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Marissa Meyer & Tamara Moss

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

The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades series, Supernova (Feiwel & Friends), finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City. In Tamara Moss’s action-filled fantasy adventure, Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Clarion), gutsy girls and strong women make up the diverse and appealing crew of a pirate ship that battles intrigue and deadly monsters.

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Matt Saincome & Bill Conway

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

Since 2014, The Hard Times has been at the forefront of music journalism, delivering hard-hitting reports and in-depth investigations into the punk and hardcore scene. From their scathing takedown of Kim Jong-un after he appointed himself the new singer of Black Flag to their incisive coverage of a healthy Lars Ulrich being replaced by a hologram, the site has become a trusted source for all things counterculture. In The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner), Matt Saincome and Bill Conway reveal their humble roots, documenting The Hard Times’ ascension alongside the rise of punk.

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Blackout Party feat. David Loftus

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

In honor of the fun we had last year when the power went out, we have established an annual blackout party. We will operate by candlelight, no recorded music. David Loftus will launch the evening with Story Time for Grown Ups, and then guests are welcome to play non-amplified acoustic music or simply enjoy a gentle, quiet evening.

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Michael Dickman + Paulann Petersen

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Michael Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. He received his MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His first poetry collection, The End of the West, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. He is also the author of Green Migraine and the coauthor, with his brother Matthew Dickman, of 50 American Plays. His second collection, Flies, received the 2010 James Laughlin Award. Dickman was awarded the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University for 2009-2010. He is on the faculty at Princeton University, and lives in New Jersey. Paulann Petersen served from 2010–2014 as Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate. She is the author of seven poetry collections: The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk, A Bride of Narrow Escape, Kindle, The Voluptuary, Understory, and most recently One Small Sun (2019)…

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The River at Night comix reading and signing with Kevin Huizenga

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

A MAN HAS TROUBLE FALLING ASLEEP AND REFLECTS ON HIS LIFE, MARRIAGE, AND TIME ITSELF In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges—him reading a library book and her working on her computer—becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time. As they head to bed, Wendy exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture. The River at Night flashes back, first to satirize the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and then to examine the camaraderie of playing first-person shooter video games with work colleagues. Huizenga shifts focus to suggest ways to fall…

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Louisa Morgan

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

Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie Anne's long-lost husband – who is not quite the man she thought she married. The Witch’s Kind (Redhook) is an absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II, by Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches.

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Richard Louv

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

Richard Louv’s landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling (Algonquin) explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth. Our Wild Calling makes the case for protecting, promoting, and creating a sustainable and shared habitat for all creatures – not out of fear, but out of love. Transformative and inspiring, this book points us toward what we all long for in the age of technology: real connection.

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David Oates

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

We welcome David Oates to read from his new book The Mountains of Paris, published by Oregon State University Press. Writing in the present tense about the seasons he spent living in Paris, waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. It is a rare opportunity to consider what it means to be human, through time-stopping moments with music, art, and deep history. The book offers memories that intrude into the bustle of Paris life: a Billy Graham crusade at age thirteen, a mountain pass, a love, a loss. In long years of mountaineering, Oates fought the self-loathing which had…

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Warren C. Easley

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

In Warren C. Easley’s No Way to Die (Poisoned Pen), an atmospheric mystery set in the Pacific Northwest, attorney Cal Claxton is looking forward to taking a much-needed vacation with his daughter… until they discover a body on a coastal river, and find themselves surrounded by danger. As several suspects begin to emerge, both Claire and Cal are thrust into danger, barely escaping with their lives. Can the father-daughter team uncover what really happened and win the wrongfully imprisoned teen his freedom? And in the process, can Cal assure the safety of the person he loves more than anyone on earth?

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Incite: Queer Writers Read

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

You're invited to an all-queer-Kate reading: Kate Carroll De Gutes, Kate Ristau, Kate Gray, and Kate Gray. (No, you're not seeing double.) The theme is "naming." Go figure. After Portland Book Festival on Nov. 9, come back to the local scene, in all its spice, fluidity, and fire.

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