Used book sale event - April 19-20, 2024 - $2,300 raised

Friday, April 19

9:00 - 10:30am

As Clemson University’s Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Rhondda R. Thomas researches and teaches early African American literature in the Department of English. She is also the faculty director of Call My Name, a public humanities project that researches, documents, and shares Black Clemson history for which she has been awarded grants from the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and SC Humanities. Thomas has published the award-winning Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community. She is the co-director of the Mellon Foundation-funded Black Heritage Trail that will be built on the Clemson University campus and in the cities of Seneca and Clemson.

Friday, April 19

10:45am - 12:15pm

Petra Laurent is a native of Charlotte, NC and the daughter of Greek immigrants. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, she resides in Greenville, SC with her husband and children. Angel is her first novel in the Feminesse Series, which aims to empower strong and wholesome young women. 

Friday, April 19

12:30 - 1:45pm

Author of Sharp Leadership

http://www.carlsharpersonjr.com/

Friday, April 19

2:00 - 3:45pm

Deb Richardson-Moore is a former Greenville News reporter who had a second career as pastor of Triune Mercy Center, a church that includes homeless parishioners. Now a full-time author, she writes murder mysteries that fall somewhere between cozies and gritty psychological thrillers.   Her six titles include the recently released Through Any Window, set in a gentrifying neighborhood. Previous works are the stand-alone Murder, Forgotten, the three-volume Branigan Powers series, and The Weight of Mercy, a memoir about her early years as a pastor

https://www.debrichardsonmoore.com

Friday, April 19

4:00 - 5:45pm

http://www.cbmysteries.com/

Saturday, April 20

10am - 12pm

RON RASH is the author of twenty books of poetry and fiction, including the PEN/Faulkner finalist and the New York Times bestselling novel Serena. His books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.

https://www.ronrashwriter.com/home

Featured Table

Due to a prior commitment with The University of South Carolina, Dinah will not be in person but her work will be showcased.

https://www.dinahjohnsonbooks.com