Events

Join CLS & Buxton Books as we welcome bestselling author Delia Owens as she speaks about her hit novel Where The Crawdads Sing. Owens will be introduced by bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe for this […]

Join CLS as we host culinary geniuses, who just happen to be brothers, Matt and Ted Lee as they discuss their new book Hotbox. They will delight audiences with stories and […]

The Library Society is excited to host the Royal Oak Foundation as they present David Lough. Lough’s new book, My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother (October 2018), explores […]

Kevin Mitchell, chef and scholar of southern foodways discusses history as told through his food in two historic meals presented in Charleston. Chef Mitchell will revisit the cooks, the ingredients […]

April showers bring May flower embroidery samplers!  Learn a few new embroidery stitches with this floral-focused class.  These stitches will brighten up any botanical project.  You don’t need to be […]

CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host three contributors of the new book “Gather At The River” which features over 25 authors’ stories on fishing. The three authors that […]

A Special Fundraiser for the Jenkins Institute with Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor John Tecklenburg Thursday, May 30th ~ 6:30 – 9:00PM Join Saturday Night Live pianist Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor […]

Ann Hood and Michael Ruhlman both write about love and food and cooking—and each other. They will be in conversation about the writing life, the marriage of two writers , and life in and out […]

CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host this Piccolo Spoleto event! Join US District Judge Richard Gergel, renowned artist Jonathan Green, and Charleston playwright and lawyer Thomas S. Tisdale […]

Best-selling writer, David O. Stewart, will discuss his book, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, the story of delegates closeted through a sultry summer to create […]

Local authors, Ruth Miller & Alec Cooley, discusses their walking tour guidebook to African-American history in Charleston, Slavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston in this new event format. […]

Authors Kate Quinn & Laura Kamoie discuss their book, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolutions Women.Describing women who stood up for themselves, Ribbons of Scarlet illuminates the […]

Dr. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy VP of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Saunders Director of International Center for Jefferson Studies, and Professor at the University of Virginia will be in town for […]

CLS Book Club: The Furious Hours & To Kill A Mockingbird CLS Book Club features two books this upcoming session; Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by […]

Unfortunately, Coffee with an Author featuring Carol Bass has had to be cancelled. Local author & poet, Carol Bass discusses her book, Ripple Effect. The book of art and poetry is a plea to […]