Tonight 4-15: Wendy Burden at Powell's City of Books

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Wendy Burden (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In the tradition of Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors, Wendy Burden, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity in Dead End Gene Pool (Gotham Books), her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir.

Other Book Events Today:

Jennifer Chiaverini (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): With The Aloha Quilt (Simon and Schuster), Jennifer Chiaverini’s bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues at a quilters retreat in scenic Hawaii.

Your Money: The Missing Manual (Powell’s Technical Books, @7:00pm): Keeping your financial house in order is now more important than ever, and J. D. Roth’s Your Money: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly) guides you every step of the way. You won’t find any get-rich-quick schemes here — just sensible advice for getting the most from your money. Roth, founder of GetRichSlowly.org, recently named the most inspiring money blog by Money magazine, covers all the money-management bases: saving, spending, getting out of debt, investing, and planning for retirement.

Toni Partington (Paper Tiger Cafe, @7:00pm): Third Thursday Poetry Night at Paper Tiger presents Toni Partington. Toni Partington’s poetry has been published in the Women’s Journal, Selected Poems of the River Poets’ Society, The Cascade Journal, VoiceCatcher (editions 3 and 4), and others. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Jesus Is A Gas (2009) and her latest book of poetry, Wind Wing (2010) came out on Jan. 14th.

Sharan Newman (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): The Real History of the End of the World (Berkley) investigates the origins and stories behind end-of-the-world predictions throughout history, from Revelations to 2012. In entertaining and sharp prose, historian Sharan Newman explores theories of world destruction from ancient times up to the present day- theories which reveal as much about human nature as they do about the predominant historical, scientific, and religious beliefs of the time.

On a Dollar a Day (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard’s On a Dollar a Day (Hyperion) examines how Americans eat and at what cost. With sections on eating the food-stamp diet, what it really costs to eat healthfully and organically, and how to find the best buys at the grocery store, this book is an ideal guide for getting through these challenging economic times.

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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.