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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Third Annual McKenzie Books Sidewalk Sale (McKenzie Books, 10am-6pm): DonorsChoose.org, a non-profit charity that accepts donations to fund classroom supplies for teachers and their students locally and nationally, will benefit from the sale of more than 4,000 popular used books at the Third Annual McKenzie Books Sidewalk Sale. The book selection will span all categories at prices of $0.50 for paperbacks and $1.00 for hardcover books. There will be something for everyone including children’s books, mystery, romance, health, mind & body, home & garden, science fiction, and many more. Credit cards will be accepted.
Other Book Events Today:
Women of True Grit (Concordia University-George White Library, @5:30pm): Author and speaker Tina V. Savas will be here for a book signing of Women of True Grit, co-authored by Edie Hand. The book just released in March 2010, profiles 38 women, some famous and all notorious for their career accomplishments and life in general. In their own words, they share true stories, some never before heard.
Opening Reception: Jhina Alvarado (Ampersand, @6:00pm): July’s show features paintings by San Francisco artist Jhina Alvarado. Working with orphaned snapshots long removed from the contextual meaning of family dynamics, Alvarado paints forgotten individuals amid an ambiguous white space rendered slightly opaque & dream-like by an overlay of encaustic wax. The sense of unbalance & abstraction created by the white space of her painted environment is heightened by a thick black band that covers each of her figures’ eyes. As viewers we are given few details; their obscurity is near complete as though we, too, have black bands over our eyes even as we engage in the act seeing. More info and images here.
Verse in Person-Marilyn Johnston & Margaret Chula (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): Listen to Oregon poets read from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Featured readers this month are Marilyn Johnston and Margaret Chula. Marilyn Johnston’s first collection of poems, Red Dust Rising, about a family healing from the Vietnam War, was nominated for the 2004 Pushcart Prize. Margaret Chula’s collections of poetry include Grinding My Ink; Shadow Lines; Always Filling, Always Full; This Moment; The Smell of Rust, and most recently, with quilt artist Cathy Erickson, What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps.
Poetry Reading In Honor of William Stafford (Lake Oswego Library, @7:00pm): Join us as the Friends of William Stafford and the Lake Oswego Public Library present an evening of poetry. The evening will feature poets from the Lake Oswego Centennial Poetry Project and will be hosted by FWS Board member, Scot Siegel.
David J. Williams (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): With The Machinery of Light (Spectra), David J. Williams completes his furiously paced, stunningly imagined trilogy — a work of vision, beauty, and pulse-pounding futuristic action.
Christopher Hitchens (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. Hitch-22 (Twelve) is the story of his life, lived large. Canceled
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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 McKenzie Books.
