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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Chelsea Cain presents Evil at Heart (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Yikes! Chelsea Cain is back with her third novel about Portland detective Archie Sheridan and the fetching serial killer who torments him, the sadistic and beautiful Gretchen Lowell. We all learned to love Archie and be attracted to/repelled by Gretchen in Chelsea’s first two books, Sweetheart and Heartsick. This third book, Evil at Heart, entwines the two once again and deals with the question of the media’s infatuation with serial killers. All of it shot through with the author’s trademark style and humor, it’s a bloody little indulgence we can’t seem to live without. Please join us as Chelsea works her magic on the crowd!
Other Book Events Today:
Tales of Wonder and Wisdom: An Evening with Rafe Martin (Hillsdale Library, @6:30pm): An author and a storyteller, Rafe Martin has appeared in thousands of schools, libraries, festivals and conferences in nearly every state — including Alaska and Hawaii — and as far away as Japan. He works with all ages, telling stories and sharing an empowering vision of language, writing, creativity and imagination.
Third Tuesday Author Series presents Sara Ryan (Lake Oswego Library, @7:00pm): Sara Ryan is a Multnomah County librarian who also writes novels and comics. Her first two novels, Empress of the World and The Rules for Hearts, have been lauded by critics as “excellent” and “written with understanding, humor, and heart.” Join Sara as she reads from her work, leads the group through a few short writing exercises, and answers questions about writing and publishing.
Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, S. G. Browne’s Breathers (Broadway) is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
Richard Engeman presents The Oregon Companion (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): What’s the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy’s Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor intact. Entries include towns and cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and mountains; people who have left a mark on Oregon; industries, products, crops, and natural resources. Includes more than 160 historical black and white photos. This entertaining and delightfully meticulous compendium is an essential reference for anyone curious about Oregon.
Transforming Turmoil into a New Economy – John Perkins (PSU-Smith Memorial SU Ballroom, 3rd Floor, @7:00pm): John Perkins is on tour promoting his latest book, Hoodwinked! An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy Imploded And How to Remake It. Hoodwinked is a powerful polemic that shows not only how we arrived at this perilous point in our history—but what we must do to turn it around. He believes we can create a healthy economy that will encourage businesses to act responsibly, not only in the interests of their shareholder and corporate partners, but in the interests of their employees, their customers, the environment, and society at large.
This free lecture, part of the “Whats the Big Idea?” lecture series, is sponsored by the College of Urban & Public Affairs, Social Equity and Opportunity Forum and the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
Cindy Hudson presents Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @7:00pm): Join us to welcome author Cindy Hudson for a discussion. Ms. Hudson will share her latest Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs with our Fantasy Firsts Book Group, which includes mother-daughter attendees.
Peter Goodman (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy (Times Books), New York Times national economics correspondent Peter Goodman takes readers behind the headlines, exposing how America’s economy has been perverted by the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
