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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Join us for a very special FUR with guest curator Stevan Allred, author of The Alehouse at The End of The World, as we explore a story about abuse, retribution and healing through the Grimm tale The Juniper Tree. Stevan is joined by writers Missy Ladygo, Susan DeFreitas, and Nicole Rosevear at Indivisible, 2544 SE 26th Ave between Clinton and Division.
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name – and spawned a new genre, the technothriller – the threat returns, in Daniel H. Wilson’s The Andromeda Evolution (Harper), a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity – until now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the telltale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from…
Join us for a special story time with author Elizabeth Rusch! She will be sharing her new book, Mario and the Hole in the Sky. Kids will also get to do a fun activity after the reading!
This month our group meets to discuss Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. Join us!
We will discuss The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld. Rene will join us via Skype for a live Q&A at 6:30pm A riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. Available at a 15% discount to order if…
Possibly our last event for 2019 features one of our very own booksellers, Margaret Pinard! She is launching her fifth historical novel, Storm Wrack & Spindrift, which concludes the three-book Remnants series: The MacLeans have suffered being thrown off their land, emigrating to the New World, surviving in the forest wilderness, and losing their father Gillan in a bizarre murder. Now, ten years later, the two youngest emigrants split the family across an ocean: Sheena and her husband Gordon Lamont pursue a future back in Scotland while Alisdair dreams of university and a chance to reform the political system. But the British Empire of the 1830s has yet more surprises. When the only school in the province only accepts Anglican students, what will Alisdair do?…
Niche Book Club Featuring Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Join us on Friday, November 22 at 6:30 pm for our latest installment of Niche Book Club: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Please buy a copy of the book from an independent bookseller: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735219090 Book Description from Penguin Random House: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the…
From acclaimed author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex – a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister – feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her…
Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe.
One week from today! free, accessible, & all are welcome New work from: Daniel H. Wilson (author of Robopocalypse), Jason Gurley (author of Eleanor), Benjamin Parzybok (author of Sherwood Nation), Curtis C. Chen (author of Waypoint Kangaroo), Jasmine Gower (author of Moonshine), and Arthur Smid (author of You Will Win the Future)