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SUMMARY:October Fab Fantasy Book Club: Silvercloak by L. K. Steven
DESCRIPTION:Come join the discussion – wine and apps are free\, and –as always– our clubs are free and open to all\, PLUS the book club picks are offered at the 10% off book club discount! \n\n\n\nThis month\, we’ll be chatting about Silvercloak by L. K. Steven$32.99 Book club price: $29.69 Hardcover\, 464 ppBy #1 New York Times bestselling author L. K. Steven\, this first installment in a thrilling new series promises dark magic\, dangerous deceptions\, and a heroine you won’t soon forget. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo decades after the ruthless Bloodmoons murdered her parents\, Saffron Killoran has dedicated her life to vengeance. Her lies earn her a coveted place at Silvercloak Academy\, where detectives are trained to protect the city. But when her deception is exposed\, Saff is offered a singular chance: infiltrate the Bloodmoons themselves and dismantle them from within. \n\n\n\nWhat follows is a gripping descent into a world where pleasure and pain are the strongest forms of power\, and survival depends on a delicate balance of loyalty and betrayal. Rival gangs\, sinister smuggling rings\, and a prophecy of death shadow Saff’s every move.And as her heart entangles with the tortured son of the Bloodmoons’ kingpin\, she must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for revenge. \n\n\n\nBe ready to explore themes of obsession\, vengeance\, forbidden love\, and the price of survival in a world built on shadows. And for collectors—this is the stunning first edition hardcover\, complete with teal stained edges\, a case-stamped design\, and full-color endpaper maps (while supplies last!). Join us for an unforgettable night of fantasy\, intrigue\, and conversation—perfectly suited to the spookiest month of the year.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-fab-fantasy-book-club-silvercloak-by-l-k-steven/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Summerville Oktoberfest 2025!
DESCRIPTION:Oktoberfest 2025 in Summerville\, SC  Celebrate with Food\, Beer & Family Fun – Don’t Miss Summerville’s Biggest Fall Festival! \n\n\n\nJoin the Lowcountry’s favorite fall celebration on Saturday\, October 4\, 2025\, from 12 PM to 6 PM in historic Hutchinson Square. Savor authentic German food\, enjoy cold Oktoberfest beer\, dance to live music\, and explore family-friendly activities all afternoon. \n\n\n\n​Whether you call Summerville home\, you’re visiting from Charleston\, or you’re planning a fall getaway\, Summerville Oktoberfest 2025 is your ticket to a perfect autumn day. More details HERE! \n\n\n\n\nLive Music: All day on the Main Stage\n\n\n\n Stein-Holding Contest: 4:00 PM\n\n\n\n Food Vendors: Open 12 Noon – 6 PM\n\n\n\nKid Zone: Games\, crafts & inflatables\n\n\n\nBeer Garden: 21+ with valid ID
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/summerville-oktoberfest-2025/
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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SUMMARY:Banned Books Week 2025!
DESCRIPTION:This is one of our favorite weeks at Main Street Reads each year: Banned Books Week. We join bookstores and libraries across the nation to highlight books (often amazing\, insightful and useful books) that are being banned or challenged in schools and libraries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the store\, we feature over 100 banned books titles each year\, including the most recent challenged books. Enjoy the crime scene caution tape and ask your book adventure guides at the store why a book has been banned or challenged – the answers may surprise you! \n\n\n\nGrab any banned book and get 10% off. Ditto our online Bookshop at https://bookshop.org/shop/mainstreetreads – where you can celebrate Banned Books Week (Oct 5-11) by exploring some of the most challenged books in the U.S.\, from The Bluest Eye to Maus. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAND NEW FOR THIS YEAR – banned book merchandise at our online shop HERE!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/banned-books-week-2024/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale
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SUMMARY:October Thrill in the ‘Ville Thriller Book Club: Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
DESCRIPTION:Come join the Thrill in the ‘Ville thriller book club discussion – wine and apps are free\, and as always\, our clubs are free and open to all\, PLUS the book club picks are offered at the 10% off book club discount. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis month we’re chatting about: Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham\, the latest pulse-pounding Southern suspense from the lowcountry’s own New York Times bestselling author! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-two years ago\, Claire Campbell’s older sister Natalie vanished on the cusp of adulthood. Her blood was later discovered in a car\, a suspect arrested\, and the case officially closed. But for Claire\, the wound never truly healed. She escaped to the city\, carving out a career as an investigative journalist—until a call from her father pulls her back to the place where everything unraveled. \n\n\n\nWith a long summer ahead in her childhood hometown\, and forced into close quarters with her estranged mother\, Claire impulsively accepts a seasonal job at Galloway Farm\, a picturesque muscadine vineyard along the South Carolina coast. The farm seems idyllic\, even healing—a place where Natalie herself had once found joy. But soon\, Claire discovers an old diary tucked away\, its pages filled with confessions that begin as tales of young rebellion and love\, then twist into accounts of chilling crimes. \n\n\n\nThe more Claire reads\, the more she suspects the diary may hold answers to her sister’s disappearance. As her obsession deepens\, isolation closes in\, and Galloway becomes less a refuge than a haunting reminder of secrets buried in plain sight. Join us as we unravel this gripping tale of family\, memory\, and obsession—and discover whether the past can ever truly stay forgotten.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-thrill-in-the-ville-thriller-book-club-forget-me-not-by-stacy-willingham/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:October Adventures in Reading Kids Club: Blackberry Fox by Kathrin Tordas
DESCRIPTION:Our Adventures in Reading Kids Club is free and open to all AND the book is 10% off book club pricing. Come on out and join your fellow readers each month for a free pizza party and chat about the selected book. \n\n\n\nThis month we’re chatting about Blackberry Fox by Kathrin TordasYoung readers will journey into the magical heart of Wales with this enchanting new middle-grade fantasy\, perfect for fans of Wilderlore and Skandar. \n\n\n\nDuring a summer holiday in the Welsh countryside\, best friends Portia and Ben stumble upon something extraordinary: a door hidden in a bramble hedge deep within the forest. At first\, it seems like an innocent discovery—but what lies beyond is no ordinary place.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbeknownst to them\, the bramble door is a portal to the Otherworld\, a realm steeped in both wonder and danger\, where ancient myths come to life. \n\n\n\nWhen a mysterious figure known as Robin Goodfellow—the man with the fox shadow—tricks Portia into opening the door\, the balance between worlds is shattered. Trapped on the wrong side of the portal\, Portia and Ben must summon all their courage to survive. Along the way\, they’ll encounter Welsh legends\, test the limits of their friendship\, and face choices that could change their lives forever. \n\n\n\nBlending folklore\, high-stakes adventure\, and richly imagined magic\, this is an irresistible tale of bravery and discovery that will sweep readers off their feet—and spark plenty of spirited book club discussion.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-adventures-in-reading-kids-club-blackberry-fox-by-kathrin-tordas/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:October Kiss & Tell Romance Book Club: The Good Girl Effect by Sara Cate
DESCRIPTION:Our book clubs are free and open to all – we supply the treats\, you bring the scintillating conversation! As always\, all book club selections are 10% off book club pricing. Come join our romance club\, “Kiss & Tell!” \n\n\n\nThis month\, we’re chatting about The Good Girl Effect by Sara CateHis praise is forbidden—his touch irresistible… From bestselling author Sara Cate comes this dark\, emotional\, and irresistibly passionate story about grief\, healing\, and the unexpected places where love can take root. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJack St. Claire is a man locked inside his pain. A widowed single father\, he pours everything into his work—running an exclusive new kink club in Paris—while keeping his heart barricaded behind walls of grief. What he needs most is help caring for his young daughter\, though admitting that feels like failure. \n\n\n\nCamille Aubert never planned on becoming a nanny. She only wanted to return a lost love letter she stumbled across in a book. But when a misunderstanding lands her in Jack’s apartment as his new live-in caregiver\, she begins to sense that fate has placed her exactly where she belongs. \n\n\n\nAs Camille settles in\, she stumbles upon a locked room that reveals Jack’s hidden\, darker side. Fascinated and drawn to him in ways she can’t resist\, she finds herself pulled into his world of forbidden intimacy. What begins as curiosity soon deepens into something more powerful—a love that could either free Jack from his past or consume them both in the fire of passion. \n\n\n\nProvocative\, heart-wrenching romance that explores the healing power of love\, the courage to confront grief\, and the irresistible pull of desire. Perfect for readers who crave their happily-ever-afters with equal parts tenderness and heat.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-kiss-tell-romance-book-club-the-good-girl-effect-by-sara-cate/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Spooktacular Downtown Trick or Treat
DESCRIPTION:Dress up and come trick or treat throughout the Summerville Farmers Market and local downtown shops on Saturday\, October 25th 10am to 1pm!!! \n\n\n\nWe’ll also have free broom or wand pen (or crayons for the littles) with purchase…Keepin’ it spooooooooky!!!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/spooktacular-downtown-trick-or-treat/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Special Sale
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SUMMARY:Meet "All the Colors of the Dark" author Chris Whitaker at Main Street Reads!
DESCRIPTION:Main Street Reads is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Chris Whitaker and you’re invited! Following his lit and lunch event at the Timrod (sold out) – he’ll be heading over to Main Street Reads to meet more of his fans – here’s your last chance while he’s stateside! \n\n\n\nWhitaker—internationally acclaimed for We Begin at the End and now the author of the runaway hit All the Colors of the Dark—will join us to sign his books\, including his newest work\, a “Read with Jenna” Book Club Pick that has already sold over a million copies worldwide. \n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n📅 Date: Sunday\, October 26\, 2025🕐 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm📖 Chris’s books will be available for purchase and signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll the Colors of the Dark is a soaring thriller and epic love story that blends suspense with profound heart. \n\n\n\n1975: America is shifting. The Vietnam War is ending\, Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier\, and in the small town of Monta Clare\, Missouri\, young girls are vanishing. When a local boy named Patch saves the daughter of a wealthy family from a brutal attack\, he becomes an unlikely hero—yet leaves heartbreak in his wake. \n\n\n\nEqual parts missing-person mystery\, serial killer thriller\, and sweeping generational love story\, Whitaker’s latest has been hailed as “a must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn)\, “absolutely mesmerizing” (Patricia Cornwell)\, and “profoundly emotional and powerful” (B.A. Paris). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Whitaker is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks\, All the Wicked Girls\, and the New York Times bestseller We Begin at the End. His novels have won or been shortlisted for multiple international prizes. He lives in the UK and is making a short stop in the southeast\, with visits to us\, the Timrod Library\, the Pat Conroy Literary Festival and M. Judson’s in Greenville. Don’t miss your chance to meet this amazing author!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/literature-lunch-with-chris-whitaker/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reader Meet Writer,Special Sale
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SUMMARY:October Books & Banter Fiction Book Club: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Books & Banter is our general fiction book club\, focusing on great new reads that matter! THIS MONTH – we’re meeting on the 5th Tuesday (because our Alchemised release party is happening on the 4th Tuesday!) \n\n\n\nAs always\, our book clubs are free and open to all\, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation\, we’ll provide the treats! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis month’s pick is Buckeye by Patrick RyanOne town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. In his sweeping new novel\, Ryan transports readers to Bonhomie\, Ohio\, where the reverberations of a single choice ripple across generations. Described by Tom Perrotta as “a small-town novel of epic proportions\,” Buckeye spans from the jubilant end of World War II to the close of the twentieth century\, weaving together themes of love\, betrayal\, andthe weight of secrets too long kept. \n\n\n\nIt begins in 1945\, when Cal Jenkins—wounded not by combat\, but by his inability to serve—shares a fleeting\, forbidden moment with Margaret Salt\, a woman desperate to bury her past. Cal’s wife\, Becky\, is a seer with the uncanny ability to commune with the dead\, while Margaret’s husband\, Felix\, is stationed safely on a Navy cargo ship—until a telegram suggests otherwise. What unfolds that summer sets in motion a story that will shape both the Jenkins and Salt families for decades to come. \n\n\n\nAs America rebuilds and reshapes itself in the postwar years\, the hidden truth between these families festers beneath the surface of small-town life. But in a place where nothing remains secret forever\, the past inevitably collides with the present\, forcing the next generation to confront who they are\, where they come from\, and what their futures might hold. \n\n\n\nTender\, evocative\, and beautifully observed\, Buckeye captures not only the spirit of a Midwestern town but also the universal longing for love\, forgiveness\, and belonging—making it a perfect choice for a rich book club discussion.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/october-books-banter-fiction-book-club-buckeye-by-patrick-ryan/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Happy Halloween Giveaways at Main Street Reads
DESCRIPTION:We love Halloween! Stop in today any time before 7 pm for treats\, storewide specials\, and a free wizard wand or witch’s broom PEN with any book purchase!!! \n\n\n\nFor more on all upcoming events\, visit our CALENDAR…we’ll see you on Main Street!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/halloween-party-at-main-street-reads/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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ORGANIZER;CN="Main Street Reads":MAILTO:shari@writerswin.com
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