Tonight 6-6: Jacob Paul at Ampersand

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Jacob Paul (Ampersand, @7:00pm): Novelist Jacob Paul stops at Ampersand during his West Coast bicycle & book tour to read from his new novel, Sarah/Sara. Starting in Seattle, Paul is riding to San Francisco & stopping for readings along the way. You can follow a record of his journey here. An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem café. What begins as a series of diary entries on her struggle with faith ends in a fight for survival, as Sarah slowly comes to realize that she is lost in the Arctic wilderness with the ice closing in around her.

Other Book Events Today:

Great Northwest Bookstore Benefit Book Sale (3025 SW 1st Ave, @11:00am-2:00pm): Benefit to help Phil Wikelund pay for demolition on the site where Great Northwest Bookstore burned down earlier this month. All books remaining on this final day of the sale will be $5/bag. Donations welcome. Full details at GNWBookSale.com.

Back Page Live Recording with Host Jody Seay (Powells City of Books, @2:00pm): Hosted by Jody Seay, Back Page, a television show about Oregon writers, focuses on the story behind the story, the inspiration. The 30-minute program airs at various times and dates on Oregon WIN (Wireless Instructional Network) and on OPB’s digital stations. Join us for a live recording at our downtown store!

Ken Kuhlken (Murder by the Book, @3:00pm): The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles is the sixth book in Ken Kuhlken’s “California Century” series. It takes us back to the early days of series star P.I. Tom Hickey. Ken populates his book with real larger-than-life figures from 1920s Los Angeles: William Randolph Hearst, Harry Chandler, and Aimee Semple McPherson. Through Hickey’s eyes we see the impact they had on a burgeoning community. We also are witness to some of the volatile issues of the day, including racism.

Frances McCue (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @4:00pm): Combining travelogue, memoir, and literary scholarship, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs (University of Washington Press) follows Frances McCue and Mary Randlett in their search for the towns that inspired the poems of Richard Hugo. Their essays and photographs offer a fresh view of Hugo’s Northwest.

Why We Ride (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Why We Ride (Seal Press), Verna Dreisbach collects the stories of women who ride horses, sharing their personal emotions and accounts of the most important animals in their lives. Editor Dreisbach will be joined by co-contributors Samantha Ducloux Waltz, Janice Newton, Diane Mapes, Jill Widner, Michele Scott, and Valerie Riggs.

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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 Ampersand.