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SUMMARY:Rotary "Wheel Wednesday"
DESCRIPTION:Rotarians and friends enjoy discounts STOREWIDE all day Wednesday AND 10% of ALL Main Street Reads sales will be donated to Summerville Rotary Club. \nDid You Know?\nThe Summerville Rotary Club is big into literacy initiatives\, teachers\, students and young readers\, just like Main Street Reads! \n\nSummerville Rotary Club gives new books to new moms after delivery at Summerville Medical Center?\nSummerville Rotary Club awards teachers and students throughout the school year.\nSummerville Rotary Club\, with the help of Main Street Reads\, established a NIC-U (neonatal intensive care unit) library\, so families can read together while hospitalized.\nSummerville Rotary Club awards college scholarships to local high school students.\n\nSo\, check off some shopping list items\, take advantage of special pricing AND support an organization that’s supporting our community! \n**After-hours wine & hors d’oeuvres private reception and shopping for club members from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. (RSVP Required via THIS LINK)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/rotary-wheel-wednesday/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:Historic Downtown Dessert Stroll
DESCRIPTION:What a FUN way to extend shopping hours on a Friday night! We\, along with more than a dozen other downtown stores\, will be open late on Friday December 3rd to share some sweets and community spirit. \nStop by for your sweet surprise and get a book buck towards any purchase! HINT: Watch for special signed copies of great books – they make the perfect thoughtful gift…
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/historic-downtown-dessert-stroll/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:Booksigning: Robert Maniscalco's The Power of Positive Painting
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 4th for a fun signing with Robert Maniscalco and his recent release\, The Power of Positive Painting: A Positive\, Value-based System of Drawing and Painting. \nThe perfect gift for the artist or aspiring artist in your life\, readers will learn the secrets of the masters\, to draw and paint what they see; how to interpret the visual realm by distilling the essences of form; to create works of art that seem to be living and breathing. \nPut Robert’s forty years as a professional artist and teacher to work for you! \nRobert Maniscalco has been a professional creative his entire adult life. Born in 1959 in Detroit\, he has lived in New York\, New Orleans and currently in Charleston. His commission portraits and fine art are part of over a thousand collections throughout North America. In Detroit he hosted Artbeat on PBS and founded the Maniscalco Gallery. As a fine artist\, he likes to work in multiple series. Perhaps his most enduring series is that of a commission portrait artist\, immortalizing Supreme Court Justices as well as children and families. In 2014 Robert took on a vision-quest\, called The Quench Project\, in which he traveled to Haiti\, producing numerous paintings\, a documentary short (Out of Darkness)\, along with a companion book (Quench)\, juxtaposing the Haitian struggle with obtaining fresh water against our society’s obscene wealth inequality. \nRobert blogs on a wide range of subjects and written three other books\, The Fishly and Point of Art. His fourth book\, an Amazon #1 bestseller\, is a full color drawing/painting method\, called The Power of Positive Painting. He is an actor/director\, writer/playwright\, musician/composer and teacher\, a former Adjunct Professor of fine art and theatre at Charleston Southern University and drawing illustration at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. \nRobert has expanded his creative milieu to include courtroom sketching\, covering the Dylann Roof and Michael Slager trials in Charleston. His multi-disciplinary play\, Vincent John Doe\, received its world premiere to rave reviews\, during the 2018 and 2019 Piccolo Spoleto Festivals.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/booksigning-robert-maniscalcos-the-power-of-positive-painting/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing
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SUMMARY:December Thriller Bookclub: Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to bring you an amazing thriller this month\, Her Name Is Knight. Yasmin Angoe was on hand to sign copies in November and we’ll make sure to still have a few – Signed copies will be 10% off!\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\n\n+ Google Calendar
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/december-thriller-bookclub-her-name-is-knight-by-yasmin-angoe/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Promise by Regina E. Williams
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for a special book launch and book-signing with Summerville’s own newest debut author Regina E. Williams for a story collection that will have you laughing\, have you crying\, but most of all… have you thinking. \nWe come into this life knowing what brings us pleasure and pain; what we want and need. We are then taught to distrust what we know. It is only in the university of life that we slowly regain our knowing\, where we begin to again trust our instincts and those things our bodies tell us to be true; where we experience pain\, joy\, grief\, pleasures and hopefully love. \nThese stories cover a span of many years\, situations and locales but the reality is that place matters only in our consciousness\, in our memories; a holding place. Each tale offers a brief reflection of some of those markers on the journey from self to self. \nRegina E. Williams is a poet\, writer\, and writing consultant whose poetry and fiction have appeared worldwide. She has performed her work nationally in high schools\, colleges\, churches\, as well as on national radio. She has participated in various panel discussions and dialogues on issues relating to the black community\, Womanism\, and writing. \n\As an associate with Writer’s Insight\, a writing consultant agency\, Regina designed and conducted writing workshops for students and teachers in high schools\, colleges\, and various civic and community institutions and organizations. She also served as a Managing Editor for Metro Exchange a monthly newspaper published by Intergroup Marketing & Communications\, Inc.Regina is a founding member of Metamorphosis Writer’s Collective and “Ain’t I a Woman” Writers Collective\, and a member of New Renaissance Writers Guild\, and New Bones\, a promotion/production group designed to promote black literature and music. Regina grew up in an immigrant community in Brooklyn\, New York. \nShe quickly became fascinated with people: the climates and typography of the countries they came from\, the musicality or lack of such in the languages they spoke\, the uniqueness of the clothes they wore\, the different spicing of their foods; the discovery that everyone did not worship as her family did. Her curiosity led her to travel to many places to broaden her understanding of global customs\, art\, and culture.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/launch-party-promise-by-regina-e-williams/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reading
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SUMMARY:Booksigning: Ruthie Landis with My Musings
DESCRIPTION:A very special Third Thursday this month as we welcome Ruthie Landis to the bookstore (and owner Shari Stauch celebrates her birthday!) \nYou may remember Chicago’s brilliant Ruthie Landis from previous signings (Beyond the Bookclub\, Acting Lessons for Living). We’re over the moon thrilled that she’s coming back\, this time with My Musings – a book EVERYONE should carry around with them\, all the time! A perfect gift for anyone you love – and you can grab a signed copy to make it even more special! \nThis remarkable guided journal is all yours. It invites you to set one appointment with yourself each week to connect with the hidden crevices of your being in a unique way. That’s why\, in MY MUSINGS\, there are fifty-two weekly journal prompts and activities. There are a few bonus activities to play with as well\, at the beginning and end of your journal\, plus one at the beginning of each seasonal section. \nDo whatever intuitively suits you. Perhaps you want to draw or make art in addition to writing. That’s why there are no lines on your pages; nothing to limit you. If you are a musician\, maybe the prompt becomes the muse for a new song. The title MY MUSINGS means exactly that. This is completely your own. Let it meet you where you are. \nAward-winning workshop designer\, body-centered psychotherapist and coach\, writer\, teacher\, actress\, and director\, Ruthie Landis has been designing powerful and interactive group experiences for over thirty years. Among the many disciplines she practices\, she is a master of the Enneagram\, and uses its wisdom in nearly every aspect of her creative\, professional\, and personal life. She works in constant collaboration with Body\, Mind\, Heart\, Nature\, Intuition\, and the Creative Force. Her intention is to endow the people of the world with a backpack for their life’s journey. This backpack is plentiful\, filled with a rainbow of resources to navigate and explore.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/booksigning-ruthie-landis-with-my-musings/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author! Charryse Johnson Booksigning!
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to welcome Charlotte-based author\, psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner Charryse Johnson on December 18th\, when she’ll personally autograph copies of her recent release\, the inspired and inspiring Expired Mindsets.\n\n\nThere is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet\, without conscious participation\, we can become stuck in a cycle of repetitive patterns that leaves us feeling like an imposter in our own lives. \nIn Expired Mindsets\, Charryse Johnson\, gives readers both the courage and the keys to understanding the root of their patterns. She provides an introspective mind-body approach that demonstrates how to shift into a higher place of peace and potential. This book has a gentle yet poignant way of compelling you to own your story and to stop blaming yourself for choices you made as you sought to survive. \nJohnson is boldly creating a new lane between the intersection of mental health\, inclusivity\, and growth mindset. In this body of work\, she is unapologetically challenging the rigidity and stigma that reduces human struggle to a sequence of self -help steps. As you read this book\, you’ll create a framework that allows you to investigate the diversity of your experiences through a lens of curiosity and understanding. \n\n\nIf you are ready to cut ties with the beliefs that hold you back\, Expired Mindsets belongs on your reading list.\n\nCharryse Johnson\, LCMHC\, NCC is a veteran psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma\, somatic integration\, spirituality\, and social justice. She is the founder o Jade Integrative Counseling and Wellness\, an integrative therapy practice where personal values\, the search for meaning\, and the power of choice are the central focus. Charryse holds a B.A. in human development and family studies; an M.A. in professional counseling and is pursuing her doctoral degree in counseling psychology.* *\n\n\nCharryse hopes the stories shared in her writing will inspire readers to undergo a process of evaluation and growth to emerge with passion and purpose.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-the-author-charryse-johnson-signing/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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