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Book Release Party for Jonathan Buchan’s Code of the Forest Fri., July 13

Jonathan Buchan will be at Blue Bicycle Books Fri., July 13 from 5-7 pm to celebrate the release of his new novel Code of the Forest (Joggling Board, 362 pp., hb., $24.99). Code of the Forest tells the story of Wade McNabb, the editor of a Georgetown, South Carolina newspaper who breaks a story on […]

Wendy Wax Signs Ocean Beach Sun., Jul. 1

Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Wendy Wax for a book-signing to celebrate her new novel Ocean Beach Sun., Jul. 1 from 2-4 pm. Ocean Beach picks up the story of Madeline, Avery, and Nicole, three friends ready for a fresh start in Miami’s South Beach, where they’ve been hired to restore a historic house for a […]

Sea Change signing with Karen White Thurs. Jun. 21

Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Karen White to sign her newest novel Sea Change (Penguin, 392 pp., pb., $15.00) on Thurs., Jun. 21 from 1-3 pm. Sea Change is Karen White’s 15th novel. Set on beautiful St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, Sea Change is a story of buried secrets, new romance, and redemption. […]

Piccolo Fiction Open

Blue Bicycle Books welcomes 5 local writers back to our lush courtyard for another Piccolo Fiction Open on Sat., June 2 from 5-7 pm. All five writers will be reading new 5 minute short stories, each of them beginning with the words “I ducked into the alley…” This year’s writers are: Beth Webb Hart, South […]

Alethea Kontis signs Enchanted, Fri., May 25!

Young Adult author Alethea Kontis will be at Blue Bicycle this Friday, May 25, 3:30 pm to sign her new book Enchanted. Alethea was the science fiction student of great writers Andre Norton and Orson Scott Card. She joins us from Virginia. Her new book is a classic story with some not-so-classic twists. Sunday is […]

Wiley Cash signs debut novel, Thurs., May 24, 5:30 pm

Western North Carolina native Wiley Cash will sign copies of A Land More Kind Than Home, Thurs. May 24, from 5:30 to 7 pm, at Blue Bicycle Books.  A portion of the proceeds will go to Charleston Volunteers for Literacy and its Book Buddies reading program for at-risk second graders. The novel is the story […]

Brian Hicks signs City of Ruin , May 10!

Come meet local historian and columnist, Brian Hicks Thurs., May 10, 5-7 pm. Hicks will be signing copies of his new book City of Ruin: Charleston at War 1860-1865. The project began as a 20-part serial that ran in the pages of The Post and Courier from December 2010 to April 2011. For the book, […]

Meet Tinsley Mortimer at Hampden Clothing, May 9

Blue Bicycle will be selling Tinsley Mortimer’s new book, Southern Charm, at Hampden Clothing Wed., May 9, 2-5 pm. Mortimer is a handbag designer and NYC style icon, who has appeared in Vogue, WWD, Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire. You may recognize her from TV’s Gossip Girl and High Society. Southern Charm is the story of […]

Herb Silverman signs new autobiography, Apr. 29!

Local author and activist Herb Silverman will be at the store Sun., Apr. 29, 3-5 pm to sign his new memoir Candidate Without a Prayer. In this revealing autobiography, Silverman takes the reader from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test God’s existence, to his […]

Booksigning with Michel Stone, Apr. 20!

Blue Bicycle Books will be at the Michael Mitchell Gallery, 438 King St., this Friday, Apr. 20, 6-8 pm for a signing with Michel Stone, author of The Iguana Tree. Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into […]