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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Water is Wide
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 25\, 2023 – 6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \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.
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LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Kristen Ness
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 26\, 2023 – 5:30-6:30 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 Kristen Ness\, author of the debut novel At Loggerheads\, on Friday\, May 26\, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this special author event will be held at the Conroy Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \n“Kristen Ness’s At Loggerheads is a thrilling debut novel intertwined with mystery\, nature\, romance\, and betrayal. Set on a lush barrier island\, Ness offers the reader a rich sense of place in a whodunit that reflects on the meaning of home.”—New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe \nAbout At Loggerheads\nBrooke Edens\, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles\, has longed for a sense of home and belonging ever since her return to Anders Isle. But something is amiss on the Lowcountry island where she grew up. For years\, loggerheads have been disappearing from the beach and development has been encroaching on the island’s natural beauty and maritime forest. \nWhen a dead body is found on the same day as a mutilated loggerhead\, Brooke uses clues from her knowledge of sea turtles to help Detective Drew Young\, her closest friend and potential love interest\, investigate the many big crimes beginning to surface on their small island. Brooke’s life is further complicated by her ex-fiancé\, Charlotte-based attorney Caldwell Madden\, who appears on the island for a work trip and to support the presidential campaign of his father\, a US Senator. \nMore than just a whodunit\, this murder mystery includes romance\, nature\, politics\, real estate\, and science. With a captivating sense of place\, the story unfolds as a love letter to the barrier islands and coastal towns of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, where the often-opposing forces of mother nature and human nature influence what people will do for money\, for power\, and for love. Amid the many revelations\, betrayals\, and twists that threaten to pull Brooke and Drew apart\, will they be able to untangle the web of crimes\, catch the murderer and\, ultimately\, find a way back to each other? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKristen Ness grew up mostly in South Carolina\, spending countless days with nature and falling in love with the ocean and its creatures on Isle of Palms\, where she walks the beach at sunrise each summer in search of sea turtle nests as a volunteer for the Island Turtle Team. \nWhile practicing immigration law for the past twenty years\, Kristen has been moonlighting in pursuit of her lifelong passion for writing and her obsession with marine biology. Writing\, real estate\, politics\, and even publishing run in her blood as the daughter of an English teacher and a land developer\, and the great-granddaughter of the 14th Governor of North Dakota whose family owned and published The Bismarck Tribune. She has a BA in English from Duke University\, a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law\, and serves as an appointed member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Coral Advisory Panel. \nKristen lives in Charleston\, SC\, with her husband\, their two children\, two guinea pigs\, and a cat. At Loggerheads is her first novel. https://kristenness.com \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.
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