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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Sarah Baker Munro (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Sarah Baker Munro, author of the recently published book Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon, joins us tonight to talk about the beauty and history of our own historical treasure — a National Landmark since 1977 –Timberline Lodge. The book, published by local Timber Press, is illustrated with historical photos and stunning new color photos by Aaron Johnson. In compiling this gorgeous book, historian Munro drew on oral histories, personal correspondence, and rare documents from public and private archives. The book also presents biographical sketches of nearly 60 artists and describes more than 250 works of art in the Timberline collection.
Other Book Events Today:
Zinesters Talking (Hollywood Library, @6:30pm): Local independent publishers read from their zines in the fifth annual Zinesters Talking series. Glamorize your life “Golden Girls”-style with Scott and Zach, the editors of “Miami, You’ve Got Style” (and “Degrassi Digest”) and take a hilarious trip with Dr. Danny Q. Swank and his “Tales from the Bus.”
Nature Night: Crow Planet with Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Heron Hall, Audubon House, @7:00pm): Life on Earth is complicated, interconnected, and always changing—environmental and philosophical truths that Lyanda Lynn Haupt, as a naturalist, author, wife, and mother, knows all too well. Her new book, CROW PLANET: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, documents Haupt’s journey to becoming an “urban naturalist” through the study of crows—the big, gutsy, boisterous, intelligent, and sometimes unsettling birds that have managed to adapt and thrive in expanding urban and suburban areas, where so many other species of native wildlife have been pushed back.
Lyanda Lynn Haupt encourages readers to realize that nature is found not only in the pristine wilderness but all around us, and to understand that what affects the natural world comes directly back into our lives. Crows—as they hunt, play, grow, and learn right in the midst of the human world—are intriguing avatars for the urban ecosystems and natural cycles that surround us every day: complex, overlooked, and immensely important.
Science Fiction Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin. Join us!
Christopher Kimball of Cook’s Illustrated (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Christopher Kimball, editor of Cook’s Country and Cook’s Illustrated magazines, presents two new cookbooks from America’s Test Kitchen. In an effort to preserve old-fashioned meals, Cook’s Country asked its readers to submit their favorite dinnertime recipes. The test kitchen then tested and perfected the best to present in Cook’s Country Best Lost Suppers. More Best Recipes, a companion to The New Best Recipe, offers a comprehensive collection of 650 foolproof recipes, up-to-date equipment ratings, and ingredient taste tests.
Leigh Radford: One More Skein (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Leigh Radford’s One More Skein (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) features 30 diverse projects that can be completed with one or two average-sized skeins of yarn or multiple bits of leftover yarn.
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.
