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NaNoWriMo Hangout

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Free Youth 10-24* Mon. Nov 25th, & Fri. Nov 8th, 15th & 22nd, 3:30-5pm National Novel Writing Month hangout hosted by our youth collective librarian Blaine! “A space where people (of all writing abilities) can bring writing projects they’ve been meaning to work on, or want to start something new, whether they’re planning on writing a novel or not!” *Sign-in and enrollment are required. Enrollment (open only to folks 10-24) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person, you should enroll! It’s free! For more details check out our enrollment page!

Free

English Alumni Reading: Fiction and Nonfiction

William Aime (’15) David Kroman (’11) return to campus reading from the work they’ve done since graduation. Both Aime and Kroman have had some success – in different ways – in the writing world. They will talk about paying the bills, being newly graduated, and keeping the writing flame going, long after the spark of undergraduate classes has dimmed away. Location: Miller Hall, Room 102

Free

Whiskey When We’re Dry – Reading by author John Larison and students from Northwest Academy

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

John Larison spent much of his childhood in remote regions of Australia, the Caribbean, Canada, the South Pacific, Alaska, and the American West before graduating from high school in Ithaca, New York. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Oregon, and became a renowned fly-fishing guide ahead of earning an MFA from Oregon State University, where he stayed to teach while writing Whiskey When We’re Dry. He lives with his family in rural Oregon. From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads west Synopsis: In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family’s homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation…

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All Kinds of Fur

Indivisible 2544 SE 26th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

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.

Free

Daniel H. Wilson

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

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…

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Elizabeth Rusch Story Time!

Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR, United States

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!

Free

Classics 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 Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. Join us!

Free

Page-Turner Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

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…

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Storm Wrack & Spindrift Book Launch with Margaret Pinard

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

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?…

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Niche Book Club: Where the Crawdads Sing

Niche Wine Bar 1013 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

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…

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