Blue Bicycle Books

Join us Wed., April 19, 5:00 pm as Katie Ashley discusses and signs copies of her book Living Life on Purpose.

Anyone looking to create a future that is not defined by their past will find refuge in this book. Living Life on Purpose proves how far people can progress in one lifetime when they rebel against fate and follow their heart to find a spiritual purpose. Katie provides a roadmap for readers to engage with one of life’s most important questions: How can I feel happy no matter my experience? Katie shows you how to work through your biggest challenges to be the one guiding your soul’s ship. When you finish reading, you’ll realize you had the power to actualize your life all along. You just needed the tools to see more clearly.

Katie Ashley is a mentor, yoga teacher, positive body image activist and the author of Living Life On Purpose – a collection of essays, stories, and timeless teachings from a modern perspective. She lives and teaches in Charleston, and serves students worldwide via her mentoring practice, workshops and upcoming retreats.

Join us Fri., April 21, 12 pm for lunch at High Cotton (199 East Bay St.), as Paul Starobin discusses his new book Madness Rules the Hours (Public Affairs, hb., 296 pp., $27). Tickets are $31 for the three-course luncheon and talk, or $47 with a signed copy of the book.

Get tickets here.

In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war. He examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted “Le Marseillaise” as a rebellious anthem. A portrait of a culture in crisis, Madness Rules the Hour is an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.

Join us Sat., April 8, 5 pm when our YALLFest friends Margaret Stohl and Gwenda Bond will be stopping by to talk and sign copies of their books. Margaret’s newest novel, Royce Rolls (Free Form, hb., 400 pp., $18), is set to be released this Tuesday.

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series. She is also the author of the instant best-seller Black Widow: Forever Red, and its sequel Black Widow: Red Vengeance. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, Margaret spent her adolescence crank-calling Harrison Ford, and waving to Starline Tours buses as they stopped to take pictures of her P.E. class at Mulholland Hall, where she first met Bentley Royce.

Gwenda Bond writes YA and children’s fiction. Her novels include the Lois Lane series (Fallout, Double Down), which bring the iconic comic book character front and center in her own YA novels, and the Cirque American series (Girl on a Wire, Girl Over Paris, Girl in the Shadows), about daredevil heroines who discover magic and mystery lurking under the big top. She and her husband author Christopher Rowe will launch a middle grade series, the Supernormal Sleuthing Service, in 2017, and Lois Lane: Triple Threat will be released.

Purchase a copy of his new book and come see Charlamagne Tha God, Sunday, Apr. 22, 12 noon, at PURE Theatre, 477 King St. This is the official Charleston book release of Black Privilege, by the Lowcountry native, co-host of the iHeartRadio program The Breakfast Club and MTV personality.

General admission to the event is included with advance purchase of a signed copy of Black Privilege from Blue Bicycle Books.

Charlamagne will be in conversation with ABC News 4’s Tessa Spencer, as he shares his eight principles to unlocking your God-given privilege.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Books will be distributed at the door. Charlamagne Tha God will personalize books after the event. No posed photos, please.

In Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It, Charlamagne presents his comic, often controversial, and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. Beginning with his journey from Moncks Corner, S.C., to his headline-grabbing interviews with celebrities like Kanye West, Kevin Hart, Malcolm Gladwell, Lena Dunham, Jay Z, and Hillary Clinton, this book will share how he turned his troubled early life around by taking ownership of his many mistakes and refusing to give up.

Combining his fundamental keys to success and happiness with his signature commitment to honesty, Black Privilege will empower you with the confidence to live your own truths.

General admission to the event is included with advance purchase of a signed copy of Black Privilege from Blue Bicycle Books.

For more information please call Blue Bicycle Books at 843-722-2666.

Tessa Spencer is a 27 year broadcast veteran. She currently co-hosts “Good Morning Charleston” on ABC News 4 and is the mid-day radio personality on WMGL FM in Charleston, SC. The US Army veteran is also the “voice” of the nationally syndicated gospel “Stellar Awards.”

Join us Wed., Mar. 22, 5 pm as we celebrate Brendan Reichs‘s solo debut Nemesis. Brendan will be joined by local young adult sensation Ryan Graudin, who is the author of Wolf by Wolf & Blood for Blood. Come hear Brendan and Ryan discuss their new books NEMESIS and BLOOD FOR BLOOD, ask them questions and walk away with some thrilling reads.

It’s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing just outside her tiny Idaho hometown–alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the horrifying crime erased.

Across the valley, Noah just wants to be like everyone else. But he’s not. Nightmares of murder and death plague him, though he does his best to hide the signs. But when the world around him begins to spiral toward panic and destruction, Noah discovers that people have been lying to him his whole life. Everything changes in an eye blink.

The planet has a bigger problem. The Anvil, an enormous asteroid threatening all life on Earth, leaves little room for two troubled teens. Yet on her sixteenth birthday, as she cowers in her bedroom, hoping not to die for the fifth time, Min has had enough. She vows to discover what is happening in Fire Lake and uncovers a lifetime of lies: a vast conspiracy involving the sixty-four students of her sophomore class, one that may be even more sinister than the murders.

Brendan Reichs was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2000 and The George Washington University School of Law in 2006. After three long years working as a litigation attorney, he abandoned the trade to co-write the Virals series. He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Emily, daughter, Alice, and son, Henry. The second book in the series, GENESIS, will release in spring 2018.

Blood for Blood is set in a world ruled by the Axis Powers of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run because the world has just seen her assassinate Adolph Hitler. But the truth of what happened is even more complicated. As Yael and her unlikely comrades dive into enemy territory to try to turn the tide against the New Order, they have no alternative but to see their mission through to the end at any the cost.

Ryan Graudin was born in Charleston, SC with a severe case of wanderlust. When she’s not traveling, she’s busy photographing weddings, writing, and spending time with her husband and wolf-dog. She is the author of The Walled City, Wolf by Wolf, and Blood for Blood.