Buxton Books is honored to be the booksellers for The Charleston Library Society’s Speaker Series with Denise Kiernan in conversation with Karen Abbott.

ABOUT THE BOOKS:

We Gather Together by Denise Kiernan

“Illuminating, wildly discussable, part myth-busting, part call to action, We Gather Together is full of unexpected delights and uneasy truths. The stories of indigenous peoples, immigrant communities, women’s rights activists, abolitionists, and more, will inspire readers to rethink and reclaim what it means to give thanks in this day and age. The book’s message of gratitude—especially when embraced during the hardest of times—makes it one to read and share, over and over, at any time of year.”

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott

“Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Denise Kiernan is an author, journalist and producer. Her latest book, We Gather Together, arrived winter 2020. Her last book, The Last Castle (Sept., 2017), was an instant New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was also a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin In The Second City, American Rose, and Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon. She has written for the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian Magazine.

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