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Join us for an evening of cocktails and conversation with global #1 bestselling author and one of the world’s favorite storytellers David Baldacci! He’ll be talking about his new novel, Simply Lies, a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse. Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail in the spirit of the story, and a copy of the book, as well as an after-hours bookstore evening with David.
BOOK SUMMARY
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.
When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room—and that nothing is as it seems.
Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. What’s more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye.
In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation—and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Baldacci is a global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world’s favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. His works have been adapted for both feature film and television. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at WishYouWellFoundation.org.
Join us for a Pop-Up with author Elizabeth Phelps and her book Unlocking the Headache Mystery: Essential Keys to Reclaim Your Vibrant Life!
BOOK SUMMARY
Unlocking the Headache Mystery, Essential Keys to Reclaim Your Vibrant Life is chocked with insight, methods, and unusual perspectives about healing chronic headaches, including migraines. Here, you will find facts and research mingling with personal and relevant stories. The first section of the book contains the basics of pain release. The last section takes a deep dive into core issues rarely discussed in the world of medicine.
This volume is the alchemization of knowledge gained through my stays in renowned facilities (The Diamond Headache Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, The Friary), neurologists like Dr. David Buchholz, (Johns Hopkins Medical), and my academic education in anatomy, physiology, and psychology. It was fueled by a fascination with the mind-body connection and mystery, and completed thru studies in alternative healing methods and hard-won experiences that proved the body’s innate ability to know, reveal, and heal.
As it turns out, my journey wasn’t just for me—it was for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elizabeth found ways to heal her chronic headaches and helps others do the same. In Unlocking the Headache Mystery, Essential Keys to Reclaim Your Vibrant Life, she explores truths about healing through a mix of research, fact, storytelling, and memoir, revealing ways to reach past headaches to embrace life through inventiveness and self-discovery.
Her life path has included several areas of focus, including education, social service, acting, dance, and alternative therapeutic practices. Her list of accomplishments in these fields is extensive. Credits include a national award for design and implementation of the Alpha arts-in-education program for at-risk youth and arts-in-education grants in Santa Fe schools. She won a 2004 Walter Spara Writing Award for creative non-fiction, has been frequently featured in Parents and Kids Magazine of the Gulf Coast, and ghostwritten several memoirs. She is a member of The Screen Actor’s Guild and teaches acting to empower authenticity, academic achievement, and positive behaviors in youth. She promotes authenticity, health, and peace through writing, speaking, and facilitating workshops and group and individual sessions.
Elizabeth’s fascination with the mind-body-spirit connection was informed by experiences as a competitive athlete (Junior Olympics gymnast, Southeastern Karate Association ranked Black Belt) dancer, pianist, and writer, and was underwritten by a rich exposure to a family of creatives, artists, and students of the spiritual that built a solid foundation for connecting with the unseen. Her education in Sports Science and Educational Psychology supported her later work as an empath, healer, and Reiki Master with a penchant for headache release. She also studied Polarity Therapy, massage, emotional healing protocols, and experienced technologies like neurofeedback core brain training, and AVE (Audio Visual Entrainment).
From The Diamond Headache Clinic to the Cleveland Clinic and The Friary, to solo cross-country journeys revealing mystery and miracle, Elizabeth examined a broad range of causes of headaches and solutions to release complex chronic head pain. In discovering how to heal her own headaches, Elizabeth discovered ways to help others heal theirs. She now teaches headache release through workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions.
Join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams! We’re excited to celebrate the next installment of her charming Secret, Book, and Scone Society series hailed as “a love letter to reading” (Entertainment Weekly) and starring bookshop owner, bibliotherapist, and occasional sleuth Nora Pennington.
Miracle Springs, North Carolina—the fictional picturesque setting of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series—is famed for its healing springs, and has thousands of people that flock to the town each year. But bookstore owner and bibliotherapist Nora Pennington tends to land in a different kind of hot water. When she isn’t prescribing the perfect book to cure her customers’ maladies, she’s solving local crimes with the help of her Secret, Book, and Scone Society members—Hester, June, and Estella. Just a touch of magical realism and strong, female-driven stories are winning this series raves from readers and fans of Kate Carlisle, Lorna Barrett, and Adams’s Book Retreat Mysteries.
It couldn’t be a more bookish night between the stories and cocktails.
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.
BOOK SUMMARY
Nora escaped her past a decade ago. So it feels like a visit from another world when Kelly Walsh—the woman her ex-husband left her for—walks through the door of Miracle Books along with her son, a sweet, serious boy with a talent for origami. Kelly hasn’t come to gloat, though. As it turns out, she’s been dumped too. She’s also terribly ill, and all she wants from Nora is
forgiveness. Shockingly, however, this woman who’s been the victim of so much misfortune is about to become a murder victim. Who would do such a thing? Certainly not Nora, but that doesn’t stop the gossip and suspicion—especially after Kelly’s brother claims that he saw the two women arguing. In seeking justice for Kelly, The Secret, Book, and Scone Society joins forces with the sheriff’s department, but they’ve barely begun their probe when life throws another wrench. After serving a twenty-year sentence, Estella’s father returns to Miracle Springs. And when his past comes back to haunt him, it might be more than the four friends can handle.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellery Adams is the New York Times bestselling author of two cookbooks and over thirty mysteries, including the Book Retreat Mysteries, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society series, the Books by the Bay Mysteries, and the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries. A native New Yorker, she has had a lifelong love affair with stories, food, rescue animals, and large bodies of water. When not working on her next novel, she reads, bakes, gardens, spoils her three cats, and rearranges her bookshelves. She lives with her husband and two children in Chapel Hill, NC.
Join Hub City Bookshop in welcoming Marie Bostwick for her new novel Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly! This story of family ties is perfect for fans of Mary Alice Monroe and Kristy Woodson Harvey.
A copy of the book, coffee, and pastries are included in the ticket price!
About the Book
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up.
There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward financial ruin, so with the help of her grandfather, George; estranged mother, Robyn; and a travelling chef Dawes (maker of the world’s best grilled cheese sandwich) they set to work. In the attic, Esme unearths a trove of museum-worthy art quilts, sewn by Adele. Piecing together the inspiration behind them, Esme discovers a forgotten chapter in her family history and her grandmother’s untold story, that of a gifted artist who never received her due.
This is an always-emotional, sometimes humorous, very human novel of what it means to be family—the ties that bind us together and the unintentional hurts that can rend us apart. And, along the way, Esme learns that failure can be the first step toward the life you’re meant to find.
About the Author
A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen uplifting works of historical and contemporary fiction, Marie’s books are beloved by readers across the globe.
Drawing on her lifelong love of quilting and her unshakable belief in the power of sisterhood, Marie’s popular Cobbled Court Quilt series has been embraced by quilters and non-sewers alike. Her standalone books have also found a passionate following among lovers of women’s fiction. Marie’s novel, “The Second Sister” was adapted into the 2018 Hallmark Hall of Fame feature film “Christmas Everlasting”, starring Patti LaBelle. Marie’s novel, Hope on the Inside, was published in March 2019 and was chosen as a Reader’s Digest “Select Editions” book.
Marie’s latest endeavor is Fiercely Marie, a lifestyle blog that encourages women to live every minute and love every moment.
Marie lives in Oregon with her husband and a beautiful but moderately spoiled Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Join South Carolina author S.Q. Peake for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Saturday, June 3rd from 2-4pm to celebrate his new book, Legends of the Soul.
This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase an $13.77 ticket that includes a copy of Legends of the Soul. 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.
Book tickets can be purchased online through Friday, June 2nd, at 2:30pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
The world of soul power, enhanced individuals, and legends is still a relatively new one. Ten-year-olds Dewayne and Taurean are enhanced descendants who, despite their physical gifts, both struggle with their own conflicts and journey to legendary status. One is completely dependent on his own training. As a result, he is often ridiculed for being feeble, among other things. After being pushed too far, he shows the world what he can do. The other is well underway in his formal training and is seen as a prodigy. But his natural introverted disposition makes it difficult to handle the attention. After receiving advice from two masters, the introvert must step out of his shell to find a decent training partner if he wishes to progress.
About the Author:
S.Q. Peake is a new author out of South Carolina. He believes a good story and a good read induces healing and creates bridges between people. This author is a fan of every genre, a movie lover and a huge football fan. He’s a proud father of four and a strong believer in his faith.
Refund Policy:
- You may request a full refund prior to the ticket cutoff.
We are so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel back to M. Judson for a Lunch & Lit event for her new book The Paris Daughter.
Bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names, Kristin’s latest book is a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.
Kristin will be on hand to talk, answer questions, and sign books, as we enjoy an incredible lunch at Soby’s! Get your ticket today!
BOOK SUMMARY
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.
When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it.
More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
An “exquisite and gut-wrenching novel” (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won’t soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhood, and love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida.
Join award-winning cookbook author Cynthia Graubart for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Thursday, June 8th from 3-5pm to celebrate her new book, Zucchini Love.
This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase a $15.89 ticket that includes a copy of Zucchini Love. 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.
Book tickets can be purchased online through Thursday, June 8th, at 1pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
Grate, slice, chop, spiralize, pickle, and transform a bumper crop of zukes into delicious dishes to share all season long. Sweet to savory, breakfast to dinner, Zucchini Love proves how versatile this summer favorite can be! Both an easy-to-grow beginner crop for the newbie gardener and a popular offering at supermarkets and farmers markets alike, zucchinis take center stage in this single-subject cookbook, adding a high nutrient, low carb, and delicious twist to every meal. James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Cynthia Graubart brings her passion for producing veggie-forward family meals to over 40 recipes. Home cooks will find fresh takes on the classics like Lemon Glazed Zucchini Bread and Garlic-Sesame Zoodle Bowls with Shrimp, plus creative ideas for tasty snacks like Zucchini Fritters with Tahini Dip, satisfying main courses like Chicken-Stuffed Zucchini Boats, and irresistible desserts like Zucchini Fudge Brownies. Mouthwatering full-color photos and step-by-step instructions accompany each recipe—plus there are tips for picking, freezing, and preserving—making the book easy to use and highly browsable.
About the Author:
Cynthia Graubart is co-founder with Virginia Willis of Culinary Media Training and Productions, a full-service company designed to help food related companies and individuals succeed in the modern digital world. She is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning cookbook author of 12 cookbooks, culinary television producer, and a frequent guest on morning TV. Her recipes have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, http://SeriousEats.com , Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, and Taste of the South, among many others. She’s passionate about helping cooks conquer their kitchen fears and helping families spend more time at the dinner table together. She is the chair of the Broadcast Committee for the James Beard Awards and is currently at work on a history of community cookbooks in Georgia. Join Cynthia online at cynthiagraubart.com.
Join us for an evening with Krisitn Harmel! Bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names, Kristin’s latest book is a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. Come sip a book-inspired cocktail while we hear all about the writing of The Paris Daughter.
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.
BOOK SUMMARY
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.
When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it.
More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
An “exquisite and gut-wrenching novel” (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won’t soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhood, and love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida.
Join Hub City Bookshop in welcoming Victoria Benton Frank, daughter of Dorothea Benton Frank! Victoria’s debut novel, My Magnolia Summer, is the perfect summer read, recommended by Ann Patchett, Patti Callahan Henry, and Elin Hildebrand!
The ticket price includes a copy of My Magnolia Summer and a buffet lunch. There will be time for signing at the end of the event.
About the Book
“In My Magnolia Summer, author Victoria Benton Frank spins all the plates and brings all the magic of the low country to life. A tale of the complicated relationships between mothers, daughters and let’s not forget, sisters – this enchanting novel will bring romance and sunshine to your summer reading list.” –Elin Hildebrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Five-Star Weekend
Victoria Benton Frank transports us to her family’s beloved Low Country of South Carolina, in this spicy and heartfelt debut about strong three strong women with strong appetites.
In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything.
Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she finds that her hometown of Sullivan’s Island holds even more secrets. The Magic Lantern, the restaurant owned and run by generations of women in her family, is now rudderless, and her sister seems headed for a savage breakup.
Once she is between the marsh grasses and dunes of South Carolina, she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind, and a new and different version of herself—one who can see how a minor crash into the back of a very handsome farmer’s truck may become fortunate. Or perhaps it’s even… fate?
When the three generations of South Carolina women join forces—the family pillar Gran, troubled Lily, impulsive Violet, and redoubtable Maggie—anything is possible.
About the Author
Victoria Benton Frank was born in New York City, raised in Montclair, New Jersey, but considers herself to have dual residency in the Lowcountry. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the French Culinary Institute. Victoria worked in restaurants in New York before returning to Charleston, South Carolina, which she considers home, with her husband, two kids, and a giant mutt. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, cooking, or chasing her children.
Join us for a Pop-Up with author Kaitlyn Fiedler and her book What Now?
Kaitlyn Odom Fiedler was eight years old when she woke up alone in a hospital room, the victim of a horrible car accident that claimed the lives of six of her family members as they traveled on their way to vacation at the beach. Left with only one living brother, young Kaitlyn was left with the question, what now?
How do you find hope after loss? Twenty years later, Kaitlyn has found her hope and wants to encourage others as they struggle with their own trials.
What Now?: Finding Renewed Life in Christ After Loss brings a refreshing perspective of hope and will help answer the questions of how to move forward, not just move on, when it seems there is nothing left on which to cling. Readers will discover how Kaitlyn moved from questioning to trusting God in times of sorrow, and they will find hope and healing in their own grief journey along the way.
About Kaitlyn Fiedler:
Kaitlyn Odom Fiedler lives near Greenville, SC, with her husband and children. She is currently pursuing her MA in counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She actively volunteers with her church in a grief ministry to help kids process and heal after the loss of a loved one. She brings biblical inspiration to women through her blog abeautifulbelonging.com. She is happiest when traveling and adventuring with family and friends.
Come meet Kaitlyn and get a signed copy!
From the award-winning author of Over the Plain Houses comes a major novel about two young women contending with unplanned pregnancies in different eras.
Edie Carrigan didn’t plan to “get herself” pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby.
Twenty-five years later, Luce is a successful lawyer, and her daughter Meera now faces the same decision Edie once did. Like Luce, Meera is fiercely independent and plans to handle her unexpected pregnancy herself. Along the way, Meera finds startling secrets about her mother’s past, including the long-ago friendship with Edie. As the three women’s lives intertwine and collide, the story circles age-old questions about female awakening, reproductive choice, motherhood, adoption, sex, and missed connections.
For fans of Brit Bennett’s The Mothers and Jennifer Weiner’s Mrs. Everything, The Say So is a timely novel that asks: how do we contend with the rippling effects of the choices we’ve made? With equal parts precision and tenderness, Franks has crafted a sweeping epic about the coming of age of the women’s movement that reverberates through the present day.
About the Author
Julia Franks is the author of Over the Plain Houses, which was an NPR Best Book of 2016 and was awarded five literary prizes. She has published essays in outlets like the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Bitter Southerner. While her roots are in the Southeast, she spent years teaching literature in the US and abroad. She lives in Atlanta.
Join us for an evening with Katherine Reay! We’re excited to celebrate Katherine’s latest book with a book-inspired cocktail and conversation about the inspiration and writing of A Shadow in Moscow. When a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet spy and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive as the KGB closes in.
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.
BOOK SUMMARY
Vienna, 1954.
After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker, following him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Upon her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts — Britain, the country of her mother’s birth — and starts passing along intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, and light and shadow.
Washington DC. 1980.
Part of the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards her flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid Soviet regime at the height of the Cold War. When the KGB murders her best friend, Anya picks sides and contacts the CIA. Working in a military research lab, Anya passes along Soviet military plans and schematics in an effort to end the 1980s arms race.
Alternating between points of view, the past catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery in 1985 threatens all undercover agents operating within the Soviet Union and both women find themselves in a race against time and the KGB.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels. She has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books and history, and brings that love to her stories. Katherine has also written one full-length nonfiction work.
She holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and has lived across the country with a few years in England and Ireland as well. A full-time author and mother of three children, Katherine and her husband currently live outside Chicago, IL.
We are so excited to welcome Fiona Davis back to M. Judson for a Lunch & Lit event for her new book The Spectacular, a thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday.
Fiona will be on hand to talk, answer questions, and sign books, as we enjoy an incredible lunch at Soby’s! Get your ticket today!
BOOK SUMMARY
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes—the glamorous precision-dancing troupe—she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer.Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the “Big Apple Bomber,” who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs, a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling.
As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in—performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes—if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Dollhouse, The Address, The Masterpiece, The Chelsea Girls, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, and The Magnolia Palace. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of the College of William & Mary in Virginia and the Columbia Journalism School.
Join us for a luncheon at the Piedmont Club with Katherine Reay in celebration of her latest novel, A Shadow in Moscow! Perfect for fans of Beatriz Williams and Marie Benedict!
Lunch will be a Chopped Cobb Salad, with grilled chicken and cookies for dessert! Coffee and tea will be available as well.
About the Book
A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet spy and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive.
Vienna, 1954.
After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker, following him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Upon her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts — Britain, the country of her mother’s birth — and starts passing along intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, and light and shadow.
Washington DC. 1980.
Part of the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards her flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid Soviet regime at the height of the Cold War. When the KGB murders her best friend, Anya picks sides and contacts the CIA. Working in a military research lab, Anya passes along Soviet military plans and schematics in an effort to end the 1980s arms race.
Alternating between points of view, the past catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery in 1985 threatens all undercover agents operating within the Soviet Union and both women find themselves in a race against time and the KGB.
Join authors David Weber and Jacob Holo for a book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction on Friday, June 16th at 3:00pm to celebrate their new book, The Weltall File.
There are two ticket options for this event. Each ticket is $29.68. The first ticket option admits one and includes a copy of The Weltall File. The second ticket option admits two and includes a copy of The Weltall File. Capacity is limited, so purchase your tickets today! Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last. The authors will be available to mingle and sign books at the event.
Tickets can be purchased online through Friday, June 16th at 1pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
COME FOR THE GAMES. STAY FOR THE MURDER.
A mystery in the Gordian Division universe.
The Weltall Tournament’s professional VR games were supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between SysGov and its militaristic neighbor, the Admin. But that was before star Admin player Elly Sako received a death threat, written in blood next to a copy of her own severed head. The Admin’s Department of Temporal Investigation swiftly seizes control of the crime scene, and the tournament transforms into a flashpoint of charged politics and conflicting jurisdictions.
SysPol Detective Isaac Cho and DTI Special Agent Susan Cantrell—partners in the officer exchange program—are sent in to take charge of the investigation and bring the situation under control. But solving this mystery won’t be easy, and the pair struggles to determine who is telling the truth. A jilted relationship between players soon explodes into signs of a far-reaching conspiracy, and the two detectives find themselves racing against time before the tournament ends.
Because the killer will be the only one who wins, should they fail.
About the Authors:
With more than eight million copies of his books in print and 33 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, David Weber is a science fiction powerhouse. In the vastly popular Honor Harrington series, the spirit of C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander live on—into the galactic future. Books in the Honor Harrington and Honorverse series have appeared on 21 bestseller lists, including The Wall Street Journal\,* The New York Times*, and* USA Today*. Additional Honorverse collaborations include the spin-off miniseries Manticore Ascendant with* New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn, and with Eric Flint, Crown of Slaves and Cauldron of Ghosts contribute to Weber’s illustrious list of New York Times* and international bestsellers.
Best known for his spirited, modern-minded space operas, Weber is also the creator of the Oath of Swords fantasy series and the Dahak Saga, a science fiction and fantasy hybrid. Weber has also engaged in a steady stream of best-selling collaborations: the Starfire series with Steve White; the Empire of Man series with John Ringo; the Multiverse series with Linda Evans and Joelle Presby; and the Ring of Fire series with Eric Flint.
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents bought that “new” IBM 286 desktop, and over the years, those powers combined to push him to the next level of nerddom: a sci-fi author who designs intricate worlds and tech systems…and promptly blows them up in a string of nonstop action.
He is the author of ten books, including national bestsellers The Gordian Protocol and The Valkyrie Protocol (with David Weber), Time Reavers (a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2014); The Wizard’s Way (with H.P. Holo), and Monster Punk Horizon: Excess (with H.P. Holo).
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Remember how great it was, a little money from mom and dad jingling in your pocket, when you waltzed into the school library to buy a Gremlins poster and a new Goosebumps book? Nothing was as captivating as the book you picked out for yourself, and that pencil with the fluffy top on it. Oh, to be a kid again.
We’re bringing that book fair feeling back: and this time, it’s for everyone! Join us from Thursday June 15 through Sunday June 18 in The Gallery at M. Judson on the 4th floor for Book Fair For All. We’ll have books you and your kids really want to read this summer, from their first chapter book to the latest DogMan, as well as great recommendations for beach reads, summer romcoms, thrillers you can’t put down, and a few goodies that will rival that Gremlins poster. (If you’re a school media specialist, be sure to stop by and see what we can do for your school!)
Best of all, this event is free! Register through the RSVP below.
Join author Sara E. Johnson in conversation with Valerie Nieman for a book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction on Friday, June 23rd at 2pm to celebrate her new book, The Bone Riddle.
Your $18.01 ticket admits one to the event and includes a copy of The Bone Riddle. 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 authors’ books can be purchased on our website.
Tickets can be purchased online through Friday, June 23rd, at noon. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
Forensic specialist Alexa Glock must solve the most dangerous kind of riddle
Alexa Glock loves solving riddles, using her knowledge of teeth to put names to the departed who might otherwise go unidentified, and bringing closure for their families. But when she’s assigned to a case on Cape Kidnappers, it seems cut and dry. The victim, American CEO Harlan Quinn, was found locked inside his own shelter, apparently done in by dehydration. When the autopsy reveals that he suffocated because someone had deliberately shut off the air filtration system from the main house, though, the investigation team must work their way through myriad suspects. Was it the jealous mistress who lived with Quinn on the estate? The angry environmentalists who resented his refusal to preserve land? His Kiwi neighbor who fumes over the land-grab by wealthy Americans?
Using cutting edge forensic technology, Alexa attempts to narrow the suspect field as the murderer strikes again. Will she crack the case before she becomes the next victim?
About the Author:
Sara E. Johnson lives in Durham, North Carolina. She worked as a middle school reading specialist and local newspaper contributor before her husband lured her to New Zealand for a year. Her first novel,* Molten Mud Murder*, is the result, followed by The Bones Remember and The Bone Track.
Valerie Nieman’s novel In the Lonely Backwater, winner of the 2022 Sir Walter Raleigh Award, is being called “not only a page-turning thriller but also a complex psychological portrait of a young woman dealing with guilt, betrayal, and secrecy.” To the Bones, a folk horror/mystery, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award, joining three earlier novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books, the most recent being Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. A graduate of West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte, she has held state and NEA fellowships and is professor emerita of creative writing at NC A&T State University.
Join authors Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum for a Pride book talk and signing at Fiction Addiction on Tuesday, June 27th at 2pm to celebrate their new book, Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl.
There are two ticket options for the event. Both tickets are $21.19. The first ticket admits one to the event and includes one copy of the book; the second ticket admits two to the event and includes one copy of the book. 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 authors’ books can be purchased on our website.
Tickets can be purchased online through Tuesday, June 27th, at 11am. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Leah Johnson, this charming YA rom-com follows Margo, who suddenly realizes that she’s gay but has no clue how to express her identity—so she enlists out-and-proud Abbie to act as her tutor on everything “Queer 101”…and first love.
Margo Zimmerman excels at everything she tries. She holds three swim team records, is Student Body President, and she has her future all figured out. Until a game of spin the bottle gone awry leads to an epiphany: she’s gay. Feeling off balance in the wake of this realization, Margo is determined to ace her gayness. All she needs is the right tutor.
Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. She’s been out for years and is tapped into the queer community in her suburban Florida town. What she doesn’t have is a passing grade in US History, threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor.
The two strike a deal: Abbie will teach Margo how to discover her queer identity and in exchange, Margo will help Abbie get her history grade up. Everybody wins.
But as their lessons continue and they spend more and more time together, Margo realizes she doesn’t want just any girl—she wants the girl.
About the Authors:
Brianna R. Shrum is the author of six novels for young adults, including Never, Never; How to Make Out; The Art of French Kissing; Kissing Ezra Holtz—And Other Things I Did For Science; The Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky; and Rebel Boys and Rescue Dogs – or – Things That Kiss With Teeth. Her work has been translated into multiple languages across two continents. She is queer and Jewish and rebelliously lives in the Bible Belt (South Carolina) with her favorite people, when she’s not writing, you can usually find her climbing rocks or reading with a chai.
https://brianna-shrum.webnode.page
@BriannaShrum
Sara Waxelbaum is the author of contemporary YA novels. Under the name Sara Taylor Woods, she is the author of erotic romance, including Hold Me Down, a HOLT Medallion finalist in two categories.
@sarataylorwoods
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- You may request a full refund prior to the ticket cutoff.
Join us for an evening of cocktails and conversation with New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston! In this witty and wise new novel, an overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past.
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail in the spirit of the story, and a copy of the book, as well as an after-hours bookstore evening with Ashley.
BOOK SUMMARY
Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.
So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.
And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.
Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.
Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.
After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ashley Poston writes stories about love and friendship and ever afters. A native to South Carolina, she now lives in a small grey house with her sassy cat and too many books. You can find her on the internet, somewhere, watching cat videos and reading fan-fiction.
Collaboration Space Read and discuss French Braid by Anne Tyler. Email [email protected] or call 864-234-4904 to register. Part of the event series: Book Clubs