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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Backfence PDX presents Lucky Bastards (The Mission Theater, @7:30pm, $12 online/$14 door): What do a former casino dealer with a true crime tale, a guileless 18 year-old Alaskan adventurer, and a television game show contestant have in common? They and other Lucky (or unlucky) Bastards will be telling true tales with no notes, no memorization, just a mic and Portland’s best audience at the Mission Theater! Lineup: MTV Producer & Director ARTHUR BRADFORD; Cyclist & Portland Mercury Reporter SARAH MIRK; ‘Awesome’ Band Member & Producer of What the Funny? BASIL HARRIS; Tobacco Co. Employee & Former Casino Dealer HEATHER DAWN RAY; Actor & Naive Traveler DAVE WILLIAMS; Love in the Dump Chute Co-host & Intern Extraordinaire MEAGAN KATE; and Lifelong Wheel of Fortune Fan MATT PELLEGRIN. Free Cupcakes from Saint Cupcake!! Check out the Backfence PDX website for more.
Other Book Events Today:
Little Tuppen Puppet Show (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Come to a free Little Tuppen puppet show performed by Yvonne de Maat of Heart in Hand Preschool! Come early to get a good seat.
Evening Book Group (Hillsboro Main Library, @6:45pm): Join a lively discussion of a popular fiction or nonfiction book. This month’s selection is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.
Evening Book Group (Tigard Public Library, @7:00pm): The March book is Mark Greenside’s I’ll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany.
Ledding Library Book Club (Ledding Library of Milwaukie, @7:00pm): We will discuss The # 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Verse in Person featuring Jane Knechtel & Amy MacLennan (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): Listen to Oregon poets read from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading.
Jane Knechtel- Born in Toronto, Knechtel has degrees from University of Puget Sound, University College Dublin and Lewis & Clark College. Her poetry has won several prizes including the Parnell and the Donn Goodwin, and has recently appeared in several anthologies and journals. She lives in Portland with her husband and sons, and volunteers at In Other Words, the only remaining non-profit feminist bookstore in the country.
Amy MacLennan- MacLennan’s poetry has also appeared in numerous reviews and anthologies, and her flash fiction has appeared online in The Big Ugly Review. She was awarded a 2005 Devils Tower National Monument Writer’s Residency. She lives in Ashland.
City of Dragons (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In San Francisco’s Chinatown, private investigator Miranda Corbie stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up, and the cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice — whatever it costs. Kelli Stanley’s debut novel City of Dragons (Minotaur Books) is an “impressive new mystery [that] takes readers back to the San Francisco of 1940″ (Booklist, starred review).
Diane Hammond (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): In Diane Hammond’s latest release, Seeing Stars, Ruth Rabinowitz believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth’s husband and Bethany’s father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been left behind in Seattle. Joining Bethany Rabinowitz in Hollywood’s often toxic waters are three fellow child actors. As talent managers, agents, coaches, directors, and teachers nurture—and feed on—their ambitions, stars will be made, hearts will be broken, children will grow up, and dreams will both be realized and die.
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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 Backfence PDX.
