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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

The Tesla City Stories Season 5 Premiere – Vintage Spy Thriller!

The Old Church Concert Hall 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

US spy Trace Allen is off to Istanbul where he’s tasked with securing a brilliant German aeronautical engineer on the run from the Nazis and other interested parties ...including the fearsome Soviet spy codenamed “Kamchatka.” Aren’t the USA and the USSR allies? Ah, but all is fair in love and espionage. There are crosses, double-crosses, action and romance aplenty when The Tesla City Stories presents the vintage radio thriller OSPREY-6: “Quit Stalin” parts 1 & 2 Friday, June 28th at 8 PM at the Old Church Concert Hall. Tickets (and super-secret passwords) available at www.teslatix.com

$9 – $70

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