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Crissy Van Meter in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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

Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures (Algonquin) probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief – and the ways in which our childhoods can threaten our ability to love if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. Lyrical, darkly funny, and ultimately cathartic, Crissy Van Meter’s mesmerizing, provocative debut exerts a pull as strong as the tides. Van Meter will be joined in conversation…

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Horror Book Club

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

We will discuss Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Please note the change in week for this month only. For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

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SFWA NW Portland Reading Series – January 2020

Lucky Labrador Brewing Company 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

The Pacific Northwest is home to a Tardis-Full of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers, a fact celebrated every quarter with the Pacific Northwest Reading Series. These free quarterly events provide the Northwest Science Fiction and Fantasy community a chance to gather, network and enjoy readings from local and visiting authors in Portland and Seattle. Each event features three authors who read from their latest work, interpreting and explaining their concepts and vision. In addition, space is provided for networking and conversation. Booksellers will be on hand with fresh copies of the authors’ books for you to buy and get autographed. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as How to…

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Russell Rowland

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

Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider, Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family, and his troubled son Roger. What Carl doesn't realize is that there are plenty of people who have reason to kill Tom Butcher. Complications arise when the investigating officers discover that Tom Butcher had a secret – a secret he kept even from Junior Kirby, a lifelong rancher and Butcher’s best friend. As accusations fly and secrets are revealed one after another, the people of Paradise Valley learn how deeply Tom Butcher was embedded in…

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American Dirt – CANCELLED

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

Please note this event (and the remainder of Cummins’s tour) has been cancelled by her publisher. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy – two of them her favorites. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s…

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Linsey Miller in Conversation With Rosiee Thor

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

In Linsey Miller’s standalone French-inspired fantasy for teens, Belle Révolte (Sourcebooks Fire), two young women work together in secret to stay alive and end a war caused by magic and greed before it kills thousands for the sake of the wealthy few. Miller, author of the Mask of Shadows duology, will be joined in conversation by Rosiee Thor, author of Tarnished Are the Stars.

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Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling novels, The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, and her groundbreaking memoir, The Chronology of Water, have established her as one of our most urgent contemporary voices: a writer with a rare gift for tracing the jagged boundaries between art and trauma, sex and violence, destruction and survival. In Verge (Riverhead), her first collection of short fiction, she turns her eye to life on the margins, in all its beauty and brutality. A book of heroic grace and empathy, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life.

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World Read Aloud Day

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

For 11 years, World Read Aloud Day has called attention to the importance of sharing stories and fostering literacy by challenging participants to grab a book, find an audience, and read aloud. This year, First Book Portland is teaming up with one of our favorite businesses to further our efforts to support literacy in our community. Rose City Book Pub will feature a reading from local children’s book author and illustrator Kate Berube for your listening enjoyment! The pub offers a large selection of literature, books by local authors, nonfiction, and children’s books—not to mention great food and beer! Please join us to hear stories, support literacy, and grab a bite or brew. COST: $5 donation (all proceeds will go to First Book Portland)

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Historical Fiction Book Club

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

This will be a community led book club focusing on historical fiction titles. The February title will be The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. ABOUT THE BOOK In Depression-era America, five extraordinary women embark on a remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Based on a true story rooted in America's past, The Giver of Stars is a richly rewarding novel of women's friendship, of true love, and of what happens when people reach beyond their grasp. 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 or check it out from the library we will now be asking members who do…

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Adalyn Grace in Conversation With Tomi Adeyemi

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

Set in a kingdom where danger lurks beneath the sea, mermaids seek vengeance with song, and magic is a choice, Adalyn Grace’s All the Stars and Teeth (Imprint) is a thrilling fantasy for fans of Stephanie Garber’s Caraval and Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series. As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer – the master of souls. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy’s dangerous magic. When her demonstration goes awry, Amora is forced to flee. Grace will be joined in conversation by Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone. Please note: A purchase of All the Stars and Teeth…

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