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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
David Oliver Relin (Mercy Corps Action Center, @7:30pm): Relin will talk about the writing of Three Cups of Tea, as well as See How They Shine, his soon-to-be published book about blindness in developing countries. The author will sign audience members’ copies of Three Cups of Tea after his presentation.
Other Book Events Today:
Oregon Literary Review’s First Thursday Reading Series (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00): Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. Readers for March 3 are Mark Thalman, John Blackard, Penelope Scambly Schott, and Pedro Ponce. This show is 21 and over.
CFI/Freethinkers Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s nonfiction book group meets to continue their discussion on How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. Join us!
Chitra Divakaruni (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): The award-winning author of The Mistress of Spices returns with One Amazing Thing (Hyperion), which draws on Chitra Divakaruni’s personal experience of Hurricane Rita to explore what happens when people from different walks of life are trapped together in a crisis situation.
Joe Hill (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Joe Hill, the New York Times-bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box — “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post) — returns with Horns (William Morrow), a relentless new supernatural thriller that’s Hell on wheels.
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 Green River Community College.
