Ink & Paper Group, a Portland publisher comprised of Three Muses Press, Dame Rocket Press, and Bowler Hat Comics, will be holding a 50% off sale the entire month of March in honor of National Women’s History Month. All but one of Ink & Paper Group’s authors are women, so this sale is a way to honor and recognize those authors along with women everywhere.
The titles on sale are:
Bowler Hat Comics
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Spare Room presents Nico Vassilakis Crystal Curry (Concordia Coffee House, @7:30pm, $5 suggested donation): The Spare Room Reading Series features poetry from Nico Vassilakis and Crystal Curry.
Nico Vassilakis works with alphabet both textually and visually. Recent books include Protracted Type (Blue Lion), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX), staReduction (Book Thug), and Text Loses Time (Many Penny). His visual poems and videos have been shown at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language art, and can be found online at Flickr and YouTube. Nico is a founding member of Seattle’s Subtext Collective.
Crystal Curry’s poems and reviews have appeared both off and online in journals such as VERSE, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Open City, The Hat, Octopus Magazine and Action, Yes. She is the author of the chapbook Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra) and the forthcoming full-length collection Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium, which was selected by Dara Wier for the Slope Editions Book Prize. She currently resides in Seattle, where she manages a gourmet deli and grades composition papers online.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Friends of Hillsboro Library Fall Used Book Sale (Hillsboro Library-Main Branch, @12:00pm-6:00pm): The Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library are having the Fall Book Sale in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. For more information about the Friends, visit their website at www.hillsborolibraryfriends.org.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
Today’s Featured Book Event:
Reading with Neeli Cherkovski (The Writers’ Dojo, @7:30pm): Neeli Cherkovski reads from his new book of poems, From The Canyon Outward. Cherkovski lives and writes in San Francisco. His poertry books include Animal, Elegy for Bob Kaufman, Leaning Against Time, which earned an PEN Award for Excellence in Literature, Fronteras Rotas, published in a bi-lingual edition, and the newly released From the Canyon Outward. Another collection, The Manila Poems, is forthcoming. He has also written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowskii, and is the author of a book of critical memoirs, Whitman’s Wild Children. For many years, Cherkvoski served as writer-in-residence at the now closed New College of California where he also taught literature and philosophy. He continues to teach poetics at various locales throughout the SF Bay Area and is completing a new memoir.
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of Hillsboro Library Fall Used Book Sale (Hillsboro Library-Main Branch, @10:00am-8:00pm): The Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library are having the Fall Book Sale in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. For more information about the Friends, visit their website at www.hillsborolibraryfriends.org.
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I received a phone call this morning from Rod Richards, manager of the Title Wave Used Bookstore, asking if I could get the word out about a recent influx of books to their store. It sounds like the Multnomah County Library system is going through an update to the way they identify and track books, and as a result several books were selected to be sold at Title Wave.
Turns out this is great for you the book shopper, as Title Wave’s selection has drastically increased while their rock bottom prices remain intact. On top of that your purchases go to support one of the best library systems in the country. You better hurry up though, Title Wave has a healthy clientele who shop their shelves religiously to find the best buys.
Hat tip to Dave from the institution that is Dave Knows: Portland for the kind words about Reading Local’s coverage of the events surround this weekends Wordstock Festival, and additionally for making me aware of the Friends of Multnomah County Library’s 36th Annual Fall Used Book Sale that starts tomorrow from 6pm – 9pm for members of the Friends (you can sign up at the event, click here to see the full benefits of becoming a member).
Saturday (10-10) is the first day the general public can get their hands on the over 100,000 donated items including Books, CDs & DVDs, Audio & Video tapes, and Maps & Sheet Music. Children’s books and pocket-sized paperbacks start at 50¢, and hardcover books and large paperbacks start at $1.50. The genre of books available includes: Art • Biography • Children’s • Cooking • Gardening • History Home Repair • Literature • Math • Mystery • Old Books • Popular Fiction • Reference • Science • Sports • Travel • and more …
All proceeds from the sale benefit the award winning Multnomah County Library.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Ralph Nader (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! (Seven Stories), former presidential candidate Ralph Nader asks: What if America’s wealthiest individuals decided to work for the collective good?
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of the West Linn Public Library Used Book Sale (West Linn Library, @12:00pm-5:00pm): It’s time for the annual Used Book Sale from the Friends of the West Linn Public Library. Cookbooks, gardening books, novels, and more!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
A Children’s Place Bookstore 35th Anniversary Celebration (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @10:00am): ACP is thrilled to announce our 35th Anniversary! On October 3rd and 4th we are having a huge birthday bash! All weekend (Sat & Sun) we will have a “Choose Your Own Discount” anniversary sale. We are also excited to celebrate our birthday with some of our favorite local authors and illustrators. Below is a list of activities we have planned for the weekend.
Saturday:
10am Sidewalk Chalk Party w/ David Hohn
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Boilerplate (Abrams), husband-and-wife team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett have richly imagined the world’s first robot soldier (created in 1893) and inserted him into accurate retellings of history, profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style.
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of the West Linn Public Library Used Book Sale (West Linn Library, @10:00am-6:00pm): It’s time for the annual Used Book Sale from the Friends of the West Linn Public Library. Cookbooks, gardening books, novels, and more!
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Just received this announcement from Second Glance Books owner Rachelle Markley:
Huge Clearance Book Sale!
Sept 11 – Sept 12
4345 NE 83rd Ave
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
The Ledding Library Book Sale (Portland Waldorf School, Gymnasium, 9am-4pm): Mark your calendar now! The Ledding Library Book Sale will be held on July 10th and 11th in the gym of the Portland Waldorf School across the street from the Ledding Library in downtown Milwaukie. The sale will be held from 9 AM to 4 PM each day. As in years past, there will be great bargains on all types of books. In fact, most hardback books will cost $2.00 and paperbacks will be priced at 50¢. In addition to books, videos, records, sheet music, tapes, CDs and collectible books for sale, there will be a raffle of gift certificates and items generously donated by local businesses. Raffle tickets are $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00 and 12 for $10 – and they’re available at the Library’s Circulation Desk. The raffle drawing will take place at 3:00PM on Saturday. The Book Sale and raffle are planned and sponsored by the Friends of the Ledding Library, a nonprofit group that supports the Ledding Library. All profits made from the sale are dedicated to assisting the Ledding Library in the purchase of materials and equipment or by funding special programs. If you would like to help with the Book Sale, please give Friends President Carol Kay a call at 503-698-2762.
Other Book Event’s Today:
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