BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Scholar & Scribe Bookshop, Cafe, & Wine Bar - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Scholar & Scribe Bookshop, Cafe, & Wine Bar X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://scholarandscribe.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Scholar & Scribe Bookshop, Cafe, & Wine Bar REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251207T224510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251207T224512Z UID:10002757-1765996200-1765999800@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Romance Book Club: The Plight Before Christmas DESCRIPTION:Our romance selection for December is The Plight Before Christmas by Kate Stewart. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nThe Plight Before Christmas is a full length\, second chance\, Christmas themed romance and most definitely on SANTA’S NAUGHTY LIST! \n\n\n\nClark Griswold was onto something\, at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug-another breakup\, a broken toe\, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get-I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ\, happ\, happiest Christmas EVER. \n\n\n\nWhen Mom insisted that we all gather at my Grandparent’s ancient cabin for an old school family Christmas\, I fully intended to get into the holiday spirit with the help of the three wise men\, Johnnie Walker\, Jack Daniels\, and Jim Beam. But those boys did absolutely nothing to offset the shock or temper the sting of seeing my EX on our doorstep the first day of our holiday soiree. \n\n\n\nApparently\, Santa missed the memo\, and this elf is pissed. \n\n\n\nStuck for a week with the man who obliterated my heart nearly two decades ago\, I did the only thing I could do and put on my game face\, thankful for the home advantage. \n\n\n\nI knew better than to drink that last cup of eggnog. \n\n\n\nI knew better than to get tongue tangled beneath the mistletoe with the only man to ever break my heart. \n\n\n\nI knew better than to sleep with Satan’s wingman on the eve of the Lord’s birthday. \n\n\n\nI could blame the nog. I could blame the deceitful light blue eyes\, thick\, angelic hair\, and panty evaporating smirk…but mostly\, I blame Eli because he always knew exactly which of my buttons to push. \n\n\n\nI foolishly thought a family Christmas filled with nostalgia was going to turn my inner Scrooge around\, but this year’s festivities went up in flames. Leave it to the ghost of my Christmas past to be the one to light the match. \n\n\n\nFa la la la la\, la FML. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/romance-book-club-the-plight-before-christmas/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251207T224021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251207T224023Z UID:10002756-1765996200-1765999800@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Memoir Book Club: Men We Reaped DESCRIPTION:Our memoir selection for December is Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\n“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops\, it was dead men that we reaped.” -Harriet Tubman \n\n\n\nIn five years\, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life-to drugs\, accidents\, suicide\, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty\, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses\, one after another\, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying\, she realized the truth-and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from\, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community\, to write their stories and her own. \n\n\n\nJesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings\, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story\, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education\, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully\, Jesmyn Ward’s memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat’s Brother\, I’m Dying\, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life\, and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/memoir-book-club-men-we-reaped/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T160000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251204T013941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T013942Z UID:10002753-1765634400-1765641600@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Author Event: Ralph Ellis DESCRIPTION:We’re honored to welcome retired AJC journalist Ralph Ellis\, author of The Accident Report. With decades of reporting experience\, Ellis brings sharp insight and a storyteller’s eye to real events\, weaving truth\, tension\, and humanity into every page. Join us for a thoughtful\, engaging conversation with a writer who knows how to uncover the story beneath the story. URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/author-event-ralph-ellis/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/December-Calendar-Events-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T140000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251109T225636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251207T223511Z UID:10002680-1765627200-1765634400@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Author Event: Liz Mannchen DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming author Liz Mannchen to Scholar & Scribe for an engaging conversation and a warm\, community-focused event. Come connect with a wonderful storyteller and explore the inspiration behind her work. URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/an-evening-of-music-storytelling-with-liz-mannchen/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/November-Calendar-Events-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T160000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251204T005800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T005835Z UID:10002751-1765029600-1765036800@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Author Event: Sucheta Rawal DESCRIPTION:Pack your imagination — we’re going on an adventure! Meet Atlanta’s own Sucheta Rawal\, the travel writer behind the Beato Goes To series\, as she shares stories that whisk readers across cultures and continents. URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/author-event-sucheta-rawal/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/December-Calendar-Events.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T140000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251204T010232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T010233Z UID:10002752-1765022400-1765029600@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Author Event: Sherman Kew DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the season on December 6th with local author Sherman Kew and An Ornament Story. It’s a charming holiday adventure about a lost ornament\, a brave quest\, and the magic of finding your way home. URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/author-event-sherman-kew/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/December-Calendar-Events-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T010137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T010138Z UID:10002739-1764009000-1764012600@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Mystery Book Club: The Missing Half DESCRIPTION:Our mystery selection for November is The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie. \n\n\n\nNicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four\, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka\, Indiana\, she’s just gotten a DWI\, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school\, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years—since the day her older sister\, Kasey\, vanished without a trace. \n\n\n\nOn the night Kasey went missing\, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver’s door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor\, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way\, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on\, both cases eventually went cold. \n\n\n\nNic wants nothing more than to move on from her sister’s disappearance and the state it’s left her in. But then one day\, Jules’s sister\, Jenna Connor\, walks into Nic’s life and offers her something she hasn’t felt in a long time: hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves\, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/mystery-book-club-the-missing-half/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251123T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251123T190000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251104T031137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T040238Z UID:10002742-1763917200-1763924400@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Off-Site Author Event: Elaine Swann DESCRIPTION:We’re partnering up with Elaine Swann to provide the books for her launch party. The purchase of this book is your “ticket” for entry to Elaine’s event on November 23. Order through us\, your friendly local bookstore\, and pickup your copy at check-in at the event. \n\n\n\nPreorder Your Copy URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/off-site-author-event-elaine-swann/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/November-Calendar-Events-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T170000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251104T012127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T012129Z UID:10002741-1763823600-1763830800@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Author Event: Cherisse Stephens DESCRIPTION:About the Author\n\n\n\nCherisse Stephens is an award-winning author\, inspirational speaker\, and visionary leader committed to empowering individuals to live with purpose\, joy\, and confidence. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nFrom the boardroom to the living room\, the classroom to the community\, and even within our families\, leaders are rising everywhere. Let’s C.E.O. is more than a book; it’s a movement. Designed for CEOs\, entrepreneurs\, family leaders\, and vision-driven changemakers\, this powerful guide calls us to choose collaboration over competition and to build legacies that outlast us. \n\n\n\nThrough inspiring principles\, actionable strategies\, and real-life examples\, Let’s C.E.O. shows you how to: \n\n\n\n\nCover each other with encouragement and accountability.\n\n\n\nLead with vision and purpose in business\, family\, and community life.\n\n\n\nTransform competition into collaboration that multiplies impact.\n\n\n\nLeave a legacy that empowers the next generation of leaders. URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/author-event-cherisse-stephens-2/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/November-Calendar-Events.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T110000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251104T000223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T000225Z UID:10002740-1763807400-1763809200@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Special Story Time: Lenora Respert\, Early Childhood Expert DESCRIPTION:Gather the little ones and join us for a joyful morning of stories\, laughter\, and imagination led by childrens author\, Lenora Respert! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/special-story-time-lenora-respert-early-childhood-expert/ CATEGORIES:Author Event,For the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/August-Calendar-Events.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T200000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T005252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T005253Z UID:10002737-1763665200-1763668800@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Fiction Book Club: To the Moon and Back DESCRIPTION:Our fiction selection for November is To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nIn this dazzlingly powerful story of family\, ambition and belonging\, one young woman’s obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most. \n\n\n\nSteph Harper is on the run. She has been all her life\, ever since her mother drove five-year-old Steph and her younger sister through the night to Cherokee Nation\, a place they had never been\, but where she hoped they might finally belong. In response to the turmoil\, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get\, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA\, and ultimately\, to go to the moon. \n\n\n\nSpanning three decades and several continents\, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph’s turbulent journey\, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla\, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer\, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph’s college girlfriend Della Owens\, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah\, Steph and Kayla’s mother\, who has held up her family’s tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children\, all the while keeping her own past a secret. \n\n\n\nIn Steph’s certainty that only her ambition can save her\, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking\, at once betraying their love and generosity\, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative\, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters\, love and sacrifice\, alienation and heartbreak\, terror and wonder. At its core\, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/fiction-book-club-to-the-moon-and-back/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T004815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T004844Z UID:10002736-1763577000-1763580600@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Memoir Book Club: I Am\, I Am\, I Am DESCRIPTION:Our memoir selection for November is I Am\, I Am\, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nThe childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year\, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And\, most terrifying of all\, an ongoing\, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life’s myriad dangers. \n\n\n\nHere\, O’Farrell stiches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion\, she captures the perils running just beneath the surface\, and illuminates the preciousness\, beauty\, and mysteries of life itself. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/memoir-book-club-i-am-i-am-i-am/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T001436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T001437Z UID:10002679-1763577000-1763580600@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Romance Book Club: All Rhodes Lead Here DESCRIPTION:Our romance selection for November is All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nThe people we lose take a part of us with them…but they leave a part of themselves with us too. \n\n\n\nAurora De La Torre\, or Ora to her friends\, knows moving back to Pagosa Springs\, Colorado\, a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother\, isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be. \n\n\n\nBut after breaking up with her longtime\, famous musician boyfriend\, hiding out in a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord who lives across the driveway just might cure it\, too. \n\n\n\nOnly Tobias Rhodes didn’t rent out the apartment to her\, rather it was his teenage son\, Amos. Fiercely protective of his family and distrusting of strangers\, gruff and grumpy Rhodes initially keeps little miss sunshine Ora at a distance. But over days and weeks\, long hikes and fireside chats\, Aurora breaks down his walls and soon an unbreakable friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/romance-book-club-all-rhodes-lead-here/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/November-Calendar-Events.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T193000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T005741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T005743Z UID:10002738-1763490600-1763494200@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Poetry Book Club: Postcolonial Love Poem DESCRIPTION:Our poetry selection for November is Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz. If you haven’t already\, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do! \n\n\n\nWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY \n\n\n\nPostcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language\, land\, rivers\, suffering brothers\, enemies\, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems\, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety\, desire\, then. / Let me call it\, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape\, the bodies of indigenous\, Latinx\, black\, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire\, language is pushed to its dark edges\, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy\, violence and sensuality. \n\n\n\nDiaz defies the conditions from which she writes\, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it\, a future is built\, future being a matrix of the choices we make now\, and in these poems\, Diaz chooses love. \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nIf you purchase the audiobook through Libro.fm\, send your receipt to hello@scholarandscribe.com to be added to the club. Same\, if you order through Bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nJoin the Club! URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/poetry-book-club-postcolonial-love-poem/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251111T180000 DTSTAMP:20261111T043747 CREATED:20251103T002051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T040256Z UID:10002678-1762876800-1762884000@scholarandscribe.com SUMMARY:Dog Man Release Paw-ty DESCRIPTION:Join the fun & snag your kiddo a copy of the latest epic adventure in the hit graphic novel series featuring our favorite canine superhero. Pop by the shop from 4 – 6pm on Tuesday\, Nov 11 to celebrate the release of the newest Dog Man\, Big Jim Believes. We’ll have fun games\, giveaways\, and a super secret sneak peak of what’s next to come in the series! \n\n\n\nGet Your Tickets + Preorder Your Copy\n\nGet Your Tickets Only URL:https://scholarandscribe.com/event/dog-man-release-paw-ty/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scholarandscribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/November-Calendar-Events-8.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR