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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Book Club: Ink\, Blood\, Sister\, Scribe
DESCRIPTION:Join your fellow readers for fun discussion\, 10% off book club pricing and free treats on book club night! This month\, Ink\, Blood\, Sister\, Scribe is up for discussion – we’ll see you there! \n\n\n\nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! \n\n\n\n“Astonishing and pristine\, the kind of debut I love to be devastated by\, already so assured and sophisticated that it’s difficult to imagine where the author can go from here. . . . It’s simply a delight from start to finish.” – AMAL EL-MOHTAR\, New York Times Book Review \n\n\n\n“Follow where this novel leads and you will be lost in a bewitching spell\, a book of magic about books of magic . . . extraordinary.” – MARLON JAMES \n\n\n\nIn this spellbinding debut novel\, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family’s library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection–a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal\, and the pursuit of magic and power. \n\n\n\nFor generations\, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements–books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect. \n\n\n\nAll magic comes with a price\, though\, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother\, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont\, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before\, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process\, they’ll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined\, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries\, continents\, and even other libraries . . . \n\n\n\nIn the great tradition of Ninth House\, The Magicians\, and Practical Magic\, this is a suspenseful and richly atmospheric novel that draws readers into a vast world filled with mystery and magic\, romance\, and intrigue–and marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in speculative fiction. \n\n\n\n“Ink Blood Sister Scribe is so many things at once: an adventure\, a puzzle\, a twisty thriller\, and a tender romance. . . . I adored it.” – ALIX E. HARROW \n\n\n\n“If\, like me\, you’re a fan of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo\, pick up this book at once.” — KELLY LINK
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-book-club-ink-blood-sister-scribe/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Signing - Indigo Isle!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on August 5th for a special “Meet the Author” with TI Lowe and grab a signed copy of her new release\, Indigo Isle. A story of hanging on and letting go\, of redemption and reconciliation\, and of a love that heals the deepest wounds\, from the author of the breakout Southern fiction bestseller Under the Magnolias. BOTH books will be available for sale and signing\, and treats are on us! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Storms show up and there ain’t a thing we can do to stop them.” \n\n\n\nSonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world\, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands\, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss’s demands\, she has little time to think about the past… until her latest gig lands her a stone’s throw from everything she left behind. \n\n\n\nSearching off the coast of Charleston for a secluded site to film a key scene\, Sonny wanders onto a private barrier island and encounters its reclusive owner\, known by locals as the Monster of Indigo Isle. What she finds is a man much more complex than the myth. \n\n\n\nOnce a successful New York attorney\, Hudson Renfrow’s grief has exiled him to his island for years. He spends his days alone\, tending his fields of indigo\, and he has no interest in serving the intrusive needs of a film company or yielding to Sonny’s determined curiosity. But when a hurricane makes landfall on the Carolina coast\, stranding them together\, an unlikely friendship forms between the two damaged souls.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-indigo-isle/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration
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SUMMARY:Tax Free Weekend Ends Today
DESCRIPTION:South Carolina’s annual Tax Free Weekend is scheduled for August 4-6\, 2023.\n\n\n\nFor 72 hours\, tax-free items include school supplies\, books\, clothing and accessories\, These tax-free items can be purchased in-store or online.\n\n\n\n\nDid you know? Last year\, South Carolina shoppers bought more than $26.2 million in tax-free items during the Tax Free Weekend! In past years\, shoppers have saved between $2 million and $3 million during the weekend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks\, clothes\, school supplies\, and a variety of other school-year essentials can be purchased free of Sales Tax during South Carolina’s annual 72-hour Tax Free Weekend. The South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) reminds shoppers that the 2023 Tax Free Weekend runs Friday\, August 4 at 12:00 a.m. through Sunday\, August 6 at 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\nEligible items can be purchased online and in-store without paying the state’s 6% Sales Tax and any applicable local taxes during Tax Free Weekend\, often called the Sales Tax Holiday. \n\n\n\n“With the increased cost of inflation\, this year’s Sales Tax Holiday is a welcome relief for families. Everyone saves money during Tax Free Weekend\, particularly on back-to-school essentials\,” said SCDOR Director Hartley Powell.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/your-2023-tax-free-weekend-kicks-off-this-friday/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Stories on the Square
DESCRIPTION:Join us every WEDNESDAY morning at 9:30 a.m. for “Stories on the Square\, our outdoor storytime adventure  – kids of all ages welcome! Treats served and student discounts to ALL attendees! \nStorytime at Main Street Reads is a weekly featured event\, held inside when the weather doesn’t permit. We have lots of chairs for younger listeners\, hula-hoops for distancing and plenty of juice boxes and fruit snacks to munch while they listen. \nIn case of inclement weather\, storytime moves inside – we move the furniture and place the hoops and chairs on the floor – we do ask that strollers park outside!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/wednesday-stories-on-the-square-9/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading,Story Time
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club: Bad Summer People
DESCRIPTION:This month’s Thrill in the ‘Ville will take place on August 15th – and we’ll be chatting about Bad Summer People (the book\, not the neighbors!) Everyone is welcome and we’ll supply the treats! \n\n\n\nEmma Rosenblum’s Bad Summer People is a whip-smart\, propulsive debut about infidelity\, backstabbing\, and murderous intrigue\, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island.“This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked\, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp.” –Kevin Kwan\, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and Sex and VanityNone of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe\, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court\, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands\, Sam and Jason\, have summered together on the island since childhood\, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend\, Rachel Woolf\, is looking to meet her match\, whether he’s the tennis pro–or someone else’s husband.  \n\n\n\nBut even with plenty to gossip about\, this season starts out as quietly as any other. Until a body is discovered\, face down\, off the side of the boardwalk. Stylish\, subversive\, and darkly comedic\, this is a story of what’s lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-bad-summer-people/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:August's Third Thursday
DESCRIPTION:On the third Thursday of each month Historic Downtown Summerville transforms into a special marketplace featuring local entertainment\, craft vendors and artisans\, to complement the extended hours of our eclectic shops\, boutiques and restaurants. \n\n\n\nTraffic\n\n\n\nThird Thursday traffic is rerouted 4:00pm until 9:00pm. from the following streets ; Little Main Street\, W Richardson to Central (closed for traffic). ​There is plenty of FREE parking throughout the downtown including the town garage located behind Town Hall.  \n\n\n\nHere at Main Street Reads we have treats and many featured authors… come join the fun!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/augusts-third-thursday/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Sale,Third Thursday
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SUMMARY:Bookstore Romance Day!
DESCRIPTION:Ahhh… the joy of a great romance. We’re celebrating all things romance on National Bookstore Romance Day with 10% off any romance title in the store (we’ll have a special display of them to get you started on our favorites) and we’ll discount our literary teas and chocolates that day too… isn’t it romantic?!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bookstore-romance-day-3/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Sally Jacobs - Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The Timrod Library and Main Street Reads present author Sally H. Jacobs to discuss Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson\, on Sunday\, Aug. 20\, 2 p.m. in the Catherine Stewart Room of the Timrod Library. Tickets are $40 ($30 for members) and include a copy of the book. A reception and book signing will follow. \n\n\n\nAlthea Gibson\, who was born in Silver\, South Carolina\, was the top female tennis player in the world in both 1957 and 1958. She became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated and the second to appear on the cover of Time. Seven years later she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association. \n\n\n\n“A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson\, my personal shero\, who overcame daunting odds – on the tennis court and off – to stand at the world pinnacle of her sport and became an inspiration to many.” — Billie Jean King  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1950\, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field\, the all-white\, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive a powerhouse player who would integrate “the game of royalty.” The player was a street-savvy young Black woman from Harlem named Althea Gibson who was about as out-of-place in that rarefied and intolerant world as any aspiring tennis champion could be.  \n\n\n\nHer tattered jeans and short-cropped hair drew stares from everyone who watched her play\, but her astonishing performance on the court soon eclipsed the negative feelings being cast her way as she eventually became one of the greatest American tennis champions. Gibson had a stunning career. Raised in New York and trained by a pair of tennis-playing doctors in the South\, Gibson’s immense talent on the court opened the door for her to compete around the world. She won top prizes at Wimbledon and Forest Hills time and time again.  \n\n\n\nThe young woman underestimated by so many wound up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II\, being driven up Broadway in a snowstorm of ticker tape\, and ultimately became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated and the second to appear on the cover of Time. In a crowning achievement\, Althea Gibson became the No. One ranked female tennis player in the world for both 1957 and 1958. Seven years later she broke the color barrier again where she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In Althea\, prize-winning former Boston Globe reporter Sally H. Jacobs tells the heart-rending story of this pioneer\, a remarkable woman who was a trailblazer\, a champion\, and one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally H. Jacobs is a former reporter for the Boston Globe\, a winner of the George Polk Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. She is the author of The Other Barack\, a biography of Barack Obama’s father.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-talk-with-sally-jacobs-althea-the-life-of-tennis-champion-althea-gibson/
LOCATION:Timrod Library\, 217 Central Avenue\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special book signing with Stephen Hundley\, author of the debut fiction collection\, The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First\, releasing from North Georgia Press this Tuesday. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Aliens Will Come to Georgia First showcases sixteen bizarre\, hard-loving stories set in the foothills\, pinelands\, low country\, and barrier islands of Georgia\, and a few other places\, too. In its pages\, a boy and girl find a body on the marsh\, a delusional nude model takes on the fight of his life\, and a diver visits a sleeping nuclear bomb just a mile from the beach. Tourists eat shrimp and cheer for dolphins while a man falls in love with his television and a handy-woman sees jellyfish-like travelers from outer space. \n\n\n\nHundley’s men and women grapple with death\, distant lovers\, and damaged families as well as sharks\, stray dogs\, and man-eating tigers. This debut collection offers an intimate glimpse into a working class\, American South populated by people who have made themselves acolytes of existential powers-weapons of mass destruction and alien invasions\, the wide ocean and desperate love. This is a book for dreamers and space cadets\, fighters and providers\, and anyone who believes in a connection between the places we come from and the people we become.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press\, 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press\, 2024). He is a fiction editor for Driftwood Press\, book review editor for Southeast Review\, and his stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, South Carolina Review\, The Greensboro Review\, and elsewhere. Stephen holds an MA from Clemson\, an MFA from the University of Mississippi\, and is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University\, where he is writing a book about the feral horses of Cumberland Island. 
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/book-signing-the-aliens-will-come-to-georgia-first/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Living Large Bookclub: The Summer of Songbirds
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively discussion of the new hit from Kristy Woodson Harvey\, The Summer of Songbirds. As always\, treats are on us and all are welcome. The book is available at Main Street Reads for 10% off book club pricing! \n\n\n\nFour women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process in this moving new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil and the Peachtree Bluff series. Nearly thirty years ago\, in the wake of a personal tragedy\, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now\, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for\, and begins to realize how much she has used the camp to avoid facing difficulties in her life. June’s niece\, Daphne\, met her two best friends\, Lanier and Mary Stuart\, during a fateful summer at camp. They’ve all helped each other through hard things\, from heartbreak and loss to substance abuse and unplanned pregnancy\, and the three are inseparable even in their thirties.  \n\n\n\nBut when attorney Daphne is confronted with a relationship from her past–and a confidential issue at work becomes personal–she is faced with an impossible choice. Lanier\, meanwhile\, is struggling with tough decisions of her own. After a run-in with an old flame\, she is torn between the commitment she made to her fiancé and the one she made to her first love. And when a big secret comes to light\, she finds herself at odds with her best friend…and risks losing the person she loves most. But in spite of their personal problems\, nothing is more important to these songbirds than Camp Holly Springs. When the women learn their childhood oasis is in danger of closing\, they band together to save it\, sending them on a journey that promises to open the next chapters in their lives.  \n\n\n\nFrom an author whose “writing coats your soul with heart” (E! Online)\, The Summer of Songbirds is a lyrical and unforgettable celebration of female friendship\, summertime freedom\, and enduring sisterhood–and a love letter to the places and people that make us who we are.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-bookclub-the-summer-of-songbirds/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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