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Alexandra and David Brown

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

From Broadway Books's website: We welcome Alexandra and David Brown to the store on Wednesday, November 7th, at 7 pm to read from their recently published book A Year Off: A Story about Traveling the World – and How to Make It Happen for You, published by Chronicle Books. The book is one part practical travel guide, one part travel essays and photos, and one part memoir, documenting their story of deciding to take a year off from their jobs and “regular lives” to travel the world after only knowing each other for a few months. Over the course of one year they visited twenty countries together. The major sections of the book cover steps to take “Before You Go,” “On the Road,” and “Coming…

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Reading: Jacqueline Rothenberg

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

Jacqueline will read from her book Let’s Leave the Country: A Guide to Your Family Year Abroad.

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, 2nd Ed.

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

Praised as the “bestest travel guide ever” (Mary Roach) and “a joy to read and reread” (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura (Workman) is a phenomenon of travel books. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with a completely revised and updated second edition. Coauthor Ella Morton joins us to paint a rich panorama of what a marvelously strange world we live in.

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