3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR
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3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
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7000 NE Airport Way
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Phillip Moffitt
With engaging writing and a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life (Rodale Press) offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to meditation students and readers of "Dharma Wisdom," Phillip Moffitt's column in Yoga Journal, as well as to anyone searching for a more authentic life.
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Writer's Edge Faculty Reading
Fiction Collective Two — an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction — introduces the Writer's Edge, the first and only writers' workshop dedicated to the practice of innovative writing. Tonight's reading features Lance Olsen (Nietzsche's Kisses), Noy Holland (What Begins with Bird), Steve Tomasula (The Book of Portraiture), Kate Bernheimer (The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), and Lidia Yuknavitch (Liberty's Excess).
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Saturday, July 26th @ 7:00PM
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. (503) 233-1994
Live Wire!
Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The July 26th show features writer and comedian Michael Ian Black ("My Custom Van...and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face"); musician and author Willy Vlautin ("Northline," "The Motel Life"), along with his band, local favorite Richmond Fontaine; filmmaker Curt Ellis discussing his new documentary, "The Greening of Southie"; whip-smart indie-pop band Derby; and Paul Anthony, who will share the secrets of his "sonic branding"
agency, Rumblefish. Plus, original sketch comedy from Faces for Radio Theater, music from Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops, host Courtenay Hameister, and, as always, a few surprises!
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Rhys Bowen
From critically acclaimed author Rhys Bowen comes A Royal Pain (Berkley), another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, "a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers" (Jacqueline Winspear).
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M. Thomas Cooper
Set in Portland, Oregon, 42 (Ooligan Press) follows George Olson, accused of murdering his wife and child, as he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of numbers and strange events. The number 42 becomes the meaning of George's life. But does the conspiracy really exist or is it the product of a paranoid mind? "Highly recommended for adventurous readers willing to expand the boundaries of genre fiction," praises Booklist.
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Calyx Press's 32nd Anniversary
Calyx, the independent, nonprofit publisher of contemporary writing and art by women from a diversity of backgrounds, celebrates its 32nd anniversary with a reading from contributors to the July issue of Calyx Journal, including National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin, Frances Payne Adler, Paulann Petersen, Pam Crow, and Willa Schneberg.
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Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik's acclaimed series starring the fighting dragon Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, reaches a peak of excitement with Victory of Eagles (Del Rey Books), the latest installment and the first in hardcover. Publishers Weekly calls it "thrilling....Followers of Temeraire's travels will be richly rewarded by the satisfying conclusion of his return to home ground!"
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Jonathan Evison
Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller, but he is further weakened by his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. Once Lulu departs for college, Will attempts to find himself — discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, and, ultimately, his true calling. Jonathan Evison's debut novel All about Lulu (Soft Skull Press) is "a stunner," cheers Publishers Weekly (starred review). "[V]iciously funny and deeply felt."
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Classics Book Group
This month our classics book group meets to discuss Orlando by Virginia Woolf. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Run Faster: From the 5k to the Marathon
With Run Faster: From the 5k to the Marathon (Broadway Books), Brad Hudson — former Olympic-trials marathoner and current coach to Olympians — enables runners to do for themselves what top coaches do for their athletes: custom-tailor their training plans. With Hudson's guidance, runners can avoid injury and train more effectively.
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Alive in Necropolis
Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead) is Doug Dorst's fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace — and maintain a grip on reality — in a town where the dead outnumber the living. "Charming," says Publishers Weekly. "Dorst strikes a perfect balance between humor and pathos."
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Poetry as Spiritual Practice
In the first small-format instructional guide to combine poetry and spirituality, Robert McDowell's Poetry as Spiritual Practice (Free Press) offers readers the tools to explore poetry in a reflective writing and reading process that may lead to deeper awareness and enjoyment.
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Breaking Dawn Midnight Release
Between Stephenie Meyer's popular vampirific young adult series, the Twilight Saga; the film version of the first book, Twilight (filmed in Oregon and releasing on December 12), and her new novel for adults, The Host, she is quickly reaching a J. K. Rowling-level of fan devotion. That's why, we're thrilled to host Bella's Ball, a midnight release party celebrating the long-awaited fourth book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn. Come to Powell's City of Books for fun and games. Enter our costume contest. Dance to a DJ. You can even donate blood (easier than the vampire's way) at a Red Cross blood mobile from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. and be rewarded with priority line-placement when the book goes on sale. Hold your squeals of joy, all of you in the Edward or Jacob camps. We'll see you there! Please note: To pre-register for the Red Cross blood drive, contact Mark at 503-528-5608.
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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
In Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press), acclaimed writers Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand explore the intersection of poetry and politics. "This timely book pushes poetry more firmly into public space at a vibrant historical moment when both the public potential of poetry and the possibilities of public space are being refigured," praises Jeff Derksen.
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Adrienne Barbeau
Film, television, and Broadway star Adrienne Barbeau and New York Times-bestselling author Michael Scott team up for Vampyres of Hollywood (Thomas Dunne Books), a sexy, scary, and deliciously clever novel full of Hollywood glamour, behind-the-scenes secrets, and the truly bloodthirsty reality of Tinseltown. "Compulsively readable," cheers Publishers Weekly. "Briskly paced and full of fang-in-cheek humor, this novel is one of the more entertaining recent works of supernatural noir."
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Macintosh Users Group: Graphics/Video
Join us the first Monday of every month for a Graphics/Video meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.
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Ann Patchett
Set over a period of 24 hours, Run (Harper Perennial), the latest novel from Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto, shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely people. "[L]uminous....[E]xtraordinarily fluid prose," hails Booklist (starred review).
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Lisa Gardner
In Say Goodbye (Bantam), Lisa Gardner, the bestselling author of Hide and Gone, draws readers into the venomous mind games of her most terrifying killer yet. "For all readers who likes their thrillers suspenseful, fast paced, and just a little creepy (OK, a lot creepy)," proclaims Booklist.
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Kate Veitch
Presenting a new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve, Kate Veitch's debut novel Without a Backward Glance (Plume) reveals the joy and sorrow, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave. "With its brisk pacing and compassionate take on human failing, this absorbing novel is sure to win many fans," promises Booklist.
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First Thursday
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Paulann Petersen
Kindle (University of Oregon Press) is the latest poetry collection from Pushcart Prize nominee and Oregon Book Award finalist Paulann Petersen. "From book to book Paulann Petersen's work has been remarkable for its formal variety and emotional range and with Kindle that process continues," writes Vern Rutsala in her introduction. The first people who buy copies of Kindle will also receive free signed copies of Petersen's limited-edition chapbook Polar Flight.
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Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself
From Buddhism, feng shui, and porcelain pottery to gunpowder, dynasties, and trade routes, Portland author Lance Kramer's Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself (Nomad Press) is an interactive activity guide that explores the incredible ingenuity and history of ancient China with more than 20 hands-on projects. Key vocabulary, time lines, and factual sidebars are included to further educate young readers about this innovative society and its continuing influence on modern culture. Join us for this hands-on project-building event, just in time for the Olympics in Beijing.
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Jay Lake
In his novel Mainspring, Jay Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred-mile-high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now, with Escapement (Tor), Lake explores more of that territory in a "lively and thought-provoking sequel" that "effectively anneals steampunk with geo-mechanical magic in an allegorical matrix of empire building and Victorian natural science" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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John Domini
A Tomb on the Periphery (Gival Press) echoes the troubled Naples of author John Domini's highly praised novel Earthquake I.D., but with an entirely new tale. Part crime story, part ghost story, part coming of age, part redemption song, Tomb is about Italy's underground market in ancient jewelry. "A fast paced thriller from first page to the last," praises the Midwest Book Review.
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Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys in Fiction
Through detailed instruction and examples from contemporary bestsellers and classic page-turners, Jessica Morrell's Bullies, Bastards, and Bitches (Writers Digest Books) delineates the moral continuum of protagonists and antagonists; explores the connections between opposition, adversity, and evil; and illuminates a bad guy's many purposes in a successful story.
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Macintosh Users Group
Join us the every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.
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12 Science Fiction Book Group
This month our sci-fi book group meets to discuss Green Man, edited by Ellen Datlow. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets
"A vastly entertaining collection that combines four Native American voices unlike any you'll find in today's marginalized poetry circles," praises Powell's Kevin Sampsell. Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press) brings together a quartet of acclaimed Sioux poets — Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty — to grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. Poets Luke Warm Water and Trevino L. Brings Plenty will both be presenting at this event.
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Eldon Thompson
Completing the Legend of Asahiel trilogy, Eldon Thompson's The Divine Talisman (Eos) unites a lone elf, a mad witch, and a fallen hero charged with unraveling a series of divine riddles to recover the fabled Crimson Sword that can finally end the onslaught of the demonic Illysp. "[P]lenty of violence and magical mayhem," says Publishers Weekly.
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Amanda Boyden
From Amanda Boyden, author of Pretty Little Dirty, comes Babylon Rolling (Pantheon), a gritty, unflinching story about the clash of race and culture in the intersecting lives of five families who call the same New Orleans street home. "Boyden writes with a style and flair that bear watching," says Library Journal.
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Kat Richardson & Richelle Mead
Double the paranormal thrills! Harper Blaine was an average small-time P.I. until she died — for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And in Kat Richardson's Underground (Roc), she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of strange cases. In Richelle Mead's Storm Born (St. Martin's Press), after dead women start turning up in the shadows of Nocturne City, werewolf police detective Luna Wilder is plunged into a case that spans hundreds of years.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss Death of a Red Heroine by Qui Xiaolong. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Sean Carswell
The debut novel by Sean Carswell, Train Wreck Girl (Manic D Press) is the funny and tragic story of one man's quest to figure out what to do with his life now that it's too late for him to die young. "Sean Carswell is a wonderful storyteller," says Howard Zinn. "Reading his stuff makes you laugh and makes you think."
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Thomas Frank
From Thomas Frank, the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas? comes The Wrecking Crew (Metropolitan Books), a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate — and lucrative — conservative misrule. "One of the sharpest political commentators around, Frank is required reading for every concerned citizen," cheers Publishers Weekly (starred review).
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Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group
This month the romance book group meets to discuss Minnette Meador's The Centurion and the Queen. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Tape Op: The Book, Vol. II
Edited by Larry Crane, Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Vol. II (Feral House) collects over 70 interviews and articles from the independent **Tape Op** magazine, circa 1999-2000. Creativity, technique, equipment, and passion collide in these pieces about and featuring Ani DiFranco, Death Cab for Cutie, the Flaming Lips, Ween, Calexico, and many more!
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Dirk Wittenborn
In Dirk Wittenborn's Pharmakon (Viking), William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, stumbles upon a drug that promises happiness. When his experiment goes awry and a research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family forever. "Eerie, authentic, and always with heart, Pharmakon is a slow-burning triumph," raves Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
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Kira Salak
In PEN Award-winning journalist Kira Salak's sweeping, stunning debut novel, The White Mary (Henry Holt & Company), a young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption. "[G]ripping...a blend of Heart of Darkness and Tomb Raider," enthuses Publishers Weekly.
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Oregon 1859
The essential Oregon guide for time travelers of all ages. An inspiring, close-up portrait at the moment of statehood featuring maps, biographical sketches of notable figures, and historical photographs, Janice Marschner's Oregon 1859 (Timber Press) will light the way back for anyone who wants to see Oregon today as it was then.
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CFI/Freethinkers Book Group
This month's nonfiction book group meets to discuss The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller. New members to the group are always welcome.
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A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness
The four chapbooks collected in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Rose Metal Press) -- three of them finalists and one the winner of the Rose Metal Press first annual short story chapbook contest -- all revel in the succinctness of their form, the underlying tension anchored beneath each story of 1,000 words or fewer. "[D]isarmingly, unabashedly intimate collections by women who know how to tell a story," hails Pia Z. Ehrhardt. Join contributors Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith .
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Linda Hogan
From a writer with "unparalleled gifts for truth and magic" (Barbara Kingsolver) comes People of the Whale (W. W. Norton), Linda Hogan’s powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community. "While filled with heartbreaking events, the novel has a life-affirming spirit that makes the journey worthwhile," proclaims Library Journal (starred review).
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Between Earth and Sky
In Between Earth and Sky (University of California Press), world-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni — who has climbed trees on four continents — offers a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, creating a captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. "[I]nspiring...her enthusiasm [is] contagious," hails Publishers Weekly.
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Win McCormack
Shocking, illuminating, and profoundly disturbing, Win McCormack's You Don't Know Me (Tin House Books) details over one hundred cases of sexual misconduct by Republican officials, office holders, and ideological supporters. "Win McCormack reveals the true hypocrisy and depravity of those who love to quote the Bible but act like Caligula," hails Arianna Huffington. Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine.
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Alison Wright
A searing and uplifting account of one woman's spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro, Alison Wright's Learning to Breathe (Hudson Street Press) is an extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive. "[F]ascinating," hails Publishers Weekly. "This inspiring story deserves a wide audience."
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Alafair Burke
When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case — and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims. Angel's Tip (HarperCollins) is a harrowing stand-alone thriller from former Portland deputy D.A. Alafair Burke, author of the bestselling Samantha Kincaid series.
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Macintosh Users Group
Join us the every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.
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Washington County Peak Oil Reading Group
This month we meet to discuss the first half of World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Incognegro
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Incognegro (South End Press) is Wilderson's "comment." A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro retells a story most Americans assume we already know, with a sometimes awful, but ultimately essential, clarity about racial politics and our own lives.
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Classics Book Group
This month we meet to discuss both La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas and Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. New members to the group are always welcome.
Wednesday the 27th, 7pm Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing
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The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
Geek meets chic in The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame (Citadel), Daniel H. Wilson's (How to Survive a Robot Uprising) and Anna C. Long's stylish, informative guide to the most outrageous, brilliant, and fascinating mad scientists — both real and fictional — and their diabolical inventions.
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Shannon Wheeler
From the pages of the Onion and the wry mind of cartoonist Shannon Wheeler comes the silliest collection of new comics you'll see this year. For more than 10 years Wheeler has cultivated a distinctly pointed and playful sense of humor in the pages of his independent comics Too Much Coffee Man and How to Be Happy. Postage Stamp Funnies (Dark Horse) frames his wit with even more focus, as each cartoon delivers its punch in a single postage stamp-sized panel.
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