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Page-Turner Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

We will discuss The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld. Rene will join us via Skype for a live Q&A at 6:30pm A riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. Available at a 15% discount to order if…

Free

Storm Wrack & Spindrift Book Launch with Margaret Pinard

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Possibly our last event for 2019 features one of our very own booksellers, Margaret Pinard! She is launching her fifth historical novel, Storm Wrack & Spindrift, which concludes the three-book Remnants series: The MacLeans have suffered being thrown off their land, emigrating to the New World, surviving in the forest wilderness, and losing their father Gillan in a bizarre murder. Now, ten years later, the two youngest emigrants split the family across an ocean: Sheena and her husband Gordon Lamont pursue a future back in Scotland while Alisdair dreams of university and a chance to reform the political system. But the British Empire of the 1830s has yet more surprises. When the only school in the province only accepts Anglican students, what will Alisdair do?…

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