Liz Rusch at A Children's Place Bookstore

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Summer Thursday at ACP featuring Liz Rusch (A Childrens Place Bookstore, @1:00pm): During the bright, fun days of summertime, come join your friends at ACP for “Summer Thursdays.” Each Thursday at 1:00, the store will host various events from sidewalk-chalk art drawing to author workshop visits. Sure to be fun for all. This Thursday ACP plays host to Liz Rusch, storytelling and activities with the author of A Day with No Crayons.

Other Book Event’s Today:

Rhys Bowen Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Royal Flush (Berkley), the latest in Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness mystery series, stars Lady Georgiana, who is 34th in line for the throne and the mystery world’s favorite penniless heiress.

Deadly Diversions Mystery Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss Colin Dexter’s Last Bus to Woodstock. Join us!

John Kroger Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Starting from his time as a green recruit and ending at the peak of his career, John Kroger’s Convictions (Farrar Straus Giroux) is an unflinching portrait of the complexities of life as a prosecutor. “Kroger’s assessment of the federal prosecutor’s problematic, overly powerful role in the legal system is well-rendered and crisply delivered,” proclaims Kirkus Reviews.

Operation Bite Back (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): As the environmental movement gains followers and momentum, Dean Kuipers’s Operation Bite Back (Bloomsbury) gives us an insider’s look at its radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream. “Anyone interested in the extreme edges of the environmental movement will be well served by this account,” hails Publishers Weekly.

An Evening of Music, Words & Glitch (The Tonic Lounge, @9:00pm): Seven Portland artists participating in a one-of-its-kind music/words event

Audiocrip makes glitched-up live beats and has been known to freestyle on occasion. Listen to “Plumb Water” and “Bang Bang” @ http://drop.io/audiocrip, http://www.myspace.com/audiocrip

Onemachine creates sound sculptures from tape loops, analog effects, vintage hi-fi equipment, multiple sound-making gadgets and electronic inventions. No computers, digital instruments, recorders or samplers are used. http://www.myspace.com/1machine

Drugstore Cowboy is all-out country rock. New CD Sonic Qualudes available from Deer Lodge Records. http://www.myspace.com/theedrugstorecowboys

Mr. Viced Honest is a psychedelic rock show featuring novelist Mike Daily, writer of Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story. “MR VICED HONEST” is an anagram for “STEVE RICHMOND.”http://www.myspace.com/mrvicedhonest

Sticks Downey is a three-person rap group combining the rhymes of Johnny Wockenfuss (CAC), backing vocals by footsolo, and bass by Talik. Debut CD When the Belt Changes Hands out now on Sly Records. http://www.sticksdowney.com, http://www.myspace.com/sticksdowney

Pecos B is a “spoken weird” artist who bridges the gap between MC’ing and stand-up comedy. http://www.myspace.com/pecosb

Michael Bruce founded the Sonic Lozenge record label (Gulls, cuss cuss cuss, audiocrip). His live sets and recorded works are as unique in sound as the gear involved: drum machines, synths, feedback loops, and a few effects, preferring the hands-on feel of vintage hardware. http://www.soniclozenge.com, http://www.myspace.com/michaelbruced

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.