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Blackout Party feat. David Loftus

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

BONUS BLACKOUT PARTY: In honor of the fun we had last year when the power went out, we have established an annual blackout party. We will operate by candlelight, no recorded music. David Loftus will launch the evening with Story Time for Grown Ups, and then guests are welcome to play non-amplified acoustic music or simply enjoy a gentle, quiet evening. “Story Time for Grownups” presents an American original: the uncanny, unearthly, and chillingly amusing Ambrose Bierce. A journalist of the Old West who (unlike Stephen Crane or Mark Twain) really did fight in Civil War battles and chose to tell the truth about them. No cover. Bierce specialized in three kinds of stories: realistic accounts of Civil War battles, ghost stories set mostly in…

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Albina Pageturners Book Club

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

This month’s book is The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Check at the Albina Branch Library for free copies of this book and upcoming selections.

Free

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. January will be a Fantasy Pick. We will discuss Storm Front by Jim Butcher. In this first book in the offbeat Dresden Files, readers are introduced to Harry Dresden, a wizard with a consulting practice in modern-day Chicago. Dresdens profession offers him little money, lots of mockery, the suspicion of his magical colleagues, and plenty of danger. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

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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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Reading: W.H. “Bill” Cameron and J.S. James

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon mystery authors W.H. "Bill" Cameron and J.S. James. Crossroad is Oregon author W.H. Cameron's latest mystery. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty…

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Collisions: Short Story Workshop

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this fiction workshop, we will explore how to use all manner of combustible collisions, both small and large, as generative fuel. Have a slew of disparate ideas stewing in your brain? We’ll investigate the power of unexpected pairings—how colliding seemingly unrelated images or ideas can spark something entirely original and point your work forward. You will build your own stories and receive the focused attention of a workshop environment. All levels Josha Nathan is a 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. He earned his MFA at the University of Oregon and has taught at several institutions, including Portland Community College. January 14–February 18, 2020 Tuesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. (six sessions) Instructor: Josha Nathan For writers at all levels

$275

2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: Min Jin Lee (Sold Out)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. The San Francisco Chronicle lauds it as “beautiful. . . Lee’s sweeping four-generation saga of a Korean family is an extraordinary epic.” It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, and will be translated into 27 languages. Her debut novel, 2007’s Free Food for Millionaires, was also a national best seller as well as a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, and USA Today. Lee is a recipient of fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard. The 35th season of Portland Arts & Lectures features some of the most engaging…

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Page-Turner Book Club

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

We will discuss The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club. Email us to order it or come in!

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Rene Denfeld in Conversation with Stephanie Rose

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

We are thrilled to welcome Rene Denfeld to Books Around the Corner on January 16th at 6:30-7:30pm. Rene is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Enchanted, The Child Finder, and The Butterfly Girl. Rene will discuss The Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl with Stephanie Rose, former librarian and owner of Books Around the Corner. Page Turner Book Club attendees of The Child Finder and/or The Butterfly Girl will have priority. This will be an intimate event so attendance will be capped at 15 people. To RSVP please come in and order a copy of The Butterfly Girl and/or The Child Finder or if you've attended one of the two book clubs already please let us know you plan on attending. Bring your…

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S. L. Stoner

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

Night fog drives a young newsboy into a seedy saloon where his appearance catapults Sage Adair into a world of painful memories, child exploitation, and frantic searches for missing loved ones. In the eighth novel of S. L. Stoner’s historical mystery series, Bitter Cry(Yamhill), Sage and his colorful allies find collaboration to be the path to survival. What follows is a journey into the dark corners of Sage's own past and into a present that includes kidnapping, murder, and greed.

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