Bestselling California author Susan Vreeland will be discussing her new book, Lisette's List (Random House, hardcover, $27.00, on sale 8/26/14), a richly imagined story of a woman's awakening in the south of France during the Occupation of World War II. *Note: $28.62 ticket guarantees a seat, admits one, and includes one copy of the featured book. $10 ticket is standing room only, admits one, and includes a $10 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

New York Times bestselling Southern author Charles Martin will be discussing his new book, A Life Intercepted (Center Street, hardcover, $26.00, on sale 9/2/14). After being released from prison, Matthew Rising risks everything to help a young football prodigy in hopes of winning his wife back. *Note: $27.56 ticket guarantees a seat, admits one, and includes one copy of the featured book. $10 ticket is standing room only, admits one, and includes a $10 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Come see New York Times bestselling picture book author and award-winning musician Eric Litwin as he promotes his newest picture book, The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, hardcover, $18.00), at Hughes Main Library (25 Heritage Green Place, Greenville). Mr. Eric's performance will start promptly at 7:00pm, but you can arrive early to purchase books (including pre-signed books) and have some cookies and lemonade. *Note: While this event is free and open to the public, at least one copy of The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House must be purchased from Fiction Addiction in advance or at the event in order to receive a ticket for the signing line.

Pickens, South Carolina, baker Francine Bryson will celebrate the launch of her debut cookbook, Blue Ribbon Baking from a Redneck Kitchen (Clarkson N. Potter, paperback, $22.00, on sale 9/9/14)). You must RSVP to info@fiction-addiction.com to receive the Spartanburg event location. Fiction Addiction will have copies for sale at the event on a first-come, first-served basis. Book reservations are strongly suggested in order to guarantee that you receive a copy of the book.

Meet Winston Groom -- best known as the author of Forrest Gump but also a fabulous historian, whose most recent book is The Aviators (National Geographic Society, hardcover, $30.00) -- at an evening event at the Poinsett Club (807 E. Washington St., Greenville). *Tickets are $21 and include a $4 donation to a local nonprofit serving our veterans and beer, wine, and light hors d'eouvres. The event is one of a series of military history talks sponsored by Tempus Jets and the Military Lecture Series committee. Advance reservations are required and ticket costs cannot be refunded if cancelled within 72 hours of the event. Attire is business casual (no jeans). Fiction Addiction will be selling Mr. Groom's books on-site, but we encourage you to reserve books with us when you order your tickets. Following remarks made by Mr. Groom at about 6:30pm, he will be available to sign books.

South Carolina author and former teacher Sheri S. Levy will be celebrating the release of her debut young adult novel, Seven Days to Goodbye (Barking Rain Press, paperback, $13.95) at her launch party. The party is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served, but Sheri is running the RSVP list through Evite. If you're interested in attending, please email us at info@fiction-addiction.com, and we'll have Sheri email you an official Evite with all of the event details, including the off-site event location. Fiction Addiction is the bookseller for this event, so you can pre-order your books through us. If you can't attend, we can get books signed for you (personalized copies will need to be pre-paid).

Bestselling Southern Christian fiction author Lisa Wingate will be discussing her latest book, The Story Keeper (Tyndale House, paperback, $14.99; a Summer 2014 SIBA Okra Pick). Successful NY editor Jen Gibbs' search for the rest of a manuscript will draw her into a mystery that could lead her through doors in her past she thought she had closed forever. *Note: $10 ticket admits one and includes a $10 book voucher. $15.89 ticket admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Caroline Smith Sherman and Millie Huff Coleman, Southern authors and granddaughters of columnist Caroline S. Coleman, will be signing copies of their new book, Scotch-Irish Life in the South Carolina Piedmont (The History Press, paperback, $19.99), a collection of their grandmother's columns reprinted and expanded to include recipes, history, and genealogical resources. This event is free and open to the public. The authors plan to make a few remarks to the audience at 4:00pm.

Celebrate Banned Books Week with Pat Scales, Greenville author and former school librarian, at the book launch for her new book, Books Under Fire (ALA Editions, paperback, $47.00). Pat will speak for 20 minutes, take Q&A from the audience, and sign books. This book was developed for teachers and librarians, but parents are also encouraged to attend the talk and discuss their concerns about what their kids may be asked to read for school. This event is free and open to the public.

Greenville, South Carolina, teacher and author John Mark Sibley-Jones will be celebrating the launch of his debut novel, By the Red Glare (Story River Books, hardcover, $29.95), in the auditorium of the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities (15 University St., Greenville). This is a Civil War novel of divergent lives and pervasive perils amid the burning of Columbia, South Carolina He will give a talk/reading, take Q&A from the audience, and then sign books. Pre-orders are encouraged. Fiction Addiction will also have books for sale at the event on a first-come, first-served basis. This event is free and open to the public.

Are you in a book club? Thinking about joining or starting a book club? Like to read "book club-type books"? Then come join us for our Book Club Party at Fiction Addiction! We will be serving wine and cheese as we present current and upcoming titles that would make good book club picks. We will also be giving away a number of free "advance reading copies." *Note: Tickets are $10 but can be redeemed for $10 off any merchandise purchased that evening. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

North Carolina author and editor Carin Siegfried will talk about her new book, The Insider's Guide to a Career in Book Publishing (Chickadee Books, paperback, $14.95). Find out about the various jobs in the publishing industry and how to get your foot in the door. This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are requested.

Riley MacPherson confronts a family secret twenty years in the making in The Silent Sister (St. Martin's Press, hardcover, $26.99, on sale 10/7/14), a new mystery from internationally bestselling North Carolina author Diane Chamberlain. *Note: Ticket price includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

If your kids (or the kid in you) are Star Wars fans, come celebrate Star Wars Reads Day at Fiction Addictionon Saturday, October 11th, from 12:00pm - 2:00pm. We will have Star Wars story time, a costume contest and other activities. We will be serving Star Wars-themed refreshments. In the past we've had imperial storm troopers, imperial biker scouts, and a jawa visit us at the store.

Meet debut Southern novelist Sarah Creech as she discusses her first book, Season of the Dragonflies (Morrow, hardcover, $25.99; a Summer 2014 SIBA Okra Pick). As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. *Note: $10 ticket admits one and includes a $10 book voucher. $27.55 ticket admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.