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Pageturners Author Visit: Katie Grindeland

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 The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland. Dangerous secrets, past tragedies, and a violent obsession are forced to the surface when Emerson and her estranged family agree to care for 10-year-old Addie. If these five can face their true selves, each other and their past, they just might find a way forward to a life filled with love and happiness. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Free

Reading: Don Dupay: Frank’s Revenge

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Don Dupay to read from his novel, Frank's Revenge: Albina After Dark. Don DuPay, former Portland Police homicide detective, is a crime fighter turned crime writer. Read along as he brings private eye Frank McAllister to life as he scours the back alleys and dead-end streets of Portland's dangerous Albina ghetto in search of a killer. Be his backup as he works to solve the murders the police don't care about. But why? And what about the council of old gangsters who lured him into the case using a pretty woman as bait? What do they really want? Things get messy as Black Bart returns from eight years in prison vowing to once again be the kingpin of the St.…

Free

Chris Ware & Lynda Barry

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

Rusty Brown (Pantheon) is a major graphic novel event more than 16 years in the making: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from Chris Ware, the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. Cartoonist Lynda Barry (Cruddy) believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of her new book, Making Comics (Drawn & Quarterly), is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.

Free

Reading: Kamaya Tarplay

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Details TBA.

Free