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Brian Hart

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

In the America of a near future, northern California has become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatists and marked by a lack of water and fuel. Brian Hart’s Trouble No Man (Harper Perennial) is an epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world – tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the ’90s to the near future as he journeys across a militia-controlled West to find his missing family. Trouble No Man is a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.

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Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our inaugural reading theme is "water." Doors at 6:30pm. Our first readers will be: Anya Pearson, Domi J Shoemaker, Flint Flint, Kate Gray, Margaret Malone, Mary Wysong-Haeri, Pamela K. Santos, and Ravyn Gerri Stanfield Hosted by Marissa Korbel.

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Chronicles of a Blessed Man – Paul Haber

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

Join us for a reading from Chronicles of a Blessed Man, a memoir by Paul Haber. Paul Haber is a former career soldier- a Marine, then Special Forces (Green Beret) and Ranger. After retiring from the service, he held several jobs, including security officer, bodyguard, and martial arts instructor, before “finding his niche” with the Arizona Department of Corrections; progressing from Officer to Sergeant, to a type of counselor called Corrections Officer III, before taking an early retirement. His personal life was not quite as successful. Ten years after a marriage to a woman he barely knew, he became divorced and hurried into another, against the advice of his parents and friends. He didn’t realize at the time that he was, in great measure, the cause…

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Jane Kirkpatrick

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land and enjoyed a safe journey – until October, when a heavy snowstorm forced difficult decisions. Based on true events, One More River to Cross (Revell) is a compelling survival story full of grit and endurance by novelist Jane Kirkpatrick.

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