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Sparks Release Party!

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel 8235 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR, United States

Join me in celebrating the release of Sparks, my rural magical romance novel, at the Rose and Compass Bar at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel from 8 - 9 on Saturday, August 3rd. I'll be there to sign books and tell stories about horses, monsters, and whatnot. This will be an event taking place at the same time as the #Wilwrite19 event, but you do not have to attend the conference to come lift a glass in celebration of my new novel! Btw, if you can't make it or live closer to Monmouth, Oregon, don't fret. I'm planning other events at bookstores and closer to home soon! Pre-order or order here! https://amzn.to/2xJSH6Z

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Sharma Shields & Simeon Mills

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

Sharma Shields’s The Cassandra (Henry Holt) follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Inspired by the classic Greek myth, this 20th-century reimagining of Cassandra's story is based on a real WWII compound that Shields researched meticulously. A timely novel about patriarchy and militancy, The Cassandra uses both legend and history to look deep into man's capacity for destruction, and the resolve and compassion it takes to challenge the powerful. Simeon Mills’s The Obsoletes (Skybound) is a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their…

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Chuck Klosterman

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

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its newfound fame when its song “Blizzard of Summer” becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian’s rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised…

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Kira Jane Buxton

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

S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos. Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies – from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis – fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he discovers that the neighbors are devouring each other and the local wildlife is abuzz…

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Shallow Waters – Kay Denning

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

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, OR, United States

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, OR, United States

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, OR, United States

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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Author Event with Heather Redmond & Grave Expectations

Vintage Books 6613 E Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver, WA, United States

Vintage Books invites you to join us August 10th at 2pm to celebrate Heather Redmond and her new release, GRAVE EXPECTATIONS. She will be discussing her books, doing a short reading, answering questions and a book signing. In this clever reimagining of Charles Dickens's life, he and fiance Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of a spinster wearing a wedding gown... This is a follow up to her popular first book in the A Dickens of a Crime series, A TALE OF TWO MURDERS. Heather Redmond lives in Clark County and her 2018 Heather Redmond debut, A Tale of Two Murders, has received a coveted starred review from Kirkus Reviews. This is a free event and all are welcome!

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Ulysses Support Group (Book Club)

T.C. O'Leary's 2926 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Everyone welcome! ⁣😊 ⁣ The next cycle of the Ulysses Support Group will begin on Monday, July 15th from 6-8pm. ⁣ ⁣ This relaxed group of readers will meet weekly in the snug with the goal of finishing the novel by next Bloomsday (June 16, 2020). ⁣ ⁣ No need to be experienced in reading Joyce, but please bring your own copy of the book (any edition is fine). 📖

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