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SUMMARY:An Evening with NYT Bestselling Novelist Karen White\, Author of That Last Carolina Summer
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Storybook Shoppe bookstore are honored to host an evening with New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Karen White\, author of newly published That Last Carolina Summer. Join us on Wednesday\, July 23\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 711 Bladen Street (BCBCC\, ground floor). This event will also feature a special welcome by Conroy Center honorary chair and bestselling author Cassandra King. \nAdvance registration required; $40 fee includes an autographed copy of That Last Carolina Summer\, the author’s presentation\, and refreshments. This is a book-with-ticket event; no refunds will be possible. Additional copies of Karen White’s books will also be available for sale and signing through the Storybook Shoppe. \nRegister at: https://karenwhite-beaufort.eventbrite.com \nABOUT THE BOOK\nBeloved bestselling author Karen White returns with a captivating Southern drama about sisterhood\, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past. \nAs a child\, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams\, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister\, Addie\, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast\, as far from her family as possible. Now\, years later\, she is summoned back to South Carolina\, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. \nAs Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts\, she is drawn to Celeste\, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection brings comfort to Phoebe\, while Celeste’s adult grandson Liam resurrects complicated emotions tied to Phoebe’s past. \nBut the longer Phoebe spends in her childhood home\, the more her recurring nightmares intensify—bringing her closer to the shocking truth that will irrevocably change everything. Unfolding against the lush backdrop of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, That Last Carolina Summer is an unforgettable story about the unbreakable bonds of family and the gift of second chances. \n“This multi-generational story is layered with juicy family secrets while exploring sisterhood\, the power of memory\, and the pull of home. The perfect summer read.”—Jamie Brenner\, bestselling author of A Novel Summer \n“Karen White brings all her magnificent storytelling gifts to this stunner of a novel. As much as you want to race along and discover all the secrets\, you find yourself stopping to savor the truths she weaves into every twist and turn. If That Last Carolina Summer has a flaw\, it is this: you won’t ever want to wake up from its spell.”—Beatriz Williams\, bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKaren White is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author with millions of copies of her books in print in fifteen different languages. When not writing\, Karen spends her time reading and bird-watching. She and her husband have two grown children and a spoiled Havanese dog\, Sophie\, and she divides her time between Atlanta\, Georgia\, and the northwest Florida coast.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-nyt-bestselling-novelist-karen-white-author-of-that-last-carolina-summer/
LOCATION:Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - An Evening with Bestselling Author Kiese Laymon - City Summer\, Country Summer
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED – Due to a travel delay beyond his control\, author Kiese Laymon is unable to join us as planned this Thursday evening at Robert Smalls Leadership Academy. His author visit—hosted by the Storybook Shoppe in collaboration with DAYLO and the Conroy Center—will be rescheduled. \n– – – – – \nMacArthur Genius Grant Honoree and Children’s Book Author Kiese Laymon Visits Beaufort on July 24 \nThe Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore will host award-winning author Kiese Laymon for an evening of stories on Thursday\, July 24\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.\, at Robert Smalls Leadership Academy (43 W. Alston Dr.\, Beaufort). This free program for families will include a writing opportunity inspired by our lowcountry summers as well as discussion of Laymon’s debut picture book City Summer\, Country Summer in conversation with local students E Achurch and Emily Alaia from DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization). Books will be available for sale and signing.  \nThis special event is a community collaboration between the Storybook Shoppe\, Robert Smalls Leadership Academy\, DAYLO\, and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.  \nABOUT THE BOOK\nCity Summer\, Country Summer is a lyrical and evocative picture book that captures the transformative power of friendship. The story of three Black boys as they embark on a lifechanging summer. The boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods—and the woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love. Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara\, New York\, Country\, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of Marco Polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass. With text brimming with love City Summer\, Country Summer illustrates the tenuous bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another. \n“A heartfelt\, elegantly wrought\, and triumphant tribute to Black boy kinship. On the sunny porches of their grandmothers’ neighboring houses and in the cool shadows of the surrounding woods\, hesitation becomes tenderness\, anxiety becomes laughter\, and difference becomes safeness.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n“Laymon’s text is lyrical and specific…Franklin’s digital illustrations…clearly centers each emotion the boys experience…deeply moving…reveling as it does in the tender bonds of Black boy friendship.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon is also the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the bestselling memoir Heavy: An American Memoir\, winner of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media\, and named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. He was also the recipient of the 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard and a MacArthur Genius grant. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Rice University. \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWERS\nE Achurch is founding president of the DAYLO chapter at The Complete Student and Emily Alaia is president of the Battery Creek High School chapter of DAYLO. Both are rising juniors.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/postponed-an-evening-with-bestselling-author-kiese-laymon-city-summer-country-summer/
LOCATION:Robert Smalls Leadership Academy
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SUMMARY:Lowcountry Children's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s annual Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair will be held on Saturday\, July 26\, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion (310 Okatie Hwy). A dozen local and visiting writers will be on hand with books for sales and signing\, along with art activities and readings throughout the day.  \nPresented in partnership between the Conroy Center\, the Port Royal Sound Foundation\, the Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore\, and DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, this free community event is made possible by the generous support of Oyster Cay Collection of Beaufort. \nAngela May\, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Islanders middle-grade novels\, will be reading at 11:00 a.m. National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman will host a special Read with a Ranger program at noon. Michael B. Moore will read from his debut children’s book\, Freedom on the Sea\, inspired by the life of Beaufort’s iconic historical figure (and Moore’s ancestor) Robert Smalls at 1:00 p.m.  \nDAYLO student volunteers will be hosting read-alouds and bookmark art projects throughout the day\, and local artist Hank Herring will also be teaching free art projects and Lowcountry Wind Symphony will be offering music projects as well. A food truck will be available midday. The Maritime Center will also be freely open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. \nOther participating authors and artists include Joy Corley\, author of Percy Goes Camping…Maybe; Margie Cowles Hamner\, Magic Ball of Light\, Mary T. Jacobs\, author of the Big Daddy Series; Martha Jaworowski\, author of Sports at First Sight; Carole Marsh\, author of the Real Kids\, Real Places series; Emma McClure\, author/artist of Beautiful Beaufort: A Coloring Book; Nancy Merrill\, author of Elf Dust; Ryan Q. Milling\, author of Bob’s Truck; Robin Prince Monroe\, author of The Glades; Susan Montanari\, author of My Dog’s a Chicken; Susan Diamond Riley author of the Delta & Jax Mysteries; Katherine Robinson\, author of The Crabs on Calhoun; and Beryl Title\, author of Adventures of Roxy the Unicorn. The Storybook Shoppe will have additional local books available for sale.  \nAbout the Featured Authors\nAngela May is the co-author of The Islanders\, a New York Times bestselling middle-grade novel series created with Mary Alice Monroe. The first book in the series\, The Islanders\, earned several honors\, including the South Carolina Children’s Book Award nominee and the Triple Crown Award. Angela is a lowcountry native who now lives in Mount Pleasant with her husband and their two children.  \nMichael Boulware Moore is the great-great grandson of Robert Smalls\, whose heroic journey from slavery to the U.S. Congress is the inspiration for Moore’s first children’s picture book\, Freedom on the Sea. He served as the founding president of the International African American Museum in Charleston\, and he is a frequent keynote speaker for universities\, conferences\, museums\, and other organizations across the country. He lives in Charleston with his family.  \nLearn more about the Pat Conroy Literary Center at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org. Learn more about the Port Royal Sound Foundation at www.portroyalsoundfoundation.org.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/lowcountry-childrens-book-fair-2/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
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