Pat Conroy, Dec. 12, 2009. Charleston’s Literary Event of the Year.
Pat signing inscriptions. Linda Sanchez encouraging good penmanship.
Pat and a mutual friend (and huge help), Sean Scapellato.
A few of the 1,000 Conroys sold.
Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
Beautiful Creatures authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl at Burke High School.
Jonathan’s self-portrait
Katie Crouch on her first visit. She’ll be back in May of 2010 for Men and Dogs.
A reading in our adjacent courtyard.
Lauren and Evelyn with Sue Monk Kidd, Oct. 08
Sue looking at the cat in the window
Somebody takes a picture of the bike pretty much every day.
Kids Room
The window usually says “Browse” or “Read” but this is one we did for this local author’s humor book.
Ken Burger and Gary Smith
Adam Shepard signing the first edition of his book Scratch Beginnings, one of many booksignings, readings and miscellaneous hootenannies we’ve held in the last two years.
We sell two kinds of pocket books, those by Grisham, et al., and these from L_Design, Lauren Sanchez’s purse line.
More than 50 customers added to our 120-foot-long scroll story, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Read more about it here.
Blue Bicycle Books owners Jonathan and Lauren Sanchez, at the Charleston premiere for The Secret Life of Bees. The premiere benefited LILA’s Poets in the Schools at Burke High School, a program Jonathan started. Nine Times and For the People Who Deserve a Voice, the first two Burke compilations, are available at the store. The newest compilation will be released May 15.
We dress like this every day.
Evelyn and Abby playing in the children’s room