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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
“The Disappearing Book” Release Party (Container Corps, @7:00pm): A celebration of delicate biodiversity, Melody Owen’s The Disappearing Book asks us to contemplate these things which are here right now, but may disappear before we realize it. The result is a varied collection of work by a diverse group creators like artist/illustrator Carson Ellis, author Kevin Sampsell, and musician Nick Jaina. To celebrate this publication, please join us for a release party at Container Corps headquarters, featuring an exhibition of some of the original pieces featured in the book and beverages provided by Ninkasi Brewing.
Other Book Events Today:
PSU Faculty Author Spotlight: Dr. Lisa Weasel (Portland State, Branford P. Millar Library, @4:00pm): Dr. Lisa Weasel, professor of molecular biology at Portland State University, will talk about her book, Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods, and lead a conversation about this important issue. Visit Professor Weasel’s website, Food Fray: Dispatches from the Global Food Front, for updates about the food industry.
Lisa Schroeder (Sherwood Public Library, @6:30pm): Join us as author and native Oregonian Lisa Schroeder talks about her newest book, “It’s Raining Cupcakes.” Families welcome!
P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Burned (St. Martin’s Griffin), the highly anticipated seventh book in P. C. and Kristin Cast’s bestselling House of Night series, takes readers deeper into the world of Zoey Redbird and her friends as they deal with a powerful fallen angel, hateful frenemies, and jealous boyfriends.
Dash Shaw (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): From the astonishing imagination of Dash Shaw, visionary author of Bottomless Belly Button, comes Bodyworld (Pantheon), a darkly fantastical graphic novel about a small town, a lowlife botanist, and a mysterious plant with strange powers.
Naseem Rakha PNBA Award Ceremony (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Naseem Rakha’s The Crying Tree was a staff favorite here. Last year at Annie Bloom’s, she gave a dynamite reading to a packed house. In January, The Crying Tree received the 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award. Annie Bloom’s is honored to host the award presentation ceremony. Naseem’s former NPR colleague, Dana Haynes, will be interviewing her. (Dana, author of the forthcoming Crashers, will be reading here sometime in late June.) Join us for this special event!
Mortified PDX (Mission Theater, @8:00pm,$10 online/$12 door): Hailed a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness your fellow Portlanders sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more.
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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 Container Corps.
