Award-winning copywriter and author Marti Healy will be here Sat., June 18, 1 – 3 pm, to sign her novel The Secret Child. An Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Bookstores Alliance (SIBA), the book is in turns historical and fantastical, moving between Irish clans in Boston and Carolina Bay Celtic fairies in the South. [...]
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Blue Bike Books Author’s Luncheon Series
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series Mary Alice Monroe and Nathalie Dupree “Butterflies and Biscuits” The Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues Fri., June 10, 12 – 2 pm with two of Charleston’s and Blue Bicycle’s most beloved writers Mary Alice Monroe and Nathalie Dupree. Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times best-selling [...]
Piccolo Fiction, Sat., June 4, 5 pm
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Join us for the 11th annual Piccolo Fiction Invitational, Sat., June 4, 5 – 7 pm. For 2011, this traditionally open-armed event is a special “PFX,” inviting four South Carolina writers to share new work during the festival. The four writers will read in the courtyard adjacent to the store: Lisa Kerr, assistant professor at MUSC [...]
Jane Borden signs I Totally Meant To Do That on May 17
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Southern girl, Jane Borden will sign her quirky memoir of her life as a transplanted New York City hipster at the Allison Sprock Gallery Tues., May 17, 7 pm. Born and bred in a proper Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, she attended boarding school in Virginia and went on to join a sorority at [...]
Carolyn Evans signs Forty Beads May 12!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Carolyn Evans, author of Forty Beads: The Simple, Sexy Secret for Transforming your Marriage, on Thurs., May 12, 5-7 pm. Offering a fresh, honest take on the sex lives of married couples, Evans introduces her tried-and-true Forty Beads Method to create lasting, positive change in a marriage. Based on the simple [...]
Katie Crouch will sign her new young adult novel, The Magnolia League, Apr. 30
Friday, April 8, 2011
Charleston native Katie Crouch brings her fresh take on the modern South to the young adult genre in her first novel for teens, The Magnolia League (Little Brown, hb., 368 pp., $17.95). Savannah’s Magnolia Leaguers are an elite inner circle of proper Southern girls who use more than charm and good looks to stay popular and [...]
Heavy Reading
Monday, April 4, 2011
Beach season is upon us. Sure, tricep dips are easily to do on a spare office chair, but what about the curls for the girls? Fortunately Blue Bike Books has plenty of volumes even thicker than the dictionary this gent is using, long books like to Infinite Jest (1104 manly pages, $17.98) to work those biceps. [...]
Blog Love
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Charlotte “The Wedding Machine” Zacharkiw of Charlotte Elizabeth Photography and Beth Webb “The Writing Machine” Hart wrote really nice things about us on their blogs. Check it out. Read Charlotte’s blog here! Read Beth Webb’s blog here! ###
Blue Bike Books Author’s Luncheon Series
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series Mary Whyte: Working South Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues this spring with a special appearance from renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte, Friday, Apr. 8, 12 – 2 pm. Whyte will be discussing and signing her newest book, Working South, sketches and portraits of vanishing blue-collar professions from across the South. [...]
Cooper River Bridge Run Show, Mar. 31
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Join us Thurs., Mar. 31, 8 pm for the annual Cooper River Bridge Run Show here at the store. Every year, two nights before the Bridge Run, store owner and local writer Jonathan Sanchez debuts a new race-related short story. Past stories have been compiled into his pretty-good collection, Bandit. Wine, power bars, and encouraging handshakes [...]