Along with Buxton Books, the Library Society is thrilled to be welcoming Jeanette Walls to King Street as part of the national tour for Hang the Moon, her latest novel that debuted Spring 2023, and transported readers to 1920's rural Virginia. Having been described by NPR as 'brilliant and effervescent', she hits on the difficulties […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]
Sprouting from a lively conversation down in our Fellows Lounge last year, CLS Wine Club originated with the hopes of bringing our members' love for literacy and wine together. Our gracious hosts—each hailing from storied outings and clubs centered around the complexities of wine—have agreed to share wit and wisdom twice a year. Special thanks […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]
Along with partners Buxton Books, the Library Society will host international best-selling author Don Winslow, the man who says he is leaving publishing, but has continued to create masterworks. His latest novel, City in Ruins, happens to be the final of the "city trilogy" delivering a dramatic conclusion to this series about two New England […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]
Join the Library Society and Buxton Books in welcoming back J. Drew Lanham, South Carolinian, American author, poet, and wildlife biologist, to the Main Reading Room for a book tour exclusive event celebrating Joy is in the Justice We Give Ourselves. Recognized in February 2022 by the Post and Courier newspaper as one of twelve […]
In celebration of Zibby Owens' new novel, Blank, the Library Society is pleased to welcome Zibby Owens in discussion with Victoria Benton Frank, author of My Magnolia Summer, and Stacy Willingham, author of Only if You’re Lucky for an in-depth discussion on "Writers on Writing" and each author's unique perspective and approach to their works. Blank, by […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]
Join us for the pub week debut of The Final Victory by Roger Jones: a novel that fuses the riveting action of The Boys in the Boat with the emotional heft of The Fault in Our Stars, twenty cancer patients compete in a grueling race only to discover that real victory is achieved within. Jones, a Dragon […]
Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]
Join the Library Society for a film screen of The Rough South of Larry Brown, a 2002 documentary on the life and works of an Oxford, Mississippi Fireman-turned-writer (Brown), examined in a unique format that incorporates narrative film adaptations of three of his short stories: Samaritans, Wild Thing, and Boy & Dog. Gary Hawkins, director and […]
The Library Society and Buxton Books are thrilled to host Ruth Reichl for one of the curated stops on the book tour for her latest release, The Paris Novel - an adventure of food, art, and fashion through a dazzling, heartfelt novel. It wasn’t just Paris, but Paris past. 1983 to be exact. A Paris […]