Come visit us the weekend of April 7th for the CLS Book Sale! Browse a wide selection featuring best-selling fiction, noteworthy non-fiction, beautiful coffee table books and rare finds. You never know what you’ll go home with! Schedule: Saturday: 10:00am-2:00pm Sunday: 12:00pm-3:00pm

Join us for the next installment of Lifelong Learning! The mysteries of Hamlet have intrigued playgoers for over 400 years and inspired innumerable adaptations in 70 languages. This class will consider those enigmas of reason and action, love and power by looking at one act of the five-act drama each successive Tuesday night for five weeks beginning […]

Hidden Connections: Slavery and the British Country House Reception following lecture; $30 members; $40 non-members To register: Please visit www.royal-oak.org/lectures or call 212-480-2889, ext. 201. Please use the Charleston Library Society’s code 18SCHLIB to receive the discounted co-sponsor price. Dr. Madge Dresser recently retired as Associate Professor in History at the University of the West of England and remains a Visiting […]

Join us for the 2017-2018 Music at the Library Finale with CMC. This program will feature Ravel, Rota, and Mozart with music for Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano. $20 members/$30 nonmembers. To purchase tickets, call 843-723-9912 or click here. Program Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Rota Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano Mozart/Hummel Piano Concerto in […]

Join us on Monday, April 23rd for the Stand Forever, Yielding Never official book launch. Author John Warley will be presenting a brief author talk and autographing books, which will be for sale at the event. This event is free to the public. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org On March 20, 1843, twenty young men from […]

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Dr. Kathleen Brady ~ Responding to the Opioid Experience In our opening lunchtime lecture, Dr. Brady will describe the state of the opioid epidemic in South Carolina and the nation at large.  […]

Dr. David N. Schwartz will discuss his recent biography, The Last Man Who Knew Everything- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had […]

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Sharon Richardson ~ Audubon Year of the Bird Birds have a peculiar power to connect us to each other, as well as to places and policy. Sharon Richardson, the Executive Director of […]

Local author Cinelle Barnes will be joined in conversation with Jeanette Guinn, the Host of SC Public Radio(Arts Daily) to discuss her incredible memoir, Monsoon Mansion. To RSVP, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age […]

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Armand Derfner ~ Welcome Mat or No Trespassing Sign? Immigration in America Armand Derfner is no stranger to America’s immigration issues. Born in France to Polish Jews who had already fled their […]

Join the Charleston Library Society and the Sophia Institute in experiencing one woman’s death-defying, life-affirming journey on the open ocean. Local author Heather Lyn Mann will share personal stories from Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org “Irma’s eye […]

Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. Femi Oyediran & Miles White ~ Wine As We See It No matter where in the world you are, wine has a magical, mystical power to bring people together. Whether it’s […]

Join us as we welcome Johnna Neuman in conversation as she discusses her most recent book Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote, tells the fascinating story of more than two hundred New […]

CLS Book Club is back! This time we will discuss Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. Please RSVP to this free event. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House […]

NY Times Bestselling author Jon Meacham will visit The Charleston Library Society to discuss his latest book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels with former Time, Inc. Editor in Chief, John Huey. In this timely look at tumultuous periods when Presidents and ordinary citizens came together to defeat the forces of fear and […]