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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Elizabeth Sims Reading (Murder by the Book, @5:00pm): Starring Rita Farmer, a struggling Hollywood actress, single mom, law student, and amateur sleuth, The Extra is the sixth novel by author Elizabeth Sims, who lives on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Dressed in a police costume as a movie extra, Rita scares off two would-be muggers attacking a young black boy. But when an actual cop who looks like Rita gets murdered, she realizes something far deadlier is going on. Also look for The Actress in which Rita is hired by a lawyer at $1,000 a day to teach a woman accused of murdering her baby how to be more sympathetic to a jury.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Tomato Rhapsody (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Adam Schell’s extravagant, inventive debut novel, Tomato Rhapsody (Delacorte), love’s heart beats tomato red under a sultry Tuscan sun. “Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots — ranging from the bawdy to the sweet — guaranteed to appeal to discerning literary palates”.(Booklist).
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.
