Today’s Featured Book Event:

VoiceCatcher Reading & Fundraiser (First Unitarian Church, @7:00pm, Suggested $5-10 Donation): Please join us for a special evening celebrating the power of words, women and family! VoiceCatcher contributors reading will be: Sulima Malzin, Mary McIntosh, Heidi Schmaltz, Jennifer Springsteen, Gerri Ravyn Stanfield, Pearl Waldorf, and Sharon Wood Wortman. The evening will highlight the work of the Thirteen Salmon Family Center, a day center for homeless families, and its partner, Goose Hollow Family Shelter.

Other Book Events Today:

Juliet Schor (The Haseltine Building, @6:00pm, $36 includes copy of Plentitude): At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, author and economist Juliet Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. In her new book, Plenitude (Penguin Press), Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.

Robin Cody (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Please join us as we welcome Robin Cody, who will read from his newly published collection of essays, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest (OSU Press). One of Oregon’s most accomplished and beloved writers, Robin has worn many hats in his life, and the pieces in this book go back as far as 1982. Many cover his life on the various rivers he loves (Clackamas, Willamette, Columbia), some are about his work as a basketball ref and a baseball umpire, and some deal with his career as a school bus driver. Also included are pieces on other truly Oregon topics: Ken Kesey, Pendleton Round-Up cowboys, gyppo loggers, and more. We hope you can be here!

Phillip Margolin presents Supreme Justice (Murder by the Book, @7:00pm): Stop, in the name of justice! First there was something rotten in the presidential enclave, and attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and P.I. Dana Cutler battled on the side of truth and justice in Executive Privilege. Through no fault of their own, they are back. This time death is walking the halls of the Supreme Court. In Oregon, Sarah Woodruff has the distinction of having been tried twice for the murder of an ex-boyfriend. The charge stuck the second time around, and Sarah is on death row. Does she belong there? Her fate is in the hand of the Supremes, and someone doesn’t want her case brought back.

Devon Monk, Ilona Andrews, & Lilith Saintcrow (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In Devon Monk’s Magic on the Storm (Roc), an apocalyptic storm is bearing down on Portland — and when it hits, all the magic in the area will turn unstable and destructive. In Ilona Andrews’s Magic Bleeds (Ace), Kate Daniels cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to deal with. But a new player in town may be too much for even Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. In Lilith Saintcrow’s Flesh Circus (Orbit), the fourth in the urban fantasy series starring Jill Kismet, the stakes are higher than ever as hellbreed and voodoo practitioners converge on Santa Luz.

Louis Sachar (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @7:00pm): Can you think of a better way to get ready for summer reading than with a fabulous author? Join us to welcome Louis Sachar, the award-winning author of Holes, as he presents his new book for teens, The Cardturner. Fans of all ages are invited.

Jonathan Balcombe (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): With vivid stories and entertaining anecdotes, Jonathan Balcombe’s Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Palgrave Macmillan) gives the human pedestal a strong shake while opening the door into the inner lives of the animals themselves.

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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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