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SUMMARY:An Evening with USA Today Bestselling Author Leonard Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 9\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Call the bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-812-9460\nLocation: Nevermore Books | 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort \n“A testament to the power of deductive reasoning…. Goldberg brings his characters vibrantly to life… a worthy successor to Conan Doyle’s original.”―Charleston Post and Courier \nNeverMore Books and the Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with USA Today bestselling mystery novelist Leonard Goldberg\, author of The Wayward Prince (Book 7 in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Series)\, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt. This free event will be held on Wednesday\, August 9\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Call the bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-812-9460 \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Wayward Prince\nDuring the height of the Great War\, playboy Prince Harry\, the third in line to the British throne\, vanishes in thin air while horseback riding in Hyde Park. When his absence continues on for days\, the royal family grows concerned and summons Scotland Yard\, who can only recover scant\, unrevealing clues. The concern deepens when MI5 decodes a recent message from German spies in London which speaks of a captured asset that will bring great embarrassment to the Crown. There is a strong belief within the Intelligence agency that plans are underway to transport the captive prince to Berlin without delay. Despite an intensive search\, no trace of the royal can be detected. \nWith Scotland Yard and MI5 baffled\, Joanna Holmes\, daughter of the famed British detective\, and the senior and younger Dr. Watsons are called in\, and they soon find themselves entangled in a web of abortion\, murder\, treason\, and spies\, all of which is seemingly being orchestrated by an arch-enemy of the long-dead Sherlock Holmes. In their race to rescue Prince Harry\, it becomes clear that the mastermind behind the maze of crimes has a singular motive in mind. He desires overdue revenge in the form of Joanna’s death. \n“An appealing installment for franchise fans and newcomers alike.” ―Kirkus Reviews \n“Goldberg amply demonstrates once again just how compelling a figure Joanna Holmes has become. Simply put\, this series is one of the best continuations of the Sherlock mythos that one could hope for.”―Mystery Scene \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLeonard Goldberg is the USA Today bestselling author of the Joanna Blalock medical thrillers. His novels have been translated into a dozen languages and were selections of the Book of the Month Club\, French and Czech book clubs\, and The Mystery Guild. They were featured as People’s “Page-Turner of the Week” and at the International Book Fair. After a long career affiliated with the UCLA Medical Center as a Clinical Professor of Medicine\, he now lives on an island off the coast of Charleston\, SC. \n  \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWER \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, a frequent guest book reviewer for the Charleston Post and Courier\, and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-usa-today-bestselling-author-leonard-goldberg/
LOCATION:NeverMore Books\, 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:August 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, August 10\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Ed Madden\, past Poet Laureate of Columbia and author of the newly published collection A Pooka in Arkansas. \nWhen: Thursday\, August 10\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org \nWe want to build our community of writers and an appreciation for the art and talent of new\, emerging\, and long-time writers. Thank you for supporting this partnership! \nEvent Facebook Page \nAbout our featured writer:\nEd Madden is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry\, most recently Ark\, about his father’s last months in hospice care\, and So they can sing\, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. \nHe is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina\, where he teaches Irish literature\, queer studies\, and creative writing. From 2015 through 2022\, Ed has served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica\, Brazil. \n“This book redeems the curse of where and what we are born into by conjuring spells. Bestial. Animistic. The poet strutting around like a mythic centaur\, or if you like\, a domestic ass. This book flies in the face of making the rough places plain and the crooked straight. You won’t have to have grown up queer in the deep rural South to be touched by the lyrical antics that go on here\, this alternative gospel spreading its haunches till every knee bow\, every tongue confess\, this chorus of Hallelujah inflected/infected by its own down and dirty twang.”—Timothy Liu \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/august-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Amy Paige Condon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 22\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Amy Paige Condon\, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs\, newly released in paperback. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, August 22\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place\n“This is not a simple life\, my friend\, and there are no simple answers.” The late editor of the late Miami News\, Bill Baggs\, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail―a frequent occurrence\, as Baggs\, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper\, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns\, such as protecting the environment\, desegregating public schools\, and peace in Vietnam. \nUnder his leadership\, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances\, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window\, police officers stationed outside his home\, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb\, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments\, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five\, his story nearly died with him\, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions\, like how to live in peace with one another? \nIn this first biography of this influential editor\, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt\, Georgia\, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II\, the civil rights movement\, the Cuban Missile Crisis\, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit\, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat\, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. \n“The marquee proclaiming the most celebrated journalists of the twentieth century probably wouldn’t include Bill Baggs. But ask everyone listed on the marquee who’s missing. By unanimous consent\, they’d say Bill Baggs\, the daring\, fearless\, ‘rapscallion’ editor of the Miami News. Why? Because as Amy Paige Condon so masterfully reveals\, Baggs led them on race\, Vietnam\, the environment\, historic preservation\, land conservation\, and the liberal conversation we’re still having today. This is a necessary resurrection of a departed journalist worth celebrating.”–Hank Klibanoff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press\, the Civil Rights Struggle\, and the Awakening of a Nation \n“When a book keeps you riveted into the wee hours of the morning\, and then brings tears to your eyes when it ends\, you can be pretty sure it’s a winner.”–Carol McCabe Booker\, editor of Alone Atop the Hill \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAmy Paige Condon is the founder of the Refinery Writing Studio and the associate editor of Beacon\, a quarterly news magazine published by the Savannah Morning News. She is the coauthor of Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook and The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-amy-paige-condon/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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