has launched her book tour along the East Coast. The tour includes a stop at Main Street Reads in Summerville!\, where she’ll sign copies as well as address her path to healing. It wasn’t an easy one\, and might not have been achieved at all had Susannah’s mother not inexplicably taken her own life at age 75. When Susannah discovered 45 years of Jane’s diaries\, she had a portal into the narrative her mother created and lived. \n\n\n\nSusannah avoided plunging in for three years\, until she was driven to do so\, to understand finally the mystery her mother presented. What emerges is Susannah’s own story in contrast to her mother’s\, and ultimately leads her to finally shake off the constraints set by Jane’s need to control both the narrative and her daughter. \n\n\n\nPrevious events on the West Coast leg of the tour have demonstrated that Susannah is not alone. Nearly 5 percent or 1 in 200 people suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and the sons and daughters are showing up at book events — to take from Susannah’s story of healing the hope they might finally understand and heal their own. \n\n\n\nThe Reading Jane: Surviving the Narcissistic Mother Eastern Seaboard Tour will encompass 12 cities in October and November 2023: Boston and Gloucester\, Massachusetts; Newport\, Rhode Island; Owego and Woodstock\, New York; Washington D.C.; Montrose and Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania; Charlotte\, North Carolina; Hilton Head Island and Summerville\, South Carolina; and Savannah\, Georgia. For details on dates\, times\, and locations\, please visit www.sibyllinepress.com or www.susannahkennedy.com. Main Street Reads at 115 S. Main Street in Summerville will host Susannah on November 19th from 1-3 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the author: Berkeley and Oxford-educated anthropologist Susannah Kennedy was born in India and raised in the United States. Later\, she traveled extensively on her own\, first in Italy\, and then through the Middle East and India\, settling for two years in Egypt before becoming a reporter in Dallas\, Texas. At Oxford University\, she specialized in Arab culture and politics\, receiving her DPhil in social anthropology. She and her psychoanalyst husband lived and worked in Germany\, raising three children in a thatched-roof farmhouse in the countryside outside Hamburg. Her mother’s suicide and its aftermath brought them back to California in 2017. They now reside in Marin County.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-reading-jane-with-susannah-kennedy/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Reading
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SUMMARY:Spirit Week for Our Four-Legged Friends In Need
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps one of the most valuable\, yet undervalued members of our community is Dorchester Paws. This is Summerville’s non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to providing shelter\, care\, and support for homeless animals in Dorchester County. As owners of many rescue animals ourselves\, we can tell you they’re doing an incredible job with the very limited resources at their disposal. \n\n\n\nBut now they need OUR help. Due to constant flooding\, evacuations (see right)\, and too many animals in crisis\, Dorchester Paws requires a larger\, higher-ground facility. The organization is now raising funds\, assisted by a $1.5 million state grant\, to construct a state-of-the-art shelter\, furthering the organization’s mission to provide the highest level of care and support for homeless animals and the community. \n\n\n\nThe grant\, provided by the State of South Carolina\, represents a significant investment in the welfare of animals and the community as a whole. It’s a crucial start\, but more is needed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe new animal shelter\, (plan shown above) which will be a cornerstone of Dorchester Paws’ operations\, will not only benefit the animals under their care but also offer various services and resources to the residents of Dorchester County. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe grant will support private funding efforts and that’s where WE all come in. Lots of small donations will make up the bulk of the funding needed\, so we’re jumping in for a Spirit Week in honor of our four-legged friends. A percentage of ALL our sales\, from Sunday\, November 19th\, through Small Business Saturday\, November 25th\, will go directly to Dorchester Paws. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, we’ll have a donation box in the store that will be up until the end of the month\, when we’ll present a grand total to Dorchester Paws. We encourage you to give of yourselves\, and in honor of loved people and pets\, to help this very worthy cause. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFYI: The new animal shelter will be equipped with modern facilities to provide comfort\, care\, and support to the animals awaiting adoption. It will feature expanded kennel space\, a public spay & neuter clinic\, a dedicated adoption center\, and educational resources to raise awareness about responsible pet ownership. \n\n\n\nDorchester Paws will be working closely with the State of South Carolina and our local community to ensure that the new shelter meets the highest standards of animal care and welfare. The organization is excited about the positive impact this new facility will have on the lives of animals and the Dorchester County community. \n\n\n\nThanks on behalf of Dorchester Paws for your support – let’s show ’em readers DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/spirit-week-for-our-four-legged-friends-in-need/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,School Spirit Week
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author! Steve Lazarus Signing Call Me Sonny
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special thriller book signing with Steve Lazarus\, debut of the new thriller\, Call Me Sonny. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShortly after a corrupt attorney pays a visit to an inmate in a maximum security federal prison\, people from the inmate’s past start dying.  Bryce Chandler\, a retired FBI agent eking out a living as a private investigator in the Florida Keys\, ties the string of killings to a shadowy murder-for-hire ring operating on the Dark Web.  As Bryce digs further into the murders\, he discovers the final name on the hit list is his own. \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, a simple divorce case turns out to be much more than meets the eye\, as Bryce’s investigation of the defendant leads him down a path of international drug smuggling\, money laundering\, and violent henchmen bent on keeping him silent.  The two storylines run parallel to one another until they eventually converge in a final\, bloody outcome.  \n\n\n\n\n“Bryce Chandler is a compelling addition to the pantheon of hard-boiled fictional detectives. Lazarus puts his experience as an FBI agent to good use in Call Me Sonny\, and the book feels more realistic than most detective novels. Impossible to put down!” \n—Joe Weisberg\, Emmy Award-winning writer and creator of The Americans\n\n\n\nSteve’s debut novel was inspired by one of his real-life cases. After arresting a subject who threatened to unleash a bioterror attack on the Atlanta subway system\, Steve and his partner found themselves on the receiving end of a death threat from the soon-to-be convicted felon. And though that subject would spend the next 25 years in prison\, Steve couldn’t help but wonder…what if he could make good on his threat\, even from behind bars? The most logical solution would be if he hired a hit man\, and…voila! A novel was born. Written over the course of a year in Abu Dhabi\, the Florida Keys\, and Texas hill country\, “Call Me Sonny” was a labor of love incorporating the personalities\, anecdotes\, and experiences of Steve’s multi-faceted FBI career\, and if things work out as planned\, it will be the first in a series of Bryce Chandler crime thrillers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Lazarus is a first-time author\, retired FBI Special Agent\, and United States Air Force veteran.  He served twenty-two years in the FBI\, spending the first half of his career investigating drug trafficking organizations and violent street gangs.  Later\, he became a full-time bomb technician\, an assignment which led him to Iraq\, Kuwait and Afghanistan as part of the Global War on Terror.  After retiring from the Bureau\, he spent several years as a national security contractor in Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. Steve lives on the South Carolina coast with his wife Susan and their amazing wonder dog\, Aspen.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-the-author-steve-lazarus-signing-call-me-sonny/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:A Cozy Third Thursday
DESCRIPTION:It may be a bit chilly so grab your flannel or puffy coat and warm up with friends throughout downtown. It’s No Shave November with the Summerville Police Department AND shops will stay open late; food\, music and fun galore\, and we’ll have some cozy refreshments in the store – See you on Main Street!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/a-cozy-third-thursday/
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale,Third Thursday
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: Bright Young Women
DESCRIPTION:Our Thrill in the ‘Ville Summerville thriller book club is back with a real spine-tingler this month\, Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll! \n\n\n\nAs always\, our book clubs are free and open to all. The book is available for 10% off (book club discount) and we’ll provide treats and wine… you bring the conversation! \n\n\n\nTwo women from opposite sides of the country are brought together by violent acts of the same man\, and become allies and sisters in arms as they pursue the justice that would otherwise elude them in one of the most acclaimed\, highly-anticipated thrillers of the year. Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime\, Jessica Knoll–author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaption starring Mila Kunis–delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women.  \n\n\n\nThe book opens on a Saturday night in 1978\, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive\, including sorority president and key witness\, Pamela Schumacher\, are forever changed. Across the country\, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer–and that he’s struck again. Determined to find justice\, the two join forces as their search for answers leads to a final\, shocking confrontation.  \n\n\n\n\nBlisteringly paced\, Bright Young Women is “Jessica Knoll at her best–an unflinching and evocative novel about the tabloid fascination with evil and the dynamic and brilliant women who have the real stories to tell”  \n(Laura Dave\, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me)\n\n\n\n\n“a compelling\, almost hypnotic read and I loved it with a passion”  \n(Lisa Jewell\, New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True).
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-bright-young-women/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Honoring Veteran's Day: Book Signing with Award-Winning Military Historian James M. Scott
DESCRIPTION:As we honor our military heroes on Veteran’s Day\, we’re sharing a special signing with you (and perfect gift options before the holidays!) Brilliant author James M. Scott will be at Main Street Reads from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.\, signing his most recent (and many say best) book\, Black Snow: \n\n\n\nSeven minutes past midnight on March 10\, 1945\, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2\,800 degrees\, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100\,000 men\, women\, and children were killed. \n\n\n\nBlack Snow is the story of this devastating operation\, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay\, who famously remarked: “If we lose the war\, we’ll be tried as war criminals.” James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night\, and describes the development of the B-29\, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields\, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight “precision” bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly\, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America\, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. \n\n\n\nDrawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors\, air force archives\, and oral histories never before published in English\, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account\, and his most important and compelling work to date. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA former Nieman Fellow at Harvard\, James M. Scott is the author of Rampage\, which was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the editors at Kirkus and Military Times and was chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History by the New York Historical Society.  \n\n\n\nHis other works include Target Tokyo\, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist; The War Below\, and The Attack on the Liberty\, which won the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award. Scott lives with his wife and two children in Mt. Pleasant\, SC.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/honoring-veterans-day-book-signing-with-award-winning-military-historian-james-m-scott/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Club: VE Schwab's Fragile Threads of Power!
DESCRIPTION:YES\, we still have some signed copies available – come grab yours and then join us on book club night for fun discussion and free treats – open to all! \n\n\n\nV. E. Schwab\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic. Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power.  \n\n\n\nOnce\, there were four worlds\, nestled like pages in a book\, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now\, only three Antari are known in recent memory–Kell Maresh of Red London\, Delilah Bard of Grey London\, and Holland Vosijk\, of White London.  \n\n\n\nBut barely a glimpse of them have been seen in the last seven years–and a new Antari named Kosika has appeared in White London\, taking the throne in Holland’s absence. The young queen is willing to feed her city with blood\, including her own–but her growing religious fervor has the potential to drown it instead. And back in Red London\, King Rhy Maresh is threatened by a rising rebellion\, one determined to correct the balance of power by razing the throne entirely.  \n\n\n\nThese two royals from very different empires now face very similar struggles: how to keep their crowns–and their own heads. Amidst this tapestry of old friends and new enemies\, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds. Her name is Tes\, and she’s the only one who can bring them together–or unravel it all.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-book-club-ve-schwabs-fragile-threads-of-power/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Spooktacular Book Launch! Mr. Albert: The Story of an Ex-Person by AF Winter
DESCRIPTION:We’re THRILLED to host the book launch party for A.F. Winter’s latest release\, Mr. Albert: The Story of an Ex-Person.  \n\n\n\nAND\, if you grab your book that day\, you’ll get 10% off your tab next door at Frothy Beard!!!  \n\n\n\nHINT: We’ll have a few food samples on hand at Main Street Reads from our Frothy Beard pals to whet your whistles… \n\n\n\nMr. Albert\, who happens to be dead although his body for some reason has not gotten the memo\, enjoys nothing more than getting plastered in seedy bars on the Jersey shore. In a moment of weakness\, he saves Santo Murphy from committing suicide\, as he’s about to hurl himself into the frigid Atlantic Ocean. \n\n\n\nWhen he discovers Mr. Albert’s secret\, Santo believes his savior must have a higher purpose than intoxication. Santo’s purpose becomes to find Mr. Albert’s purpose and he will not leave Albert’s side until he discovers it… \n\n\n\nMeet the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMr. Winter has won the South Carolina Playwright’s Festival for his play\, The Colliers. He has three novels in print including the wildly popular Man in the Pandemic\, and four that are yet to be published. His work has appeared in print and online magazines.  \n\n\n\nHis poems have been published in several anthologies and he performs as a featured poet and author in the South Carolina low country. He lives near Charleston\, SC with his dog\, Millie\, and is overjoyed when one of his three exceptional daughters comes to visit.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/spooktacular-book-launch-mr-albert-the-story-of-an-ex-person-by-af-winter/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Reading
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SUMMARY:Bestsellers Book Club: Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging evening discussing our latest book club pick\, Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen. We’ll supply the evening’s treats and the book is eligible for our 10% book club discount. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere’s more info – grab a copy\, get reading\, and join us! \n\n\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale of lost souls\, lonely strangers\, secrets that shape us\, and how the right flock can guide you home. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island\, South Carolina\, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It’s called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who\, alongside its human tenants\, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.  \n\n\n\nWhen Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at The Dellawisp\, she meets her quirky\, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run\, a grieving chef whose comfort food does not comfort him\, two estranged middle-aged sisters\, and three ghosts. Each with their own story. Each with their own longings. Each whose ending isn’t yet written.  \n\n\n\nWhen one of her new neighbors dies under odd circumstances the night Zoey arrives\, she is thrust into the mystery of The Dellawisp\, which involves missing pages from a legendary writer whose work might be hidden there. She soon discovers that many unfinished stories permeate the place\, and the people around her are in as much need of healing from wrongs of the past as she is.  \n\n\n\nTo find their way they have to learn how to trust each other\, confront their deepest fears\, and let go of what haunts them. Delightful and atmospheric\, Other Birds is filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go. Sarah Addison Allen shows us that between the real and the imaginary\, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-book-club-other-birds-by-sarah-addison-allen/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday: Pirates & Princesses!
DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all – come costumed if you like!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-pirates-princesses/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: The Block Party by Jamie Day!
DESCRIPTION:Raves for the hottest thriller of 2023! “This is wicked fun.” –Publishers Weekly  \n\n\n\n“Absolutely amazing. Readers are going to flip!” —Lisa Gardner\, New York Times bestselling author of ONE STEP TOO FAR  \n\n\n\nYep\, readers are raving about The Block Party by Jamie Day – and we’ll be talking about why! As always\, our book clubs are free and open to all – you bring your thoughts\, we’ll bring the treats! \n\n\n\nThis summer\, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world\, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party\, there has been a murder. But\, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier\, as rivalries and betrayals unfold–discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing–and no one–is ever as it seems…
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-the-block-party-by-jamie-day/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: Godkiller
DESCRIPTION:Join in the lively discussion of this month’s Fab Fantasy pick\, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner! As always\, our book club selections are 10% off\, and we’ll provide treats on the big night. Here’s more about this month’s pick: \n\n\n\n“Godkiller will have you in its grasp from the first pages. . . An extraordinary journey.” — Samantha Shannon\, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree \n\n\n\n“Beautifully imagined and intensely felt . . . Godkiller is a bone-rattling fantasy thriller that flies by in a breathtaking rush.” — Joe Hill\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Locke & Key \n\n\n\nEnter a land of gods and monsters\, soldiers and mercenaries\, secrets and wishes–the explosive #1 internationally bestselling fantasy debut in a new trilogy for fans of The Witcher and Gideon the Ninth \n\n\n\nGods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship\, there are countless gods in the world–but after a great war\, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. \n\n\n\nAs a child\, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now\, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with a god problem. The child’s soul is bonded to a tiny god of white lies\, and Kissen can’t kill it without ending the girl’s life too. \n\n\n\nJoined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest\, the unlikely group must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden\, where the last of the wild gods reside\, to each beg a favor. Pursued by assassins and demons\, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war\, they will all face a reckoning. Something is rotting at the heart of their world\, and they are the only ones who can stop it. \n\n\n\n“Epic and intimate\, tender and sharp\, Godkiller is a triumph of storytelling.” — Hannah Whitten\, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fantasy-book-club-godkiller/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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