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Fantasy Book Club

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

March will be a Fantasy Pick. Join us on Tuesday March 10th at 6pm for our Books Around the Corner Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club. We will discuss Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. About the book: Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk--grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh--Miryem's fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. She will…

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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 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Join us!

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Reading: Jody J. Little: Worse Than Weird

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland children's author Jody Little, to read from Worse Than Weird. Readers who love Leslie Connor and Ann M. Martin will adore this story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family—and weirdness—is relative. Hoping to ditch two months of chicken coops, kale, and her parents’ antiscreen rules, Mac MacLeod sets out to win a citywide food cart scavenger hunt and the money she needs for the summer coding camp of her dreams. But Mac discovers more than just clues during her cross-city sprint—like how her weird parents might not be the worst thing compared to the circumstances of those around her. With the same humor and hope of her debut novel, Mostly the Honest Truth, Jody…

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Reading: Katharine Coldiron, Jackie Shannon Hollis, and Claire Rudy Foster

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

Los Angeles author Katharine Coldiron presents Ceremonials, a twelve-part lyric novella inspired by Florence + the Machine's 2011 album of the same name. It's the story of two girls, Amelia and Corisande, who fall in love at a boarding school. Corisande dies suddenly on the eve of graduation, but Amelia cannot shake her ghost. A narrative about obsession, the Minotaur, and the veil between life and death, Ceremonials is a poem in prose, a keening in words, and a song etched in ink. "Between poetry and prose, between word and music, Katharine Coldiron's hybrid tour de force, Ceremonials, is a loveletter between art and the body. This book makes my whole body ring like a tuning fork inside its lyric narratives. A specular devotional between artists,…

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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. This month we’re reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

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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 Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn mystery series. Join us!

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Anne Bishop

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

Return to the dark, sensual, and powerful world of the Black Jewels in The Queen’s Bargain (Ace), Anne Bishop’s long-awaited new story in the bestselling fantasy saga. As Jillian rides the winds of first love with Dillon, Daemon and Surreal struggle to survive the wounds of a marriage turned stormy – and Lucivar has to find a way to keep everyone in his family safe… even from each other.

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JP Gritton in Conversation With Mat Johnson

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, JP Gritton’s Wyoming (Tin House) is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself. It’s 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He’s broke, he’s been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next-door neighbor and a new life in Kansas City. The only opportunity on his horizon is 50 pounds of his brother’s high-grade marijuana, which needs to be driven from Colorado to Houston and exchanged for a lockbox full of cash. Gritton’s portrait of a hapless aspirant at odds with himself and everyone around him is both tender and ruthless, and Wyoming considers the possibility of redemption in a…

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Folktales for modern times: Schomburg, Ruiz Keil, Allred

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join Plonk for modern day folktales. Featuring Zachary Schomburg (Mammother), Michelle Ruiz Keil (All of Us with Wings) and Stevan Allred (The Alehouse at the End of the World).

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Cancelled – Sarah Kozloff

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

[From Powell's website: Powell's Books Suspends Event Programming Through April 2020 Following Governor Kate Brown’s announcement of new rules to slow the spread of COVID-19 and our own commitment to ensure the safety of our employees and customers, Powell’s is cancelling all author events, book clubs, and other scheduled gatherings at each of our store locations through the end of April 2020. Please check back here for updates, and thank you for your patience as we continue to adjust our plans as national and local events unfold.] Debut author Sarah Kozloff offers a breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy in the vein of Naomi Novik's Uprooted and Erika Johansen's The Queen of the Tearling. Orphaned, exiled, and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, must master the magic…

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