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Kids’ Storytime With Sheela Preuitt

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

Today, author Sheela Preuitt joins us to read from her new picture book, Thukpa for All (Karadi Tales). Told from a blind child’s perspective, this book from India is about friendship and community in gorgeous Ladakh. Tsering can’t wait to taste his grandmother’s delicious noodle soup. He invites a string of friends and neighbors home. But as preparations get underway, there is a power outage and the house is plunged into darkness. Will Abi be able to put together the much-anticipated thukpa?

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Mary H. K. Choi in Conversation With Laini Taylor

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

From Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called “smart and funny,” comes Permanent Record (Simon & Schuster), a new YA romance about how social media influences relationships. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. When they meet at a bodega in the dead of winter it’s absurd to think they’d be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated. Choi will be joined in conversation by Laini Taylor,…

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Aron Nels Steinke

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

Mr. Wolf's students are having a "writer's workshop" and are learning about personal narratives. Sampson doesn't think anything worth writing about has ever happened to him. But when he and Margot go for a bike ride one morning, he has an accident that gives him a new perspective, and he thanks his lucky stars that he's going to be okay. Meanwhile, Penny gives treats to the rats at school so that they'll leave gifts for her, and Stewart and Oliver try to learn how to get along at recess. Lucky Stars (Graphix) is the new book in Eisner Award-winning Aron Nels Steinke’s Mr. Wolf’s Class series.

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Jane Kirkpatrick

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

In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land and enjoyed a safe journey – until October, when a heavy snowstorm forced difficult decisions. Based on true events, One More River to Cross (Revell) is a compelling survival story full of grit and endurance by novelist Jane Kirkpatrick.

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Pageturners Book Club: A Gentleman in Moscow

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

We are now hosting the Albina Branch Library’s monthly book club. This month’s selection is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Free copies of Pageturners books are available at the Albina Library around the corner.

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

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. September will be a Science Fiction Pick. We will discuss Recursion by Blake Crouch. A relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory--his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland's upcoming Netflix film. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

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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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