It’s Indie Bookstore Week, culminating in Indie Bookstore Day Saturday and there’s plenty to do, see, buy, and win – here’s a brief look at the week ahead and a preview of May events…Enjoy and we’ll see you on Main Street!
MONDAY: Main Street Writes
April 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
VIRTUAL each Monday,
LIVE On 1st Monday of the Month
For the inner writer in all of us, our regular Monday evening writers group! Join us via the Zoom link below and get your writing on track! See you soon — and Write ON! Find out more »
WEDNESDAY: Stories on the Square
April 27 @ 9:30 am – 10:00 am
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
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! Storytime at Main Street Reads has become one of our featured events, held outside to ensure proper social distancing. We have lots of chairs for younger listeners, hoola-hoops for distancing and plenty of juice boxes and fruit snacks to munch while they listen. In case of inclement weather, storytime…Find out more »
THURSDAY: Pulpwood Queens Bookclub
The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
April 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
The wonderful book everyone’s talking about! Come join the discussion and enjoy free treats and a chance to ask the author your burning questions! The club will be LIVE at Main Street Reads (refreshments provided) but anyone who’d prefer to join us remotely can access the evening’s festivities via Zoom w/these credentials: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85744865602?pwd=Tm0wQ3d0enU4QVgxTGJFc3JoRjZWUT09 Meeting ID: 857 4486 5602 Passcode: 929698 WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS…Find out more »
SATURDAY IS Independent Bookstore Day 2022:
Book Fair on the Square
May 2022
Meet Gregory Erich Phillips: A Season in Lights
May 1 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us Sunday for a special book signing with Seattle’s award-winning novelist, Gregory Erich Phillips, author of The Love of Unfinished Years, The Exile, and his newest hit, A Season in Lights. Passion, ambition and escape in the colorful artistic underworld off-Broadway. Cammie, a dancer in her 30s, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh…Find out more »
Thriller Book Club in May Featuring Greenwich Park by
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join our Thrill in the ‘Ville thriller book club at Main Street Reads the second Tuesday in May and enjoy a free book club journal, food, drink, and conversation about the fabulous debut thriller, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner. “A twisty, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times, London) debut thriller, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. In this “gloriously tangled game of…Find out more »
Book Signing and Talk with Stacy Willingham:
A Flicker in the Dark
May 14 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC 29483 + Google Map
We’re super excited to bring you a very special event with brilliant debut author Stacy Willingham, author of the new thriller, A Flicker in the Dark, already a New York Times bestselling book! We’ll begin with an “in conversation” with the author, followed by signing. Refreshments will be served! HINT: The book will ALSO be our June Thriller Book Club selection, so grab your copy now and be ready for a great talk about a compelling read! A New York…Find out more »
Bestseller Book Club in May
Featuring The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter
May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us for an exciting book club evening on the third Tuesday in May when we’ll be chatting about The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter and come back two days later to meet Lindy in person and get your book signed by the author! The club meets live and all are welcome – we’ll bring the treats, you bring yourselves! The book is available at the 10% off book club discount, too! Third Thursday will feature this very special book…Find out more »
Third Thursday Book Signing:
The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter!
May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us for a very special book signing for The Rice Birds by Lindy Keane Carter, which NYT bestselling authors are already calling brilliant! “Like the hunted rice birds of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, two desperate women—an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved servant—flee antebellum Charleston in this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted odyssey to freedom. I loved it.” – Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including THE BEACH HOUSE series “In a poignant story of…Find out more »
Pulpwood Queens Bookclub for May:
Goodbye Orchid by Carol van den Hende
May 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
A wonderful pick this month from a wonderful author, Goodbye Orchid has garnered international attention as a book club read. All are welcome and treats will be served at our book club shindig the fourth Thursday of May! Winner of the American Fiction Award and Pinnacle Achievement Award. Can love blossom after life changes in an instant? One July morning in Manhattan, handsome athlete and entrepreneur Phoenix Walker accompanies his love, half-Asian beauty Orchid, to the airport. Neither believes today…Find out more »
