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Brad Taylor’s The Widow’s Strike
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Join us Tues., July 16 at 6:30 pm at Vendue Inn in downtown Charleston to celebrate the release of Brad Taylor’s newest book The Widow’s Strike.
The Widow’s Strike brings us a new adventure in the bestselling Pike Logan series. A deadly mutated virus has fallen into dangerous hands, and a rogue state is determined to wreak havoc by releasing it upon the world. Only the Taskforce, a counterterrorism unit led by Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill, stand in their way. But as they follow an increasingly deadly trail across Southeast Asia, Pike and Jennifer find that an even more dangerous threat may be waiting to strike.
Brad Taylor served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel. He has also served as the Asst. Professor of Military Science at The Citadel here in Charleston, SC, where Brad now resides. The Widow’s Strike is Brad’s fourth book.
For those new to the series, all of Brad’s other books will be on hand as well. Come meet Brad and get a signed copy!
Book Signing with Brad Herzog!
Monday, June 24, 2013
Brad Herzog, author of the new kids book Francis and Eddie (Why Not Books, hb., $17.95), will be at Blue Bicycle Books on Tues., July 2nd from 3 – 5 pm.
Francis and Eddie is the true story of 20-year-old amateur golfer Francis Ouimet and his ten-year-old caddie Eddie Lower, who shocked the golfing world 100 years ago by winning the 1913 U.S. Open. Francis lived across the street from the Brookline, MA course where the tournament was played and taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways. Against all odds, he and his four-foot-tall caddie then went on to defeat the game’s greatest players.
The book also features the evocative illustrations of Zachary Pullen, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Sports Illustrated. You can check out the Francis and Eddie book trailer here.
Brad Herzog is the author of over 30 children’s books and a celebrated trilogy of American travel memoirs. Come meet Brad and get a signed copy of his newest story!
Karen White’s The Time Between
Monday, June 17, 2013
Join us Mon., June 17, 4 – 6 pm., to help celebrate the release of author Karen White’s first hardback novel, The Time Between (NAL, 352 pp, hb., $25.95).
About the book. The Time Between follows two generations of sisters with roots on Edisto Island. Eleanor Murray, now in Charleston, is offered work as a part-time caretaker to Helena back on Edisto, and accepts in hopes of returning to the place where she remembers being the most happy. Eleanor and Helena bond over their love of music and piano, learn from each other’s pasts, and in the process learn to move beyond the guilt they’ve both been carrying.
About the author. Karen White started her professional life as a businesswoman before shifting to writing and publishing her first novel in 2000. Though The Time Between is her first hardback novel, she has written over fifteen, including a mystery series set in Charleston. She writes women’s southern fiction, or what she refers to as “grit lit,” and is currently living in Atlanta with her husband, two children, and their dog, Quincey.
Tickets available for Dorothea Benton Frank lunch!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
This June, Blue Bicycle Book’s Luncheon Series continues with New York Times Bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. Join us Fri., June 14, 11:30 at the Charleston Marriott, 170 Lockwood Blvd., to celebrate the release of her newest book, The Last Original Wife (HarperCollins, 368 pp, hb., $26.99).
Tickets are $60 and include author talk, lunch, and a signed copy of The Last Original Wife. For more information or to reserve your spot at the table, click here or call Blue Bicycle Books, 843.722.2666.
About the book. Coming out June 11, The Last Original Wife is classic Dorothea Benton Frank: an enthralling story of love and friendship set under Charleston’s Spanish moss. Experience the sultry southern atmosphere of the Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman searching for the love she deserves.
About the author. Dorothea Benton Frank is the author of thirteen New York Times bestselling novels. Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, she now splits her time between Sullivan’s and New Jersey. This is her first and biggest hometown event for her new book.
Ladies’ Night with Mary Kay Andrews
Monday, June 3, 2013
Help us celebrate the release of novelist Mary Kay Andrews’ newest book Ladies’ Night Thurs., June 6, 5 – 7 pm, at Osteria la Bottiglia. In honor of her newest book, the restaurant has concocted a special Ladies’ Night cocktail, we’ll have the new book to sell, and Mary Kay will be on hand to sign.
About the book. After her divorce, lifestyle blogger Grace moves back in with her mom and must attend court-mandated “divorce recovery” therapy sessions with four others who have suffered similar betrayals. The group moves their meetings to Grace’s mother’s run-down beach bar The Sandbox, dubbing their time together Ladies’ Night and finding closure in ways they never thought possible.
About the author. Mary Kay Andrews worked as a journalist for eleven years before switching over to mystery and fiction writing. Ladies’ Night is her tenth book under the pen name Mary Kay Andrews. She and her husband split their time between Atlanta and the cottage they are renovating on Tybee Island. 
Event Cancelled! Dean King’s The Feud, June 16
Friday, May 31, 2013
Join us Sun., June 16, 3 – 5 pm, while bestselling writer and historian Dean King discusses and signs his newest book The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story (Little, Brown, hb., 448 pp, $28).
With years of original research, including the discovery of lost and overlooked interviews from both family members, The Feud recounts the storied and formative tale of two frontier families struggling in the unforgiving Appalachian landscape. Starting mid-nineteenth century and through the Civil War, King follows where these families began and how they ended in one of the most infamous feuds in American history.
Based in Virginia, Dean King is the bestselling author of nine other books of nonfiction and has served as the principle storyteller one two History Channel documentaries. His research is the basis for the current History Channel miniseries, Hatfields and McCoys.
Summer Vacationing with Blue Bicycle Books
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Though we here at Blue Bike appreciate the annual resurgence of summer road trip mix tapes, we also feel that the equally important summer road trip book mixes are often and unfairly overlooked. We plan to fix this. But please don’t read and drive.
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If you want to use your trip to read a classic book you’ll never read unless trapped in a car with it and nothing else: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Ulysses by James Joyce, $16.
If suddenly the landscape opens and inspires profundity: Bike Watching Journal, $14.95.
If you aren’t going anywhere but want to pretend you did and then tell people about it: On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner, $4.98.
If you want to find happiness, like literally: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner, $13.50.
If you forgot your SPF: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, $7.98.
If you liked the concept** of On the Road but hated the author and also the book: Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat Moon, $12.98.
If things are really going downhill and you’d like to feel less alone about the whole thing: Bad Trips: a Collection of Witing on the Perils of the Road ed. by Keith Fraser. $6.98.
If writing home to your maybe-lover: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, $20.
If you want to take advantage of certain recently-relaxed laws in Colorado and Washington and get weird: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell, $24.95.
If you are lost: Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon, $17.98
[**Okay, while one can appreciate Sara’s refusal to drink the Beat Kool-Aid — it’s not really the same concept. But there are cars in both books. — Ed.]
Lowcountry Artists’ Book Meet
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Eight local writers and visual artists will show their original, hand made artists’ books Sun., June 2, 2 – 5 pm.
This one-day exhibition will take place at both Blue Bicycle Books and Redux Contemporary Art Center, with works ranging from collaborative sketchbooks, hand made journals with ceramic covers, and hand-bound volumes of poetry, to art objects with book-like qualities.
The participants include Sarah Bandy, Tina Hirsig, Kit Loney, Bette Mueller-Roemer, Kristi Ryba, Susan Finch Stevens, Lillian Trettin, and Mary Walker. Light refreshments will be served.
Piccolo Fiction Open Returns!
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open returns to Blue Bicycle Books Sat., June 1, 5 – 7 pm.
The festival’s longest-running event exclusively devoted to the craft of fiction, Piccolo Fiction invites four writers, both local and not, to write and present a 5 minute “short short” story. The reading is held in the lush courtyard of Blue Bicycle Books, and each story will begin with the words “I ducked into the alley…”
Since 2000, Piccolo Fiction has featured dozens of S.C. writers, with stories broadcast by S.C. Public Radio’s ‘Your Day’, and published in the Charleston City Paper. This is a free event with reception to follow.
The 2013 writers are:
Katie Crouch is the author of the bestselling novel Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and the Magnolia League. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Observer, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco.
John Warner is the author of the novel, The Funny Man, a weekly columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row book supplement, and editor at large of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is a visiting instructor at the College of Charleston.
Sara C. Thomason holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She was awarded second prize in the 2012 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest. Currently she lives on Isle of Palms, where she is hard at work on a novel.
Cameron Jones grew up in Charleston and graduated from Clemson University with a degree in English. He has worked at Blue Bicycle Books since 2011 and will begin medical school this fall. This will be his second public reading this year as well as the second of his entire life.