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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
The Title Wave Used Bookstore Bag-of-Books Sale (Title Wave Used Bookstore, @10:00am): Bag of Books Sale (books & audiobooks only). Fill a bag with books for only $10! Paper grocery bags and reusable library bags are available. No limit on number of bags of books purchased. Books must fit in bag completely. No outside bags permitted.
Other Book Events Today:
Bringing History to Life (Lewis & Clark College, Miller Center for the Humanities, @9:30am): Lewis & Clark College Special Collections in cooperation with the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will host a series of three lectures by Stephen Dow Beckham, Gary E. Moulton, and Roger Wendlick. Recently all three of these individuals have spent time working on historical projects in the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections, and at this event the three will share their discoveries.
Mother Daughter Book Club (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): A book discussion group for girls in grades 3-5 and their mothers or other significant women in their lives to read and discuss great books together. The group meets the third Saturday each month at 10 a.m. at the Main Library. New members are always welcome and no registration is required! February’s Book: The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo When 10-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Book Club Social (Hillsboro Main Library, @2:00am): Learn about book club kits and other resources available at the library. We will be launching a new collection of “book group kits,” which can be checked out from the library. This is a great chance to meet people interested in book groups, mingle, and sample the free snacks!
Toni Partington presents Wind Wing: New Poetry (St. Johns Books, @2:00pm): Toni Partington is a poet, editor, collage artist, life/career coach, and grant writer. Her new book, Wind Wing, a collection of poems dedicated to the women who transformed her life, will be available for $10. Toni’s poetry has appeared in the NW Women’s Journal, Selected Poems of the River Poets’ Society, The Cascade Journal, VoiceCatcher (editions 3 and 4), OutwardLink.net and others. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Jesus Is A Gas (2009). She serves as an associate editor on the collective of VoiceCatcher, an annual Pacific Northwest anthology of women writers. Toni is a regular columnist for Writing The Life Poetic, an online Zine that complements the print version of the book by Sage Cohen, .
Victoria Jamieson (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Author and illustrator Victoria Jamieson reads her latest book Bea Rocks the Flock.
Young Writers’ Workshop (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @4:30pm): One of the most common things an editor tells a first-time author is, “Your characters are flat.” Join authors Rosanne Parry (Heart of a Shepherd), Edith M. Hemingway (Road to Tater Hill), and Fran Cannon Slayton (When The Whistle Blows) as they discuss methods for bringing characters alive on the page. Participants are invited to bring their own characters, writing, and ideas to share.
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.
Image credit Onslow County Library.
