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December 4, 2009
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Today’s Featured Book Event:

stuever_tinselTinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present (Powell’s City of Books, @7:30pm): Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, to tell the story of the nation’s most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Tinsel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a compelling look at this half-trillion-dollar holiday.

Other Book Events Today:

Lights on Broadway Sale (Broadway Books, @10-7): The annual Lights on Broadway event runs from today (12-4) through Sunday (12-6).  In celebration of this event Broadway Books will be running a sale of 25% off all hardcover fiction (no special orders).

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.

Gabe Barber started Reading Local in January of 2009 as a vehicle for exploring Portland's literary scene. He's not an aspiring author, and you won't find his work on a bookshelf or in any prestigious lit rag. He is however, a full on book nerd, with a passion for independent literature.
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