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SUMMARY:Labor Day Loyalty All Weekend Long
DESCRIPTION:Take 10% off storewide if you’re on our loyalty list – and if you’re not\, you can sign up quickly on checkout to get the discount! Offer good Saturday\, Sunday and Monday. \nHave a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/labor-day-loyalty-all-weekend-long/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:Southern Lit Spectacular!
DESCRIPTION:GRAB YOUR TICKETS HERE!\nThis will be THE event of the season at Main Street Reads – four incredible authors\, four seriously amazing books\, UNPLUGGED at the wonderful James Dean Theatre\, followed by a book signing and private reception for ticket holders back at the bookstore! \nDramatic readings and conversations with these wildly popular\, award-winning novelists will be the centerpiece of this Southern Lit Spectacular at 2 p.m. Sept. 4 at the James Dean Theater right up the block from us.\n\n\nThe program will include The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock\, The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney\, One Good Mama Bone by Bren McClain\, and the all-new edition of Gradle Bird by JC Sasser. A portion of book sales will benefit the Timrod Library. \n\nGeneral tickets include a gift certificate to use towards any of the books and a souvenir program signed by all the authors\, as well as food and drink at the signing reception following the performance! VIP tickets include seating in the first five rows and one each of ALL four books. Seating is limited – reserve your tix today!\n\n \nMeet the Authors\nKimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare (Harper Muse) and her award-winning debut\, The River Witch. Eleanor Dare spent three weeks on The Southern Independent Booksellers Bestseller List. A former actor and special needs educator\, in 2014\, Kimberly founded Tinderbox Writer’s Workshop\, a transformative creative experience for women in the arts. Kimberly has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national groups\, including The Women’s Fiction Writer’s annual conference and The Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. www.kimberlybrockbooks.com \nRobert Gwaltney\, award-winning writer of southern fiction\, is a graduate of Florida State University. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the literary community. By day\, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia\, Inc.\, Children Services\, a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as The Signal Mountain Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Robert also serves as Prose Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. His debut novel\, The Cicada Tree\, was awarded the Somerset Award for literary fiction. www.robertlgwaltney.com \nBren McClain is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel\, One Good Mama Bone\, from Pat Conroy’s Story River Books. described as “Charlotte’s Web for grown-ups.” It won the 2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and the 2018 Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature. It was also named Pulpwood Queen 2017 Book of the Year\, a 2017 Great Group Reads by the Women’s National Book Association\, and a Southeastern Independent Booksellers (SIBA) Okra pick. She is at work on her next novel\, TOOK\, which was named gold medalist in the 2016 William Faulkner –William Wisdom Novel-in-Progress. Bren makes her home in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. www.brenmcclain.com \nJ.C. Sasser started her professional career at age twelve\, working as a dishwasher\, waitress\, and cook at a truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. Over her life\, she’s worked as an envelope licker\, tortoise tagger\, lifeguard\, Senate page\, model\, editor\, water-polo coach\, marine biologist\, plant grower\, software consultant\, and 6-Sigma Black Belt. Her debut novel\, Gradle Bird\, won the 2018 Southern Book Prize and the IBPA’s Benjamin Franklin award for Best New Voice in Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. She currently lives in the south Georgia woods in an old WWII barracks with her husband\, Thomas\, their two sons\, T.C. and Robert Esten\, and dogs Boo Reedy and Batman. www.jcsasserbooks.com \nMeet the Books\nThe fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery\, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured Commonplace Book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World\, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it\, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. \nIn the waning days of World War Two\, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell\, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past\, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter\, Penn\, in tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor’s book is finally found\, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare. \nIn this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock\, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \n“Some things in this world are meant to burn …” The summer of 1956\, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia\, a natural event with supernatural repercussions\, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell\, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence\, dark obsessions are stirred\, uncanny gifts provoked\, and secrets unearthed. \nDuring a visit to Mistletoe\, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family\, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa\, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty.  A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise’s fascination with the Mayfields. \nAnaleise’s burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly\, ordinary life\, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation\, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences—all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song. \nA novel of courageous parental love and the instructive\, healing bonds that form between humans and animals. Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina\, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer’s quest to find her mama bone\, after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor\, a woman she calls Sister. When her husband drinks himself to death\, Sarah\, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due\, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah’s fear that her mother’s words\, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six\, were a prophesy\, You ain’t got you one good mama bone in you\, girl. \nWhen Sarah reads in the local newspaper that a boy won $680 with his Grand Champion steer at the recent 1951 Fat Cattle Show & Sale\, she sees this as their financial salvation and finds a way to get Emerson Bridge a steer from a local farmer to compete in the 1952 show. But the young calf is unsettled at Sarah’s farm\, crying out in distress and growing louder as the night wears on. Some four miles away\, the steer’s mother hears his cries and breaks out of a barbed-wire fence to go in search of him. The next morning Sarah finds the young steer quiet\, content\, and nursing a large cow. Inspired by the mother cow’s act of love\, Sarah names her Mama Red. And so Sarah’s education in motherhood begins with Mama Red as her teacher. \nBut Luther Dobbins\, the man who sold Sarah the steer\, has his sights set on winning too\, and\, like Sarah\, he is desperate\, but not for money. Dobbins is desperate for glory\, wanting to regain his lost grand-champion dynasty\, and he will stop at nothing to win. Emboldened by her lessons from Mama Red and her budding mama bone\, Sarah is committed to victory even after she learns the winning steer’s ultimate fate. Will she stop at nothing\, even if it means betraying her teacher? \nA wildly inventive novel that stretches the boundaries of what it costs to love and be loved. Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa\, Leonard\, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey\, Gradle is plunged into a lush\, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came.     \nHere she meets Sonny Joe Stitch\, a Siamese fighting fish connoisseur overdosed on testosterone\, a crippled\, Bible-thumping hobo named Ceif “Tadpole” Walker\, and the only true friend she will ever know\, a schizophrenic genius\, music-man\, and professional dumpster-diver\, D-5 Delvis Miles. As Gradle falls deeper into Delvis’s imaginary and fantastical world\, unsettling dangers lurk\, and when surfaced Gradle discovers unforeseen depths in herself and the people she loves the most.     \nGradle Bird is an unusual tale of self-discovery and redemption that explores the infirmities of fatherly love\, the complexities of human cruelty\, and the consequences of guilt\, proving they are possible to overcome no matter how dark and horrible the cause.  
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/southern-lit-spectacular/
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:Meet the Author: Dana Ridenour - The Lexie Montgomery FBI Series
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, September 10th we’re thrilled to welcome lowcountry author and former FBI agent Dana Ridenour\, architect behind the Lexie Montgomery FBI Series! \nDana is the award-winning author of Behind The Mask\, Beyond The Cabin\, and Below The Radar. She is a retired FBI agent who spent most of her career as an FBI undercover operative infiltrating criminal organizations including the Animal Liberation Front\, the subject of her new book\, Below The Radar. The characters from her novels are in development for television. \nJoin us – free and open to all – treats will be served! Learn more about Dana and her work at www.danaridenour.net \n \n  \n 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-the-author-dana-ridenour-the-lexie-montgomery-fbi-series/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing
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SUMMARY:A Special Meet the Author: Yasmin Angoe - They Come at Knight
DESCRIPTION:You’ll all remember last year’s wonderful signing and book club with Yasmin Angoe’s Her Name is Knight. Now comes They Come at Knight and Yasmin will be here LIVE on Tuesday\, September 13th (prior to our thriller book club). We’ll then discuss the book at October’s Thrill in the ‘Ville! \nAt 7 p.m. there’ll be a Zoom meeting to invite everyone in from coast to coast to meet Yasmin and learn more about the book! Zoom info to login: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81733528743?pwd=ZDl2TnIwY2hsdWVTckN3ZWRrLzZPdz09\nMeeting ID: 817 3352 8743  Passcode: 091322 \nYasmin Angoe’s They Come at Knight is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her family. \nFor elite assassin Nena Knight\, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe\, a powerful business syndicate in Africa\, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena\, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it’s an organization that supports the African people—until it turns on itself. \nAs Nena embarks on a new mission\, a violent siege by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos\, and mysterious acts of violence plague the Tribe’s territories. As the attacks escalate\, Nena suspects a different kind of enemy at play: someone on the inside\, determined to undermine the Tribe’s leaders. \nAs this new threat closes in on her own family\, Nena enlists a team to root out the danger. But as she gets closer to the truth\, she will have to risk everything to protect the future she holds dear—even if it means facing off with an enemy she never expected. \n \nYasmin Angoe is the author of the critically acclaimed Her Name Is Knight\, first book in the Nena Knight trilogy. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and the recipient of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color. Her Name Is Knight came in #1 on multiple Amazon Bestseller charts and is an Editor’s Pick for Best Mystery\, Thriller\, & Suspense. \nYasmin is a nominee for the Anthony Awards for Best First Book and the AAMBC Awards for Debut Author of the Year. Her work has received numerous recognitions\, Best Of lists\, and a Library Journal Starred Review. Her book has appeared in Woman’s World Book Club\, POPSUGAR\, Nerd Daily\, the Washington Independent Review of Books\, Oprah Daily and other platforms. Yasmin is a former educator and received a Kirkus Review calling Her Name Is Knight\, “A parable of reclaiming personal and tribal identity by seizing power at all costs”.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/a-special-meet-the-author-yasmin-angoe-they-come-at-knight/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: The It Girl by Ruth Ware
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Yasmin Angoe’s book release and stay on to discuss The It Girl by Ruth Ware! Treats served\, open to all… \nINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder.  \nApril Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. \nVivacious\, bright\, occasionally vicious\, and the ultimate It girl\, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together\, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends–Will\, Hugh\, Ryan\, and Emily–during their first term. By the end of the year\, April was dead. \nNow\, a decade later\, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child\, and the man convicted of killing April\, former Oxford porter John Neville\, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her\, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death\, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder. \n“The Agatha Christie of our generation” (David Baldacci\, #1 New York Times bestselling author) proves once again that she is “as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post) with this propulsive murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-the-it-girl-by-ruth-ware/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Banned Books Week: Read Dangerously!
DESCRIPTION:Banned Books Week (Sep. 18-24 this year) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. The week spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians\, booksellers\, publishers\, journalists\, teachers\, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas\, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. \nThe books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books\, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. \nWe’ll have a special display with tons of banned books that are often surprising\, with incentives for banned book purchases\, so stop on by!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/banned-books-week-read-dangerously/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Celebration
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SUMMARY:"Living Large" Book Club: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all\, our Living Large book club is for those great books we ALL should be reading. You’ll love this one! \nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”–The New York Times Book Review  \n“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”–Geraldine Brooks\, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book \nEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious\, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium\, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table\, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and\, learning that the word means “slave girl\,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. \nAs she grows up\, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. \nSet during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming\, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative\, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events\, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful\, lyrical\, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-the-dictionary-of-lost-words-by-pip-williams/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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