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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY Story Time at Main Street Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us every WEDNESDAY morning at 9:30 a.m. for “Stories on the Square\, our outdoor storytime adventures with reading by Colleen Rackleff – kids of all ages welcome! Treats served and student discounts to ALL attendees! \n \nColleen’s Story Time at Main Street Reads has become one of our featured events and we’re so excited to be back\, doing the events outside to ensure proper social distancing. We have lots of chairs for younger listeners and plenty of juice boxes and fruit snacks to munch while they listen. \n 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/wednesday-story-time-at-main-street-reads/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading,Story Time
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Some Go Home - Odie Lindsey in Conversation with Chanelle Benz
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thu Aug 6th 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm for an enchanting conversation about Some Go Home by Odie Lindsey. Email us for your event link and the password\, delivered to you on the day of the event: \nSome Go Home is a searing debut novel following three generations fractured by murder in fictional Pitchlynn\, Mississippi that complicates notions of race\, class\, history\, and identity. \n\n\n\nColleen—an Iraq war veteran turned Mississippi homemaker—must reckon with a decades-old murder that has haunted her community\, her family\, and herself. When pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface\, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her. Her husband\, Derby\, is in turn preoccupied with the long-overdue retrial of his father\, Hare Hobbs\, for a Civil Rights-era murder. Central to Some Go Home is the town’s showpiece\, antebellum estate. More monument than manor\, it is both the scene of the murder and the proposed jewel of gentrified Pitchlynn. For Colleen and the others\, all of whom seek healing\, the estate comes to embody various paths to redemption—whether razed\, restored to a perceived greatness\, or stripped of all recognition. As the trial draws near\, questions of Hare’s guilt only magnify these tensions of class and race\, tied always to the land and who can call it their own. \nInformed by his work editing the Mississippi Encyclopedia\, Lindsey’s prose is insightful and wonderfully detailed\, steeped in the same cultural history the characters are forced to confront in the book. Part literary saga and part cultural provocation\, Some Go Home is a richly textured\, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy. \nOdie Lindsey is the author of We Come to Our Senses: Stories. He received an NEA-funded fellowship for veterans\, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University in Nashville\, Tennessee. \nChanelle Benz has published work inGuernica\, Granta.com\,The New York Times\,Electric Literature\,The American Reader\,Fence\, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collectionThe Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Deadwas published in 2017 by Ecco/HarperCollins. It was named a Best Book of 2017 byThe San Francisco Chronicleand one ofElectric Literature‘s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan Prize and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Story Prize. Her novelThe Gone Deadwas published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2019 and was aNew York Times Book ReviewEditor’s Choice and a Tonight Show Summer Reads Finalist. It was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It was also named a best new book of the summer byO\, The Oprah Magazine\,Time\,Southern Living\, andNylon. She lives in Memphis where she teaches at Rhodes College.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-some-go-home-odie-lindsey-in-conversation-with-chanelle-benz/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200811T170000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Rules for Being Dead w/ Kim Powers in Conversation w/ Louis Bayard
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday Aug 11th from 5:00 pm  – 6:00 pm for a conversation with author Kim Powers about the August 4th release of the Rules for Being Dead. Email or message us to get your confirming link and password to attend free\, and don’t forget to order a book from us for pickup in the store or at the link to the book on Bookshop\, our warehouse site!\n \n\n\n\nIt’s the late 1960s in McKinney\, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in\, movies—James Bond\, My Fair Lady\, Alfie\, and Doctor Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey\, Elvis\, his family\, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother. And no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell her either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McKinney\, trapped between life and death\, searching for a glimpse of her final moments on this earth. The shattering answer haunts Rules for Being Dead\, Kim Powers’ darkly humorous and incredibly moving novel. An unlikely love child of Mark Childress’ Crazy in Alabama and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones\, this book pays homage to the movies of the 1960s and vividly conjures the machinations of small-town Texas with a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected tenderness. Native Texan Kim Powers brings a steady hand to all proceedings\, including a ghostly mother\, an evil stepmother\, a clueless father\, and a full cast of misfits–all orchestrated within a lively plot which is anything but predictable. \nKim Powers is a two-time Emmy winner and author of the novels Dig Two Graves and Capote in Kansas\, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Book and Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Memoir of the Year. He also wrote the screenplay for the festival-favorite indie film Finding North and the new play Sidekicked\, a “one broad comedy” about Vivian Vance. Powers is the Senior Writer for ABC’s 20/20\, part of the team that has received an unprecedented three consecutive Edward R. Murrow Awards. A native Texan\, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 2007\, he was selected by Out Magazine for the influential “Out 100” list. He lives in Manhattan and Asbury Park\, NJ. \nIn the words of the New York Times\, Louis Bayard “reinvigorates historical fiction\,” rendering the past “as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.” His acclaimed historical novels include national bestseller Courting Mr. Lincoln\, Roosevelt’s Beast\, The School of Night\, The Black Tower\, The Pale Blue Eye and Mr. Timothy\, as well as the highly praised young-adult novel\, Lucky Strikes. A New York Times Notable author\, he has been nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards\, and his story\, “Banana Triangle Six\,” was chosen for The Best American Mystery Stories 2018. His reviews and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times and Salon. An instructor at George Washington University\, he is a board member for the PEN Faulkner Foundation and the author of the popular Downton Abbey recaps for the New York Times.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-rules-for-being-dead-w-kim-powers-in-conversation-w-louis-bayard/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:The Yellow House with Sarah M. Broom in Conversation with Imani Perry
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday August 13th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for a discussion about The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom! Make sure to email us for your confirming link and event password!\n\n\nTHE YELLOW HOUSE: Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction \nA brilliant\, haunting\, and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family\, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nWinner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction\, Sarah M. Broom has also published her work in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine\, among others. A native New Orleanian\, she earned her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley. She has been awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant\, and fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Harlem. \nImani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs\, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. She is the author of 6 books\, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry\, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography\, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship\, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also named a 2018 notable book by the New York Times\, and an a honor book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was a finalist for the African American Intellectual History Society Paul Murray Book Prize. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem\, winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies\, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction\, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction. Her most recent book is: Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Beacon Press\, 2019) which was a finalist for the 2020 Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/the-yellow-house-with-sarah-m-broom-in-conversation-with-imani-perry/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Bookstore Romance Day!
DESCRIPTION:Below is the Bookstore Romance Day 2020 Official Event Schedule for Saturday\, August 15th. Come join the fun online with some great events! NOTE: All times listed are EST \n\n9:00 am  Official opening/welcome with Ambassador Meg Cabot (On the Bookstore Romance Day YouTube channel)\n10:00 am Coffee Break with Mona Shroff (Then\, Now\, Always)\, Delores Fossen (Settling an Old Score) and Cara Bastone (Just a Heartbeat Away)\nNoon An exclusive video from author JR Ward (The Jackal) (On the Bookstore Romance Day YouTube channel)\n1:00 pm Lunch Date with Synithia Williams (Scandalous Secrets)\, Reese Ryan (A Reunion of Rivals)\, and Roan Parrish (Better Than People)\n2:00pm Avon Spotlight panel with Ambassador Meg Cabot (No Offense)\, Talia Hibbert (Take a Hint\, Dani Brown)\, and Alexis Daria (You Had Me at Hola). Moderated by Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly\n3:00pm Rom Coms for Readers from 13 to 113 with authors Sarah Morgenthaler (The Tourist Attraction)\, Annabeth Albert (Conventionally Yours)\, Suzanne Park (The Perfect Escape)\, Miranda Kenneally (Four Days of You and Me)\, K.L. Walther (If We Were Us)\, and Ann Marie Walker (Happy Singles Day)\n4:00pm Tea Time with authors RaeAnne Thayne (Summer at Lake Haven)\, Maisey Yates (The Hero of Hope Springs)\, and Melissa Senate (The Cowboy’s Comeback)\n6:00pm YA HEAs with authors Mason Deaver (I Wish You All the Best)\, Debbie Rigaud (Truly\, Madly\, Royally)\, Lucas Rocha (Where We Go From Here)\, and Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown)\n7:00pm Cocktail Hour with authors Audrey Carlin (What the Heart Wants)\, Jayci Lee (Secret Crush Seduction)\, and Elia Winters (Hairpin Curves)\n\nBONUS – Sunday\, August 16th\n7:00 pm (ET) Watch Party for The Princess Diaries\, with guest appearance by Meg Cabot
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bookstore-romance-day/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: How to Argue With a Racist w/ Adam Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, Aug 18th\, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for a candid chat with Adam Rutherford and his important work\, How to Argue with a Racist. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for the link and password to this event. Books can be ordered for pickup in store or click the link in the title above to grab from our warehouse bookshop!\n \n\n\n\nRacist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred\, feeding nationalism\, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on “science\,” because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically\, misconceptions are multiplying amid today’s unprecedented surge of research on human genetics. We’ve never had a clearer picture of who we are and where we come from\, and the science\, when accurately understood\, is a powerful and definitive ally against racism. But not nearly enough of these findings have made their way into the casual conversations we have about race. \nThis penetrating guide shows us how being a responsible and enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires us to know what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. Racial categories still vexing our societies do not align with observable genetic differences—and those differences are\, in fact\, so minute that they serve as evidence of our commonality. \nAdam Rutherford is a geneticist\, science writer\, and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London\, and during his PhD on the developing eye\, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian\, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC\, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science\, The Cell for BBC Four\, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of How to Argue With a Racist\, an incisive guide to what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference; The Book of Humans\, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the “human animal”; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation\, on the origin of life and synthetic biology\, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-how-to-argue-with-a-racist-w-adam-rutherford/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200820T190000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Early Departures with Justin A. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 20th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for an enlightening discussion with Justin A. Reynolds about his novel\, Early Departures. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your link and password to attend\, and books can be ordered from us for pickup in store or click the title link above to grab from our Bookshop warehouse! \n\n\n\nJustin A. Reynolds\, author of Opposite of Always\, delivers another smart\, funny\, and powerful stand-alone YA contemporary novel\, with a speculative twist in which Jamal’s best friend is brought back to life after a freak accident…but they only have a short time together before he will die again. Jamal’s best friend\, Q\, doesn’t know he’s about to die…again. He also doesn’t know that Jamal tried to save his life\, rescuing him from drowning only to watch Q die later in the hospital. Even more complicated\, Jamal and Q haven’t been best friends in two years—not since Jamal’s parents died in a car accident\, leaving him and his sister to carry on without them. Grief swallowed Jamal whole\, and he blamed Q for causing the accident. \nBut what if Jamal could have a second chance? An impossible chance that would grant him the opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend? A new health-care technology allows Q to be reanimated—brought back to life like the old Q again. But there’s a catch: Q will only reanimate for a short time before he dies…forever. \nJamal is determined to make things right with Q\, but grief is hard to shake. And he can’t tell Q why he’s suddenly trying to be friends with him again. Because Q has no idea that he died\, and Q’s mom is not about to let anyone ruin the miracle by telling him. How can Jamal fix his friendship with Q if he can’t tell him the truth? \nJustin A. Reynolds has always wanted to be a writer. Opposite of Always\, his debut novel\, was an Indies Introduce selection and a School Library Journal Best Book\, has been translated into seventeen languages\, and is being developed for film with Paramount Players. He lives in northeast Ohio with his family. You can find him at www.justinareynolds.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-early-departures-with-justin-a-reynolds/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Meet Grandparenting Experts and Authors at a Virtual 3rd Thursday Special Event!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Third Thursday event virtually\, with California authors and grandparenting/mindfulness experts Pam Siegel to talk about how we can\, as parents and especially grandparents\, support the kiddos during this back-to-school time. \nWhether attending live or virtual classes\, whether you’re able to get together with family in person or online\, Pam and Leslie offer up useful tips on how to get and keep connected! \nTheir book\, Grandparenting: Renew\, Relive\, Rejoice\, is available from Main Street Reads or our bookshop warehouse. It’s a super colorful\, easy to navigate book filled with 52 ways to mindfully connect and grow with your grandchildren. \nLearn more at their insightful website and bring your questions to the meeting – link details below! \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85613056099?pwd=eU1kS25NdWZjM0xpREk0RW82eVdTZz09\nMeeting ID: 856 1305 6099\nPasscode: 202020 \nPam Siegel\n\nPam Siegel MPH\, MFT is a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice in West Los Angeles. She has a master’s in health education from UCLA and an additional master’s in counseling from California State University\, Northridge. She is a certified mindfulness therapist and implements meditation and other mindfulness tools to help her clients with a variety of issues. For over twelve years\, Pam has led a weekly mindfulness support group. She is actively involved in the mindfulness and yoga community and has her own daily practice and website\, www.pamsiegel.com. \nLeslie Zinberg\n\nLeslie Zinberg has a BS in elementary education from the University of Texas at Austin\, and has co-written two successful parenting books\, The Pink and Blue Baby Pages\, written in 1995\, and The Pink and Blue Toddler Pages\, written in 1999. Both books were featured in national publicity campaigns\, with appearances on the Today Show\, QVC\, and local television and radio segments across the country. Leslie is the cofounder of the grandparent website\, www.grandparentslink.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-grandparenting-experts-and-authors-at-a-virtual-3rd-thursday-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Reading,Third Thursday,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: The Good Luck Stone with Heather Bell Adams
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, Aug 27th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for an entertaining discussion of Heather Bell Adams’ newly released novel\, The Good Luck Stone. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your confirmation link and password to attend. The book is available from us or click the link in the title to grab it from our Bookshop warehouse! \n\n\n\nHer desperate decision during World War II changed everything. Now\, 70 years later\, her secret is unraveling. \nAt ninety years old\, Audrey Thorpe still lives in a historic mansion on palm-tree-lined Victory Drive\, determined to retain her independence. But when her health begins to fade\, her family hires a part-time caregiver\, Laurel. The two women seem to bond-until Audrey disappears. Unbeknownst to Laurel\, Audrey has harbored a secret for 70 years\, since her time as a nurse in the South Pacific during World War II. \nAs the story moves between the verdant jungles of the war-torn Philippines and the glitter of modern-day Savannah\, Georgia\, friendships new and old are tested. Along the way\, Audrey grapples with one of life’s heart-wrenching truths: You can only outrun your secrets for so long. \nHeather Bell Adams is the author of the novels\, Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press 2017) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books 2020). Maranatha Road won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was named to Deep South Magazine‘s Fall/Winter Reading List. The Good Luck Stone\, which won the Grassic Short Novel Prize\, appears on Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List and Most Anticipated Small Press Novel Lists for The Big Other and BuzzFeed. \nHeather’s short fiction\, which has won the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award and James Still Fiction Prize\, appears in The Thomas Wolfe Review\, Atticus Review\, The Petigru Review\, Pisgah Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Broad River Review\, and other journals. \nHeather is originally from Hendersonville\, North Carolina and now lives in Raleigh where she works as a lawyer. A nationally-recognized scholar on the works of Ron Rash\, she also volunteers on the Raleigh Review fiction staff.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-the-good-luck-stone-with-heather-bell-adams/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:National Independent Bookstore Day!
DESCRIPTION:What is Independent Bookstore Day?  \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April but was pushed to August 29th this year. Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. For us\, we’ll have surprise giveaways and sales all day long\, so come on out and celebrate with us! \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/national-independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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