Tonight 6-10: Bill Cameron at Murder by the Book

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Bill Cameron (Murder by the Book, @7:00pm): In Day One, Portland author Bill Cameron continues the trials and travails of Skin Kadash, who is a retired cop at this point. He has endless days now to ruminate on an unsolved murder case. The sole witness appeared to be a young teenager. That boy, Eager Gillespie, is now a few years older, and Skin needs to find out what Eager’s involvement is with a present-day shooting across from Skin’s own home and with a young woman who ran away from an abusive life in a rural Oregon community.

Other Book Events Today:

Book Group (Wilsonville Public Library, @6:00pm): June’s selection is Jim Fergus’ One Thousand White Women.  This is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial “Brides for Indians” program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man’s world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

Tamler Sommers (Reading Frenzy, @7:00pm): Do we have free will? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a couple of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in his interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology. A Very Bad Wizard (McSweeney’s, 2009) is essential reading for anyone curious about the origins and inner workings of our moral lives.

Shirley Desai (In Other Words Books, @7:00pm): Shirley Desai, author of The 7 Connections to Happiness and Harmony- Decision Making Made Easy With Yoga’s 7 Chakras, will be leading a lively talk and sharing some insights from her new book. In particular, Shirley will be discussing the topic of life balance and how the 7 Chakras can be understood as a practical, step-by-step framework for self analysis and making empowering shifts and decisions in life.

Graphic Novel Reading Club (Bridge City Comics, @7:00pm): June’s selection is John Byrne’s Fantastic Four Visionaries Vol. 1. Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the trailblazers of the very mythology known as the Marvel Universe, had someone so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel’s first family of heroes – the Fantastic Four.  John Byrne took these characters and launched them into realms where few creators before this had dared to go, reminding us all there was a family at the heart of this team of adventurers. The Fantastic Four has always been called “The World’s Greatest Comics Magazine.” The evidence is found in these very pages.

Deadly Diversions Mystery Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale. Join us!

Amy Gullick (Natural Capital Center, @7:00pm): Award-winning nature photographer Amy Gulick explores one of the rarest ecosystems on earth, Alaska’s Tongass rain forest. Gulick spent two years hiking, paddling and camping amid the bears, islands and salmon streams of the Tongass to capture images for her new book, Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest (Braided River/Mountaineers Books, 2010). The book is a 2010 silver award winner from the Independent Publishers Book Association.

Kristin Berger (Cover to Cover Books, @7:00pm): Poet Kristin Berger will be the featured reader in Cover to Cover’s popular monthly open mic poetry reading series hosted by Christopher Luna. Kristin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she serves as an Associate Editor of VoiceCatcher. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008, $12), and her non-fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Kristin’s poetry and essays have appeared in CALYX, New Letters, and The Pedestal Magazine among other publications.

Peter Donahue (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Peter Donahue’s Clara and Merritt unfolds amidst the violent strife between longshoremen and Teamsters in Seattle in the 1930s and ’40s. When Clara Hamilton, the daughter of a longshoreman, and Merritt Driscoll, a member of the Teamsters union, fall in love, their relationship is immediately threatened by the fierce antagonism between the rival unions. This exciting new novel explores how people reckon with the larger forces of world events in their everyday lives—extending author Peter Donahue’s remarkable exploration of Northwest history.

Laura Fraser (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In All over the Map (Harmony), Laura Fraser, bestselling author of The Italian Affair, buys readers the plane tickets and takes them in search of adventure and romance as she wonders whether it’s possible, in midlife, to have it all.

101 Things I Learned in Film School (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Written by Neil Landau, an experienced screenwriter and script consultant to the major movie studios, 101 Things I Learned in Film School (Grand Central) is the perfect book for anyone who wants to know about the inner workings of the industry. Co-sponsored by the Northwest Film Center, this event includes a screenwriting workshop.

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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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