We hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. It’s been great to see so many of you getting a jump on holiday gift-giving during Black Friday and Small Business Saturday! The fun continues today and tomorrow with our Cider Sunday and Cyber Monday, followed by Tuesday’s tree lighting in the square and live window displays, Rotary Wheel Wednesday, and a special Dessert Stroll Friday evening. Here’s a look at the lineup – see you on Main Street!
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MONDAY Main Street Writes
November 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC Google Map
For the inner writer in all of us, our regular Monday evening writers group! Join us via the Zoom link below. See you soon — and Write ON! Find out more »
TUESDAY: Wrapping Up November with Summerville Tree Lighting and Live Window Displays!
November 30 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the Town of Summerville for the annual Town of Summerville Tree Lighting Ceremony! This celebration includes pictures with Santa, the countdown and lighting ceremony, letters to Santa, live window displays, and more holiday fun, plus TREATS at Main Street Reads! We’re still deciding what our live window display should be this year – if you have ideas, let us know! The last two years we did “Little Women” but we’re doing something new this year…Find out more »
WEDNESDAY: Stories on the Square
December 1 @ 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…
WEDNESDAY: Rotary “Wheel Wednesday”
December 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Rotarians and friends enjoy discounts STOREWIDE all day Wednesday AND 10% of ALL Main Street Reads sales will be donated to Summerville Rotary Club. Did You Know? The Summerville Rotary Club is big into literacy initiatives, teachers, students and young readers, just like Main Street Reads! Summerville Rotary Club gives new books to new moms after delivery at Summerville Medical Center? Summerville Rotary Club awards teachers and students throughout the school year. Summerville Rotary Club, with the help of Main…Find out more »
FRIDAY: Historic Downtown Dessert Stroll
December 3 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
What a FUN way to extend shopping hours on a Friday night! We, along with more than a dozen other downtown stores, will be open late on Friday December 3rd to share some sweets and community spirit. Stop by for your sweet surprise and get a book buck towards any purchase! HINT: Watch for special signed copies of great books – they make the perfect thoughtful gift…Find out more »
SATURDAY Booksigning: Robert Maniscalco’s
The Power of Positive Painting
December 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC 29483 + Google Map
oin us on December 4th for a fun signing with Robert Maniscalco and his recent release, The Power of Positive Painting: A Positive, Value-based System of Drawing and Painting. The perfect gift for the artist or aspiring artist in your life, readers will learn the secrets of the masters, to draw and paint what they see; how to interpret the visual realm by distilling the essences of form; to create works of art that seem to be living and breathing.…Find out more »
December Thriller Bookclub:
Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
December 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
We’re thrilled to bring you an amazing thriller this month, Her Name Is Knight. Yasmin Angoe was on hand to sign copies in November and we’ll make sure to still have a few – Signed copies will be 10% off! A smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena…Find out more »
Launch Party: Promise by Regina E. Williams
December 11 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
We invite you to join us for a special book launch and book-signing with Summerville’s own newest debut author Regina E. Williams for a story collection that will have you laughing, have you crying, but most of all… have you thinking. We come into this life knowing what brings us pleasure and pain; what we want and need. We are then taught to distrust what we know. It is only in the university of life that we slowly regain our…Find out more »
Summerville Holiday Parade
December 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
One of our favorite events each year, the downtown Christmas parade! We’ll have a limited # of chairs parked outside the store and will have our usual hot cocoa and candy canes giveaway – when the event gets closer we’ll post a link to reserve your spot early!Find out more »
Booksigning: Ruthie Landis with My Musings
December 16 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
A very special Third Thursday this month as we welcome Ruthie Landis to the bookstore (and owner Shari Stauch celebrates her birthday!) You may remember Chicago’s brilliant Ruthie Landis from previous signings (Beyond the Bookclub, Acting Lessons for Living). We’re over the moon thrilled that she’s coming back, this time with My Musings – a book EVERYONE should carry around with them, all the time! A perfect gift for anyone you love – and you can grab a signed copy…Find out more »
Meet the Author! Charryse Johnson Booksigning!
December 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
We’re thrilled to welcome Charlotte-based author, psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner Charryse Johnson on December 18th, when she’ll personally autograph copies of her recent release, the inspired and inspiring Expired Mindsets. There is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet, without conscious participation, we can become stuck in a cycle of repetitive patterns that leaves us feeling like an imposter in our own lives. In Expired Mindsets, Charryse Johnson, gives readers both the courage and the…Find out more »
December Living Large Bookclub: Cloud Cuckoo Land
December 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
The book everyone’s raving about, Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See. Join us for some fun discussion at our last bestsellers club meeting of 2021. We’ll have plenty to chat about, plus you can help us pick the next few months’ selections! “If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” –The Washington Post The instant New York Times bestseller and finalist for the 2021 National Book Award is “wildly inventive,…Find out more »
December Pulpwood Queens Bookclub:
The Quisling Factor
December 28 @ 6:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us for the last Pulpwood Queens book club event of the year – and enjoy a cup of cheer with us as well as a chat via Zoom with the author! We’re meeting on Tuesday this month (due to Christmas happening on the 4th Thursday!) and we look forward to seeing you. The Quisling Factor is the newest novel from brilliant historical fiction author J.L. Oakley. Treason. Espionage. Revenge. In the aftermath of WWII, ex-intelligence agent Tore Haugland tries…Find out more »