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Community calendar time! This week is full of terrifyingly terrific events - go connect with your community!

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🏏 Our Young Teen Book Club is meeting tonight at 5pm to discuss AARZU ALL AROUND by Marzieh Abbas!

The Young Teen Book Club is a peer-led group for 12-15 year olds. Members pick the books and lead the discussions!

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📗Aarzu All Around
By Marzieh Abbas

A cricket-loving Pakistani girl stifled by patriarchal expectations disguises herself as a boy to get a job to pay her sister’s medical bills in this “lyrical action-packed debut full of determination and grit” (Reem Faruqi, award-winning author of Golden Girl).

Living with her aunt and patriarchal uncle in Karachi, Pakistan, recently orphaned twelve-year-old Aarzu detests the way she and her younger sister get treated like extras and excluded from all the fun stuff. Aarzu dreams of playing cricket, just like her male cousins and the neighborhood boys in the streets, but her uncle will hear nothing of it. According to him, girls ought to master the art of making round rotis, not play sports.

When her sister requires urgent medical treatment but finances are tight, Aarzu decides to earn money herself. She hears of a part-time job at a bungalow near her school—but it’s only open to boys. Aarzu has no choice but to disguise herself as a turban-wearing boy to get the gig.

Now, Aarzu must find a way to balance school, work, chores, and secret cricket practices—all without burning out or getting caught by her uncle—or else her dreams of making the girls cricket team and her quest to save her sister will crumble around her.

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👻 Our spooky season book club is THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAD FACES by Sunyi Dean. Join us on Sat, Oct 24 at 6 for the discussion! Or anytime on our Discord.

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📓 The Girl with a Thousand Faces
By Sunyi Dean

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive.

When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge she finds is the infamous, ghost-infested slum of Kowloon Walled City. Since then, she has rebuilt her life, working for the local triad as a ghost talker and dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt the district. The filthy gutters and cramped alleyways of Kowloon have become her home.

But the past Mercy can’t remember isn't done with her. An unusually powerful ghost has infested Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. It claims to know Mercy—and secrets from her past that are best left forgotten.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realize that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Tired of AI? Join us for an afternoon of celebrating local artistic and creative talent with art designer José Barrientos and poets Chera Hammons and Wes Reeves.

📍Sat, Oct 24 | 1-3PM
Chapterhouse Bookstore
3317 SW 6th Ave
Amarillo, TX

José Barrientos is an Art Designer/Director with a passion for creating dynamic visual work that encourages dialogue, discovery, and transformation, a lover of weird things and purveyor of random knowledge, with a goal to inspire and mentor others. He is also an enthusiastic birder. His original designs (made by a human, no AI here!) will be available for browsing and purchasing in prints, stickers, coloring books, and more!

Also in attendance will be local poets Chera Hammons and Wes Reeves in conversation about their new books of poetry with Jenny Inzerillo from HPPR. Hammons newest release is Birds of America (6/9/26); Reeves's newest release is Más Dirt (2026), a follow up to Yellow Dirt (2022).

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🤔 Ever wondered what and who is tracking our every move?

👍🏼🕵‍♂️ Come and hear Joe talk about best practices, give alternatives to current platforms and guide us through minimizing our digital thumbprint.

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Check out this weeks scary fun community calendar! Go out and connect with your community this week!

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⛓️‍💥❓Have questions about the current book banning bills moving through the legislative process? Wonder how current book banning bills have affected local schools and public libraries?

Erin Lowery will be joining us for Saturday's Banned Book Event to answer all of these book banning questions and more!

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Erin Lowery is a seasoned English educator with 15 + years in high schools, community colleges, and universities. She holds an M.S.Ed. in Secondary English and a Cum Laude B.A. In English from Harding University. Erin has taught composition, honors literature, and college‑readiness courses, mentored new teachers, led UIL literary and performance teams, and served on safety, calendar, and curriculum committees. She has directed youth‑education programs, overseen operations, and created state‑aligned curricula. Recently, she designed and taught online and face‑to‑face English courses at Howard College and Western Texas College, contributed to faculty AI guidance, and supported first‑generation, multilingual, and dual‑credit students. Erin now works as an Instructional Designer at West Texas A&M University and champions critical thinking, open access to information, parent education, and freedom and liberty for all.

📍Saturday, Oct 10 | 1-3pm
Chapterhouse Bookstore
3317 SW 6the Ave
Amarillo, TX 79106

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Join us for GAME NIGHT at Chapterhouse Books on October 21st from 6-8pm! There may be some tricks, but the real treat is having some fun playing games! Can’t wait to see you there!

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⏭️NEXT SLIDE FOR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ⏭️

We have lots going on, you ready to join to struggle? Do it!

Link in bio to complete our interest form.

😷As always, to attend our E4L, masks are highly encouraged. Or you can stream from home or wherever youre at!

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Chapterhouse and TXILC invite you to an upcoming training from the Texas Immigration Law Council on Responding After an Immigration Detention.

This training is designed for advocates, organizers, service providers, and anyone who works with immigrant communities, but everyone is welcome.

Tuesday, October 6
6:00–7:30 PM
In person at Chapterhouse Bookstore in Amarillo + virtual option
Training will be in English

When a friend, loved one, or coworker is detained by immigration authorities, it can be difficult to know what to do or where to start. This training will walk through practical steps to take during the first few hours, and within 12, 24, and 48 hours after a detention, including where to find reliable information, who to contact, and how to support the detained person and their family.

You don’t have to be an attorney or immigration expert to use this information. We’ll also have an immigration attorney present to answer questions.

For virtual attendance, register here:
https://bit.ly/responding-to-detention

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Join Amarillo authors Chera Hammond and Wes Reeves at Chapterhouse Bookstore as they discuss their newest books of poetry with Jenny Inzerillo from HPPR.

Discussion will be followed by a book signing. Backlist and new titles for both authors will be available to purchase at the event.

High quality art prints and more by local art designer and birder José Barrientos will also be available.

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📙 BIRDS OF AMERICA
By Chera Hammons

An evocative, uplifting, and thoughtfully illustrated collection of poems steeped in the natural world, examining life and healing in the aftermath of trauma.

What does it mean to love someone, and to love the world, when what we love is vanishing? In Birds of America, award-winning poet Chera Hammons reckons with the intersection of personal violence and the violence humans have wrought upon our planet and explores the beauty that remains among the ruins. With graceful lyricism, she translates seemingly mundane scenes from the natural world—two eagles locked together in a tandem dive, the fresh sweetness of wild onions—into exquisite revelations of human feeling, inviting us to glimpse the hidden magic of the everyday. Hammons encourages us to love fiercely, to embrace a future where our damage teaches us to be kinder people, and to never give up on the beauty of our world.

📘 MÁS DIRT
By Wes Reeves

Following on the 2022 compilation Yellow Dirt, Amarillo writer Wes Reeves presents Más Dirt, a continuation of poetic storytelling inspired by the people and places in the Texas Panhandle, where things are not always as they seem.

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📍Saturday, Oct 24 | 1-3PM
Chapterhouse Bookstore
3317 SW 6th Ave
Amarillo, TX 79106

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📣 Join us at Chapterhouse Bookstore for a Banned Books Week Read-In and Letter Writing event! Attendees will get to choose from 2 free audiobooks while supplies last: "Banned Together" by Ashley Hope Pérez or "How To Defend Books and Why" by Danny Caine.

READ-IN 📚⛓️‍💥
Bring your favorite banned book or one from your TBR, or choose one from our display! Sit and read for as long as you like. We will also have banned book trivia scattered around the room to test your banned book knowledge! Get at least 5 trivia questions right or answer our featured question correctly to get your choice of a free ARC (advanced reading copy) or a coupon to Chapterhouse Bookstore.

LETTER WRITING ✍️
Write to your reps about the three federal book banning bills making their way through legislation, or the numerous state bills that have been passed or proposed. Let your representatives know that the Freedom to Read is a priority and an issue that could affect their (re)election! Letter writing materials and representative info will be provided.

Free audiobooks courtesy of @librofm

📍Saturday, Oct 10 | 1-3pm
Chapterhouse Bookstore
3317 SW 6the Ave
Amarillo, TX 79106

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