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Longreads: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/how-saudi-arabia-makes-dissidents-disappear The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state. 5,218 words. Est. reading time: 25 min. If you prefer to listen to the article, you can create a Text-To-Speech mp3 here: http://www.fromtexttospeech.com. The TTS is a robotic voice, but many people get used to it fairly quickly. The Longreads Club gets together every other week to discuss a long-form article focused on global topics. Rather than skim the headlines, we are trying to dive deep and learn from each other to gain a better understanding of world events. Just read the article, show up, and join the discussion!

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Broadway Books Fall Book Club Event

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Join us for our Fall Book Club Discussion! This quarter we will be discussing The Overstory, by Richard Powers, published by W.W. Norton & Company. The Overstory, The twelfth novel from National Book Award winner Richard Powers, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named a New York Times notable Book for 2018.  It’s described by our favorite bookseller, Ann Patchett, as "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could…

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