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The Young Adult Book Club is a safe place for teens to talk about books. You pick the books and Powell’s brings the snacks! We meet monthly to discuss strong stories with diverse characters. This month we meet to discuss The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh. Join us!
Judged by Tope Folarin (A Particular Kind of Black Man) this contest gives winners and honorable mentions agency review, publication, and cash awards. Winning stories are given $3,000, second place $300, and third $200. Emerging writers only. $20 entry fee. Stories should be under 6,000 words. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but no previously published work. International submissions and translations welcomed (see details for caveats). Additional information can be found here as well.
Hello all of you lovely True Crime junkies! Pick up your copy of The Trauma Cleaner and start reading! Then come join us from 3-5, to discuss the book, snack on yummy treats, drink some wine, and talk True Crime shop! If you want to support the gracious host of our little book club that could, please purchase your copy of The Trauma Cleaner from Books Around the Corner. You can even have it shipped to you for just $5.
Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read The Alehouse at the End of the World by Stevan Allred. In this epic comedy set in the 16th century, bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry, bio-dynamic gardening, and a narcissistic, bullying crow, who may have colluded with a foreign power. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.
Join Karissa Sakumoto on Thursday Sept. 5 to celebrate the release of her new book, PROCYON II, published by Floating World Comics. Oneill Island / 3 Type Colony / Alpha Quadrant ::: Set on a distant space colony, Procyon II follows a nameless protagonist through the city labyrinth in what is either an escape from a simulation, the recollection of a dream, or a betrayal of the self. WHO: Karissa Sakumoto WHAT: PROCYON II book release and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Sept. 5, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.
After two years off the shelves, PRETTY DEADLY is coming back this September, launching the first issue of arc three (of five), PRETTY DEADLY VOL. 3: THE RAT, on September 4th, 2019. Middle chapter! Quirky literary comic, beloved by academics! In a market that seems, for the moment anyway, to be down for indies! SALES DYNAMITE, AM I RIGHT?!! Lucky for Kelly Sue and Emma, we at Books with Pictures have a huge amount of confidence in this book. The old Hollywood silent film aesthetic looks extraordinary, and DeConnick and Rios are both storytellers at the top of their game. And lucky for US, they are supporting the book's launch with materials for a monthly BOOK CLUB. There will be DISCUSSION GUIDES for each issue…
In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State (Picador), we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Buckling under the weight of being a single parent, Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in the hope that the quiet will bring clarity. Boy, was she wrong. Ultimately, Daphne must reconcile her inner narrative with the reality of a deeply divided world. The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree will be joined in conversation by Meaghan O’Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything.
Today, author Sheela Preuitt joins us to read from her new picture book, Thukpa for All (Karadi Tales). Told from a blind child’s perspective, this book from India is about friendship and community in gorgeous Ladakh. Tsering can’t wait to taste his grandmother’s delicious noodle soup. He invites a string of friends and neighbors home. But as preparations get underway, there is a power outage and the house is plunged into darkness. Will Abi be able to put together the much-anticipated thukpa?
From Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called “smart and funny,” comes Permanent Record (Simon & Schuster), a new YA romance about how social media influences relationships. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. When they meet at a bodega in the dead of winter it’s absurd to think they’d be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated. Choi will be joined in conversation by Laini Taylor,…
Mr. Wolf's students are having a "writer's workshop" and are learning about personal narratives. Sampson doesn't think anything worth writing about has ever happened to him. But when he and Margot go for a bike ride one morning, he has an accident that gives him a new perspective, and he thanks his lucky stars that he's going to be okay. Meanwhile, Penny gives treats to the rats at school so that they'll leave gifts for her, and Stewart and Oliver try to learn how to get along at recess. Lucky Stars (Graphix) is the new book in Eisner Award-winning Aron Nels Steinke’s Mr. Wolf’s Class series.