Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Caffeinated Art No. 87 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Poets Pamela Steele and Kirsten Rian will read along with historian/essayist Matt Love. Check out the Three Friends website for further info.
Other Book Events Today:
Oregon Writers Colony Presents: Jessica Maxwell (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Jessica Maxwell’s Roll Around Heaven is an all-true accidental spiritual adventure that led one nonbeliever to lunch with Deepak Chopra, dance with Stephen Hawking, heal animals with Yogananda, sing Christmas carols with an enlightened rabbi, banish evil spirits with a Himalayan Rinpoche, talk all night with the daughters of Islam, find true love in a Presbyterian choir, share Celtic visions on the isle of Iona, and learn an abiding respect for all paths to God.
Frances Mayes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In Every Day in Tuscany (Broadway Books), the sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, Frances Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two-decades-long love affair with the region’s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Kirkus Reviews calls Mayes a “sensualist in full bloom.”
The Story of Stuff (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In The Story of Stuff (Free Press), Annie Leonard expands on her Internet film phenomenon with a powerful and inspiring book that tracks the life of the “stuff” we use every day, from extraction through production, distribution, consumption, and disposal.
Culture Is Our Weapon (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Damian Platt’s Culture Is Our Weapon (Penguin) tells the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based organization employing music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of the “favelas,” or shantytowns, to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.
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.
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