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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Joëlle Anthony (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): A Portland native, Joëlle Anthony sets her debut novel, Restoring Harmony, in the Pacific Northwest, and Portlanders will find many local references, like MAX and Pioneer Square. But things have changed too. The year is 2041, ten years after a worldwide economic collapse, and times are hard. Anthony’s main character, Molly McClure, is a tough, fiddle-playing, sixteen-year-old from British Columbia. When word reaches the family in BC that things are not well for her grandparents in Oregon, she travels down to Portland in hopes of bringing them back to the thriving family farm. In a future world readers will find both recognizable and frightening, Molly struggles against hunger, crime, and poverty, keeping hope alive with both her music and determination.
Other Book Events Today:
WITS Reading (Ladybug Organic Cafe, @7:00pm): Writers in the Schools (WITS) is a comprehensive program that cultivates young writers and supports Oregon authors through semester-long writing residencies in the Portland public high schools. Reading will be students from Roosevelt Campus (SEIS, ACT, POWER High Schools) with WITS writers Carmen Bernier-Grand, Emma Oliver and Chris Cotrell.
Phillip Margolin (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Filled with the fast-paced twists and surprises that propelled Executive Privilege, Phillip Margolin’s Supreme Justice (Harper) reunites attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler to untangle a five-year-old case involving a ghost ship and the president’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cool Women Poets of New Jersey (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): The Cool Women Poets of New Jersey are a lively performance group of bold poets from the Princeton , New Jersey area. The group began as seven women who started meeting in 1997 to critique poems. Even though long-time Cool member Penelope Scambly Schott has moved to Portland, Oregon, she continues to participate in the monthly critique sessions — via speaker phone. The group includes Schott as well as Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Lois Harrod, Betty Lies, Joyce Lott, Judy Michaels, Maxine Susman, and Gretna Wilkinson.
Katie Arnoldi (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): With Point Dume (Overlook Press), Katie Arnoldi brings to remarkable life subjects she knows well: the death of surf culture, human trafficking, the Mexican drug cartel, illegal pot farms on public lands, environmental devastation, and obsessive love.
Jillian Lauren (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Some Girls (Plume) is Jillian Lauren’s jaw-dropping memoir of how a girl from the suburbs ended up in a prince’s harem and emerged from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser.
Time Out: Mom-xiety: It’s Not Your Mother’s Angst (Curious Comedy Theater, @7:30pm): It takes a village to chill out a mother. Some sleep deprivation, too much laundry and a pinch of recession calls for a major mama comedy intervention. Writers Jillian Starr, Kate Haas (“Miranda” zine), Debby Dodds (“Little Red Book”) and Jacki Kane (“Sass Mouth: Destiny is a Joke”) and comedians Wendy Bax and Joanie Quinn perform.
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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 Annie Bloom’s Books.
