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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Oregon Writers Colony Presents: Bill Cameron (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Bill Cameron is the author of the dark, gritty Portland- based mysteries Lost Dog, Chasing Smoke, and Day One. His stories have appeared in Spinetingler Magazine, Killer Year: Stories to Die For…From the Hottest New Crime Writers, and Portland Noir anthology. He is a member of Friends of Mystery, Mystery Writers of Ameria and International Thriller Writers.
Other Book Events Today:
Louis Sachar (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): The Cardturner (Delacorte) is the latest novel from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes. As the summer after junior year begins, Alton Richards becomes intrigued by his great-uncle Lester, by the game of bridge, and especially by a pretty, shy girl — and struggles to figure out what it all means.
What’s Eating You? (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): What’s Eating You? (Princeton) recounts Eugene H. Kaplan’s true and harrowing adventures with parasites and introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite.
Pinewood Table Graduate Readings (The Press Club, @7:30pm): Joanna Rose is author of Little Miss Strange (PNBA Fiction Prize/OR Book Award Finalist), and has guided critique at The Pinewood Table for over 10 years. Scott Sparling’s Wire to Wire will be published by TinHouse in March 2011. Sherri H. Hoffman’s short stories can be found in Etchings, Duck and Herring Field Guide, and online at the Noneuclidean Cafe, and Whidbey Writers Student Choice.
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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 Bill Cameron Mysteries.
