Teresa Farris-Dacar will sign her two books "For God and King" and "From England to Barbados to Carolina 1670-1700" at Pauline Book & Media Center, 243 King Street on Saturday, April 9, from 11:30 - 2:00 and Sunday April 10, from 1:00 - 5:00 PM, during the Second Sunday on King Street event.
Pauline Books & Media
CHRIST IN EVERYDAY LIFE
243 King Street * Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 577-0175
Charleston's 2010 literary event of the year will be the release party for Katie Crouch's much-anticipated second novel, Men and Dogs at Blue Bicycle Books Friday May 21, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Plus, playing in the courtyard will be Youth and Valor, a Texas group featuring the intensely beautiful songs of Courtney Saunders.
Jonathan Sanchez of Blue Bicycle Books said, " I really like Katie's writing, she’s young, she’s Southern, she sells, she’s current, definitely not a Ya-Ya sisterhood sensibility. We're trying to make this a big blow-out homecoming for her."
Come buy it now, and bring it back to get it signed at the blow-out party. Can't make it? Order a signed copy here.
Pat Conroy's favorite bookstore in the Holy City is Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street near the corner of King and John, in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
Jonathan Sanchez, owner of Upper King Street's Blue Bicycle Books, finished in second place on the long-running TV game show Jeopardy! earlier this week. Sanchez correctly answered the Final Jeopardy! question, demonstrating his Yale education, but could not get by the winner's total even with the correct response to a Shakespearean question.
Sanchez had an early lead in the first round but was edged out by the thumb-button dexterity of a computer engineer, the returning champion form the previous episode. Sanchez opted twice for the "Off the Record" category but drew a blank on the 16-million selling Eagles' album "Hotel California."
Sanchez received $2,000 for his runner-up spot.
Jonathan Sanchez first met Matt and Ted when they were fresh out of college running their mail-order business out of an office in the Confederate Home. Fifteen years later they are still selling boiled peanuts, Duke’s Mayonnaise and Piggly Wiggly t-shirts to exiled Southerners everywhere. They are also now frequent contributors to the New York Times dining section and have won two James Beard awards for The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. NPR's Linda Wertheimer will be hosting a discussion with Matt and Ted at the Smithsonian on April 6th.
Their second book explores recipes that indulge in the flavors of the Deep South through healthy and everyday ingredients. More than 100 accessible recipes add their own twist of sophistication: cherry tomato and soybean salad, easy ambrosia, caesar salad with catfish “croutons,” to name a few. Simple Fresh Southern also offers instructions on a variety of techniques, ranging from smoking to cheesemaking.
Can’t make it? Buy a signed copy at BBB after March 8.
Everyone is always welcome at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street near the corner of King and John, in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
It's only appropriate at Pat Conroy's favorite Charleston bookstore, Blue Bicycle Books, that a wildlife artist, who is also an author/illustrator, make a live appearance during the SEWE King Street Stroll. So, on Friday Feb.12 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Wayne Caldwell Simmons will not only show off his art, and his book at Blue Bicycle Books. Simmons wrote and illustrated The Story of Jules Verne, A Watch Pocket Dog.
Simmons wrote and illustrated The Story of Jules Verne, A Watch Pocket Dog, a medium-sized, coffee table book laced with colorful paintings of gun dogs, horses, wildlife and outdoor scenes.
Everyone is always welcome at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street near the corner of King and John, in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
The luncheon will be held at Shine Restaurant, 630 King Street at 11:30, and is sponsored by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League. There is free parking on site. The $25 ticket price benefits the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
Click this link to watch a CBS interview with Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest. With National Geographic Magazine, Buettner geographically defines and demographically confirms these areas where people live on average a decade longer than the rest of the worlds populations. The results are surprising, and the factors involved are things we can all apply to our lives. Join us at maddison row for the first Charleston book signing by author Tara Guerard. Be one of the first to browse the pages of a signed copy of Weddings by Tara Guerard, her latest, Saturday, January 9 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
Beautifully designed pages
and vibrant photography bring each wedding to life with hours of inspiration and pleasure.
With impeccable style and taste, Tara takes you on a guided tour through 12 dream weddings. From a formal Southern soiree to an ocean island affair, she shares the tools and tricks of the trade learned from over a decade of working in the industry. Every chapter imparts fresh information using specific weddings as examples and inspiration.
Since opening Soiree by Tara Guerard on Chapel Street in Charleston over a decade ago, she has been noted as a leading arbiter of entertaining and style. In 2005, she was selected as a Top 25 Trendsetter by Modern Bride Magazine. Soiree's work has also been featured by a wide range of media, including Elegant Bride, Food & Wine, Southern Living, and Martha Stewart Weddings.
Signed copies will be available after the signing as well. maddison row is open Monday - Saturday by appointment only or by chance during the week. Closed Sunday (exceptions can be made). Complimentary customer parking rear of the store.
171 Spring Street
Charleston, SC 29403
(843) 720.7979
www.maddisonrow.com
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the authors of the Young Adult novel Beautiful Creatures signing books Thursday, Jan. 21 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
Set in a fictional small town near Summerville, the book opened at #3 on the NY Times bestseller list.
On their only book tour stop in the Lowcountry, the two writers will meet a diverse range of area teens visiting Ashley Hall and Burke High Schools, perhaps gathering material for the next novel in this five-book series?
They wrote Beautiful Creatures on a dare from some teenage friends, students of Kami’s who kept urging the new authors for more chapters. “Looking back, we wrote it sort of like the serialized fiction of Charles Dickens,” Garcia says. “Turning in pages to our teen readers every week. When we were getting texts in the middle of the night from teens demanding more pages, we knew we had to finish.”
Their story of Ethan Wate and his mysterious, beautiful new friend Lena is number 5 on Amazon’s Editors’ List of the 100 books of 2009, and it was the top young adult book on the list. Warner Bros. has acquired the screen rights and Richard LaGravanese (P.S., I Love You) reportedly will write the script and direct.
Everyone is always welcome at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street near the corner of King and John, in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
Pat Conroy is coming to his favorite Charleston bookstore, Blue Bicycle Books, Saturday December 12, from 1:00 to 3:30 PM. Conroy, the NY Times Best Selling Author, has graciously offered to come and sign copies of his blockbuster new novel South of Broad.
Just for the record, Blue Bicycle Books is about a mile north of Broad. This is Conroy's only book signing on the Charleston Peninsula.
South of Broad is already the best-selling book ever at Blue Bicycle Books and they have received hundreds of requests for autographed copies. Well this is your chance.
Everyone is always welcome at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street near the corner of King and John, in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
A memoir of trips to Greece and France , Pomegranates goes back 11 years, when Sue is turning 50 and contemplating writing fiction for the first time, the seed for The Secret Life of Bees just
starting to germinate. Daughter Ann has just graduated from college,
suffering from depression with no clear picture for her life. A blend
of humor and introspection, the Kidd women reflect on the ordinary and
the eternal, from bad hamburgers to the Black Madonna.
The talk and a lunch of croque-monsieur, frites, and salad with pomegranate seeds is at Fish Restaurant prepared by Chef Nico Romo, 442 King Street. Lunch is followed by a champagne-and-dessert book signing two doors down at Blue Bicycle Books. $40. Advance reservations required. For tickets please call 843.722.2666. A portion of the proceeds will benefit My Sister’s House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence.
