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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Beth Gilstrap in Conversation with Wiley Cash - "Deadheading and Other Stories" (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom for a special event on Tuesday\, November 2 at 7:00 p.m. ET:  \nMEET Beth Gilstrap\, author of Deadheading and Other Stories. Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas\, these stories tell tales of the woebegone\, their obsessions with decay\, and the haunting ache of the region itself–the land of the dwindling pines\, the isolation inherent in the mountains and foothills\, and the loneliness of boomtowns. Predominantly working-class women challenge the status quo by rejecting any lingering expectations or romantic notions of Southern femininity. Small businesses are failing. Factories are closing. Money is tight. The threat of violence lingers for women and girls. Through their collective grief\, heartache\, and unsettling circumstances\, many of these characters become feral and hell-bent on survival. \nGilstrap’s prose teems with wildness and lyricism\, showing the Southern gothic tradition of storytelling is alive and feverishly unwell in the twenty-first century. \nFrom the brokenhearted to the afflicted\, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South. Beth will be in conversation with Wiley Cash and you get a front row seat via our Zoom link below. \nBeth Gilstrap is the author of I Am Barbarella (2015) from Twelve Winters Press. Her work has been selected as Longform.org’s “Fiction Pick of the Week” and chosen by Dan Chaon for inclusion in the Best Microfiction Anthology 2019. She holds an MFA from Chatham University. Her stories\, essays\, and hybrids have appeared in Ninth Letter\, the Minnesota Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Gulf Stream Lit\, and Wigleaf\, among others. Born and raised in the Charlotte area\, she has recently relocated to Louisville. \nJoin the conversation at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VCuQyCpeTPiJbaqdPnT-GQ
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-beth-gilstrap-in-conversation-with-wiley-cash-deadheading-and-other-stories-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Gayle Forman's Frankie & Bug!
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 4 at 7PM ET: Gayle Forman will introduce you to Frankie & Bug. This middle-grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman is a poignant and powerful coming-of-age story that follows a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family\, friendship\, allyship\, and finding your way in a complicated world. Constance Lombardo\, known to many of you as the author of the Mr Puffball series and Everybody Says Meow will be in conversation with Gayle. \nHere’s more info and the Zoom link below… \nIn the debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman comes a poignant and powerful coming-of-age story that follows a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family\, friendship\, allyship\, and finding your way in a complicated world. \nIt’s the summer of 1987\, and all ten-year-old Bug wants to do is go to the beach with her older brother and hang out with the locals on the boardwalk. But Danny wants to be with his own friends\, and Bug’s mom is too busy\, so Bug is stuck with their neighbor Philip’s nephew\, Frankie. \nBug’s not too excited about hanging out with a kid she’s never met\, but they soon find some common ground. And as the summer unfolds\, they find themselves learning some important lessons about each other\, and the world. \nLike what it means to be your true self and how to be a good ally for others. That family can be the people you’re related to\, but also the people you choose to have around you. And that even though life isn’t always fair\, we can all do our part to make it more just. \nGayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications\, including Seventeen\, Cosmopolitan\, and Elle in the US. Gayle Forman’s novel\, If I Stay\, was released as a blockbuster movie starring Chloë Grace Moretz in 2014. Her most recent YA novel is We Are Inevitable. Gayle lives in Brooklyn\, New York with her family. \nTo join in the fun\, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jrk48qF6SWC_9X3cL0-4PA
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-gayle-formans-frankie-bug/
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:Thriller Book Club November: The Night She Disappeared
DESCRIPTION:This month’s thriller book club selection is The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell\, NYT best-selling author of Then She Was Gone and Invisible Girl. \n\n\n\nWe’ll meet November 11th at 6:30 p.m. As always\, treats will be served and we’ll simulcast via Zoom for those who can’t join us live! The Zoom link info is below\, enjoy this big book and we’ll see you soon! \nPrefer to grab The Night She Disappeared at our online shop? CLICK HERE \n\n \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n“Utterly gripping with richly drawn\, hugely compelling characters\, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” –Lucy Foley\, New York Times bestselling author \n\n\n\n“Insane suspense.” –Lee Child\, New York Times bestselling author  \n\n\n\n“Her best thriller yet.” –Harlan Coben\, New York Times bestselling author  \n\n\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another riveting work of psychological suspense about a beautiful young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night\, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them… On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb\, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later\, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place\, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite area for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads\, “DIG HERE.” \n\n\n\nCould this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground? \n\n\n\nWith her signature “rich\, dark\, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware\, New York Times bestselling author) prose\, Lisa Jewell has crafted a dazzling work of suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page. To Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84601817055?pwd=a3VNaTBSb3crajFwU3FVMUNZV25IQT09 Meeting ID: 846 0181 7055 Passcode: 508657  
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-bookclub-november/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Living Large Bookclub November: Apples Never Fall
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be featuring Liane Moriarty’s latest release\, Apples Never Fall\, for our November book club discussion. Moriarty has already thrilled readers with Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers – we can’t wait to chat about the latest from this brilliant author! (More on the book below…) \nOur Living Large bestsellers bookclub is open to all – refreshments served. Join us LIVE or if you prefer by Zoom using the following link: \nTo Join via Zoom:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85213266830?pwd=WW5DYUhmYVhNd3J0b2V3d2pVcGVCUT09 \nMeeting ID: 852 1326 6830\nPasscode: 546536 \nFrom Liane Moriarty\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers\, comes Apples Never Fall\, a novel that looks at marriage\, siblings\, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. \nThe Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . \nIf your mother was missing\, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? \nThis is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. \nThe Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents\, Stan and Joy\, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court\, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage\, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable? \nThe four Delaney children–Amy\, Logan\, Troy\, and Brooke–were tennis stars in their own right\, yet as their father will tell you\, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But that’s okay\, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon. \nOne night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door\, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted. \nLater\, when Joy goes missing\, and Savannah is nowhere to be found\, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent\, he\, like many spouses\, seems to have a lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent\, two are not so sure–but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever\, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-bookclub-november-apples-never-fall/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Thriller Booksigning! Yasmin Angoe's Her Name is Knight
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to bring you an amazing thriller author this month for the launch of her novel\, Her Name Is Knight. Yasmin Angoe will be on hand to sign copies and we’ll feature her book in our December Thrill in the ‘Ville book club discussion\, which means signed copies will be 10% off! We strongly suggest pre-ordering this one as it’s projected to sell out fast.\n\nA smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe\, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. \nStolen from her Ghanaian village as a child\, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe\, she gets plenty of chances. \nBut while on assignment in Miami\, Nena ends up saving a life\, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman\, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect\, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose. \nMeanwhile\, she learns a new Tribe council member is the same man who razed her village\, murdered her family\, and sold her into captivity. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance–and she doesn’t want to. Before she can reclaim her life\, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good. \n\nMEET THE AUTHOR\nYasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American and debut author of Her Name is Knight. In 2020\, she received the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color and is a proud member of SinC\, Crime Writers of Color\, and\, Southeast Mystery Writers of America\, and International Thriller Writers. Yasmin was a middle and high school English teacher and currently works as a developmental editor and sensitivity reader in South Carolina. When not writing or editing\, she is watching movies\, engrossed in a new audiobook\, or obsessing about the fact she probably should be writing. Learn more at yasminangoe.com
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/dynamic-duo-thriller-booksigning-yasmin-angoe-and-wanda-m-morris/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Pulpwood Queens Bookclub 4th TUESDAY This Month
DESCRIPTION:Due to the Thanksgiving holiday we’ll host our Pulpwood Queen book club on the 4th Tuesday of this month. We’ll be chatting about The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg. \nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered\, hometown memories\, and the magical moments in ordinary lives\, from the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe\n\n“A gift\, a blessing and a triumph . . . celebrates the bonds of family and friends–and the possibilities of recovery and renewal.”–The Free Lance-Star \n  \nBud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother\, Ruth\, church-going and proper\, and his Aunt Idgie\, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town’s popular Whistle Stop Cafe\, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. And as Bud often said of his childhood to his daughter Ruthie\, “How lucky can you get?” \n  \nBut sadly\, as the railroad yards shut down and Whistle Stop became a ghost town\, nothing was left but boarded-up buildings and memories of a happier time. \nThen one day\, Bud decides to take one last trip\, just to see what has become of his beloved Whistle Stop. In so doing\, he discovers new friends\, as well as surprises about Idgie’s life\, about Ninny Threadgoode and other beloved Fannie Flagg characters\, and about the town itself. He also sets off a series of events\, both touching and inspiring\, which change his life and the lives of his daughter and many others. Could these events all be just coincidences? Or something else? And can you really go home again?
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/pulpwood-queens-bookclub-4th-tuesday-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:Small Business Saturday Equals Big Wins for YOU
DESCRIPTION:‘Tis the season to shop small!\nJoin us this Small Business Saturday (November 27th 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.) for deals\, steals and lots of local holiday spirit! \nHere’s a sneak peek at store happenings and specials for you\, with plenty more taking place all around the square all day long: \n\nFree Main Street Reads tote for all purchases over $50\nFree pen w/any purchase\nFree coffee and cider all day long for our shoppers\nFree gift wrapping\nFree personal shopping (we’ll help you put together the perfect package\, wrap it and have it ready for pickup when convenient for you!)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/small-business-saturday-equals-big-wins-for-you/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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