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Pageturners Author Visit: Katie Grindeland

Multnomah County Library - Capitol Hill Meeting Room 10723 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland. Dangerous secrets, past tragedies, and a violent obsession are forced to the surface when Emerson and her estranged family agree to care for 10-year-old Addie. If these five can face their true selves, each other and their past, they just might find a way forward to a life filled with love and happiness. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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In Conversation: Spencer Ellsworth & Fonda Lee

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Bellingham's Spencer Ellsworth and Portland's Fonda Lee to discuss their new fantasy novels, and the exciting future of the fantasy genre. Come have drinks and books and discuss the history of fantasy, its challenges, and the exciting, diverse future of the genre. In Spencer Ellsworth's The Great Faerie Strike, Ridley Enterprises has brought industry to the Otherworld, churning out magical goods for profit. But when they fire Charles the gnome, well, they've gone too far. And against a gnome's respectable nature, he takes to the streets, fighting for workers' rights. The Otherworld's first investigative reporter, Jane, is looking for a story. And she finds it, witnessing a murder and getting sucked into a conspiracy within werewolf high society. Jane and Charles team…

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Science Fiction 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 The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Join us!

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Teen Book Club

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

The Books Around the Corner Teen Book Club is ran by the teens who attend. No adults allowed. The teens have chosen Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard for the month of September. If you're a teen interested in choosing the next book you are still more than welcome to attend! The group has also chosen to include a second book if you can't get enough with one book! Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver…

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

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

Black women and Black nonbinary people are invited to join us every second Thursday of the month for the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club. The American Booksellers Association is partnering with Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim to amplify diverse voices and support emerging writers through discussions of classics and newly published work, all written by Black authors. This month we’re reading An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Join us!

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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 David Swinson’s Frank Marr crime series. Join us!

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Kelli Estes

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest, or riding on a dusty convoy in Afghanistan. But all that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon after, Larkin discovers an unexpected treasure: the diary of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the Civil War. As Larkin struggles to heal, she finds herself drawn deep into Emily's life. The new novel from Kelli Estes, Today We Go Home (Sourcebooks Landmark), is the story of two women, living centuries apart, fighting for our country’s freedom… and their own.

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SFWA Portland Reading Series: Ted Chiang, Jack Skillingstead, and Daryl Gregory

Lucky Labrador Brewing Company 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Pacific Northwest-based Sci-Fi writers Ted Chiang, Jack Skillingstead, and Daryl Gregory head up the latest installment of a quarterly reading series with readings from their latest works, along with opportunities for networking and conversation.

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D.J. Butler, Christopher Husberg & Christopher Ruocchio

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

In Witchy Kingdom (Baen), the third book in D. J. Butler’s Witchy Eye series, Sarah Elytharias Penn must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself. In Fear the Stars (Titan), the fourth book in the Christopher Husberg’s Chaos Queen series, the true nature of the goddess Canta, and the Odenites’ final purpose, will soon be revealed. The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series, Christopher Ruocchio’s Howling Dark (Daw) merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.

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Inkwater Authors Night – Henry Alley, Peter Swan, Erik L. Welchoff

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

Join us for another night of readings from Inkwater Press authors! This month we have Henry Alley, Peter Swan, and Erik L. Welchoff. Set against the background of the Measure Nine (anti-gay rights) crisis in Oregon in the early 1990s, Henry Alley’s Precincts of Light explore the combined quests of a brother and sister, both newly out, try to recover the lost affections of their children, from five points of view in a novel of continuously rich and poetic language. The voices of Joanne (poet and mother), Harold (minister and father), Appleton (retired law professor and grandfather), Eleanor (collectibles broker and grandmother), and Samuel (politician, father and secret member of the homophobic Oregon Protection Alliance) comprise a book that explores diversity, the possibilities of a potentially peaceable…

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