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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Peter Rock (Tualatin Public Library, @7:00pm): Not too long ago a man and his daughter were found living in Forest Park. Authorities recognized the care the father gave to his daughter and located a safe place for them to live. After just a few days, they disappeared, and no one knows where they went. Portland author Peter Rock has written a novel which takes this story and gives it completion. My Abandonment (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a book that will remain in your thoughts for a long time. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear how an author takes a story and makes it into an unforgettable book.
Other Book Events Today:
Randall Kennedy (Lewis & Clark College, Legal Research Center, Student Lounge, @5:30pm): Join us in welcoming Randall Kennedy when he presents his lecture, “Is The Election of Barack Obama The Fulfillment of Dr. King’s Dream?” Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 1984. Professor Kennedy’s research focuses on racial conflict as it relates to legal institutions in American life. His 80+ publications include four single-authored books, one of which – Race, Crime, and the Law – won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1988.
Laura Foster (Lake Oswego Public Library, @7:00pm): The Lake Oswego Library is pleased to present author Laura Foster for its First Tuesday Author Series. This talk is the first of many of the Library’s events celebrating the City’s Centennial Year. Foster will discuss her latest work, Lake Oswego, part of the Images of America Series. Many of the photographs in the book are from the collection of the Lake Oswego Library.
Raj Patel (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Economics is about choices, but who gets to make them? In The Value of Nothing (Picador), Raj Patel shows how free-market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world. “[A] shrewd and absorbing discussion,” hails Publishers Weekly (starred review).
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
