In this author event, R. William Johnstone discusses his new book Wyche Fowler: A Political Life in Georgia, Congress, and Abroad. Joined on stage by Senator Wyche Fowler, who will share his own reflections on the people, policies, and pivotal moments that shaped his career.

Books will be sold at the event, with a signing to follow.

Free for members; $10 for non-members.

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Adapted from the bestselling novel, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable New York life upended when her mentor and friend, Walter (Bill Murray), leaves her his Great Dane, Apollo. Despite a small apartment and threats of eviction, she forms a bond with the regal beast and begins to cope with her past in this story of healing, love, and friendship.

120 minutes; Rated R

$3 suggested donation

Watch the trailer – The Friend

Half-Price Day

The author was born in Michigan and lives in Savannah. Her latest book is Amanda— set against the upheaval of post–Great War England, this sweeping novel follows Marion, an Irishwoman scarred by violence, and Jamie, a haunted veteran, as they find refuge—and danger—in each other’s arms. Their love, fierce and consuming, becomes both salvation and risk in a world still reeling from loss.

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Author website – H.S. Cross

A quirky comedy about an eccentric lottery winner, living alone on a remote island, who tries to make his fantasies come true by inviting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.

1 hour and 40 minutes; Rated PG-13

$3 suggested donation

Closed-captioning will be turned on

Watch the trailer – Ballad of Wallis Island

A film based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program in the Maximum Security Prison. It centers on a group of incarcerated men who are involved in creating theatrical stage shows through the program. It stars professional Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo,  alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of the program during their incarceration.

107 minutes

Rated R

Watch the trailer – Sing Sing

$3 suggested donation

Closed-Captioning will be turned on

Join us for a morning with journalist and author Tommy Tomlinson as he shares stories from his latest book, Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show. Spending three years immersed in competitive dog shows, Tomlinson brings readers behind the scenes at over a hundred events, where he’s been licked, sniffed, and slobbered on by dogs of every shape and size. Striker is at the heart of the book, a champion Samoyed, and the team of breeders and handlers who chase glory with him all the way to Westminster.

A Brunswick native, Tomlinson is also the author of the acclaimed memoir The Elephant in the Room and spent 23 years at the Charlotte Observer, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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Author website ––Tommy Tomlinson

Keith Rushing is a former newspaper reporter who worked in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California before becoming a communications strategist for an environmental nonprofit. His writing has also appeared in outlets such as The Huffington Post and Ebony.com. A native of Queens, New York, he now lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children.

In his powerful debut, Descended, Rushing traces his family’s history beginning with a single remembered name—Sancho. His search leads to the Gullah-Geechee communities of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, where he uncovers the story of an ancestor born into slavery on Hilton Head Island who later fought for his own freedom and became a landowner. Part personal journey, part history, Descended is both a family chronicle and a vivid portrait of Hilton Head’s transformation, exploring themes of memory, identity, and belonging.

Books will be available for sale at the event, with a signing session to follow.

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Bennett Parten, assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians, is a Civil War scholar whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Civil War Monitor. A Georgia native with a PhD from Yale, he now lives in Savannah.

His book, Somewhere Toward Freedom, has been hailed as one of the most innovative studies of American emancipation. Reframing Sherman’s March to the Sea through the eyes of the enslaved, Parten reveals how tens of thousands of people transformed the campaign into the largest liberation event in American history. Blending military, social, and cultural history, he illuminates not only the march itself but also the fragile beginnings of Reconstruction that followed.

Books will be available for sale at the event, with a signing session to follow.

Free for members; $10 for non-members.

Seating is limited; registration is encouraged via Eventbrite

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