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The Adoption – David Schein

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading from The Adoption, the newest work from David Schein. An international coming of age story in a world where borders are collapsing and Ethiopian children beg pennies from eco-tourists to use at internet cafés to FB their cousins in Las Vegas. Tracking the coming of age of brothers and sisters, friends and cousins across the cultural divide, and set in Ethiopia, Chicago, Dubai, and China through twenty years of the most rapid development Africa has ever known, The Adoption is contemporary and international, tracking the lives of kids growing up today in tomorrow’s world. Writer? Composer? Actor? Performance Artist? Social Change Artist? David Schein is hard to pin down. He attended the Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa where…

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Monthly Poetry – Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, Chrys Tobey

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly last-Thursday poetry reading! This month we have work from Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, and Chrys Tobey. Blue Mistaken for Sky, Hollander’s fifth full-length poetry collection, reads like a memoir in verse. It explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging and the evolution of personal relationships through a life. One Small Sun, by Paulann Petersen, takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a Hyderabadi shrine in India’s subcontinent. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig, an elegy for a grandmother’s panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry’s ability to bring alive again what is coded into…

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Three Ways to Disappear – Katy Yocom

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading of Three Ways to Disappear, a debut novel by Katy Yocom. Leaving behind a nomadic career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, country of her childhood and of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn, fears that India will be Sarah’s undoing. As Sarah’s new job is made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love, Quinn copes with their mother’s refusal to discuss the past, her son’s life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of…

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Rob Carney and Scott Poole

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

An evening of newsworthy and humorous poems by 2019 Washington State Book Award finalist Rob Carney and former House Poet of NPRs Live Wire!, Scott Poole. Rob’s The Book of Sharks is a finalist for the Washington Book Award. Scott will be selling a special limited edition of an art book of 20 poems and 20 original paintings. Rob Carney is originally from the northwest (Puyallup, Tacoma, Spokane) and now lives in Salt Lake City. He is the author of five books, most recently The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which is a finalist for this year’s Washington State Book Award for Poetry (winner to be announced Saturday Oct. 12, so think good thoughts, please). His collection 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015) was…

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Mollie Hunt and Heather Ames

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a multi-book launch event from local authors Mollie Hunt and Heather Ames! Among the featured releases are Hunt’s Cat Noel, a Crazy Cat Lady cozy mystery Christmas novella, and Ames’s Swift Retribution, book three in the Brian Swift & Kaylen Roberts mystery/suspense series. In Cat Noel, Lynley finds a new meaning of Christmas when a Wiccan’s familiar is catnapped, and Lynley becomes her only hope. Lynley Cannon is dreading the Holidays. The sixty-something cat shelter volunteer would rather hang out with cats that brave her daughter’s soulless Christmas gala, so when a witch’s beloved kitty is catnapped, Lynley grabs the excuse to skip out on her social obligations. Though Lynley knows little about the white witchcraft known as Wicca, she does know cats and…

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Poetry Night – JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, Armin Tolentino

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly poetry night! This month we’ll hear from JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, and Armin Tolentino. SAVAGERY joins JC Mehta’s oeuvre as a reflection of what it means to be indigenous in today’s increasingly hostile, post-colonial America. Reflecting on self, place, and space and with strong confessional leanings, SAVAGERY joins the ranks of other much-needed indigenous poetry of the era to provide a lens (and mirror) into indigenous issues and disparities while also providing a constant offering of hope. These poems are raw and very, very necessary. Gwendolyn Morgan’s Before the Sun Rises offers richly textured poetic renderings of and emotional responses to natural landscapes. Her poems hold a deep sense of care for and rootedness in the natural world. She weaves…

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Jim Tilley and Cai Emmons

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for readings from Against the Wind, the debut novel from Jim Tilley, and Weather Woman, the latest from Cai Emmons. Against the Wind is an elegantly written story of relationships involving six principal characters, the strands of whose lives braid together after a chance reunion among three of them. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished…

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Storm Wrack & Spindrift Book Launch with Margaret Pinard

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

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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Goodbye Party

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Ok, hopefully it's not goodbye, and I'm not keen on throwing parties, but See You Later Gathering doesn't sound as enticing. Still, I want to say "thank you for your support" and "hope to see you soon" to everyone. So come on by this coming Friday, Jan 17 between 5 and 8ish, enjoy some snacks and drinks, and take a last look at our Miss Ave location. Feel free to bring something vegetarian to share, but only if you want to.

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OMSI After Dark: Books & Brews

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) 1945 SE Water Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for OMSI After Dark: Books & Brews! Find your next favorite book, learn how to get self published and sample local brews. The ultimate night out! Typically the last Wednesday of the month, OMSI After Dark is a 21+ event that gathers local vendors, artisans, and science content for you to enjoy. Get ready to taste test a local brew, catch a show, or try a science demo – all while exploring the museum’s permanent exhibit halls. CURRENT COVID RULES Masks are optional for guests although we still highly encourage you to wear a mask and recommend you wear an N95 or KN95. We are limiting capacity to 1,200 guests. 21+ Only | A valid government issued ID is required for entry for…

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$25 – $40
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