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Saturday, August 1, 2026: 25% off Literary Fiction & Historical Fiction
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9/2 Charlotte Arts & Lectures Presents: Rachel Harrison

We are thrilled to welcome Rachel Harrison to Cleary's Bookstore to celebrate the release of her new book Kiss Slay Replay. For this ticketed, author event, Rachel will be in conversation with Anna Dupre Landry, aka @Anna Rose Reads, and will feature an audience Q&A after their discussion. We hope you will join us for an evening to remember with one of our favorite horror authors!

With the purchase of a ticket, guests will receive a signed copy of Rachel Harrison's new book: Kiss Slay Replay. Additional pre-signed copies of Rachel's backlist titles will be available for sale at the event. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate the signing of personal copies brought from home; please refrain from bringing additional books to this event.

Tickets for the event are $30. Purchase tickets here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Harrison is the New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice, So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in her debut collection, Bad Dolls. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their cat/overlord.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty and Play Nice.

It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends’ finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.

Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.

 

9/23 Charlotte Arts & Lectures Presents:
Ariel Lawhon

We are thrilled to welcome Ariel Lawhon to Charlotte to celebrate the release of her new book The Pirate Queen. For this ticketed, author event, Ariel will be in conversation and will feature an audience Q&A after their discussion. We hope you will join us for an evening to remember with one of our favorite authors! 

With the purchase of a ticket, guests will receive a signed copy of Ariel Lawhon's new book The Pirate Queen. Additional pre-signed copies of Ariel's backlist titles will be available for sale at the event. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate the signing of personal copies brought from home; please refrain from bringing additional books to this event.

Tickets for the event are $35. Purchase tickets here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ariel Lawhon is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and have been Good Morning America and One Book One County selections. She lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and four sons. Ariel splits her time between the grocery store and the baseball field.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia.

Grace O’Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are not compatible with the expectations of her noble family. As the only daughter of a powerful chieftain, her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear children. But when she’s sent to foster with a nearby clan, Grace falls for a clever and open-minded second son—a man she cannot have.

Married off against her will to a brutal warrior, Grace performs her duty, all the while gathering followers loyal to her, and consolidating her husband’s power, only to be ousted from his lands. But this betrayal offers Grace the opportunity to return to sea, finally leading clan O’Malley’s mighty fleet. Just as she finds true independence, Queen Elizabeth’s incursions into Ireland grow bolder and Grace must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most against the cruel and power-hungry English deputies, who will stop at nothing to check her influence.

Keenly observed and fiercely written, Ariel Lawhon's new action-packed novel channels the untamed beauty and harsh realities of sixteenth-century Ireland, as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine who rightly became “the Pirate Queen of Ireland.”