Today’s Featured Book Event:

It’s Raining Cupcakes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): Lisa Schroeder, the popular author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, delivers a sweet treat for tweens in It’s Raining Cupcakes (Aladdin), a novel that’s baked to perfection.

Other Book Events Today:

NW Author Series: Write What People Remember (Wilsonville Public Library, @3:30pm, $5): Naseem Rakha presents “Writing What Works: How to Learn from What You Read and How to Write What People Remember.” Naseem Rakha is an award-winning journalist whose stories have been heard on OPB, and NPR. Her first novel, The Crying Tree, has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series and is currently a nominee for the 2010 PNBA Book Award.

Poets Brandon Downing and Macgregor Card (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @4:00pm): Local poet Rodney Koeneke introduces Brandon Downing, whose new book Lake Antiquity (Fence) is a collection of text-collages that is the culmination of more than a decade of visionary irreverance, and Macgregor Card, whose Duties of an English Foreign Secretary won the 2009 Fence Modern Poets Series with its offering of sublime nonsensical balladry.

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah CountyClackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.

Image credit Powell’s Books.

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