Events Calendar
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Join us at Hub City Bookshop for an afternoon of books and conversations with Terah Shelton Harris on Wednesday, May 15th at 3 PM. Harris will be discussing her newest novel Long After We Are Gone — a searing portrait on the power of family and letting go of things that no longer serve you, exploring the burden of familial expectations, the detriment of miscommunication, and the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children.
Let us know you are coming and reserve a copy of the book at a 10% discount when you RSVP through Eventbrite!
About the Book
“DON’T LET THE WHITE MAN TAKE THE HOUSE.”
These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a development company, who has their sights set on turning the valuable waterfront property into a luxury resort.
While fighting to save the Kingdom, the siblings must also save themselves from the secrets they’ve been holding onto. Junior, the oldest son and married to his wife for 11 years, is secretly in love with another man. Second son, Mance, can’t control his temper, which has landed him in prison more than once. CeCe, the oldest daughter and a lawyer in New York City, has embezzled thousands of dollars from her firm’s clients. Youngest daughter, Tokey, wonders why she doesn’t seem to fit into this family, which has left an aching hole in her heart that she tries to fill in harmful ways. As the Solomons come together to fight for the Kingdom, each of their façades begins to crumble and collide in unexpected ways.
Told in alternating viewpoints, Long After We Are Gone is a searing portrait on the power of family and letting go of things that no longer serve you, exploring the burden of familial expectations, the detriment of miscommunication, and the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children.
About the Author
Terah Shelton Harris is a librarian and freelance writer, who now writes upmarket fiction with bittersweet endings. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in consumer and trade magazines including Catapult, Women’s Health, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Backpacker, Minority Nurse, and more. One Summer in Savannah is her first novel.
The doggos are taking over the Yard! Dog parents, dog-friendly business owners, dog-based non-profits–basically dog enthusiasts of every stripe–are descending on FR8yard every 1st and 3rd Wednesday this Spring for live music, awesome eats & drinks, and more! We’ll issue you a $5 PUP BUCK just for bringing out your four-legged-friends … and proceeds from our special Pooch Hooch Cocktails, courtesy of Tito’s, will be benefitting the Spartanburg Humane Society. Did we mention free dog treats??? So, come join us for our Hump Day Yappy Hours and don’t forget to bring your fur babies!
Join us for the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries’ highly anticipated Spring Book Sale. Get ready to score incredible deals as all items, from thrilling novels to educational non-fiction, will be offered at an unbeatable 50% off.
The sale will take place at Pages On Pine (2355 South Pine St) on Friday, May 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Friends members only; memberships available at checkout) and on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (open to the public).
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to stock up on your favorite reads while supporting your local libraries.
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Kids Fun Run is back for a 7th year! Organized by YMCA of Greenville volunteers as a part of the Y’s Togetherhood Initiative, this initiative allows Y members to collectively give back to the Travelers Rest community.
This event will support the North Greenville Crisis Ministry. Each summer, hundreds of kids are not in school for lunch and there is a huge need for easily prepared meals for these children. One large need is for jars of peanut butter and jelly.
One jar of peanut butter and one jar of jelly per participant OR any two items of the following: canned soup, spaghetti sauce, condiments, toiletries.
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Join us for the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries’ highly anticipated Spring Book Sale. Get ready to score incredible deals as all items, from thrilling novels to educational non-fiction, will be offered at an unbeatable 50% off.
The sale will take place at Pages On Pine (2355 South Pine St) on Friday, May 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Friends members only; memberships available at checkout) and on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (open to the public).
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to stock up on your favorite reads while supporting your local libraries.
There was nothing like the elementary school book fair – the smell of new books in the air, the rush of racing your friends to find the next installment of your favorite series, and, if you were lucky, the crinkle of money from Mom in your pocket.
Life felt so much easier back then, didn’t it? Don’t you find yourself wishing from time to time that you could just go back?
You can – but we’re doing it grown-up style.
Don’t miss our Boozy Book Fair at New Groove Artisan Brewery (4078 Hwy 9 Boiling Springs, SC 29316) on Sunday, May 19th from 1-3pm!
We will have STICKERS!!! as well as books for everyone and every interest:
-Geeks and Gamers
-Myths and Fairy Tales
-Gothic and Ghastly
-Happy Endings
-Romantasy
-Read the Rainbow
-Bookclub Picks
-Celebrate the South
-Nonfiction
-Whodunnits & Thrillers
…and much much more!
This event is FREE and open to the public, so bring your friends! Be sure to RSVP so we have the booze + books ready – we can’t wait to see you there.
Greg Lobas will lead a virtual writer’s workshop titled: “Writing Your Life into Poetry.”
“Write what you know” is one of the first and best maxims for the aspiring writer. But what if “what you know” is ordinary, even mundane? This workshop will look at ways to mine the gold that is in everyone’s life and turn it into poetry. It may take some digging. It may take a little change in perspective. But it is there, and it is material only you can use. We will focus on the narrative poem as a means of story-telling but will consider the lyric poem as well.
This workshop is open to writers of all skill levels and is a fun way to find inspiration from a new prompt or revise current work. It is hosted by the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara and will Zoom for the virtual connection. Sign up to attend the workshop at workshop here:
Greg Lobas has been published extensively as both an outdoor writer and a poet. His debut book, Left of Center, won the 2022 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, and placed second in the Delaware State Press Association awards. The book deals with his real life experiences as a fire captain and paramedic. His poems have been published in many journals. He is an experienced poetry workshop facilitator at Isothermal Community College.
Greg lives with his wife Meg and his dog Sophie in Polk County North Carolina.
Learn about the life of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, from one of his pupils and long-time friend Rebecca McCarthy. McCarthy paints an intimate portrait of Maclean as a teacher, author, and friend. McCarthy will be in conversation with John Lane. Meet with us and Rebecca McCarthy at Hub City Bookshop on Thursday, May 23rd at 6 PM.
This event is free and open to the public, registration on Eventbrite comes with a book and holds a reserved seat at the event.
About the Book
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean’s lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother.
Rebecca McCarthy’s intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepressible as a teacher, Maclean shared guidance, advice, campus and city rambles, and loyal friendship with generations of students. Behind the scenes, he honed an art as meditative and patient as his approach to fly fishing. McCarthy’s experiences intertwine with stories from friends, family, colleagues, and others to detail an incredibly rich life that seemed destined to remain divided―until the creation of his classic American story.
About the Author
Rebecca McCarthy spent twenty-one years as an award-winning reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her work has been published in the New York Times, American Scholar, Fast Company, and other venues. Her book, Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers is based on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life.
Conversation Partner
John Lane is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies at Wofford College and was founding director of the college’s Goodall Environmental Studies Center. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, Coyote Settles the South was one of four finalists for the John Burroughs Medal and was named by the Burroughs Society one of the year’s “Nature Books of Uncommon Merit.” As an environmentalist in 2013 Lane was named Upstate Forever’s “Clean Water Champion,” and “Water Conservationist of the Year” by The South Carolina Wildlife Federation. In 2014 he was inducted into the SC Academy of Authors. He, with his wife Betsy Teter, is one of the co-founders of Spartanburg’s Hub City Writers Project, a non-profit organization with a mission to cultivate readers and nurture writers.
Music, poetry, art, and dance collide for Carolina Muse: Arts Jam, a celebration of our multimedia literary & arts magazine’s published creators based in the Carolinas.
This intimate, immersive arts event features local musicians, dancers, writers, and visual artists all in one show. Shop art pieces & crafts made by local artists and enjoy performances & readings from talented creators of several styles & genres. We’re excited to build community with fellow artists & arts-lovers of several creative mediums.
– Music & dance performances
– Poetry readings
– Art & crafts for sale
– Raffle tickets!
📆 Saturday, May 25, 2024
🕰️ 1pm-4pm (art sale starts at 12pm)
📍 The Artistry Gallery, GVL, SC
💵 $15
School’s letting out and it’s time to stock up on books for all your summer plans: the beach, the lake, plane trips, road trips, camping, or just a lazy day by the pool.
We have you covered with a book fair that’s fun for both kids and adults. Join us INDOORS at Magnetic South Brewery, home of great beer, great food, and even arcade games!
There was nothing like the elementary school book fair – the smell of new books in the air, the rush of racing your friends to find the next installment of your favorite series, and, if you were lucky, the crinkle of money from Mom in your pocket.
Life felt so much easier back then, didn’t it? Don’t you find yourself wishing from time to time that you could just go back?
You can – but now we’re doing it grown-up style.
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All ages are invited to join us for a dance party with DJ Pre-K!
*Children’s Used Book Sale
*Wildlife Geeks with guest animals
*Giveaways (while supplies last)
*Sign up for Summer Reading
Part of the event series: Summer Reading
Join us at Greer Golf for a FREE Family Fun Event as we kick off another fantastic tournament week! Enjoy a day filled with excitement and activities for all ages, including:
Two junior golf clinics: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM and 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Face painting
Fun games
Bounce houses
And more!
Don’t miss out on this incredible event! Admission is free, but advance registration is required for clinics.
Join author Ellis K. Popa for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Saturday, June 1st from 1-3pm to celebrate her new book, Awaken the Dawn.
This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase a $20.13 ticket that includes a copy of Awaken the Dawn. Gift wrapping will be available at the event for $4.25. Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last.
If you’re unable to attend, signed copies of the author’s book can be purchased on our website.
Tickets can be purchased online through Thursday, 31st at 2pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
A cryptic puzzle. A family secret. A deadly betrayal.
When her dad dies during a trip to his homeland, Kat Barrett blames herself for—well, everything (her detachment from him, their broken relationship). Racked with guilt and haunted by strange dreams about the crash that killed him, she’d do anything to have him back.
Then a package arrives from Romania. It’s from her dad, sent before he died, and contains a list of clues—one of his classic scavenger hunts. Desperate to know why he sent it, she follows the clues to Bucharest and encounters Maksim, a local with a dark past and the perfect skillset for decoding this puzzle. Kat doesn’t trust him, but when she hits a dead end, she’s left with no other choice.
As they work together, following the clues and trying (unsuccessfully) not to fall for each other, the scavenger hunt reveals a dangerous secret the dreams have been pointing to, a secret Maksim’s old crime ring has been hiding all along, and Kat has walked into their trap. Now she must beat them to the final clue, and solve it, or else suffer the same tragic fate as her dad.
About the Author:
When Ellis isn’t moonlighting as a coffee aficionada, you might find her adventuring through Transylvania, doing photoshoots in Old Town Bucharest, or otherwise trying to talk her husband into moving to Eastern Europe. She’s a history buff with a passion for World War II, and her favorite places in the world are Wallachia in beautiful Romania and the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.
Monday, June 3rd, Junior Golf Clinics with First Tee of The Upstate presented by Pacolet Milliken will be taking place at Thornblade Club. Clinics are free and open to kids of all skill levels, ages 5-17. Various clinics will be available, including Spanish-speaking, ELS for Autism, and girls only. Registration is required.
4:00pm – General Clinic
5:00pm – Girls Only Clinic
6:00pm – Els for Autism
7:00pm – Spanish Speaking Clinic
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Happy Pride Month! If you’re looking for some new titles to add to your TBR stack or NEED to tell anyone who will listen about the great book you just read, this is the place to be. Two librarians will share some of their fave LGBTQ+ books, and you’ll share yours, and we’ll all walk away with tons of new ideas for what to read next. Snacks and giveaways will be part of the program, so come ready.
Happy Pride Month! If you’re looking for some new titles to add to your TBR stack or NEED to tell anyone who will listen about the great book you just read, this is the place to be. Two librarians will share some of their fave LGBTQ+ books, and you’ll share yours, and we’ll all walk away with tons of new ideas for what to read next. Snacks and giveaways will be part of the program, so come ready.