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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari

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

YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands. You have just arrived in Bali with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? But if you leave now, you will miss your chance to audition for the performance of a lifetime. Katherine Factor’s Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari (Chooseco) stars you as a real-life historical spy in an interactive, multiple-ending book.

Free

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Mata Hari Book Release Party

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

Join us for a special, spy-themed Book Release Party with Rose City Book Pub "faculty member" author Katherine Factor. WW1-the Belle Epoque food & drinks for all ages will be served. Spy gear and dress-up encouraged! WARNING!!! This author event is different from other author events…. Join us for a very special reading of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE SPIES: MATA HARI by Katherine Factor— an interactive middle grade story from the perspective of the young Margaretha Zelle, an icon of the glamorous Belle Epoque a century ago. Katherine will read from the beginning until YOU decide what happens next in the story. There will be a Q&A after the reading and book-signing. Books will be available for sale there.

Free

Choose Your Own Adventure BINGO

CENTRL Office Downtown 1155 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join local Choose Your Own Adventure(R) authors Katherine Factor and Rana Tahir for a thrilling game of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BINGO. Katherine and Rana will be pulling from their magical tote of gamebooks to determine where YOU land. Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure(R) gamebook series, will be giving away books as prizes throughout the event, as well as one grand finale prize of The Whole Enchilada. Never heard of CYOA? Stop by to learn more about Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini and Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Noor Inayat Khan (available 5/1/20). Remember the books from your childhood? Then you know the drill…BEWARE & WARNING, this event will be different from other events. Enter at your own risk.

Free

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Houdini Interactive Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join author Katherine Factor for a live Choose Your Own Adventure Zoom event where she will read from her new book, SPIES: Harry Houdini and YOU will make the choices. This is family-friendly event for all ages showcasing interactive fiction by a local author. Fun for all! Signed copies of the book will be available through the Rose City Book Pub. Click the ticket link to register for this event.

Free