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Aiden Thomas in Conversation With Adam Silvera

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In Aiden Thomas’s #OwnVoices LGBT paranormal YA novel, Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads), a trans boy determined to prove his gender to his family summons a ghost who refuses to leave. Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend, Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find out what happened…

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Ron Rash in Conversation With Colum McCann

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner). In the 10 stories of his new collection, In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena (Doubleday), Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in — rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain — and yet within this world he illuminates…

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Rosanne Parry Book Signing: A Whale of the Wild

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Best-selling author and Annie Bloom's bookseller Rosanne Parry will be signing copies of her brand new Middle Grade novel, A Whale of the Wild. The signing will take place outside, in front of the store, between 4pm and 6pm on Thursday, September 3. Books will be available to purchase at the door, or you may prepay here online. (To make sure your online order is processed before the signing, please place your order prior to end-of-day on Wednesday 9/2.) Rosanne will also be on AM Northwest on Thursday 9/3, sometime between 9am and 10am. Tune in! About the book: In the stand-alone companion to the New York Times–bestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca whale must lead her brother on a tumultuous journey to be reunited…

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Romance Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on September 3rd at 5pm for our Romance Book Club. We will discuss One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London. About the book: Bea Schumacher is a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger who has amazing friends, a devoted family, legions of Insta followers--and a massively broken heart. Like the rest of America, Bea indulges in her weekly obsession: the hit reality show Main Squeeze. The fantasy dates! The kiss-off rejections! The surprising amount of guys named Chad! But Bea is sick and…

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Historical Fiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on September 4th at 4pm for our Historical Fiction Book Club. We will discuss City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. About the book: Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant,…

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Timothy Zahn in Conversation With Tom Hoeler

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Ruling Families that lead them. The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy dispatches one of its brightest young military officers to root out the unseen assailants. A recruit born of no title, but adopted into the powerful family of the Mitth and given the name Thrawn. With the might of the Expansionary Fleet at his back, and the aid of his…

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Gary Cole presents Black Box: Page to Stage

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Note: Gary Cole and CoHo Productions are offering a 25% discount on tickets purchased by Aug. 15th if you use the promotional code "LITPDX" when purchasing tickets! If at least 10 purchases are made with the code, an additional drawing for a "Book Club Bonus" package (10 signed copies with free shipping and author call-in) will be offered for those purchasers. Purchasing a ticket for any date will provide you with access to all scenes captured on video and invitations to live talkbacks, in addition to a copy of the book (and a custom inscription and book club call-in, if applicable). CoHo Productions Co-founder Gary Cole presents Black Box: Page to Stage A Virtual Limited Run in Support of Covid-19 Arts and Culture Relief As CoHo…

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$50 – $100

Kids’ Storytime With Josh Funk

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Today, author Josh Funk joins us to read from his new picture book, Short and Sweet (Sterling), illustrated by Brendan Kearney. Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast are back with a twist: they’ve been transformed into small children. Now it’s a race against the clock to turn our favorite duo into grown-ups again! Lady Pancake is aching; Sir French Toast’s looking pale. Could they be going… STALE? Maybe a visit to Professor Biscotti’s lab for her despoiling procedure will help. But instead of beautifying them, Biscotti accidentally transforms the two treats into toddlers! Frightened of the now gargantuan (to them) Baron von Waffle, the mini breakfast foods scamper off on an adventure in the fridge, visiting everywhere from the Bran Canyon to Limes Square. Will…

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Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

September 8th will be a Fantasy Pick. Join us on Tuesday September 8th at 6pm for our Books Around the Corner Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club. We will discuss Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. About the book: The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife…

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Delve Readers Seminar: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Composed in the era of the Second World War, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has become, through various incarnations, one of the best known stories in the world and also part of a larger system of myth and lore–thee so-called “Tolkien universe”–that also includes the Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and countless additional tales in prose and verse. The three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, however, are a distinct and remarkable literary accomplishment in their own right, the summoning up of an entire narrative world (with its own contexts, traditions, languages, civilizations, personae, and challenges), at once related to and distinct from the modern world of industry and war. Tolkien’s personal experience, his deep immersion in modern philology, his spiritual and historical affinities,…

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$220
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