Temporarily Suspended, however ...
SIBA (Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association) has organized "Readers Meet Writers" for free online author presentations 3 PM (usually Tuesdays but some Thursdays). Both Litchfield Books (litchfieldbooks@att.net) and My Sister's Books (info@mysistersbooks.com) are participating, and you can check in with them to pre-register for these events by 3 PM the day before the event to get the link and access code.
Here's the remaining schedule for April:
April 16: The Coyotes of Carthage / Stephen Wright (email to reserve by 3 PM today!);
April 21: Blue Marlin / Lee Smith;
April 28: Feels Like Falling / Kristy Woodson Harvey.
Litchfield Books will also be arranging some special online talks which will be announced on their website (www.LitchfieldBooks.com).
While the Moveable Feast is suspended until further notice, phone and email messages will be quickly answered (843.235.9600 or linda@classatpawleys.com).
CLASS Publishing is offering a "crisis special" for wonderful recent books by local authors. CLASS will absorb the sales tax and shipping costs, so your payment will go directly to the authors. Here are the most current books you can order from the 843.235.9600 or linda@classatpawleys.com):
Beach House Card Tricks
R. Marc Davison
ISBN 978-1-950768-54-7, 126 pp., hardcover, $24.00
A beautifully bound collection of the best classic card tricks for anyone who wants to amaze their friends, kids, grands, nieces and nephews with mind-boggling impromptu card tricks. Davison is a self-described novice who has always been fascinated by a good card trick and especially enjoys watching the reaction of a baffled victim - his term for the participant. Until recently, he had only accumulated a few tricks that produced impressive effects while being generally self-working, relatively easy to master, and requiring no complicated setups or slights. Reviews of more than 2,500 tricks in antique and vintage texts led to the compilation of more than 100 classic tricks, including variants, considered to be among the best meeting these criteria. With the ever-increasing forms of entertainment available today, the exposure to playing cards is not as prevalent as it was in the past. But this collection of tricks that originated and were performed by amateurs and professionals years ago will continue to amaze folks today. A must-have for every stay-cation and vacation home and rental - and quarantine!
Pawleys Island: An Old Man's Love Story
Robert "Mac" McAlister
ISBN 978-1-950768-56-1, 100 pp., 52 B&W photographs/illustrations, hardcover, $14.95
This charming memoir of one man's personal experiences on the island spans 70 years from the 1940s through the present, replete with nostalgic black & white photos of a bygone era. A sailor and retired construction manager (responsible for the Pawley Pavilion, Pawleys Pier Village, and Belle Isle Villas), McAlister has previously written the sailing memoir, Cruising Through Life ($20), and four South Carolina non-fiction maritime history books, Wooden Ships on Winyah Bay, The Life and Times of Georgetown Sea Captain Abram Jones Slocum, The Lumber Boom of Coastal South Carolina, and Georgetown's North Island. The two-book set (Cruising through Life and An Old Man's Love Story) is only $30 during the "crisis."
Fred & Ted: A Day at the Beach
Lizzie Gallo and Carolyn Pais
ISBN 978-1-950768-57-8, 32 pp., 16 color illustrations, hardcover, $16.95
Two mishap-prone teddy bears, stars of A Day at the Circus, have a big adventure at the beach when they are rescued by their new friends, Sea Turtle, Dolphin and Pelican, and in turn help rescue them from plastic litter. A Day at the Circus (while their boy is off to school, thinking he'd left Fred and Ted neatly tucked in bed, the two adventuresome teddy bears enjoy a day full of travel, surprises, fun, and mess at the circus, meeting helpful strangers along the way) is also available for $16.95, or both adventures for $30 during the "crisis"!
Riverside Blues, A Gullah Tale
Tracy S. Bailey
ISBN 978-1-950768-53-0, 208 pp., softcover, $14.95
Mabeline - born "absent of all God's favor" but destined by the ancestors to "cross over" - travels from her Gullah roots in post-Jim Crow/pre-integration rural South Carolina on a journey of discovery through the 1950s and 60s American South. Tracy Bailey is the founder and CEO of Freedom Readers, a literacy nonprofit that seeks to instill the love of reading in the next generation. Following her Bachelor's degree in English Education from the College of Charleston, she completed a Master's degree in Secondary Education from Coastal Carolina University and a Doctorate in Language and Literacy from the University of South Carolina. Her short story, "Bridges," received a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction in 2017. Tracy began Riverside Blues in a fiction writing class while a Neiman Fellowship Affiliate at Harvard University.
Carolina Rambling: A Visual and Poetical Tour
Bud Hill and Billy Baldwin
ISBN 978-1-941069-72-1, 200 pp., 209 color and b&w illustrations, softcover, $29.95 $30.00 (BOGO special, buy one for yourself and send one to someone you love)
This is a book to savor, to meditate on, to cherish. As the third collaboration of Baldwin (co-author with Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin of the beloved memoir, Heaven is a Beautiful Place) and Hill (founding director of the Village Museum in McClellanville), Carolina Rambling shares a touching elegiac look at the Lowcountry's holy places - from abandoned homes, disintegrating barns, tiny churches and forlorn cemeteries to the shrinking livelihoods of farms, cotton and shrimp. Word and image pictures of small town, rural South will fill your heart with joy and longing. The complementarity of Bud's lush color photographs and Billy's accessible, quirky poems is a match made in heaven. Nostalgia, beauty, grace and wit and with faults included: presented here is a vanishing South. Don't rush through this book. Ramble.
Poetry from a Southern Heart
John Philip Mathis
ISBN 978-1-950768-60-8, 108 pp., softcover, $14.95
Inspired by the poem his father wrote on the day he died, then 9-year-old John Mathis found solace and creative expression throughout his life by writing poetry that captured his experiences and feelings. Seven decades of poems are organized into Special Occasions, Friendship, Relationships, Parenting, Humor, and Observations on Life.
And finally ... there are only a few of Tanya Ackerman's gorgeous coffee table photography books (Pawleys Island: Chasing the Light) left. But she is already taking pre-orders for the companion volume (Pawleys Island: Seasons of Light) which will be available early this fall, as well as orders for her collectible Chasing the Light Calendars (2020 is sold out; 2021 is due in from the printers very soon). For these, order directly from Tanya at chasingthelightstudio@gmail.com. 
In Murrells Inlet, SC, 29576
