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Indie Comix Reading

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

To celebrate Portland’s Comic Book month, there will be a rad reading of talented indie cartoonists at the IPRC!  With content ranging from personal and introspective to fantastical and obscene, it should be a wild night!  This event will take place on Monday April 29th, 6:30, doors at 6, at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.  Bring cash to buy comics and support the artists! Tanya Boney  Written by Grey Traynor, drawn by Rachel Mulder, Tanya Boney is a comic about a teen girl living her best life by destroying the lives others. Tanya Boney: @tanya_boney_official / Rachel Mulder: @rchlmulder / Grey Traynor: @gaytraynor Ebin Lee Ebin Lee is a barista (kind of) in their extremely late 20s who went to art school and now draws…

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Liz Scott in conversation with Rene Denfeld

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled to welcome Liz Scott and Rene Denefeld to the store at 7 pm on Monday, April 29th. In her memoir This Never Happened, Liz Scott goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. She mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined.“This is where I live -- somewhere smack between pity and rage, between empathy and indictment. And as hard as I look, I still can’t find a place between mercy and pain.” Scott has creatively assembled the text, including bulleted and numbered lists, correspondence, and photographs, which together tell Scott’s family history from as many angles as possible. In the end, the book is about the struggle to clear away pain to make room for…

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Graham Hancock

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

Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, has made it his life's work to find out. In America Before (St. Martin’s), he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. America Before is a culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work, namely an exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing discoveries, and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

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Mo Welch in Conversation With Stacey Hallal

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

Stand-up comedian Mo Welch’s How to Die Alone (Workman) is a self-help guide for NOT helping yourself, packed with irreverent humor and terrible life advice for modern adults. Welch's comics illustrate and celebrate our common afflictions – social anxiety, terrible dates, too few friends (who aren't cats), too many cookies, too much wine, and an allergy to exercise and day jobs – with totally relatable, slightly dark, and genuinely funny humor. Welch will be joined in conversation by comedian Stacey Hallal, founder of Portland’s Curious Comedy Theater.

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Carolyn Burke

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

Carolyn Burke’s Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury (Knopf) is a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of 20th-century art.

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Reading: 9 Bridges

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

9 Bridges is a community for writers to find support, friendship and helpful resources in an informal, evolving community setting.

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Lewis & Clark Senior Student Poetry Reading

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Please join the English department for an evening of readings of original works of poetry by senior students from Mary Szybist’s Advanced Poetry Writing course. Refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Children’s Book Week Read Aloud Pajama Party

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

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Children's Book Week at Books Around the Corner. Wear your pajamas and bring your favorite picture book or read one of ours! Readers young and old will get to be in small groups to encourage confidence while reading aloud. Children's activity guides with a super cool poster will be availale all week while supplies last for FREE! This is an ALL AGES DROP IN event! We will also be raffling off one of our favorite bedtime stories!

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Henry Thomas – CANCELLED

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

In actor Henry Thomas’s debut fantasy novel, The Window and the Mirror (Rare Bird), a captured soldier must escort a mysterious girl to a distant city to broker peace between two peoples poised on the brink of war. Left to die in a deep chasm, his commander stumbles upon a dark and powerful secret: how to harness the energy of men’s souls and bend them to his will. Is this the secret that Goblinkind has been hiding from the race of men? For Mage Imperator Rhael Lord Uhlmet, the lure of such power is irresistible, even if he must start a war to attain it.

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Miriam Toews in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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

Based on real events, Miriam Toews’s Women Talking (Bloomsbury) is the story of eight women in a remote Mennonite colony who face an agonizing decision in the aftermath of a series of unspeakable sexual crimes. Toews’s masterful new novel, told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium, uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide. Toews will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.

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