Fri. May 3, 4 – 6 pm, New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hildenbrand will be signing her newest novel Summerland (Hachette, 416 pp, pb. $14.99). Set on Nantucket, the novel opens with an island tradition and a fatal car accident. As the summer unfolds, so do secrets about the accident’s survivors and their families: […]
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Lunch with Ken Burger
Friday, April 12, 2013
Blue Bike’s Author Luncheon series continues with Post & Courier writer Ken Burger Fri., Apr., 26, 12 pm at Fish restaurant and followed by a champagne and dessert reception here at the bookstore. Ken will be discussing his newest novel, Salkehatchie Soup, an unflinching portrayal of post-Cold War politics all across the Eastern seaboard. From […]
15th Annual Bridge Run Party & Reading
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Join us this Thurs., Apr. 4th for the 15th annual Bridge Run Party and Reading. Every year, two nights before the bridge run local writer and bookstore owner Jonathan Sanchez reads a vaguely race-related short story. Blue Bike’s whole staff, Cameron Jones, Sara Peck, and Kristen Gehrman will also be offering readings of the fiction, […]
Lunch with The Lee Bros!
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Blue Bicycle Books is excited to welcome the Lee Brothers for a special lunch, Fri., Mar. 22, 2012, 10:30 am, at Fleet Landing Restaurant, 186 Concord Street, to celebrate the release of their newest cookbook: The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, hb., 256 pp.). Tickets are $75 and include a multi-course lunch and a signed copy of the book. […]
Celebrate the release of Beth Webb Hart’s Moon Over Edisto
Monday, February 4, 2013
Join us Fri., Feb. 8, 5 – 7 pm for a wine and cheese drop-in celebration of Beth Webb Hart’s newest novel Moon Over Edisto (Thomas Nelson, pb, 320 pp, $15.99). After years of running from her past, Julia is pulled back home to Edisto Island and back to the places and the people she […]
Levels of the Game
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Despite a recent Blue Bicycle Books newsletter (staff-written) poking fun at my slowpoke reading pace, I did actually read all of John McPhee’s Levels of the Game. It’s an account of a semifinal tennis match between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner at the 1968 U.S. Open. Both men had come up though the junior tennis […]
Nikky Finney Poetry Reading
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Fri., Feb. 15, at 7:30 pm 2011 National Book Award Winner and South Carolina native Nikky Finney will be reading at the Charleston School of the Arts. Nikky will be appearing as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Robinson Jeffers Association Conference. The reading will take place in the SOA’s Rose Maree Myers Theater for the […]
Brad Taylor’s Enemy of Mine
Monday, January 7, 2013
Tues., Jan. 15, 7 pm, help us celebrate the release of Charleston-based writer and retired Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Brad Taylor’s third book, Enemy of Mine, at the Blind Tiger Pub, 36 Broad St. The third installment in Taylor’s Pike Logan thriller series, Enemy of Mine follows Logan and his partner as they track an […]
Helen Correll’s Middlewood Journal
Monday, January 7, 2013
Join us Thurs., Jan. 10, 5 – 7 pm, as Spartanburg-based artist and photographer Helen Correll signs copies of her new illustration and observation book, Middlewood Journal: Drawing Inspiration from Nature. With a foreword by naturalist Janisse Ray, the journal gathers Correll’s illustrations and writings from her hikes and strolls around her house in the […]
Holiday Hours
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Christmas Eve 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Christmas Day CLOSED New Year’s Eve 10:00 am – 3:00 pm New Year’s Day CLOSED Happy Holidays!