Spartanburg Events Calendar
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Join Newbery Honor-winning author Alicia D. Williams for a book talk and signing at the Pickens County Hampton Memorial Library (304 Biltmore Road, Easley, SC 29640) on Tuesday, April 23rd, at 6pm. Alicia will discuss her new book, Mid-Air, take questions from the audience, and will be available afterwards for a book signing.
This event is FREE and open to the public, or you can purchase a $19.25 book ticket that admits one to the event and includes a copy of Mid-Air. We will have additional books for sale at the event as supplies last, but purchase now to guarantee your copy.
If you are unable to attend, personalized copies of Mid-Air can be purchased on our website.
Book tickets can be purchased online through Monday, April 22 at 2pm. Free tickets can be reserved online until Tuesday, April 23rd at 6pm. Tickets may be purchased at the door if still available, but buy ahead to guarantee your spot. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff.
A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling in this stunning middle grade novel in verse from the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again.
It’s the last few months of eighth grade, and Isaiah feels lost. He thought his summer was going to be him and his boys Drew and Darius, hanging out, doing wheelies, watching martial arts movies, and breaking tons of Guiness World Records before high school. But now, more and more, Drew seems to be fading from their friendship, and though he won’t admit it, Isaiah knows exactly why. Because Darius is…gone.
A hit and run killed Darius in the midst of a record-breaking long wheelie when Isaiah should have been keeping watch, ready to warn: “CAR!” Now, Drew can barely look at Isaiah. But Isaiah, already quaking with ache and guilt, can’t lose two friends. So, he comes up with a plan to keep Drew and him together—they can spend the summer breaking records, for Darius.
But Drew’s not the same Drew since Darius was killed, and Isaiah, being Isaiah, isn’t enough for Drew anymore. Not his taste in clothes, his love for rock music, or his aversion to jumping off rooftops. And one day something unspeakable happens to Isaiah that makes him think Drew’s right. If only he could be less sensitive, more tough, less weird, more cool, less him, things would be easier. But how much can Isaiah keep inside until he shatters wide open?
About the Author:
Alicia D. Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again, which received Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent; and picture books Jump at the Sun and The Talk which was also a Coretta Scott King Honor book. An oral storyteller in the African American tradition, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Refund Policy:
Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff.
There was nothing like the elementary school book fair – the smell of new books in the air, the rush of racing your friends to find the next installment of your favorite series, and, if you were lucky, the crinkle of money from Mom in your pocket.
Life felt so much easier back then, didn’t it? Don’t you find yourself wishing from time to time that you could just go back?
This April, you can – but we’re doing it grown-up style.
Don’t miss our Boozy Book Fair at Fireforge (311 E Washington St, Greenville, SC 29601) on Sunday, April 28th from 1-3pm!
Book categories will include:
–Adulting
-Geeks and Gamers
-Myths and Fairy Tales
-Gothic and Ghastly
-Meet Cute Moments
-Romantasy
-Read the Rainbow
-When Nature Calls
-Bookclub Picks
-Young at Heart
-Truth ‘R Us
-Criminally Good Reads
…and much much more!
This event is FREE and open to the public, so bring your friends! Be sure to RSVP so we have the booze + books ready – we can’t wait to see you there.
Join author Ellis K. Popa for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Saturday, June 1st from 1-3pm to celebrate her new book, Awaken the Dawn.
This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase a $20.13 ticket that includes a copy of Awaken the Dawn. Gift wrapping will be available at the event for $4.25. Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last.
If you’re unable to attend, signed copies of the author’s book can be purchased on our website.
Tickets can be purchased online through Thursday, 31st at 2pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
A cryptic puzzle. A family secret. A deadly betrayal.
When her dad dies during a trip to his homeland, Kat Barrett blames herself for—well, everything (her detachment from him, their broken relationship). Racked with guilt and haunted by strange dreams about the crash that killed him, she’d do anything to have him back.
Then a package arrives from Romania. It’s from her dad, sent before he died, and contains a list of clues—one of his classic scavenger hunts. Desperate to know why he sent it, she follows the clues to Bucharest and encounters Maksim, a local with a dark past and the perfect skillset for decoding this puzzle. Kat doesn’t trust him, but when she hits a dead end, she’s left with no other choice.
As they work together, following the clues and trying (unsuccessfully) not to fall for each other, the scavenger hunt reveals a dangerous secret the dreams have been pointing to, a secret Maksim’s old crime ring has been hiding all along, and Kat has walked into their trap. Now she must beat them to the final clue, and solve it, or else suffer the same tragic fate as her dad.
About the Author:
When Ellis isn’t moonlighting as a coffee aficionada, you might find her adventuring through Transylvania, doing photoshoots in Old Town Bucharest, or otherwise trying to talk her husband into moving to Eastern Europe. She’s a history buff with a passion for World War II, and her favorite places in the world are Wallachia in beautiful Romania and the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.
When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community.
The women asked: How are they safe?
And Tamsen Nightingale said: In this red grove, no woman can be harmed. No violence may come upon her. No injury to her flesh from the flesh of another.
―The Story of the Sisters, Welcoming Incantation
The Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by the community’s founder, Tamsen Nightingale. Some say the mountain lions who stalk the nearby hills guard its mysteries and its people. Some say the mighty redwoods keep them safe.
Yet Luce’s mother, Gloria, has gone missing. A man came seeking answers among the Red Grove’s mysteries―a connection to the beyond―and died. And then Gloria vanished. The Red Grove is Luce’s whole world. She is devoted to its mission, its rituals and myths. But she knows that her mother, frustrated free spirit though she might be, wouldn’t just leave without a word, wouldn’t leave her little brother, Roo, and especially their aunt Gem, whose care in that suspended state of everdream depends on Gloria in every way. But as Luce tries to figure out what has happened to her mother, she discovers that this special place is not what it seems and that protection comes at a cost.
The debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine’s The Red Grove is an exploration of the legacies of violence, the price of safety, and the choices we make to protect what we love.
About the Author
Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-defuing Acts, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of 2018 by Southern Living, Refinery29, Amazon Editors’, and The New York Post. Other writing can be found in Outside online, The New York Times, Glamour, AGNI, The Believer, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa is a former professor and has taught in jails and prisons for five years. She co-founded and teaches the Accountability Workshops with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, goofy dog and sassy cat. The Red Grove is her first novel.
About the in-conversation Partner
Eric Kocher, assistant professor of environmental studies at Wofford College, explores domestic encounters with planetary forces, and his writing on the topic has appeared in a variety of national publications. In the classroom, he works to help students understand how environmental ideas from literature, art, film and digital media shape our treatment of the environments in which we live.