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SUMMARY:The Coyotes of Carthage (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:We’re delivering authors to your living room! The next author in the Okra Pick series is Steven Wright.  He will be talking with us about his debut novel The Coyotes of Carthage and answering your questions. Steven is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room. \n“Steven Wright’s The Coyotes of Carthage is a novel steeped in atmosphere and laced with menace. It’s a political potboiler masking as a buddy drama\, a treatise on race and class packaged as a fish-out-of-water tale. Wright’s novel is what so few novels are: a page-turner with a conscience\, a burner of a read with something to say. If House of Cards and True Detective made a novel\, it would be Coyotes of Carthage. It’s a great novel and one hell of a debut.” – Wiley Cash\, 2020 Conroy Legacy Award Recipient \nHere are the details you need:\nDate: April 16\nTime: 5 PM EDT\nRSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com\nAttendance is limited. \nWhen you elect to attend\, we will email you on Thursday morning with the link to this virtual event and the password\, plus the link to purchase books if you so choose! Happy Reading! You can order The Coyotes of Carthage ONLINE or call us with your order – we can ship direct to you or bring it to you curbside. \nMeet Steven Wright\nSteven Wright is a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School\, where he codirects the Wisconsin Innocence Project. From 2007 to 2012 he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. He has written numerous essays about race\, criminal justice\, and election law for the New York Review of Books. \nThe Coyotes of Carthage: Ecco | April 14\, 2020 | 9780062951663\nRead a FREE Sample Chapter HERE\n“With this splendid debut\, Steven Wright announces his arrival as a major new voice in the world of political thrillers. I enjoyed it immensely.” —John Grisham \nA blistering and thrilling debut—a biting exploration of American politics\, set in a small South Carolina town\, about a political operative running a dark money campaign for his corporate clients \nDre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant\, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss\, Mrs. Fitz\, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250\,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the highest bidder. \nDre arrives in God-fearing\, flag-waving Carthage County\, with only Mrs. Fitz’s well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan as his team. Dre\, an African-American outsider\, can’t be the one to collect the signatures needed to get on the ballot. So he hires a blue-collar couple\, Tyler Lee and his pious wife\, Chalene\, to act as the initiative’s public face. \nUnder Dre’s cynical direction\, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined\, Dre’s increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the last remnants of his own humanity. \nA piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man’s unraveling\, The Coyotes of Carthage paints a disturbingly real portrait of the American experiment in action.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/steven-wright-the-coyotes-of-carthage-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Lee Smith Blue Marlin (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join our special Reader Meet Writer virtual event on Tuesday\, April 21st at 4:00 p.m. \nBorn in the small coal-mining town of Grundy\, Virginia\, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then\, she has written seventeen works of fiction\, including Fair and Tender Ladies\, Oral History\, and\, most recently\, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards\, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough\, North Carolina\, with her husband\, the writer Hal Crowther. \nNow comes this gem of a novella\, which Smith names one of her favorite works of her illustrious career. \nLee Smith’s masterful storytelling manifests in this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny\, an adventurous thirteen-year-old\, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s affair. Jenny confronts the frailty of family life while vying for the attention of dreamy actor Tony Curtis and even a role in his latest movie. \nAvailable for the first time as a stand-alone novella\, this book centers on the Blue Marlin Motel\, where Jenny\, her beautiful socialite mother\, and chastened father share their sunny days with movie stars who are in town to film the 1959 classic\, Operation Petticoat. Blue Marlin showcases this iconic writer at her best: sharp characterizations\, perfect pitch\, generous humor\, and a quietly profound understanding of human nature.
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LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer Southern Series: Ruthie Lindsey's There I Am (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special event on April 22 at 5:00 p.m. \n“Ruthie is a gifted storyteller with the unique ability to make you feel her emotions as if they’re your own. Her book is somehow both bold and tender and utterly\, truthfully\, authentically her. She doesn’t hide from heartbreak or fail to experience the fullness of all the beauty life can hold.” —Rachel Hollis\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl\, Wash Your Face and Girl\, Stop Apologizing \nBrain on Fire meets Carry On\, Warrior. There I Am is an arresting inspirational memoir about one woman’s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy\, redemption\, and healing. \nAt seventeen years old\, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She’s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery\, Ruthie defies the odds\, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. \nJust a few years later\, newly married and living in Nashville\, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing\, imaging\, and treatment\, they prescribe narcotic painkillers—lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden\, dependent on painkillers\, and hopeless\, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery\, she could well become paralyzed\, but in many ways\, she already is. \nRuthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain\, dependent on prescription painkillers\, and leaves that way. She can still walk\, but has no idea where she’s going. As her life unravels\, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers\, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing—of coming home to her body. \nRaw and redemptive\, There I Am isn’t just about the magic of optimism\, but the work of it. Ruthie’s extraordinary memoir urges us to unlearn the stories of brokenness that we tell ourselves and embrace the wholeness\, joy\, and healing that lives inside all of us. \n“Ruthie Lindsey’s voice speaks directly to the heart. There I Am is a testament to the things that break us\, heal us\, and make us who we are.” —Glennon Doyle\, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising \n“This book is an incredible gift. One of the most moving life stories I’ve ever read. Or heard of. It has reframed how I see pain\, death\, and the whole experience of life. I immediately put it up there with the great memoirs\, The Glass Castle\, Wild\, and Educated.” —Jedidiah Jenkins\, New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self \n“Consistently readable and inspirational\, Lindsey keeps readers in suspense about whether she will be able to fully enjoy her life. At the end\, the author addresses readers directly and asks them to focus on healing what is broken in their own lives. Illness memoirs from noncelebrities often get lost in the stacks. This one deserves greater attention.” —Kirkus Reviews \nORDER HERE: There I Am: The Journey From Hopelessness to Healing
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-southern-series-ruthie-lindseys-there-i-am-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Kristy Woodson Harvey Discusses Feels Like Falling (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Let us deliver authors to your living room.  The next author in the Okra Pick series is Kristy Woodson Harvey\, the bestselling author of DEAR CAROLINA\, LIES AND OTHER ACTS OF LOVE\, SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF SIMPLE\, THE SECRET TO SOUTHERN CHARM and THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF PARADISE. \nKristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing\, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. Her work has been optioned for film and her books have received numerous accolades. Harvey’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and websites\, including Southern Living\, Traditional Home\, Parade\, USA Today\, Domino\, Our State and O. Henry. \nShe has been seen in Today.com\, Women’s Health\, The Washington Post\, US News and World Report\, The Huffington Post\, Marie Claire’s The Fix\, Woman’s World\, Readers’ Digest\, Bustle\, New York Live and North Carolina Bookwatch\, among others. \nFeels Like Falling\, Gallery Books | April 28\, 2020 | 9781982117702 From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness. \nIt’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy. Unless\, that is\, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer\, your sister to her extremist husband\, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life\, she inadvertently gets a stranger\, Diana Harrington\, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. \nDiana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job\, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her\, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience. With Gray’s kindness\, Diana’s tide begins to turn. \nBut when her first love returns\, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And\, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail\, she discovers\, with Diana’s help\, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all. In her warmest\, wisest novel yet\, Kristy Woodson Harvey delivers a discerning portrait of modern womanhood through two vastly different lenses. Feels Like Falling is a beach bag essential for Harvey fans—and for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nHere are the details you need: \nDate: Tuesday\, April 28\, 2020 Time: 3:00 p.m. RSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com Attendance is limited. If you elect to attend\, we will email you on Tuesday morning with the link and password to attend this virtual event\, plus the link to purchase books. \nFor a free sneak peek chapter\, CLICK HERE!\nTo view/shop all Kristy’s books\, including the new release\, CLICK HERE.\n \nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 29th at 5 pm for a chat with Marie Benedict\, author of The Other Einstein. The first author in the #SaveIndieBookstores series is Marie Benedict. Marie Benedict is the author of The Other Einstein\, Carnegie’s Maid\, The Only Woman in the Room\, and Lady Clementine. She is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms and for Fortune 500 companies. Visit her online at authormariebenedict.com.\n\nThe Other Einstein is one of a limited number of titles that simply by purchasing\, you are supporting indie bookstores\, and if you’d like to do more\, visit SaveIndieBookstores.com. Marie will be talking with us about her book The Other Einstein and answering your questions. Join us and let’s raise some money for indie bookstores.\n\n“Beautifully written…a finely drawn portrait of a woman in love with the wrong man.” – Jillian Cantor\, author of Margot and The Hours Count\n\nDate: Wednesday\, April 29\, 2020\nTime: 5:00 p.m.\nRSVP: mainstreetreads@gmail.com\nAttendance is limited. If you elect to attend\, we will email you on Wednesday morning with the link and password to attend this virtual event. To grab your copy of The Other Einstein\, call us at 843-875-5171 or CLICK HERE to order from our Bookshop page!\nTo shop ALL the books in the Reader Meet Writer Series\, click on the image below!
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: A Leader's Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this great talk with Donald J. Palmisano on Thursday\, April 30th at 4 pm – Email mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your link and password to attend. \nA good leader must be intelligent\, charismatic\, strong\, and inspiring. A good leader must stir passion and instill knowledge in the minds of followers\, whether in the field of business\, medicine\, politics\, sports\, or entertainment. A memorable speech is a powerful tool for demonstrating leadership and inspiring listeners for years to come. You can give a stirring\, memorable speech\, and be seen as a real leader\, and Donald J. Palmisano can help you. \nHere Palmisano shares proven tips on delivering an inspiring and motivating speech. Drawing from his popular seminar at Tulane University School of Medicine and over 1\,000 speeches and interviews\, Dr. Palmisano teaches readers how to: \n\nUse rhetorical devices effectively\nStay on message\nPractice delivery\nGlean lessons from great speeches of powerful leaders from the past\, such as Cicero\, Winston Churchill\, Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Ronald Reagan\nOrganize speeches to emphasize the message\nWeave in stories that are unforgettable\nAnd more!\n\nIf you are a professor or teacher\, if you are a CEO or manager\, if you are thinking of running for office or trying to raise money\, then A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech belongs on your bookshelf. It’s a great gift for anyone with aspirations of teaching\, leading\, or managing. \n \nDonald J. Palmisano\, M.D.\, J.D.\, FACS\, a New Orleans native\, retired surgeon\, and USAF veteran\, is the principal of Donald J Palmisano Consulting (Intrepid Resources). This book derived from Dr. Palmisano’s popular Tulane University School of Medicine seminar “How to Give a Memorable Speech” that he teaches to medical students and faculty using lessons learned from his extensive experience of over 1000 speeches and interviews worldwide. He is a frequent keynote conference speaker and trains executives on leadership and effective speech delivery. \nDr. Palmisano served as American Medical Association (AMA) President in 2003-2004 and President of the Louisiana State Medical Society from 1984-1985\, where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame. Prior to his latest book\, Dr. Palmisano published On Leadership and The Little Red Book of Leadership Lessons
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-a-leaders-guide-to-giving-a-memorable-speech-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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