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Shallow Waters – Kay Denning

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Join us for a reading from Native Oregonian Kay Jennings, in which she introduces a thrilling new mystery series set alongside Oregon’s rugged Pacific coast. A sleepy Oregon coastal village with secrets as dark as its January storms. A new police chief with his own shadowy past. The last thing Port Stirling Chief of Police Matt Horning needed on day one of his new job was for the mayor’s daughter to turn up dead in a mysterious tunnel on the Oregon beach. Horning, escaping professional troubles in Texas, accepts the vacant job in Port Stirling, Oregon, looking for a fresh start in what he thought would be a peaceful coastal town. Nothing much ever happens here…or does it? With only a ragtag county crime team to…

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Deadly Diversions Book Group

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

This month our group meets to discuss Vicki Delany’s Constable Molly Smith mystery series. Join us!

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

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

The American Booksellers Association is partnering with Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim to bring book club meetings to independent bookstores nationwide with the goal of amplifying diverse voices and supporting emerging writers of color. Our Well-Read Black Girl book club will read a balance of classics and newly published works, written by persons of color, and will meet on the second Thursday of each month. This month we're reading Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. Join us!

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Jennifer Robin

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

American Candyland: Love is a swipe away, toy aisles teem with plastic tanks, nipples are illegal. The Pentagon spends $717 billion a year on war. Scientists say the sixth great extinction event is upon us, and mammals aren't going to make it past the year 2100. When faced with disaster, Americans grow robust. We become more of ourselves, with Twitter feuds, celebrity weight loss tricks, covens hexing Trump. In the dead of night the old ones whisper, "Where has my America gone?" The young ones were born too poor, too late to hear the promises and believe them. We feel earthquakes, and there is nowhere left to hide. This is Jennifer Robin's America: Hilarious, heartbreaking, razor-sharp. Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm) is the new novel from…

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