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Pageturners Author Visit: Willy Vlautin

Multnomah County Library - St. Johns Library 7510 N Charleston Avenue Portland, OR 97203, Portland

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin. Don’t Skip Out on Me is going to make your heart crumple into a little wad of paper and then open it back up into a perfect paper airplane sailing the skies from the hand of a boy. How does a bi-cultural man find a self when he’s been abandoned by his parents? He invents it, that’s how. No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt than Vlautin. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Free

Drink and Write Tuesdays: Drop in Writer’s Workshop

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Drop in between 5:30 and 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and spend your happy hour writing. Hosted by Jeanne Faulkner who provides prompts, tips, coaching, and community. Your bring your computer and notebook, buy your drinks at the bar, and get started. $10 optional contribution to the host.

Free – $10

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club will alternate monthly between Science Fiction and Fantasy. October will be a Fantasy Pick. We will discuss Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. Dreaming of a new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day Casiopea finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather's room. She opens it--freeing the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

Free

Collage Night

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

Join us for the return of Collage Night, on the second Tuesday of the month. Glue sticks, scissors and collage materials will be provided. Free and open to the public.

Free

Song of Myself

Lewis & Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday, actor Johnny Stallings will be performing “Song of Myself.” This poem is considered to be one of the greatest utterances in American Literature. It can change your life. Following the performance Professor Rachel Cole and Oregon’s Poet Laureate Kim Stafford and Johnny will talk about Walt Whitman and engage in what promises to be a lively dialogue with audience members. Location: Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall

Free

Reading: Warren Easley: No Way to Die

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Oregon author Warren Easley to read from his seventh Cal Claxton mystery, No Way to Die. Attorney Cal Claxton, now well-established in his Oregon law practice after breaking off his career as a high-powered LA prosecutor, just wants to go fishing with his daughter, Claire, and he knows the best place--the coastal area south of Coos Bay. But their vacation takes a dark turn with the discovery of a body in the river. As an investigation is launched into the suspicious death, Cal and Claire find themselves drawn into the life of the local bookshop owner and vocal environmental activist, whose grandson was convicted for murder at age sixteen. She believes he was wrongly accused and convinces Cal to reexamine the…

Free

Science Fiction Book Group

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

This month our group meets to discuss Before Mars by Emma Newman. Join us!

Free

Candice Montgomery in Conversation With Michelle Ruiz Keil

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

On the day Torrey officially becomes a college freshman, he gets a call that might force him to drop out before he’s even made it through orientation. Candice Montgomery’s new novel for teens, By Any Means Necessary (Page Street), is an honest reflection on cultural identify, class, and gentrification. Montgomery will be joined in conversation by Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of All of Us With Wings.

Free

Lily Bernheimer author of The Shaping of Us

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland

Lily Bernheimer visits from the Bay Area to share with us her first book, The Shaping of Us, which explores how the built and natural worlds subtly influence our behavior, health, and personality. From caves to cathedrals to our current housing crisis and the dreaded open-plan office, Bernheimer demonstrates that for our well-being, we must reconnect with the power to shape the world around us. Only when people are involved in forming and nurturing our environments will they feel a greater sense of agency, community, and pride. Join us to learn more about how space makes us tick and how to fix the broken parts of our world. Lily Bernheimer is an environmental psychology author, consultant, and researcher. She is Founding Director of Space Works…

Free

Kirtan and Reading from Newly Released Book, Dharma, the Way to Awakening and Social Change

New Renaissance Books 1338 NW 23rd Avenue, Portland

Please join us for an insightful book talk/reading and discussion on Dharma followed by devotional music and chanting. What is the Dharma? How does understanding your own dharma help you to feel more at peace and aligned with your purpose? How does the following of dharma support social change and help create a more peaceful world? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered at Maetreyii Ma's book launch for her newest book, Dharma the Way to Awakening and Social Change. Join Maetreyii Ma for an insightful, thought-provoking discussion followed by devotional music and kirtan.

$20

Shauna M. Ahern in Conversation With Lisa Congdon

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

Gluten-Free Girl Shauna M. Ahern’s Enough (Sasquatch) is a collection of fierce and funny personal essays on finding enough. With candor, Ahern traces the arc of her life, starting with the feeling of “not good enough” which was sown in a traumatic childhood and dogged her well into adulthood. She writes about finding her rage, which led her to find her enduring motto: enough pretending. Ahern will be joined in conversation by Lisa Congdon, artist and author of Find Your Artistic Voice.

Free