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Choose Your Own Adventure BINGO

CENTRL Office Downtown 1155 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join local Choose Your Own Adventure(R) authors Katherine Factor and Rana Tahir for a thrilling game of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BINGO. Katherine and Rana will be pulling from their magical tote of gamebooks to determine where YOU land. Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure(R) gamebook series, will be giving away books as prizes throughout the event, as well as one grand finale prize of The Whole Enchilada. Never heard of CYOA? Stop by to learn more about Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini and Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Noor Inayat Khan (available 5/1/20). Remember the books from your childhood? Then you know the drill…BEWARE & WARNING, this event will be different from other events. Enter at your own risk.

Free

Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Just in Case You Want to Fly by Julie Fogliano.

Free

The League of Exceptional Writers

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

In “From Idea to Story,” Mark Fearing, author of Earthling!, uses the power of improv and doodling to take you from brilliant idea to fully formed story. Hosted by Rosanne Parry, the League of Exceptional Writers is a monthly workshop where authors and illustrators share their knowledge with kids, ages 8 to 18 years old, who are interested in creating books. Join us!

Free

Dani Burlison reading

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

Dani Burlison is the creator/editor/author of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body (PM Press, 2019), Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories, a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name, and the Lady Parts zine series (available at Pioneers Press). Her short story collection Some Places Worth Leaving will be published by Tolsun Books in February 2020. Dani has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED, The Rumpus, Made Local Magazine and Emerald Report. Her journalism, fiction and personal essays can also be found at Ms. Magazine,WIRED, Vice, Utne, Earth Island Journal, Ploughshares, Portland Review,…

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Free

Sci-Fi Authorfest 13

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

A starfleet of science fiction and fantasy authors descends for one galactic booksigning event. Meet Terry Brooks, Robin Hobb, Brent Weeks, C. J. Cherryh, Fonda Lee, Sebastien de Castell, Shawn Speakman, Caitlin Starling, Jason Gurley, Curtis C. Chen, Brenda Cooper, Kevin James Breaux, Spencer Ellsworth, Ken Scholes, Devon Monk, and Emily Suvada.

Free

Marissa Meyer & Tamara Moss

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

The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades series, Supernova (Feiwel & Friends), finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City. In Tamara Moss’s action-filled fantasy adventure, Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Clarion), gutsy girls and strong women make up the diverse and appealing crew of a pirate ship that battles intrigue and deadly monsters.

Free

PLEASE HOLD with Alissa Hattman

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

PLEASE HOLD: Silence and Tension in Flash Fiction w/ Alissa Hattman At first glance, it may sound like a paradox—how does language express its absence? In this workshop, we will consider that question and examine the art of silence through sample readings, discussion, generative writing, listening and sharing. We will think about the types of silences in short-form writing, who or what is silenced, and how silence builds tension; finally, we will write into the secret silences, what Ada Limón describes as a “silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaking into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore.” In a supportive, collaborative space, this workshop will focus on short-form fiction, but is open to…

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$30

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club and Author Visit

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

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club will alternate monthly between Science Fiction and Fantasy. November will be a Sci-Fi Pick. We will discuss The Seas of Distant Stars by Francesca G. Varela. Francesca will be joining us at 6:30pm for a Q&A session! Agapanthus was kidnapped when she was only two years old, but she doesn't remember it. In fact, she doesn't remember her home planet at all. All she knows is Deeyae, the land of two suns; the land of great, red waters. Her foster-family cares for her, and at first that's enough. But, as she grows older, Agapanthus is bothered by the differences between them. As an Exchanger, she's frail and tall, not short and strong. And, even though she was raised Deeyan, she certainly isn't…

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Free

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 Startide Rising by David Brin. Join us!

Free

Louisa Morgan

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

Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie Anne's long-lost husband – who is not quite the man she thought she married. The Witch’s Kind (Redhook) is an absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II, by Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches.

Free
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