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John Straley

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

From the wild and wonderful mind of Shamus Award-winning author John Straley comes What Is Time to a Pig? (Soho Crime), a poetic masterpiece that explores the ugly truths of the prison industrial complex, the crumbling state of humanity, the role memory plays in the formation of the self, and much more. What Is Time to a Pig? is the third book in Straley’s Cold Storage crime series.

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Colum McCann in Conversation With Ronan McCann

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

In his daring, symphonic new novel, Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin, tells an epic story rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. McCann crafts Apeirogon (Random House) out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material crossing centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature, and politics together in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times. McCann will be joined in conversation by his brother, Ronan McCann.

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Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch.

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Spec Script: Boy Meets World

Kelly's Olympian 426 Southwest Washington St, Portland, OR, United States

Spec Script is back with an episode of Boy Meets World by Lee Cox, a phenomenal comic who has never seen the show! Reading the episode we have: Deira Bowie before she leaves for Australia! Tiffany McGuire Jake Simonds and more! Hosted by Shane Hosea, Lydia Manning, and Chris Khatami! Free, Sunday, Kelly’s Olympian, doors at 7!

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Michael Christie

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

Michael Christie’s Greenwood (Hogarth) is a dazzling, immersive generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune – trees – from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood – and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

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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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