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Pageturners Author Visit: Katie Grindeland

Multnomah County Library - Capitol Hill Meeting Room 10723 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland. Dangerous secrets, past tragedies, and a violent obsession are forced to the surface when Emerson and her estranged family agree to care for 10-year-old Addie. If these five can face their true selves, each other and their past, they just might find a way forward to a life filled with love and happiness. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Rudy Owens

Multnomah County Library - Belmont Meeting Room 1038 SE César E. Chávez Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read You Don't Know How Lucky You Are: An Adoptee's Journey Through the American Adoption Experience by Rudy Owens. Nearly 50 years after he was relinquished for adoption, Rudy Owens learned how fortunate life can be. In 2014 in San Diego, Owens met his biological half-sister for the first time. That meeting inspired Owens to tell his adoption story set against the larger adoption narrative that has impacted millions of adoptees, their birth parents, and their collective biological and adoptive families. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Willy Vlautin

Multnomah County Library - St. Johns Library 7510 N Charleston Avenue Portland, OR 97203, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin. Don’t Skip Out on Me is going to make your heart crumple into a little wad of paper and then open it back up into a perfect paper airplane sailing the skies from the hand of a boy. How does a bi-cultural man find a self when he’s been abandoned by his parents? He invents it, that’s how. No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt than Vlautin. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Katie Grindeland

Multnomah County Library - St. Johns Library 7510 N Charleston Avenue Portland, OR 97203, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland. Dangerous secrets, past tragedies, and a violent obsession are forced to the surface when Emerson and her estranged family agree to care for 10-year-old Addie. If these five can face their true selves, each other and their past, they just might find a way forward to a life filled with love and happiness. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Leni Zumas

Multnomah County Library - Midland Library 805 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity and freedom. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Kenneth R. Coleman

Multnomah County Library - Rockwood Library 17917 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon by Kenneth R. Coleman. James D. Saules, a black sailor, was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Just two years later, Oregon Trail emigrants began arriving in large numbers and Saules had to adapt to a new reality in which Anglo-American settlers persistently sought to marginalize and exclude black residents from the region. In Dangerous Subjects, Coleman sheds light on a neglected chapter in Oregon's history. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Pageturners Author Visit: Jerry Sutherland

Multnomah County Library - North Portland Meeting Room 512 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read Calvin Tibbets: Oregon's First Pioneer by Jerry Sutherland. Sutherland tells the story of the first American to settle permanently in Oregon Country with the goal of making it part of the United States. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Albina Pageturners Book Club

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

This month’s book is A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza. Check at the Albina Branch Library for free copies of this book and upcoming selections.

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Albina Pageturners Book Club

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

This month’s book is The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Check at the Albina Branch Library for free copies of this book and upcoming selections.

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Albina Pageturners Book Club

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

This month’s book is There There by Tommy Orange. Check at the Albina Branch Library for free copies of this book and upcoming selections.

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