Today’s Featured Book Event:

Mark Spragg and Laura Bell (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Bone Fire (Knopf), Mark Spragg’s gripping novel about life in the modern West, harsh truths and difficult consolation exist alongside moments of hilarity, surprise, and beauty. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, wife, and mother, Laura Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots. Brimming with careful insight, Claiming Ground (Knopf) is a heartwrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the western landscape.

Other Book Events Today:

Shirley Gittelsohn (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): The work of Portland artist Shirley Gittelsohn is familiar to many. She is known for her large landscapes, many of which reveal the influence of her WPA-era mentors; for her impressionistic, brilliantly colorful floral paintings; and for her penetrating but sympathetically engaging portraits. Her works hang in numerous public spaces and private collections. Tonight she will be here to present her beautiful new book, Shirley Gittelsohn: Paintings and Reflections. This book reproduces dozens of Ms. Gittelsohn’s paintings in gorgeous full color. Each painting is accompanied by a short essay by the artist that places the work in the context of her life and work. So, it is in a very real sense a memoir of an artist’s life. What a treasure! Please join us!

Diane Hammond (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): From Diane Hammond, the author of Hannah’s Dream, comes Seeing Stars (HarperCollins), a new novel of hope, dreams, love, and ambition — set this time in Hollywood, where every child wants to be a star and every grown-up wants a piece of the action.

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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 Powell’s Books.

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