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Avan Jogia

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

From actor Avan Jogia comes a raw and moving collection of poetry, stories, and art about living as a mixed-race person in a world increasingly fixated on racial identity. In Mixed Feelings (Andrews McMeel), Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race, identity, religion, and family through poetry and imagery. Drawing on his own life story as well as interviews he's conducted with friends and strangers, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue-starter for difficult topics that now, more than ever, need to be discussed.

Free

Tell Me A Story #8

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Tell Me A Story is a monthly reading series curated by zines + things and hosted by our dear friends at Rose City Book Pub. For our Monday, September 23rd show, we welcome poetry and prose from: Sofi! Emily Daniels! Melissa Lynne! Chelsea Sieg! and host Jessica Wadleigh! Admission is free. Drinks and great food available in this wonderful venue. This talented lineup deserves your support - how ya can make it!

Free

Cara Wall

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their differences, however, threaten to tear them apart. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church’s congregation, these four forge improbable paths through their evolving relationships, each struggling with uncertainty, heartbreak, and joy. A poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives, Cara Wall’s The Dearly Beloved (Simon & Schuster) is a wise and provocative novel destined to become a classic.

Free

Amy Stewart

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart’s clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline – whether they’re ready or not – as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. In Kopp Sisters on the March (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the women of Camp Chevy Chase face down the skepticism of the War Department, the double standards of a scornful public, and the very real perils of war. Once again, Stewart has brilliantly brought a little-known moment in history to light with her fearless and funny Kopp Sisters novels.

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