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Cathy Lamb

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

Set against the natural beauty of the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, Cathy Lamb’s latest novel, All About Evie (Kensington), tells the emotionally compelling story of one woman’s life-changing discovery about her past. Spurred on by the revelations of a DNA test, Evie uncovers the real story of her past. But beyond her feelings of shock and betrayal, there are unexpected opportunities – to come to terms with a gift that has sometimes felt like a curse, to understand the secrets that surrounded her childhood, and to embrace the surprising new life that is waiting for her.

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André Aciman

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

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. Nearly three-quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In his new novel, Find Me (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest…

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