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Karen White, May 11

Sunday, May 8, 2011

 Bestselling Southern author, Karen White, will sign her newest southern women’s fiction novel, The Beach Trees, at Blue Bicycle Books on Wed., May 11, 4 – 6 pm. The author of eleven award-winning novels, such as On Folly Beach, The House on Tradd Street and The Girl on Legare Street, White’s newest novel, The Beach Trees (Penguin, pb., 432 pp., $15), follows a grieving sister on her journey of healing. We are very excited to finally host Karen White at Blue Bike, especially since she writes about the Lowcountry, and would love for you to join us!

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Carolyn Evans signs Forty Beads May 12!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011


Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Carolyn Evans, author of Forty Beads: The Simple, Sexy Secret for Transforming your Marriage, on Thurs., May 12, 5-7 pm. Offering a fresh, honest take on the sex lives of married couples, Evans introduces her tried-and-true Forty Beads Method to create lasting, positive change in a marriage. Based on the simple fact that men need to have sex in order to feel close, and women need to feel close in order to want to have sex, Evans approaches a universal tug-of-war with sharp, girlfriend-to-girlfriend wit and proactive advice.  Come join us for champagne at her release party Thursday!  To see a video about the Method, click here.

(Forty Beads: The Simple, Sexy Secret for Transforming your Marriage, Running Press, pb., 224 pp, $14)

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Katie Crouch will sign her new young adult novel, The Magnolia League, Apr. 30

Friday, April 8, 2011

Charleston native Katie Crouch brings her fresh take on the modern South to the young adult genre in her first novel for teens, The Magnolia League (Little Brown, hb., 368 pp., $17.95).

Savannah’s Magnolia Leaguers are an elite inner circle of proper Southern girls who use more than charm and good looks to stay popular and get the attention of boys. They also have a little Voodoo magic on their side. (Think Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Gossip Girl.)

Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs, will sign books at Blue Bicycle Books, Sat. Apr. 30, 1 – 3 pm. She’ll also be visiting area schools, including her alma mater Porter-Gaud.

More about The Magnolia League:

After the death of her free-spirited mother, the 16-year-old unlikely Southern debutante Alexandra

Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah to live with her wealthy and matriarchal grandmother.

By birth, Alex is a rightful— if unwilling—member of the Magnolia League, Savannah’s longstanding debutante society. As Alex is thrust into the inner circle of the illustrious league (and adheres to a full-body makeover, etiquette lessons, and a bizarre and slightly hazy initiation ceremony) she discovers that the Magnolias made a pact with a legendary Voodoo family, the Buzzards. In exchange for everlasting youth, beauty and power, the women of the Magnolia League must remain in Savannah…forever.

Shocked with this discovery, Alex digs deeper into the pact and begins to fear that her mother’s death may not have been an accident. Does the Magnolia’s power come with a deadly price?

About the Author:

The author of Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs, Katie Crouch was raised in Charleston where she attended Cotillion training but never was a debutante. She studied writing at Brown and Columbia Universities and now lives in San Francisco. For more information visit www.pickapoppy.com or www.katiecrouch.com

Pre order a signed copy here!

 

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Jason Ryan signs Jackpot on Apr. 20, 5 – 7 pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

 Signed copies available– stop by the store or order online!

 

 

Join us 4/20, 5 – 7 pm at 420 King Street for a brief talk and reception with pink champagne and brownies!

In the late seventies and early eighties, a cadre of South Carolina pot smugglers were the most prominent kingpins in America. These good-old boys unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish up and down the Eastern Seaboard — often sneaking through the undeveloped marshes of Hilton Head, Edisto and McClellanville in their home state.

Smugglers with handles like Flash, Rolex, Bob the Boss, Willie the Hog, and Disco Don forsook college to sail their drug-laden yachts across the Atlantic and the Caribbean. These fun-loving Southern gentlemen were kingpins in a time before drugs were associated with deadly gunplay.

In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia. Their undoing? Operation Jackpot, a pioneering task force assembled by a young U.S. attorney named Henry McMaster, now the Attorney General of South Carolina.

A former staff reporter for The State newspaper, Jason Ryan is associate director of college publications for the College of Charleston. He spent years researching Jackpot (Lyons Press Guilford, hb., 304 pp, $24.95) interviewing imprisoned and recently-released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down.

Order a signed copy here!

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Heavy Reading

Monday, April 4, 2011

Beach season is upon us. Sure, tricep dips are easily to do on a spare office chair, but what about the curls for the girls? Fortunately Blue Bike Books has plenty of volumes even thicker than the dictionary this gent is using, long books like to Infinite Jest (1104 manly pages, $17.98) to work those biceps.

(Quick Workouts, Time-Life, 1987. $19.98)

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Blog Love

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Charlotte “The Wedding Machine” Zacharkiw of Charlotte Elizabeth Photography and Beth Webb “The Writing Machine” Hart wrote really nice things about us on their blogs. Check it out.
 
Read Charlotte’s blog here!
 
Read Beth Webb’s blog here!

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Judy Heath, Apr. 23

Friday, April 1, 2011
Judy Heath will be at Blue Bicycle Books on Sat., Apr. 23, 1-3 pm. to sign her book, No Time for Tears: Surviving Grief in America. A gentle guidebook for those who have experienced loss, Heath answers your questions and provides hope to move forward.
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Blue Bike Books Author’s Luncheon Series

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series
Mary Whyte: Working South

Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues this spring with a special appearance from renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte, Friday, Apr. 8, 12 – 2 pm.

Whyte will be discussing and signing her newest book, Working South, sketches and portraits of vanishing blue-collar professions from across the South. Portraying her subjects with sensitivity and reverence, she depicts a textile mill worker, a tobacco farmer, a shoeshine man, a hat maker, an oysterman, a shrimper, a ferryman, a funeral band, a sponge diver, elevator operator, and others.

Working South, 128 pp, 61 color illustrations, published by University of South Carolina Press, 2011, hb., $49.95, pb., $29.95.

About the artist:
Mary Whyte’s portraits are in the permanent collections of Greenville County Museum of Art, the Gibbes Museum, and numerous corporate, private and university collections. Whyte is the author of Alfreda’s World, a compilation of her Gullah paintings, as well as An Artist’s Way of Seeing and Watercolor for the Serious Beginner. Her work can be found at Coleman Fine Art in Charleston. She lives on Johns Island, South Carolina.

The talk and lunch will be at the new Osteria La Bottiglia restaurant, 420 King St., downtown Charleston, Friday, Apr. 8, 12 – 2 pm. A champagne and dessert book signing will immediately follow at Blue Bicycle Books. 

Advance reservations required. Tickets are $30. This event will benefit Crisis Ministries. For tickets please call 843.722.2666 or buy online here!

 

 

Click here to watch Mary Whyte on CBS News Sunday Morning

 

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Janie Bryant, “Mad Men” Costume Designer at Fashion Week

Monday, February 21, 2011

Janie Bryant will sign her new book, The Fashion File, at the Charleston Fashion Week Finale at Marion Square, Sat., Mar. 26, 7-8pm. Bryant, “Mad Men” costume designer and style guru, draws from her wide experience to provide sartorial direction for the everyday woman in her impressive book. Beautifully illustrated and loaded with inspiration, The Fashion File tackles tricky how-to’s and provides insight into the wardrobes of each Mad Men character.

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Cooper River Bridge Run Show, Mar. 31

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Join us Thurs., Mar. 31, 8 pm for the annual Cooper River Bridge Run Show here at the store.

Every year, two nights before the Bridge Run, store owner and local writer Jonathan Sanchez debuts a new race-related short story. Past stories have been compiled into his pretty-good collection, Bandit. Wine, power bars, and encouraging handshakes start at 7:30, reading starts around 8.

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