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Broadway Books Fall Book Club Event

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Join us for our Fall Book Club Discussion! This quarter we will be discussing The Overstory, by Richard Powers, published by W.W. Norton & Company. The Overstory, The twelfth novel from National Book Award winner Richard Powers, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named a New York Times notable Book for 2018.  It’s described by our favorite bookseller, Ann Patchett, as "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could…

Free

Fake Radio presents The Maltese Falcon

The Vault Theater and Event Space 350 E Main Street, Hillsboro

Lynne Stewart, star of PeeWee's Playhouse and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia joins the cast of Fake Radio for the third show of their 2019 season. In 1941, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor lit up the screen with John Huston’s masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon. A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. The film won three Academy Award nominations and grossed nearly $1 million at the box office, a massive sum for its era. It cemented Humphrey Bogart as the biggest star of the decade, and remains to this day one of the best-known film noir classics. In 1943, The Lux Radio Theater presented their version of the Dashiell…

$20