Today 4-3: Alafair Burke at Murder by the Book

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Alafair Burke (Murder by the Book, @4:30pm): The Reed College graduate, former Portlander, and former assistant D.A., returns to the Northwest with her latest book, 212 (Harper Collins).

Other Book Events Today:

Kimberly Derting (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): A young adult novel filled with suspense, gripping romance, and deadly consequences, Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder (HarperCollins) is the story of a young woman with the ability to find the bodies of the murdered — and who may be the only one who can stop the serial killer terrorizing her town.

National Poetry Month Celebration (Hillsboro Main Library, @2:00pm): Celebrate National Poetry Month with two local poets: Mark Thalman and Doyle Walls. A great program for teens and adults!

Philosophy Cafe (Powells City of Books, @4:00pm): Join philosophers and PCC instructors Brian Elliott and John Farnum for a discussion of topical issues from a philosophical perspective. This month’s topic: Human freedom.

Alembic #9: Organizam-A Mutant Cabaret of Non Acts (Performance Works NW, @8:00pm, $10-$15): A night of humor-based, conceptual, nondramatic events informed by experimental traditions such as Dada, Situationism, and Fluxus. Blending words, laughs, music, dancing, props, concepts, video, (non-) acting, games, sounds, implosions, with live humans. Performing will be John Berendzen, Tony Christy, James Yeary, Justin Smith, Jeff Diteman, Maryrose Larkin, Eric Matchett, Jake Anderson, Anna Daedalus, Leo Daedalus, John Berendzen, kollodi nishimoto norton, Alex P. Reagan, David Abel, J.A. Lee, Crag Hill, Linda Austin, Curated by Marko Whens. ALEMBIC is an ongoing series of performative events at Performance Works North West curated by guest artists from the worlds of dance, theater, visual and media arts.

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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.

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