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Book Launch for Beyond the Third Door by Maria Heckinger

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Book Launch for Maria Heckinger’s Beyond the Third Door 6pm Thursday, August 22, 2019 Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660 angstgallery.com Join us on August 22 for an event to celebrate the publication of Maria Heckinger’s astounding memoir debut, Beyond the Third Door. The author will be present to read from and sign copies of her new book. Maria Heckinger’s memoir Beyond the Third Door tells an incredible story which straddles the fine line between blind luck and unexplained miracles. On a Greek island in 1952, 15-year-old Hariklea’s life is changed in an instant. Sent by her father to a doctor on the mainland, the girl discovers she is pregnant. Given the social taboos of the time, Hariklea is exiled to the streets…

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Fictional Film Club Book Release

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

This is the launch event for the new book FICTIONAL FILM CLUB by MARK SAVAGE, published by DEEP OVERSTOCK. There will be: Readings, invocations of the impossible, a live ritual in tribute to art that will never be. With snacks 'n' booze, glamour 'n' shoes. Bring your friends/crushes/lovers and receive bonus Tokens of Cool* In FICTIONAL FILM CLUB, our narrator attempts to review a series of movies that don't exist. From here, he slips into an ever more obsessive and self-obsessive unreality of made-up movie stars, false features, and perverse productions. MARK SAVAGE is writer and musician from Portsmouth, England. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is the host of the MIND-MELD, CAPTAIN OF STORYTIME, and the founding member of the FICTIONAL FILM CLUB.…

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Book Launch for Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Book Launch Celebration for Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier 6pm September 28, 2019 Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660 angstgallery.com In our era of retreating glaciers, Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier is refreshing. The first and title poem opens “I capture your chill/ I nurture your chill/ I rapture your chill” and through the rest of the chapbook the poet does indeed capture details, nurture appreciation, and open us to rapture. We travel across many continents but these are not just tourist accounts decorated with exotic flowers. Each poem is precise and deeply personal. Grandmother chews food “small and fine./ She feeds me,/ mouthful by mouthful.” The reader will also be fed. – Penelope Scambly Schott Born in China and raised…

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Suspense and Treats: Sweethearts (a novel by Elizabeth Mitchell)

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

Come join me (Elizabeth Mitchell) at Broadway Books for the launch of my new literary suspense novel, SWEETHEARTS! Nineteen years after finding Laura Hurst in a frozen lake, Ada Bailey agrees with her therapist: it’s time to revisit Lynn Pond and confront the past. But Silynn holds more than memories. Decades-old secrets tumble out as Ada explores the town she was sent away from, though her return dredges up more than sordid pieces of the townsfolk’s lives. Sam Pruette, a collector of innocents, worries Ada may remember details from that frigid day in November of 1988. Laura was only the first sweetheart. On Wednesday, October 2nd at 8 pm, I will be reading from SWEETHEARTS. There will be cookies, drinks, and cute take-home conversation heart…

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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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Celebrating PS. The Wolves

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

Mark those calendars! In a little over two weeks we release our newest title, PS. The Wolves by @justinhocking (Justin Hocking)! Keep that spooky thing going for at least one more night after Halloween! Also reading will be the author of our recent title “Everyday Mythologies,” @joshuaamberson (Joshua James Amberson), pal and exceptional writer @karleighannebrogan (Karleigh Frisbie Brogan), and the author of “Pop” + the book-next-released “Exercise Poems,” @ourholyfather (Chris Maday) ! Come to @iprc_pdx on Friday, November 1st at 7pm!  

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Fur Not Light Party & Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

To celebrate the publication of Jeff Alessandrelli's second poetry collection Fur Not Light Cardinal Club will be hosting a post-Halloween party/reading with some of Jeff's friends who helped him shape/edit the book. Special drinks and foodstuffs inspired by Fur Not Light will be for sale and free (chocolate) cake will also be available. This will be the international literary event of the decade. Fur Not Light press blurbicle: Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Fur Not Light interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as “Nothing of the Month Club” and “December 32nd,” as well as the long ideogram-based work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in…

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All of Me: Reading at Mother Foucault’s

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate the launch of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body with editor Dani Burlison and Portland writers Amanda Blix and Karleigh Frisbie Brogan. Live feminist ukulele music from Sorry Not Sorry! --- * Amanda Blix is an artist, mother and lover of the earth. Her work has appeared in Hip Mama, Vision Quest, Rad Dad, the New York Times and 2 anthologies by the Sound Grounds Wrecking Crew. She has self-published 11 comic book zines and is the illustrator and collaborator of the zine series Which is Witch. She lives in Portland with her family and is about to finish her final year of mystery school (if she doesn't drop out first). * Dani Burlison is the creator and editor…

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Reading: Drunk In China

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

Derek Sandhaus will launch his new book about Chinese alcohol and drinking culture, and discuss what it will take for the world to finally clink glasses with the Middle Kingdom.

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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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