What a week to get lit! Literature, that is, beginning with our big Stacy Willingham event in conjunction with the Timrod Library tomorrow, then rolling right on into Tuesday’s Living Large Book Club, discussing Jessymn Ward’s Let Us Descend.
Learn more about these events below and we’ll see you on Main Street…
PLUS – if you haven’t been checking out your local newspaper, the Summerville Journal Scene is now featuring a weekly “SUMMERVILLE READS” column from us to clue you in on books we’re loving – fiction, non-fiction and kid’s choices. CLICK HERE to enjoy the debut column.
***THIS WEEK***
Stacy Willingham Returns for Only If You’re Lucky!
Stacy Willingham is celebrating her third blockbuster release with us in Summerville, this time featuring the launch of Only If You’re Lucky, released January 16, 2024! The Summerville launch party happens tomorrow, Monday, January 22, with our literary partners, the Timrod Library.
Just one day left – GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!
Stacy’s newest book is INCLUDED in your ticket price as well as the signing/reception. We have a limited number of books remaining – if you’re planning on attending and getting the book at the event, please do reserve today.
A 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.
Lucy 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.
And 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 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 close 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…
From 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.
Stacy 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.
Her 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.
Before 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. She currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and Labradoodle, Mako.
Living Large Book Club January 2024: Let Us Descend
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!
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – Instant New York Times Bestseller – Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence, AND winner of the Southern Fiction prize!
From 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.
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