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SUMMARY:History at the Heart of Landscape Design
DESCRIPTION:All land\, whether urban or rural\, wild or toxic\, holds a deep cultural and ecological history. It is this layered history of a site that must be critically researched and then transformed to endure for future generations. It is because of this mentality that Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected landscape architecture firms in the US. In their second monograph\, The Land is Full\, NBW digs into this philosophy across twelve projects that illustrate the power of design in creating vital public realms at the heart of communities. It just so happens that they are intimately involved in our community\, too\, through the work of the Angel Oak Preserve\, a 10-year community effort to unify an existing 9-acre city park with the surrounding 35 acres once threatened by insensitive development. In partnership with Middleton Place and Lowcountry Land Trust\, we are so pleased to highlight the great work of this firm and the launch of The Land is Full by hosting Thomas Woltz\, Senior Principal of NVW Landscape Architects\, to share how he has expanded NBW to also include scientists and historians as integral contributors to the design of projects that range from restoration ecology in large urban parks to post-industrial sites and educational campuses. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books here. \nAbout the Book \nThe Land Is Full features projects that engage exceptionally sensitive sites\, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples\, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples\, and natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction. One highlighted project in the northeast is a burial ground adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard that has been reclaimed as a contemplative meadow filled with native plants\, pollinators\, and birds. Another in southern Texas is the revitalization of Memorial Park in Houston\, a 1500-acre landscape that interweaves city infrastructure with a vibrant ecology. Thousands of miles to the northwest\, the Aga Khan Garden in Alberta\, Canada\, stands as a regenerative horticultural sanctuary and the northern most Islamic garden on Earth\, interpreting centuries of Islamic landscape history in a 21st century public garden. \nThe work of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects\, and indeed the very profession of landscape architecture\, is set in a broad context through authoritative essays by noted scholars\, ecologists\, and cultural historians. It articulates the critical role the profession of landscape architecture plays in reshaping public space to meet the challenges of ecological and social resilience. An incisive introductory essay by Thomas Woltz\, Senior Principal and owner of NBW\, dives deeper into the practice’s research-driven design process\, its approach to preservation\, and its covenant with land. \nAbout the Author \nThomas L. Woltz\, Senior Principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW)\, works at the intersection of culture and ecology for the sustainability of the public realm. Through this collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach\, NBW’s designs reveal lost or erased histories in the landscape. The work of NBW now stretches across thirty states and twelve countries. Thomas was educated at the University of Virginia and holds Master’s degrees in landscape architecture and architecture as well as an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. In 2011\, Thomas was invested into the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows\, among the highest honors achieved in the profession and was named the Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal Magazine. He has also received the American Horticultural Society Landscape Design Award and was recognized as one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company and with the Land for People Award by the Trust for Public Land. Woltz currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. \nThis program is in partnership with Lowcountry Land Trust and Middleton Place Foundation.  \nAbout Lowcountry Land Trust \nLowcountry Land Trust\, founded in 1986\, partners with landowners and local stakeholders to permanently protect and nurture the land throughout coastal South Carolina. They have grown from a small community effort to an institution that protects more than 150\,000 acres of coastal land and water. Lowcountry Land Trust’s mission is to protect land and water forever\, nurture relationships between people and place\, and connect conservation to community. \nAbout Middleton Place Foundation  \nA National Historic Landmark\, home to the oldest landscaped gardens in America\, and an enduring\, vibrant\, and essential part of the Charleston and American experience\, Middleton Place is owned and operated by the Middleton Place Foundation. The Foundation\, a 501(c)(3) educational trust established in 1974\, uses historic preservation\, documented research\, and interpretation as a force for education\, understanding\, and positive change. \nPrior to the program\, We invite our Fellows Members to enjoy a Happy Hour from 5:00 – 6:00pm\, downstairs in the Dr. Suzan D. Boyd Fellows Club Lounge.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/land-covenants-kept-or-history-at-the-heart-of-landscape-design/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cuba's Creative Class
DESCRIPTION:We can go\, we can’t go. The ping pong of access to Cuba has always been a game of chance\, and if you’ve had the opportunity to go\, navigating once there an unknown. Known as the “Pearl of the Antilles\,” Cuba remains a Caribbean island nation with the creative vitality that comes from an extraordinary legacy of African\, Indigenous\, Spanish\, and French influences over four centuries. Its charming cities are plentiful in artistic and architectural heritage\, where artisans\, thought leaders and creative entrepreneurs are working diligently to preserve and sustain Havana’s cultural legacy. Join Hermes Mallea\, architect and member of a Cuban-American family\, for a first-hand account of the cultural ebullience of Cuba that comes from his passion for exposing the incredible entrepreneurialism at play despite the economic challenges.  An architect by trade\, but also author of three books: Great Houses of Havana; Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour; and Havana Living Today: Cuban Home Style Now\, Mallea will dive into a verbal tour of Cuba and the importance of its preservation. \nIf you are unable to attend the event but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books here. \nAbout Hermes Mallea \nArchitect Hermes Mallea is the author of “Great Houses of Havana\, A Century of Cuban Style”\, (The Monacelli Press\, 2011) which is currently in its third printing and of ESCAPE\, The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour”. “(Rizzoli 2014)\,  Mallea’s latest book\, “Havana Living Today/ Cuban Homestyle Now” (Rizzoli) celebrates homeowners’ individual flair and resourcefulness\, taking the reader inside a world that foreign visitors and most Cubans have never seen. Mallea has presented his books at venues across the United States and is a lecturer annually for visitors to Havana. He has presented papers on historic Cuban family life at Havana’s annual Jornadas Tecnicas de Arquitectura Vernacula in 2010 and in 2009 and the 2013 International Art Deco Congress in Havana. In 2011\, Mallea curated and installed “Luz de Memoria”\, an exhibition of a century of family photographs at Havana’s Museum of Natural History. In July 2018\, Mallea installed an update of this exhibition in one of his family’s former homes in Gibara\, Cuba as part of their annual film festival. \nMallea received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Miami\, attended the Master’s Program in Historic Preservation at Columbia University. Mallea formed the award-winning interiors and architecture practice\, M(Group)\, in 1983 with interior designer Carey Maloney. In 2021 he was honored with the Preservation League of New York State’s Pillar award recognizing his work in historic preservation in Cuba and the United States. Mallea is a board member of the Cintas Foundation which awards fellowships to Cuban artists working on and off the island. He is a founding board member of Havana Heritage Foundation which is sponsoring the creation of a new library of design books created to honor the memory of Eusebio Leal. More than 4\,000 donated books have been shipped as of summer 2022. Mallea is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Finca Vigia Foundation which supports the preservation of Ernest Hemingway’s Havana home and his legacy in Cuba. Mallea is serving as a creative consultant bringing authentic Cuban style to two restaurants soon to open in London. He serves on the International Council of the Preservation Society of Newport County. \nPrior to the program\, We invite our Fellows Members to enjoy a Happy Hour from 5:00 – 6:00pm\, downstairs in the Dr. Suzan D. Boyd Fellows Club Lounge.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cubas-creative-class/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marking 50 Years of Breakthrough Writing
DESCRIPTION:Both standouts for their time – fifty years ago\, to be exact – we’re celebrating the continued impact of bestselling books by Peter H. Wood and Theodore Rosengarten that showcased the endurance of enslaved people in early America\, transforming the a widespread understanding of early American history. Black Majority (Peter Wood)\, features a new epilogue in its recently revised fiftieth-anniversary edition that challenges a fresh generation with provocative history. All God’s Dangers (Theodore Rosengarten) may be a “forgotten autobiography” as re-highlighted by The New York Times already once before\, but it was the National Book Award Winner in 1975\, surpassing many others that came out in the same banner year for non-fiction. \nMore relevant and enlightening than ever\, these literary works tell the stories of colonial African American language\, culture\, and expertise – all of which form the critical fibers of our nation’s history. Theodore Rosengarten and Peter H. Wood will reflect on what they have learned since publishing their respective works\, discuss the future of the African American past\, and reveal how their work has shaped their careers as historians and authors. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books for copies of Black Majority and All God’s Dangers. \nAbout Peter H. Wood \nPeter H. Wood grew up in St. Louis and Baltimore\, earning degrees at Harvard and Oxford before teaching early American history at Duke University for nearly four decades. In 1974\, Alfred A. Knopf published his dissertation about enslavement in colonial South Carolina. W.W. Norton has recently published an updated 50th-anniversary edition of this pioneering book with the fresh title\, Black Majority: Race\, Rice\, and Rebellion in South Carolina\, 1670-1740. Wood is the author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America and several books about the Black images of American artist Winslow Homer\, including Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War (Harvard University Press\, 2010). He is also the co-author of a widely-used college U.S. History text entitled Created Equal. He has served on the boards of Harvard University\, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History\, and the Highlander Education Center in East Tennessee. Dr. Wood now lives in Colorado with his wife\, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian\, Elizabeth Fenn. Recently\, he co-authored an essay on slave-built canals in South Carolina before the Stono Rebellion. When not growing gourds\, he is writing a book entitled The Great Southern Blackout\, about the scope and consequences of two centuries of forced Black illiteracy across the South. \nAbout Black Majority \nFirst published in 1974\, Black Majority chronicles the crucial formative years of North America’s wealthiest and most tormented British colony. It explores how West African familiarity with rice determined the Lowcountry economy and how a skilled but enslaved labor force formed its own distinctive language and culture. While African American history often focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, Black Majority underscores the significant role early African arrivals played in shaping the direction of American history. \nAbout Theodore Rosengarten \nTheodore Rosengarten is a writer\, teacher and a social activist from McClellanville\, South Carolina. Born in Brooklyn\, New York\, Ted got his AB from Amherst College\, and a PhD in The History of American Civilization\, from Harvard. Even as a child\, he was obsessed by the black struggle for justice and freedom and by the destruction of the Jews in Europe. His first book\, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw\, the oral history of an African American tenant farmer from Alabama\, won the National Book Award. His second book\, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter\, chronicles the life of an unsuccessful plantation owner from St. Helena Island\, South Carolina. This book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography. Last year\, Yad Vashem Studies published Ted’s critical review of Steven T. Katz’s opus comparing the The Holocaust and New World Slavery. Ted taught for decades in the Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston and in the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. Since 2002\, Ted and his wife Dale have led a biennial study abroad to Poland\, Germany and The Netherlands called Tracing the Holocaust. Looking to unearth the past\, they encounter the new racial demography of European cities. \nAbout the All God’s Dangers \nNate Shaw’s father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine\, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven\, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor’s crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography\, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw’s oral reminiscences\, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people—and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about. \nPrior to the program\, We invite our Fellows Members to enjoy a Happy Hour from 5:00 – 6:00pm\, downstairs in the Dr. Suzan D. Boyd Fellows Club Lounge.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/marking-50-years-of-breakthrough-writing/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Series // Elizabeth Varon's Latest Biography
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED EVENT FROM MARCH 2024 \nThe Library Society and Buxton Books are pleased to host renowned historian\, Elizabeth Varon\, of the Civil War era\, for her latest release – the story of American history’s most remarkable political about-face. \nElizabeth Varon’s Longstreet is a bold new biography of the Confederate general whose support of constitutional rights for Black Americans after the Civil War enraged Southern critics and ignited a campaign to destroy his reputation. General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle. \nAfter the war\, Longstreet dramatically changed course. He supported Black voting and joined the newly elected\, integrated postwar government in Louisiana. When white supremacists took up arms to oust that government\, Longstreet\, leading the interracial state militia\, did battle against former Confederates. His defiance ignited a firestorm of controversy\, as white Southerners branded him a race traitor and blamed him retroactively for the South’s defeat in the Civil War.  \nAlthough he was one of the highest-ranking Confederate generals\, Longstreet has never been commemorated with statues or other memorials in the South because of his postwar actions in rejecting the Lost Cause mythology and urging racial reconciliation. \n\nTickets:  Members – $10 // General Admission – $15 \nIf you purchased tickets for the event in March and did not receive a refund\, your tickets are valid for this event. If you are unable to attend the new event date please call (843) 723-9912 for a refund.  \nTo purchase\, click here  \nor  call 843.723.9912 during Box Office Hours  \n(11:00AM–4:00PM Monday through Thursday).  \nIf you are unable to attend but would still like a (signed) copy of  “Longstreet”\, Click Here\, or call Buxton Books at (843) 723-1670 \nThis is a collaborative event with Buxton Books\, guest information such as email and name will be shared between both parties for promotional purposes only. \nAbout the Book:\nLONGSTREET reintroduces Americans to one of the Civil War era’s best known\, but least understood\, figures. This is the first full biography in decades\, and the first to give proper attention to Longstreet’s long post-Civil War political career. Longstreet’s unusual life illuminates both the transformative changes and the entrenched inequalities of the Civil War era. Longstreet is being rediscovered in the new age of racial reckoning. Varon\, an acclaimed Civil War historian and author of the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize-winning book\, Armies of Deliverance\, demonstrates that Longstreet’s controversial choices have enduring relevance for our modern debates over American history. \n\nAbout the Author:\nElizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon’s books include Southern Lady\, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew\, A Union Agent in the Heart of the\nConfederacy\, and Appomattox: Victory\, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Her most recent book\, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War\, won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s best books of 2019.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-elizabeth-varons-lastest-biography/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive: Mary Beard's Profile of an Emperor—New Insights into Ancient Rome
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS and Buxton Books on Wednesday\, November 1\, for an evening with Mary Beard\, a literary legend dubbed “the world’s most famous classicist” by the Guardian\, in celebration of the release of her forthcoming book\, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World\, due out in October. During this exciting Book Tour Event\, Beard will discuss her sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors in rare and intimate detail—exploring (and exploding) themes of identity and big-picture narrative at the heart of ancient Rome’s enduring legacy. \nTicket prices\, which are publisher-directed\, are $50 for Members\, $55 for the General Admission  \nTickets include one (1) copy of the book per order.  \nThere are a limited number of special offer ticket pairs priced at $65\, available to Members\, which include two (2) tickets and one (1) book.  \nFor more info and to purchase tickets\, please click here.  \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to reserve one or more signed copies\, please purchase here. \nAbout the Book \nIn her international bestseller SPQR\, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire\, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers\, one after another: the mad Caligula\, the monster Nero\, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? She tracks down the emperor at home\, at the races\, on his travels\, even on his way to heaven. She introduces his wives and lovers\, rivals and slaves\, court jesters and soldiers—and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hands. Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman\, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before. \nAbout the Author \nMary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality\, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-tour-exclusive-profile-of-an-emperor-new-insights-into-ancient-rome/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:A CLS x Buxton Books Exclusive // Local Authors Showcase: Breakfast\, Books\, and a Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of our 275th Anniversary Year\, and with generous support from SC Humanities\, we are thrilled to host this special literary showcase with our friends at Buxton Books. The morning begins with lite bites and an author meet and greet\, followed by a panel discussion on the importance of storytellers in our community\, and a book signing.  Panelists will include\, Yvette Murray\, George Brewington\, Lydia Fitzpatrick\, Matt Lee\, Kristen Ness\, Victoria Benton Frank\, and Julian Buxton.  As a bonus\, the first 50 people to arrive will also receive a surprise title from a local author. \nThis event is free with RSVP. Simply fill out the form below to secure your spot.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-cls-x-buxton-books-exclusive-local-authors-showcase-breakfast-books-and-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lite Lunch // Mark Catesby's Journey as Nature's Messenger
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, September 13\, CLS and Buxton Books presents a mid-day escape into the wild and wonderful world of Mark Catesby. \nDuring this Lite Lunch program\, the acclaimed writer and Catesby chronicler Patrick Dean will share stories from his fascinating new book\, Nature’s Messenger\, as we retrace the pioneering naturalist’s personal and professional path  from his youth as a landed gentleman in rural England through his early work as an emerging wildlife artist and beyond. \nDr. Nic Butler\, a noted historian with the Charleston County Public Library\, will add his own insights to this fresh exploration of Catesby’s life and legacy\, as well as his lasting influence on Charleston. \nTickets are $25 for members\, $35 for guests. \nClick here or call 843.723.9912 during Box Office Hours (11:00am–4:00pm\, Monday through Thursday) to purchase. \nAbout Mark Catesby \nIn 1722\, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in “Charles Town” in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years\, the young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders\, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World. Nine years later Catesby produced his magnificent and groundbreaking book\, The Natural History of Carolina\, the first-ever illustrated account of American flora and fauna. Catesby preceded John James Audubon by nearly a century\, and his work had a profound influence on our understanding of American wildlife and naturalist art. \nAbout the Book \nAn adventurer and journeyman with an insatiable curiosity rivaled only by an eye for detail\, Catesby was an artist of unparalleled scope. His careful attention to the knowledge of non-Europeans in America—the enslaved Africans and Native Americans who had their own sources of food and medicine from nature—set him apart from others of his time (although Dean does not shy away from Catesby’s actions and affiliations\, either). Nature’s Messenger takes us from the rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry to the bustling coffeehouses of 18th-century England\, from the sun-drenched islands of the Bahamas to the austere meeting-rooms of London’s Royal Society\, then presided over by Isaac Newton. It was a time of discovery\, of intellectual ferment\, and of the rise of the British Empire. And there on history’s leading edge\, recording the extraordinary and often violent mingling of cultures as well as of nature\, was Mark Catesby.  Intensively researched and thrillingly told\, Nature’s Messenger will thrill fans of exploration and early American history as well as appealing to birdwatchers\, botanists\, and anyone fascinated by the natural world.   \nAbout the Author \nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. An avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee\, and is the author of A Window To Heaven\, about the summit of Denali\, also available from Pegasus Books. \nAbout Nic Butler\, Ph.D \nNic is the historian for the Charleston County Public Library. A native of Greenville County\, Dr. Butler has worked for more than twenty years as a public historian specializing in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. As creator and host of the bi-weekly podcast “Charleston Time Machine\,” Dr. Butler draws attention to a wide variety of under-explored aspects of local history and neglected documentary resources.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lite-lunch-mark-catesbys-journey-as-natures-messenger/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive: Patti McCracken's Arsenic-laced True Crime Tale
DESCRIPTION:​Arsenic\, a midwife\, and modern history’s most astonishing murder ring. Patti McCracken’s masterful true crime thriller\, The Angel Makers (HarperCollins\, March 2023)\, is a narrative tour de force rooted in meticulous research and detail-driven storytelling (no surprise there\, given the author’s journalism bona fides).  \nJoin us on August 24\, at 6:00pm\, to celebrate this exciting debut with the author. The evening will feature a discussion and Q&A\, as well as an opportunity to purchase signed and personalized copies of the book. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nPlease click here or call us at 843-723-9912. \nAbout the Book \nThe Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men. \nThe horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives\, mothers\, and daughters—was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere\, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife\, a “smiling Buddha” known as Auntie Suzy\, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and distributed it to the women of Nagyrév. “Why are you bothering with him?” Auntie Suzy would ask\, as she produced an arsenic-filled vial from her apron pocket. In the beginning\, a great many used the deadly solution to finally be free of cruel and abusive spouses. \nBut as the number of dead bodies grew without consequence\, the killers grew bolder. With each vial of poison emptied\, a new reason surfaced to drain yet another. Some women disposed of sickly relatives. Some used arsenic as “inheritance powder” to secure land and houses. For more than fifteen years\, the unlikely murderers aided death unfettered and tended to it as if it were simply another chore—spooning doses of arsenic into soup and wine\, stirring it into coffee and brandy. By the time their crimes were discovered\, hundreds were feared dead. \nAnonymous notes brought the crimes to light in 1929. As a skillful prosecutor hungry for justice ran the investigation\, newsmen from around the world—including the New York Times—poured in to cover the dramatic events as they unfolded. \nThe Angel Makers captures in expertly researched detail the entirety of this harrowing story\, from the early murders to the final hanging—the story of one of the most sensational and astonishing murder rings in all of modern history. \nAbout the Author \nPatti McCracken is a long-time journalist and twice a Knight International Press Fellow. For two decades\, she was a journalism trainer\, free press advocate and newsroom consultant in Eastern and Central Europe\, the Balkans\, the Caucasus\, and later North Africa and Southeast Asia. She was based in an Austrian village on the Slovak border. \n\n\n\n\nOver 20+ years\, her articles appeared in Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Wall Street Journal\, Guardian\, Smithsonian magazine\, and many more outlets. She is a member of PEN America. \nThe Angel Makers is her first book. \nShe resides on Martha’s Vineyard.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-london-love-story/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive: Ann Napolitano Brings Her Oprah-blessed Book to CLS
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday July 19th\, in collaboration with Buxton Books\, we will be welcoming the acclaimed author Ann Napolitano\, to discuss her latest book\, Hello Beautiful. The March release—an aching tribute to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women—has garnered wide acclaim since it first dropped\, landing on the map of popular literary history by becoming the 100th selection for Oprah’s Book Club. \nTicket prices are as follows. But first\, a general note: At the author’s request\, masks will be required at this event. We will have plenty on hand for your convenience. \nSingle Ticket Pricing (includes one (1) book): $35 Members\, $40 Public \nTwo Tickets (includes one (1) book): $45 \nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912 during box office hours. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to reserve one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books online here. Buxton also offers special rates for orders of 10 or more books—perfect for Book Clubs (and readers looking to get a jump on holiday shopping!).  \nAbout the Book \nWilliam Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy\, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him\, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college\, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family\, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie\, the family’s dreamer\, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos\, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. \nBut then darkness from William’s past surfaces\, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future\, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most? \nAn exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic\, Little Women\, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are\, but because of it.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/ann-napolitano-brings-her-oprah-blessed-book-to-cls/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive: A Celebration of First Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS and Buxton Books on Thursday\, June 29\, for a publication week author talk with Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray on their new book\, The First Ladies!  \nAfter the success of their first title together\, The Personal Librarian\, we could not be more excited for this new release. \nThe evening will begin at 6:00 pm as the duo discusses the writing of the book\, the often unrecognized contributions of women throughout history\, and the partnership between Eleanor Roosevelt and one of the most notable historical figures to come out of South Carolina – namely Mary McLeod Bethune. After the event\, Marie and Victoria will hang around to answer your questions and sign and personalize books! \nTickets are available for 1 Person\, 1 Book or as a 2 People\, 1 Book package. Both ticket options include a signed hardcover copy of The First Ladies.  \nFind out more and purchase tickets here! \nAbout The First Ladies: \nA novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world\, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. \nThe daughter of formerly enslaved parents\, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator\, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity\, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education\, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets\, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through personal and professional strife. \nWhen Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president\, the two women begin to collaborate more closely\, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR\, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness\, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary\, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality. \nThis is the story of two different\, yet equally formidable\, passionate\, and committed women\, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. \nAbout Marie Benedict: \nMarie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms\, who found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. Her mission is to excavate from the past the most important\, complex and fascinating women of history and bring them into the light of present-day where we can finally perceive the breadth of their contributions as well as the insights they bring to modern day issues. She embarked on a new\, thematically connected series of historical novels with The Other Einstein\, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein’s first wife\, a physicist herself\, and the role she might have played in his theories. The next novel in this series is the USA Today bestselling Carnegie’s Maid — which released in January of 2018 — and the book that followed is the New York Times bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick The Only Woman in the Room\, the story of the brilliant inventor Hedy Lamarr\, which published in January of 2019. In January of 2020\, Lady Clementine\, the story of the incredible Clementine Churchill\, was released\, and became an international bestseller. Her next novel\, the Instant NYTimes and USAToday bestselling The Mystery of Mrs. Christie\, was published on December 29\, 2020\, and her first co-written book with the talented Victoria Christopher Murray\, the instant NYTimes bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Personal Liberian\, was released on June 29\, 2021. Her latest novel\, Her Hidden Genius\, about the brilliant British scientist Rosalind Franklin who discovered the structure of DNA but whose research was used without her permission by Crick and Watson to win the Nobel Prize. And\, in January of 2023\, she will release The Mitford Affair\, which explores the role that history’s most notorious sisters — the beautiful\, brilliant\, eccentric Mitfords — played in the rise of World War II\, both for and against the Nazis. Writing as Heather Terrell\, Marie also published the historical novels The Chrysalis\, The Map Thief\, and Brigid of Kildare. Marie’s novels have been translated into twenty-nine languages. \nAbout Victoria Christopher Murray: \nA native of Queens\, Victoria earned a B.A. in Communication Disorders from Hampton University and an MBA from New York University.  Victoria spent ten years in Corporate America before launching her entrepreneurial venture\, a Financial Services Agency for Aegon\, USA where she managed the number one division for nine consecutive years. \nDubbed a Christian Fiction writer because no one else was writing about religious topics\, Victoria trailblazed the literary scene penning more than 30 novels\, co-writing with other authors\, and ghostwriting for top talent across the country. \nVictoria lives in Washington\, D.C. She is a jogger\, doting grandmother\, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, Inc. \nThis is a ticketed event. To purchase your tickets\, please click here!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-celebration-of-first-ladies/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Forbes Books CEO Adam Witty on Entrepreneurship and Building Authority
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on entrepreneurship and building authority with Adam Witty\, CEO of Forbes Books and co-author of The Authority Advantage. Witty is a local business entrepreneur who adopted our beloved Charleston as his home nearly 20 years ago and has since been deeply committed to growing and celebrating all that the community has to offer. As an expert on building business through personal brand authority\, Witty and his team have helped over 2\,000 global business leaders elevate their thought leadership through publishing and media services. \nThe event takes place on May 24th from 6:00 – 7:00 pm with doors opening at 5:30pm. Each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of The Authority Advantage with their ticket\, giving you access to his anticipated book just days after its launch. \nIn addition to the main event\, we are offering a more intimate option for connecting with Adam Witty. A VIP ticket option is available that includes a reception before the event — including a glass of wine and a book bundle including two of Adam’s books\, The Authority Advantage and Authority Marketing. The VIP cocktail hour will run from 5:30 – 6:00pm. Space is limited for the VIP tickets so get them quickly! \nPrice $30 (book included) \nAbout Adam Witty: \nAdam Witty is the Founder and CEO of Forbes Books\, partner and exclusive book publishing brand of Forbes Media. What began in the spare bedroom of his home is now one of the most respected independent business book publishers in the world with 2\,000+ authors in 44 U.S. states and 14 countries. Adam was named to the prestigious Inc. 30 Under 30 list of America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs in 2011. Advantage has been named to the Inc. 500/5000 list for six of the past eight years. He is the author of eight books and has appeared in the USA Today\, Investor’s Business Daily\, Wall Street Journal\, and on ABC and FOX. \nAbout Forbesq as xx Books:\nIn 2016\, Forbes partnered with Advantage Media to launch Forbes Books. Today\, Forbes Books is positioned as the company’s flagship imprint\, reserved exclusively for leaders who truly are “The Best in Business.” \nAt Forbes Books\, we believe branding is not a luxury\, it’s a necessity. We help business leaders elevate their name recognition and display their industry knowledge through a variety of publishing packages and media services. Our Authority Media Services are purpose-built around four key outcomes necessary to achieve Authority Status: discovery\, reputation\, engagement\, and loyalty. Our media strategists help you build a results-driven program that leverages the right mix of our PR\, content\, podcasting\, and digital audience engagement and website creation services. \nAbout The Authority Advantage: \n“I was honored to write the foreword for Adam and Rusty’s previous book\, Authority Marketing. They’ve done it again with The Authority Advantage. This book is required reading for any leader who wants to make a lasting mark in his or her field.”\n—Steve Forbes\, Editor-In-Chief\, Forbes \nThe Authority Advantage challenges assumptions from leaders about personal branding and thought leadership\, showing them how to build authentic visibility focused on impact. This book is key to identifying and overcoming the roadblocks to building trust in an increasingly skeptical environment. Within these pages\, you’ll discover how to grow your authority-status and how it can give you a competitive advantage and help you stand out from the crowd. \nAbout Buxton Books:\nOpened in 2016\, Buxton Books is an independent\, New York Times and ABA reporting bookstore located on King Street\, the main thoroughfare in historic\, downtown Charleston\, South Carolina. Buxton Books is an events motivated bookstore\, with a track record of successful\, book included events. We specialize in dynamic\, creative events ranging from bespoke walking tours to culinary events. With a knowledgeable staff\, highly curated book selection\, and robust event schedule\, we value and uphold the traditions of our neighborhood bookstore while also welcoming the visiting reading community. Buxton Books specializes in creative collaborations throughout our community with venues\, non-profits\, and many other organizations.\n\na While we remain an independent bookstore\, we have highly collaborative partnerships with various institutions around Charleston and can host anything from 50 people in the bookstore to close to 2\,000 at The Gaillard Center. Charleston – and those that visit the city – is a community of readers and writers that are fully ready to embrace our goal of making Charleston a staple city on the literary circuit.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-forbes-books-ceo-adam-witty-on-entrepreneurship-and-building-authority/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen White Channels the Spirit of New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:Join Buxton Books and CLS for a special evening with Karen White\, an author with an uncanny sense of place. She conveys the spirit of a setting\, and its inhabitants\, through vivid detail and nuance. In her latest book\, The House on Prytania\, she takes things one step further\, conjuring literal spirits to deepen her characters’ (and our) connection to their location—in this case\, a recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. It’s a tale full of twists and turns\, and we’re thrilled to host this launch event in partnership with Buxton Books. \nTickets are $47.50 each\, and include one (1) book. To purchase\, please click here. \nAbout the Book\nA woman is haunted by ghosts of her past—both literally and figuratively—in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. \nNola Trenholm may not be psychic herself\, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present\, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something\, or someone\, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. \nBut with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan\, Beau Ryan’s long-lost sister\, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting—yet firmly unavailable—Beau\, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny’s kidnapping\, asks Nola for a favor that threatens to derail her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backward. He asks her to welcome Michael Hebert back into her life\, even though Michael is the reason for Nola’s bruised heart. Beau is convinced that Michael’s powerful family was behind Sunny’s disappearance and that Michael is the key to getting information the police won’t be able to ignore—if Nola is willing to risk everything for which she’s worked so hard. \nTorn between helping Beau and protecting herself\, Nola doesn’t realize until it’s almost too late why the ghosts are haunting her house—a startling revelation that will throw her and Beau together to fight a common enemy. Assuming Nola can get Beau to listen to what the spirits are trying to tell him\, because ignoring them could prove to be a fatal mistake… \nAbout the Author\nKaren White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, A Long Time Gone\, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean\, and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and a spoiled Havanese dog near Atlanta\, Georgia.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/karen-white-channels-the-spirit-of-new-orleans/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Lowcountry Voices
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS\, Evening Post Books\, and Buxton Books for Lowcountry Voices\, a special celebration of Charleston’s unique literary community. This cocktail event is scheduled from 5:00PM to 7:00PM on May 10th\, during which attendees will have the opportunity to meet and chat with local authors\, booksellers\, and publishers; peruse our Main Reading Room and stacks; and enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres. \nThe event will also be the exclusive pre-debut of author Kristen Ness’s novel At Loggerheads. Buxton Books will sell signed copies before At Loggerheads launches to the public\, so guests can grab their own before it hits bookstore shelves. \nTickets are available for $75 from the Post and Courier’s ticketing website. For more information on this and future events\, click here. \nAll authors attending Lowcountry Voices will be available for discussion\, book sales\, and book signings. The list of authors includes: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathryn Smith- Baptists & Bootleggers\, Gertie\nVirginia Beach- Rice & Ducks\, A Wholly Admirable Thing\, American Landmark\nLindy Carter- The Rice Birds\nAdam Parker- Us: A Journalist’s Look at the Culture\, Conflict and Creativity of the South\nAnd many more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Evening Post Books \nEvening Post Books is the award-winning book publishing division of Evening Post Publishing\, proud owners of The Post and Courier. Based in Charleston\, South Carolina\, it specializes in books written by authors hailing from and writing about the South\, including high-quality fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and other specialty publications. \nSponsors include the Charleston Library Society\, Buxton Books\, and the Post & Courier.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lowcountry-voices-cocktails-with-our-friends-at-evening-post-books/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Patti Callahan Henry
DESCRIPTION:Join Buxton Books and the Charleston Library Society (located 164 King Street) on Tuesday\, May 2 as we celebrate the publication of Patti Callahan Henry’s new title – THE SECRET BOOK OF FLORA LEA (Simon & Schuster\, on sale May 2) – WITH the ladies of Friends & Fiction! Patti’s pals and co-hosts on the popular web show and podcast Friends & Fiction — the New York Times–bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews\, Kristin Harmel\, and Kristy Woodson Harvey—will all be signing and personalizing their own books during the event\, as well. Feel free to stay for the duration of the morning to mingle or just stop in to have your books signed! \nChoose between a General Admission ticket and A Book is Your Ticket option. The General Admission ticket covers entrance into the event and a free cup of coffee! A Book is Your Ticket covers entrance into the event\, free coffee\, and includes a hardcover copy of The Secret Book of Flora Lea (valued at $28.99 before tax). We will also have backlist titles from all four authors available for purchase if you need to stock up on signed copies for your own library or as gifts! \nIt’s always a good time when this group of authors – and friends – get together\, especially when it’s for such a celebratory occasion! We hope to see you there for books\, coffee\, and literary fun! \nTo purchase tickets\, click here.  \nNOTE: Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you choose the “A Book is Your Ticket” option\, your signed and personalized hardcover copy of The Secret Book of Flora Lea will be shipped to you (or be available for pick up at Buxton Books) the day following the event. \nAbout The Secret Book of Flora Lea\n“Not very long ago and not very far away\, there once was and still is an invisible place right here with us. And if you are born knowing\, you will find your way through the woodlands to the shimmering doors that lead to the land made just and exactly for you.” —HAZEL MERSEY LINDEN\, 1939. \nFourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from their London home to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son\, Harry\, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames\, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister\, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone— a fairy tale about a magical land\, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own. \nBut the unthinkable happens when young Flora suddenly vanishes while playing near the banks of the river. Shattered\, Hazel blames herself for her sister’s disappearance\, and she carries that guilt into adulthood as a private burden she feels she deserves. \nTwenty years later\, Hazel is in London\, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare bookstore to a career at Sotheby’s. With a charming boyfriend and her elegantly dilapidated Bloomsbury flat\, Hazel’s future seems determined. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing an illustrated book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Hazel never told a soul about the imaginary world she created just for Flora. Could this book hold the secrets to Flora’s disappearance? Could it be a sign that her beloved sister is still alive after all these years? \nAs Hazel embarks on a feverish quest\, revisiting long-dormant relationships and bravely opening wounds from her past\, her career and future hang in the balance. An astonishing twist ultimately reveals the truth in this transporting and refreshingly original novel about the bond between sisters\, the complications of conflicted love\, and the enduring magic of storytelling. \nAbout Patti Callahan Henry\nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times\, Globe and Mail\, and USA Today bestselling author of sixteen novels\, including her newest\, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels\, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. \nShe is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies\, articles\, and short story collections\, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale\, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner\, Cynthia Erivo. \nAdditional Events\nOn Monday\, May 1st\, The Charleston Place & Buxton Books Literary Series will kick off the celebration with an exclusive pre-publication broadcast of Friends & Fiction LIVE at the Riviera Theater. \nDuring the evening\, the “Fab Four” will also speak about their other books (and all sorts of other topics!)\, answer live questions from the audience\, sign and personalize books\, mingle\, and take photographs with attendees. As anyone who has tuned into their live web show and podcast can attest\, spending time with this group of women feels like being at a party with friends. A good time and lots of laughs are guaranteed. \nAdditionally\, a VIP ticket add-on option is available for those who want to attend a cocktail reception before the event (plus other perks outlined in the ticket description!). The VIP cocktail hour will run from 5:30 – 6:30 pm on the gorgeous terrace at the Riviera Theater. Space is limited\, so act quickly. \nTickets for the May 1 events are available here. \nCall Buxton Books at 843-723-1670 for additional information or questions about booking.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/6661/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lite Lunch: Zibby Owens & Friends Author Panel
DESCRIPTION:Buxton Books and CLS are excited to welcome back media powerhouse Zibby Owens for a Lite Lunch—and this time she’s bringing friends! \nJoin us on Friday\, April 28\, at Noon for a special author panel\, featuring a stellar lineup that includes Zibby\, Megan Tady (Super Bloom)\, Joanna Rakoff (My Salinger Year)\, and Amanda Eyre Ward (The Jetsetters). \nTickets are $48.50 each. Ticket price includes entry into The Charleston Library Society for an author talk with Amanda Eyre Ward\, Joanna Rakoff\, Megan Tady\, and Zibby Owens; a signed copy of Megan Tady’s new book\, Super Bloom; and a boxed lunch! \nTo purchase tickets\, please click here. \nAbout the Authors \nMegan Tady is a writer and editor running the company Word-Lift. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine\, and she was a finalist for the 2021 Penguin Random House Student Fiction Award. Super Bloom\, her sparkling and heartwarming debut novel\, will be published on May 2nd by Zibby Books. \nAmanda Eyre Ward is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters (a Reese’s Book Club pick!) and The Lifeguards. Her novels have been featured in People Magazine\, The New York Times\, and more. Amanda’s work has been optioned for film and television and translated into fifteen languages.  \nJoanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age\, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize. Rakoff’s books have been translated into twenty languages\, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Vogue\, Elle\, Porter\, and elsewhere\, and her new memoir\, The Fifth Passenger\, is forthcoming from Little\, Brown in 2024. \nZibby Owens is an author\, award-winning podcaster\, entrepreneur\, and CEO. Owens founded Zibby Media\, a privately-held media company\, in 2018\, with her award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. The company has since grown to include the publishing house Zibby Books\, the magazine Zibby Mag\, the podcast network Zibby Audio\, the education platform Zibby Classes\, and community events like retreats\, a book club\, and a writing community. She was celebrated as “New York’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by New York Magazine. Owens is a regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and other broadcast outlets. She is the author of the memoir Bookends: A Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Literature\, the children’s book\, Princess Charming\, and the editor of two anthologies. Owens is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. She lives in New York with her husband\, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions\, and her four children. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lite-lunch-zibby-owens-friends-author-panel/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring Symposium: The Future of Publishing with John Ingram
DESCRIPTION:CLS\, in partnership with Buxton Books\, is thrilled to announce an exclusive two-day Publishing Symposium featuring John Ingram. This lifelong learning program will dive deep into the past\, present\, and future of book publishing\, and offer a rare opportunity to engage with and learn from an industry icon whose family legacy is rivaled only by his own impressive vision for the future. \nIngram understands the past\, present\, and future of publishing as few people can. A media pioneer who not only anticipated the advent of on-demand printing\, but also created a set of innovative software and digital infrastructure solutions to support independent authors\, audiences\, and booksellers… (read more below) \nThere are two ticket options for this program: \nEVENING PROGRAM ONLY (Thursday\, March 2)  $30 // Admission to the discussion panel with John Ingram and Julian Buxton at 6pm. \nTWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM (Thursday\, March 2 & Friday\, March 3) – $130 // Admission to the discussion panel on Thursday March 2. \nPlus\, Admission to the extended session on Friday\, March 3\, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm\, which will include group discussion\, analysis of the lecture topic\, and insights from additional publishing industry insiders — plus a boxed lunch. \nAbout the Event: \nThe Symposium begins Thursday evening with an up-close-and-personal discussion led by Julian Buxton. The co-founder of Buxton Books is not only a fellow publishing insider; he’s also a longtime friend of Ingram’s (they met as undergrads at Princeton)\, with a unique  perspective on the mechanics and motivations driving the industry today. (There’s also that Charleston connection\, courtesy of Ingram’s mother\, Martha Rivers Ingram\, who grew up here.) With such strong ties\, theirs is sure to be a candid and insightful exploration of Ingram’s career choices\, how those decisions fit into the shifting balance of new and old media\, and the lessons learned along the way. \nOn Friday\, we’ll tighten the circle a bit to continue the conversation with a more intimate group of attendees. Over the course of the morning\, we’ll examine the current state of publishing\, the supporting forces that comprise the publishing ecosystem today\, and the factors that will shape the next wave of innovation. \nWe’ll bust myths\, expose hidden truths\, and share on the ground insights from all corners of the publishing world—from editorial perspectives on the power of reviews and bestseller-list placements\, to the way that same data affects author tours and event destinations\, to the importance of independent bookstores and the experiential and distribution data they provide. \nAbout John Ingram: \nIngram understands the past\, present\, and future of publishing as few people can. A media pioneer who not only anticipated the advent of on-demand printing\, but also created a set of innovative software and digital infrastructure solutions to support independent authors\, audiences\, and booksellers\, Ingram built his family’s wholesale book distribution company into a revolutionary force that would ultimately transform the book publishing landscape. Labeled an “intrapreneur” for his ability to forge a unique identity through his family’s established empire—which\, in its impressive diversification\, offered many professional avenues beyond publishing—Ingram found his calling from within even as he brazenly blazed his own trail.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/spring-symposium-the-future-of-publishing-with-john-ingram/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Revealing the True Legal System of Jim Crow // Buxton Books + CLS present Margaret Burnham
DESCRIPTION:Please come join Buxton Books and CLS as we invite in Margaret Burnham\, civil rights lawyer\, to discuss with us her new book By Hands Now Known. \nTickets are $10 for CLS members and $15 for guests. Free for students by calling the number listed below and showing a valid ID at check in.\nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912.\nOrder “By Hands Now Known” from Buxton Books in advance by clicking HERE.\n \nBonus! Buxton Books is offering a $5 gift to all who attend the program to go towards the purchase of Burnham’s book! \nAbout Margaret A. Burnham:\nMargaret Burnham is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University\, and has been a staffer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\, a civil rights lawyer\, a defense attorney\, and a judge. A professor of law\, she was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. She lives in Boston\, Massachusetts. \nAbout the Book:\nBy Hands Now Known challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition\, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens\, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy\, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South\, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period\, through to today. \nDrawing on an extensive database\, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1\,000 cases of racial violence\, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow\, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/margaret-burnham/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:An understanding about "Curtis LeMay\, the Firebombing of Tokyo\, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us\, in partnership with Buxton Books\, in welcoming our very own local 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist and author\, James Scott\, as he shares with us the first ever published in English Air Force archives and oral histories through the pages of Black Snow: Curtis LeMay\, the Firebombing of Tokyo\, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb. \nTickets are $10 for CLS members and $15 for guests. Free for students by calling the number listed below and showing a valid ID at check in.\nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912. \nDrawing on first-person interviews with American pilots\, bombardiers and Japanese survivors\, after the most destructive air attack in history\, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account of the night when nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo on March 9-10\, 1945. \nBlack Snow is the story of the devastating operation – in which killed more than 100\,000 men\, women\, and children – that was orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay\, who famously remarked: “If we lose the war\, we’ll be tried as war criminals.” James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night\, and describes the development of the B-29\, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields\, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight “precision” bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly\, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America\, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. \nAbout James M. Scott:\nA former Nieman Fellow at Harvard\, James M. Scott is the author of Rampage\, which was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the editors at Amazon\, Kirkus\, and Military Times and was chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History by the New York Historical Society. His other works include Target Tokyo\, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist\, The War Below\, and The Attack on the Liberty\, which won the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award. Scott lives with his wife and two children in Mt. Pleasant\, SC. \nBuxton Book is offering $5 off Black Snow book sales at the event.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/black-snow/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Xavier Salomon
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is delighted to welcome Xavier Salomon for what is sure to be a riveting discussion about his experience as the Frick Collection’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. For this program\, Salomon will focus on artist Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757)\, who was the most celebrated woman artist in eighteenth-century Europe. She worked in the inherently fragile medium of pastel and was always concerned for the well-being of her creations. The recent discovery of a sacred image placed by Rosalba in one of her pastels has led to discovery of a number of similar prints. We will follow in Rosalba’s footsteps\, from her house in Venice to the European courts for which her pastels were destined. Tickets for this in-person event are $10 for CLS members and $15 for guests\, and can be purchased with the link below or by calling 843-723-9912. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – To purchase tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSalomon is the Frick’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. A noted scholar of Paolo Veronese\, he curated the monographic exhibition on the artist at the National Gallery\, London (2014). Previously\, Salomon was Curator in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and\, before that\, the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery\, where he curated Van Dyck in Sicily\, 1624–25: Painting and the Plague (2012) and collaborated with Nicholas Cullinan on Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters (2011). As an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Frick (2004–6)\, he curated Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue\, Love\, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice (2006). Salomon’s other exhibitions for the Frick include Cagnacci’s Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum (2016–17)\, Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored (2017–18)\, Murillo: The Self-Portraits (2017–18)\, Canova’s George Washington (2018)\, Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto (2019)\, and (with Aimee Ng and Alexander Noelle) Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence (2019–20). Salomon received his Ph.D. on the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has published in Apollo\, The Burlington Magazine\, Master Drawings\, The Medal\, The Art Newspaper\, Journal of the History of Collections\, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. Salomon also wrote (with Maira Kalman) the latest volume in the Frick Diptych series\, Rembrandt’s Polish Rider (2019). He is a trustee and a member of the Projects Committee of Save Venice. In 2018\, Italy named Salomon Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-xavier-salomon/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Brad Taylor
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society and Buxton Books proudly welcome a best-selling mega author\, and Charleston local\, to come speak in the beautiful Main Reading Room at 164 King Street. Taylor will be discussing his most recent release in the Pike Logan series\, End of Days. \nTickets for this event are $15 (which includes a $5 off coupon) or $35 for admittance and signed book-included package. \nTo purchase tickets for this event\, click here or call 843-723-9912.  \nTo purchase a signed copy of End of Days\, click here! \nAbout the Book: \nPike Logan must stop a deranged killer hell-bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive\, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer\, Brad Taylor. \nWhen a paragliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence\, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. But they’ll need help to find out who was behind the attack and what they’re planning next. Luckily\, Aaron and Shoshana know exactly who to call. \nTaskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston\, South Carolina during COVID-19\, so when Aaron and Shoshana show up on their doorstep with Israeli passports and a new mission\, they jump at the chance to assist their friends. Some suspect that Keta’ib Hezbollah\, an Iranian-funded militia group operating in Iraq\, might be responsible for the “accidental” deaths of key members of the American and Israeli governments. But something isn’t adding up\, and Pike\, Jennifer\, and the two Mossad operators are determined to find the real assassins before more people are cut down. \nAs they stumble upon the trail of a serial killer loose on the streets of Rome connected to the deaths and follow evidence leading to the exalted Knights of Malta\, they must wade deep into the contentious religious and political fractures of Israel and the greater Middle East. It’s a dangerous world where fanatics and legitimate organizations exist side by side\, and it’s up to the Taskforce to determine who is really pulling the strings. What they find could have disastrous consequences not only for them\, but for the entire world… \nAbout Brad: \nBrad Taylor was born on Okinawa\, Japan\, but grew up on 40-acres in rural Texas. Graduating from the University of Texas\, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Brad served for more than 21 years\, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel. During that time he held numerous Infantry and Special Forces positions\, including eight years in 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta where he commanded multiple troops and a squadron. He has conducted operations in support of US national interests in Iraq\, Afghanistan\, and other classified locations. \nHis final assignment was as the Assistant Professor of Military Science at The Citadel in Charleston\, SC. He holds a Master’s of Science in Defense Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School\, with a concentration in Irregular Warfare. In 2011\, Brad published his debut novel\, One Rough Man\, which was an immediate success and launched the Pike Logan series. Now with more than 14 installments and nearly 3 million copies sold\, the series has consistently hit the New York Times bestseller list. When not writing\, he serves as a security consultant on asymmetric threats for various agencies. He lives in Charleston\, SC with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-brad-taylor/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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