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Spring events!

Coming soon:
Matt and Ted Lee signing  Lee Bros. Simple, Fresh, Southern. BBB, Mar. 7, 2 - 4 pm.
Batt Humphreys and Nicole Seitz – BBB Author Luncheon Series, Mar. 13, 12 – 2 pm.
News anchor John Stossel discussion and signing. College of Charleston, Mar. 27.
Southern historian Doug Bostick signing Historic Photographs of South Carolina. BBB, Apr. 10, 1 – [...]

Blue Bicycle Books Author Luncheon Series

The Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues Sat., March 13, noon to 2 pm, with local novelists Batt Humphreys and Nicole Seitz.
Mount Pleasant’s Nicole Seitz, author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass, Trouble the Water, and A Hundred Years of Happiness will discuss her newest novel. Saving Cicadas is the story of Priscilla Lynn Macy, [...]

Matt and Ted Lee, Simple Fresh Southern, March 7

Blue Bicycle Books welcomes renowned food writers Matt and Ted Lee, signing copies of The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern, Sun., Mar. 7, 2 – 4 pm.

The local boys-made-good will close out the weekend of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival with a sidewalk peanut boil on King Street.

We first met Matt [...]

Michael Kaiser, Art of the Turnaround, Feb. 23

Michael Kaiser, author of The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations.
Tues., Feb. 23, 9 am, College of Charleston Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts
Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser, author of The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations, will speak about current challenges and opportunities [...]

Slowcountry Food

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement and author of Terra Madre, reception and signing at McCrady’s Restaurant, 2 Unity Alley, Tues., Feb. 23, 4 – 6 pm.  $10, Slow Food Charleston members, $15 for non-members.
Join Blue Bicycle Books, Slow Food Charleston and McCrady’s as we welcome the face of Slow Food to the [...]

Blue Bike Books Partners with Charleston Stage

Blue Bicycle Books has partnered with Charleston Stage to offer you a $5 discount on tickets to Twelfth Night, Feb 25 – March 7 at the Sottile Theatre.  Purchase tickets here, and enter the promotional code ‘BBTN5′

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Southeastern Wildlife Exposition Booksignings

City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery, by the late Ted Ashton Phillips Jr.. Ted was a great scholar and brought joy to everyone he encountered. One of our favorite Charleston people writing about one of our favorite Charleston places. Thomas Brown, the book’s editor, will sign copies 11 am to 12:30 pm, [...]

Katie Crouch, Men and Dogs, May 21

Blue Bicycle Books is delighted to welcome author Katie Crouch back to the store, signing copies of her newest novel Men and Dogs, Fri., May 21, 5 – 7 pm.
Self-proclaimed southerner-in-exile Katie Crouch will be coming home and giving Blue Bicycle Books a visit Fri., May 21, 5 – 7 pm. Since her first [...]

New Online Store

What better way to announce our new online store than by listing our best-sellers of 2009. Here goes by author, with a link to buy their books directly from BBB.com:

Pat Conroy – buy
James Scott – buy
Sue Monk Kidd – buy
Mary Alice Monroe – buy
Nicole Seitz – buy
Jonathan Sanchez – buy
Kurt Vonnegut – buy
Ernest Hemingway – [...]

Jeff Mapes, Pedaling Revolution, Feb. 4

Jeff Mapes, author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities.
Thurs., Feb. 4, 7  pm,  Southend Brewery
Jeff Mapes, a senior political reporter for The Oregonian and longtime bike commuter, explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.
Pedaling Revolution, traces the growth [...]