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SUMMARY:Fab Fantasy Book Club January 2024: Bookshops & Bonedust
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Fab Fantasy gathering of 2024 when we’ll be diving into Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree\, author of another mega-popular fantasy book at Main Street Reads\, Legends & Lattes! \n\n\n\nAs always\, you bring the chatter\, we’ll supply the treats – and our book club selections are always 10% off retail price\, so come and grab yours soon! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen an injury throws a young\, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path\, she may find that what we need isn’t always what we seek. Set in the world of New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes\, Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust takes us on a journey of high fantasy\, first loves\, and secondhand books.  \n\n\n\nViv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer\, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk–so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted\, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine. Still\, adventure isn’t all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray\, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder\, a summer fling\, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.  \n\n\n\n“Take a break from epic battles and saving the world. This is a low-stakes fantasy that delivers exactly what’s advertised: a wholesome\, cozy novel that feels like a warm hug. This is my new comfort read.”–Genevieve Gornichec\, author of The Witch’s Heart\, on Legends & Lattes
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/fab-fantasy-book-club-january-2024-bookshops-bonedust/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Thrill in the 'Ville Book Club - The Paleontologist
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO TUESDAY’S STORM’S\, WE’VE RESCHEDULED TO WEDNESDAY\, JANUARY 10TH\, 7 PM – APOLOGIES BUT KEEPING EVERYONE SAFE! \n\n\n\nOur first thriller book club of the year will be dishing on The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas! As always\, the book is at the 10% off book club price in-store\, and we’ll have treats and libations to lubricate the conversations 🙂 \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLERA haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel.  \n\n\n\nCurator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown\, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister\, Morgan\, was abducted from the museum under his watch\, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him\, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished\, in search of the bones they never found.  \n\n\n\nBut from the moment he arrives\, things aren’t what he expected. The Hawthorne is a crumbling ruin\, still closed amid the ongoing pandemic\, and plummeting toward financial catastrophe. Worse\, Simon begins seeing and hearing things he can’t explain. Strange animal sounds. Bloody footprints that no living creature could have left. A prehistoric killer looming in the shadows of the museum.  \n\n\n\nTerrified he’s losing his grasp on reality\, Simon turns to the handwritten research diaries of his predecessor and uncovers a blood-soaked mystery 150 million years in the making that could be the answer to everything.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-book-club-january-2024-the-paleontologist/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday: 2024 Winter Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:What better way to get inspired than joining your community at Summerville’s fantastic monthly block party! Every Third Thursday features fun on the square\, including food trucks\, special events\, live music\, and late opening hours for shops around town. \n\n\n\nHere at Main Street Reads you can visit our 2024 Inspiration Station – full of great ideas to motivate you throughout the new year. We’ll see you here!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/third-thursday-2024-winter-inspiration/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Third Thursday
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SUMMARY:Stacy Willingham Returns for Only If You're Lucky!
DESCRIPTION:Here comes the “three-peat” — Stacy Willingham celebrating her third blockbuster release with us in Summerville\, this time featuring the launch of Only If You’re Lucky\, releasing January 16\, 2024! Her Summerville launch party will take place Monday\, January 22\, with our literary partners\, the Timrod Library. This will be our biggest event yet with Stacy\, with room for up to 250 in the Fellowship Hall at Bethany United Methodist Church (just across 3rd St. from the Timrod).  \n\n\n\nStacy will be in conversation with Main Street Reads’ Shari Stauch\, followed by signing and reception at the Timrod (with plenty of catered eats and treats!) \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE!\n\n\n\n\nStacy’s newest book is INCLUDED in your ticket price as well as the signing/ reception. If you’d like to pick your book up on release day the week before\, one will be at Main Street Reads in your name. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.  \n\n\n\nLucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic\, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot\, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one\, the careful one\, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year\, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe\, and asks her to room together\, something in Margot can’t say no–something daring\, or starved\, or maybe even envious.  \n\n\n\nAnd so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls\, Lucy\, the ringleader; Sloane\, the sarcastic one; and Nicole\, the nice one\, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high school\, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends\, but by the middle of their sophomore year\, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.  \n\n\n\nFrom the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging\, about loyalty\, envy\, and betrayal–another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE! (Or Order Direct at Main Street Reads)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacy Willingham is the New York Times\, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark\, All the Dangerous Things and now Only If You’re Lucky.  \n\n\n\nHer debut\, A Flicker in the Dark\, was a 2022 finalist for the Book of the Month’s Book of the Year award\, Goodreads Choice Best Debut award\, Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award\, and ITW’s Best First Novel award. Her work has been translated in more than thirty languages.  \n\n\n\nBefore turning to fiction\, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\nShe currently lives in Charleston\, South Carolina\, with her husband\, Britt\, and Labradoodle\, Mako. \n\n\n\n\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE! (Or Order Direct at Main Street Reads)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/stacy-willingham-returns-for-only-if-youre-lucky/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Reader Meet Writer
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SUMMARY:Living Large Book Club January 2024: Let Us Descend
DESCRIPTION:Our first Living Large bestsellers book club selection of 2024 will by Jesmyn Ward’s hit and newest Southern Fiction award winner\, Let Us Descend. As always\, book clubs are free and open to all – you bring the chat\, we’ll supply the treats – and the book is available in-store at the 10% off book club price! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – Instant New York Times Bestseller – Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence \n\n\n\nFrom Jesmyn Ward–the two-time National Book Award winner\, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction\, and MacArthur Fellow–comes a haunting masterpiece\, sure to be an instant classic\, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.  \n\n\n\n“‘Let us descend\, ‘ the poet now began\, ‘and enter this blind world.'” —Inferno\, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery\, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching\, harrowing\, replete with transcendent love\, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.  \n\n\n\nAnnis\, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her\, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march\, Annis turns inward\, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout\, she opens herself to a world beyond this world\, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water\, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give\, and those who manipulate and take.  \n\n\n\nWhile Ward leads readers through the descent\, this\, her fourth novel\, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation\, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land–the rich but unforgiving forests\, swamps\, and rivers of the American South.  \n\n\n\nLet Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet\, a masterwork for the ages.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/living-large-book-club-january-2024-let-us-descend/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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