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Cancelled – Emily Beyda

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, 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.] A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where…

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Cancelled – Jody J. Little

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.] Hoping to ditch two months of chicken coops, kale, and her parents’ anti-screen rules, Mac sets out to win a citywide food cart scavenger hunt and the money she needs for the summer coding camp of her dreams.…

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Book Launch: Bill Walton Mysteries by Jamie Kirkland

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

The long awaited second volume of The Bill Walton Mysteries is finally here! Join NW famous author and world famous actor Jamie Kirkland (James when he is in California) as he reads from and performs from his new book. Bill Walton trivia contest! With prizes!

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Black Storytime at Rockwood Library

Multnomah County Library - Rockwood Library 17917 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR, United States

The African and African American experience comes alive for children from birth to age 6 (with a favorite adult and other family members). In a positive and affirming environment, have fun with books and stories, songs, and movement activities. Black Storytime builds language and literacy skills your child needs to be ready for kindergarten.

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Cancelled – Ramiza Shamoun Koya

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, 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.] Ramiza Shamoun Koya reveals the devastating cost of anti-Muslim sentiment in The Royal Abduls (Forest Avenue), her debut novel. Evolutionary biologist Amina Abdul accepts a post-doc in Washington, DC, choosing her career studying hybrid zones over a faltering…

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Reading: Phillip Margolin: A Reasonable Doubt

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

Portland thriller writer Phillip Margolin's latest, A Reasonable Doubt, is the third in his Robin Lockwood series. Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer’s. One of Regina’s former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request—he’s seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician of some renown and he has a major new trick he’s about to debut. This is out of the scope of the law firm’s expertise, but when…

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Reading: Laura Munson: Willa’s Grove

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Montana author Laura Munson, whose new novel is Willa's Grove. Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they'd be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends. The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what? Struggling to find the…

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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 Sadie by Courtney Summers for the month of March on Wednesday the 18th at 5pm. If you're a teen interested in choosing the next book you are still more than welcome to attend! Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. We offer 15% discount off our book club books. Due to the time and effort we put into organizing our book clubs if you choose to purchase the book elsewhere, already own it, or check it out from the…

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Book Launch: Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem

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

The second volume of the Underland Tarot series has arrived. This one is called Eighteen, and it is symbolic of the great river at night, where the wolves howl and all doors are open. All thresholds are possible, and every truth is elusive. The Eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. These are stories of mischief and mayhem. These are stories of magic. Come celebrate the vernal equinox with us and get your copy of Eighteen. The anthology contains several Portland area writers and they'll be reading their stories!

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Reading: Cai Emmons & Tammy Lynne Stoner

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon authors Cai Emmons & Tammy Lynne Stoner. The characters in Cai Emmons's Vanishing: Stories operate in a world in which their voices are not heard, and are navigating prickly paths, doing what they can to survive. An attorney, mother of twin babies, is destabilized when her husband is away, and comes to doubt she has a right to her own house; a young artist thinks she knows the score when she moves from LA to New York, only to be forced to look past stereotypes to discover what really matters; a documentary filmmaker, rattled by her recent divorce, visits her oldest childhood friend, who is several years into debilitating dementia, and realizes how quickly shared history can vanish; a woman in…

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