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Fall Used Book Sale

Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland

Members Only Pre-Sale Friday, October 4, 6pm-9pm We’ll have a roster of current members at the sale door and memberships will be available for purchase/renewal at the sale. General Sale Saturday, Oct 5, 9am-9pm  - Literary Trivia and Bar 6pm-9pm Sunday, Oct 6, 11am-5pm - 50% off with Educator ID Monday, Oct 7, 9am-3pm - $25/box or 50% EVERYTHING Collector's Corner Friday and Saturday only Location Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, Oregon 97232 Getting There Easy TriMet and MAX access - Lloyd Center stop serviced by Red, Blue, and Green MAX lines. Parking available on street and in the on-site parking garage. $3 parking vouchers available. The Selection Thousands of donated books and materials - well sorted • Gently…

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Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us on for a drop-in Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club, all experience-levels welcome. Monday afternoons from 3—5 for eight weeks, September 30th through November 18th. Following the lineage of Portland’s own Lloyd Reynolds and Jaki Svaren, learn about posture, motion and breathing in alignment with calligraphic strokes. Through learning Italic and using it as a daily hand, we can bring beauty, attention, and rhythmic flow into our everyday script. $5—10 sliding scale materials fee.

$5 – $10

A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland

Free Range Poetry presents A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter Monday, October 7, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. A. Molotkov moved to the US from Russia in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things (2016), Application of Shadows (Main Street Rag, September 2018) and Synonyms for Silence (Acre Books/Cincinnati Review, 2019). He has been published by The Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Bennington Review, Tampa Review, Pif, Volt, 2 River View and elsewhere. Molotkov is…

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Grief Rites Readers Series ~ October 7

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland

A monthly storytelling showcase about grief, loss and love. Gather in community with others who share grief in all forms and manifestations. Come ready to cry, laugh, listen and hold space for yourself and others. *Trigger warning, because Grief. Content not edited for language or topic. Mature audience. Venue is accessible. ***This month's event will include an open mic, in addition to our curated readers. If you have words to share about your grief, we welcome you. Open mic’ers will have 4 minutes.*** Open mic signups begin at 6:30pm. Readings start at 7pm. If you have any questions about the open mic please message here on FB, or email us at info@griefritesfoundation.org Curated Storytellers... Nicole Ausmus Jess Byers Amy Findling Wendy Noonan Krista Price Carolyn…

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Free

Reading: Jane Kirkpatrick and Rachel Fordham

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Northwest authors Jane Kirkpatrick and Rachel Fordham to read from their latest historical novels. Central Oregon author Jane Kirkpatrick presents her new novel, One More River to Cross. In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land and enjoyed a safe journey--until October, when a heavy snowstorm forced difficult decisions. The first of many for young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, the widow Ellen Murphy, and her pregnant sister-in-law Maolisa. When the party separates in three directions, each risks losing those they loved and faces the prospect of learning that adversity can…

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Renée Ahdieh in Conversation With Sabaa Tahir

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

The Wrath and the Dawn author Renée Ahdieh returns with The Beautiful (G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers), a sumptuous, sultry, and romantic new series set in 19th-century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight. Ahdieh will be joined in conversation by Sabaa Tahir, author of the Ember Quartet.

Free

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our October reading theme is The Mother Wound. Doors at 6:30pm. Our readers will be: Jewels Pedersen, Janice Lee, Foster, Valarie Rea, Leah Baer, Marissa Korbel, Mira Glasser, Magdalen Powers, Adam Swanson, and Gloria Harrison Hosted by G. Ravyn Stanfield and Marissa Korbel

Free

Tamim Ansary

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

Tamim Ansary’s The Invention of Yesterday (PublicAffairs) is a sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements – Confucianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, and Nomadism – and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that is the defining feature of our world today.

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