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Teen Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

This book club is ran by the teens who attend. No adults allowed. The teens have chosen Speed of Life by J.M. Anthony this month. Impoverished eighteen-year-old Crystal and her twin make a pact to raise their baby together and create a better life for them all. But when an opportunity arises to go to college to learn to restore classic cars, Crystal is left with a difficult choice: follow her dreams or stay behind and honor her promise. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club. Email us to order it or come in!

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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. August will be a Fantasy Pick. We will discuss The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn and her "siblings" begin to think he might be God. When Father disappears, they square off against each other to determine who will inherit his library, which may hold the power to all Creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come she has a plan. The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human ... Available at a…

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Science Fiction Book Group

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

This month our group meets to discuss Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Join us!

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Peg Alford Pursell in Conversation With Sophia Shalmiyev

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

Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes Into the Forest (Dzanc) immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of daughters, wives, and husbands, artists, siblings, and mothers. In forests literal and metaphorical, the characters try, fail, and try again to see the world, to hear each other, and to speak the truth of their longings. Powerful, lyrical, and precise, Pursell’s stories call up a world at once mysterious and recognizable. A Girl Goes Into the Forest invites fans of Lydia Davis and Helen Oyeyemi into a world where “no one can deter a person from her mistakes.” Pursell will be…

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