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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
November 2009
15
The Adaptable Feast

Poets Bill Siverly, Barbara Drake, & Carlos Reyes

Douglas Coupland

16
Greg Bear

Oaks Park Pentimento

VoiceCatcher 4

17
Macintosh Users Group

Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

Peter Goodman

18
The 2012 Story

Al Gore

19
Brandon Sanderson

Kent Nerburn

Mary Karr

20
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group

Brom

Cranioklepty

21
22
23
Applique Your Way

Badass

24
Oregon Wine Country and Happy Hour Guidebooks
25
Classics Book Group

Sarah Baker Munro: Timberline Lodge

26
27
28
29
Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning
30
 
December 2009
  1
Macintosh Users Group

The Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide

2
CFI/Freethinkers Book Group

The Map as Art

3
First Thursday: The Art of Boilerplate

J. A. Jance

The Three "Only" Things

4
Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present
5
Philosophy Cafe
6
Lisa Schroeder
7
Macintosh Users Group: Graphics/Video

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

8
Science Fiction Book Group

To Hellholes and Back

9
Donald Miller
10
John Geiger CANCELLED
11
Laurell K. Hamilton
12
13
14
Greg Mortenson SOLD OUT
15
Macintosh Users Group
16
17
18
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Macintosh Users Group
30
Classics Book Group
31
 

November 2009
 
The Adaptable Feast
Sunday the 15th, 2:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

The Adaptable Feast After marrying a vegetarian, meat-lover Ivy Manning developed a collection of recipes that each had a "fork in the road" to a few vegetarian servings of a meaty dish or a few omnivore servings of a vegetarian dish. The Adaptable Feast (Sasquatch) offers a diverse and delicious array of recipes that are flexible enough to accommodate everyone at the table.

Order a signed edition of The Adaptable Feast: Satisfying Meals for the Vegetarians, Vegans, and Omnivores at Your Table

 
Poets Bill Siverly, Barbara Drake, & Carlos Reyes
Sunday the 15th, 4:00PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Bill Siverly's Clearwater Way is a poetic journey from the Washington Coast, up the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers, into the woods of northern Idaho.
The title poem of Barbara Drake's poetry collection Driving 100 implies the larger theme of the book as a whole: the past in all its mystery and wonder, driving relentlessly into the dark.
Portland translator and poet Carlos Reyes's The Book of Shadows harvests at least 30 years of his poetry and includes recent work.


 
Douglas Coupland
Sunday the 15th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

 Douglas Coupland Mirroring his debut novel, Generation X, Douglas Coupland's Generation A (Scribner) explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.

Order a signed edition of Generation A

 
Greg Bear
Monday the 16th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Greg Bear Mariposa (Vanguard Press) is the new near-future thriller from bestselling author Greg Bear, starring the three FBI agents from Quantico. The Talos Corporation trains soldiers and security forces from around the world, with a more sinister motive than anyone realizes: the destruction of the federal government.

Order a signed edition of Mariposa

 
Oaks Park Pentimento
Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Oaks Park Pentimento Jim Lommasson and Inara Verzemnieks's Oaks Park Pentimento (OSU Press) records the blurring of past and present, a moment when two generations of paintings collided to create remarkable new images on the historic carousel at Portland's Oaks Amusement Park.

Order a signed edition of Oaks Park Pentimento: Portland's Lost and Found Carousel Art

 
VoiceCatcher 4
Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne

The VoiceCatcher Editorial Collective debuts new work from VoiceCatcher 4, its fourth anthology of local women's writing. A mix of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, the reading will be hosted by VoiceCatcher 4 editor Jennifer Springsteen and include work by Paulann Petersen, Abby Mims, Liz Prato, Carolyn Moore, Nancy Flynn, Kaitlyn Burch, and Penelope Scambly Schott.


 
Macintosh Users Group
Tuesday the 17th, 6:30PM Powell's Technical Books

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.


 
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
Tuesday the 17th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Breathers: A Zombie's Lament Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, S. G. Browne's Breathers (Broadway) is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.

Order a signed edition of Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

 
Peter Goodman
Tuesday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Peter Goodman In Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy (Times Books), New York Times national economics correspondent Peter Goodman takes readers behind the headlines, exposing how America's economy has been perverted by the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble.

Order a signed edition of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy

 
The 2012 Story
Wednesday the 18th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

The 2012 Story From John Major Jenkins, one of the pioneering authors who introduced the 2012 countdown to the world's spiritual community, comes The 2012 Story (Tarcher), an epic exploration of the origins of this portentous date. Jenkins examines the date's roots in Mayan cosmology, modern astronomy, and ancient prophecy.

Order a signed edition of The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History

 
Al Gore
Wednesday the 18th, 7:30PM Keller Auditorium

Al Gore Our Choice (Rodale) is former Vice President Al Gore's inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions to global climate change. This event is presented by Powell's Books and Literary Arts. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St. Tickets, $45 and $65, are available at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 800-745-3000. All tickets include a copy of Our Choice. Books will be distributed at the event.


 
Brandon Sanderson
Thursday the 19th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Brandon Sanderson New York Times-bestselling author Brandon Sanderson pens The Gathering Storm (Tor), the first of three novels to conclude the late Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time series. This short sequence brings to a close a journey begun almost 20 years ago, and marks the conclusion of the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.

Please note: Brandon Sanderson will be signing The Gathering Storm: Wheel of Time #12 and is also happy to sign any of his other titles.


 
Kent Nerburn
Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Kent Nerburn In The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows (New World Library), a fictionalized account of actual events, Kent Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders have ever captured.


 
Mary Karr
Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Mary Karr From Mary Karr, author of the beloved and bestselling The Liars' Club, comes Lit (Harper), her memoir about her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection.

Order a signed edition of Lit: A Memoir

 
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group
Friday the 20th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group This month we welcome author Jessa Slade to our discussion of her book Seduced by Shadows. Join us! Friday the 20th, 7pm / Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing


 
Brom
Friday the 20th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Brom Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom's The Child Thief (Eos) is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade.


 
Cranioklepty
Friday the 20th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Cranioklepty Fully illustrated with some surprising images, Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty (Unbridled Books) is a fascinating and authoritative anthology of real-after-life gothic tales about those who seek to possess the skulls of the famous dead.


 
Applique Your Way
Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Applique Your Way Appliqué Your Way (Chronicle) goes beyond traditional quiltwork with 35 sweet stitching projects from crafter extraordinaire Kayte Terry. The book is designed for easy use with a lay-flat Wire-O binding and a handy back pocket that holds pattern and template pieces.

Preorder a signed edition of Applique Your Way

 
Badass
Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Badass Ben Thompson's Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Harper) presents a collection of the most awesome historical figures to ever run screaming into battle. Thompson will be joined by book illustrator Matt Haley.

Preorder a signed edition of Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live

 
Oregon Wine Country and Happy Hour Guidebooks
Tuesday the 24th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Oregon Wine Country and Happy Hour Guidebooks Cindy Anderson presents two new guidebooks for aficionados of local food and drink. The Oregon Wine Country Guidebook highlights more than 200 wineries with an easy-to-use, fast-find formula. The Portland Happy Hour Guidebook shows where to eat, drink, and be happy — and save money, too! — in an updated 2010 edition.

Preorder a signed edition of Happy Hour Guidebook: Portland (2010 Edition)

Preorder a signed edition of Wine Country Guidebook: Oregon (August 2009)

 
Classics Book Group
Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Classics Book Group This month we meet to discuss Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Join us!


 
Sarah Baker Munro: Timberline Lodge
Wednesday the 25th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Sarah Baker Munro: Timberline Lodge Timberline Lodge — the magnificent Oregon icon on Mount Hood — is one of the few 20th-century American buildings of its size constructed and furnished entirely by hand. Richly illustrated with historical photos and stunning new color photography, Timberline Lodge (Timber Press) includes biographical sketches of nearly 60 artists and describes more than 250 works of art in the collection.

Preorder a signed edition of Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon

 
Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning
Sunday the 29th, 4:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning More science fiction authors than you can shake a light saber at! Guests include:

We are also pleased to welcome the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Imperial Legion.

Preorder signed editions!

December 2009
 
Macintosh Users Group
Tuesday the 1st, 6:30PM Powell's Technical Books

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.


 
The Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide
Tuesday the 1st, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

The Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide Cheeky, opinionated, and totally independent from the places reviewed, Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide, edited by Robin Goldstein, is a new kind of restaurant guide. Brutally honest yet entertaining reviews are written by teams of undercover local food critics and professional chefs who don't identify themselves, don't defer to sacred cows, and don't accept free meals. With 300 full-page reviews, 60 pages of reference lists, and a special vegetarian guide, this is an essential reference for anyone who eats out in the area.


 
CFI/Freethinkers Book Group
Wednesday the 2nd, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

CFI/Freethinkers Book Group This month the nonfiction book group continues November's discussion of The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. Join us!


 
The Map as Art
Wednesday the 2nd, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

The Map as Art In The Map as Art (Princeton Architectural Press), Katharine Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Vik Muniz, and many more for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art.

Preorder a signed edition of The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

 
First Thursday: The Art of Boilerplate
Thursday the 3rd, 6:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

The Basil Hallward Gallery is pleased to present paintings, photos, and illustrations from Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, the fanciful creation of husband-and-wife team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, who have richly imagined a robot soldier and inserted it into accurate retellings of history.


 
J. A. Jance
Thursday the 3rd, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

J. A. Jance Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds returns in Trial by Fire (Touchstone), the newest adventure in the New York Times bestselling series by J. A. Jance.

Preorder a signed edition of Trial by Fire: A Novel of Suspense

 
The Three "Only" Things
Thursday the 3rd, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne

The Three Have you ever said something was "only" a dream, "only" a coincidence, or "only" your imagination? In Robert Moss's new book, The Three "Only" Things (New World Library), you'll discover that these "only" things can be keys to finding and living your bigger story.

Preorder a signed edition of The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination

 
Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present
Friday the 4th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Tinsel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a compelling look at this half-trillion-dollar holiday.

Preorder a signed edition of Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present

 
Philosophy Cafe
Saturday the 5th, 4:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Join philosophers and PCC instructors Brian Elliott and John Farnum for a discussion of topical issues from a philosophical perspective. This month's topic: Is it ethically defensible to commit immoral acts in virtual worlds? Portland Community College philosophy instructor Matt Stockton joins us to help explore the moral challenges and ethical considerations that exist for individuals participating in virtual environments.


 
Lisa Schroeder
Sunday the 6th, 6:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Lisa Schroeder There's nothing like a home-cooked meal made with love, which is just what Lisa Schroeder serves in her wildly popular Portland restaurant, Mother's Bistro and Bar. Mother's Best (Taunton) is the cookbook for those who yearn for uncomplicated and uncommonly good food straight from mother's oven.

Preorder a signed edition of Mother's Best: Comfort Food That Takes You Home Again

 
Macintosh Users Group: Graphics/Video
Monday the 7th, 7:00PM Powell's Technical Books

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.


 
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Monday the 7th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right Drawing on unprecedented access to Ayn Rand's private papers and original, unedited journals, Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market (Oxford University Press) offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.

Preorder a signed edition of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

 
Science Fiction Book Group
Tuesday the 8th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Science Fiction Book Group This month we meet to discuss Dauntless: Lost Fleet #1 by Jack Campbell. Join us!


 
To Hellholes and Back
Tuesday the 8th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

To Hellholes and Back In the widely acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now, in To Hellholes and Back (Henry Holt), he sets out to discover if some of the world's most ill-reputed destinations -- the Congo, India, Mexico City, and most horrifying of all, Disney World -- live up to their bad raps.

Preorder a signed edition of To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism

 
Donald Miller
Wednesday the 9th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

Donald Miller In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Thomas Nelson), Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, undertakes a humorous and revealing journey as he edits his life into a purposeful and meaningful experience.

Preorder a signed edition of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

 
John Geiger CANCELLED
Thursday the 10th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside

 John Geiger <b style=CANCELLED" BORDER=0> CANCELLED

John Geiger's The Third Man Factor (Weinstein) is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death experience the sense of an unseen presence beside them, encouraging them to survive. Fascinating for any reader, The Third Man Factor at last explains this secret to survival: a Third Man who -- in the words of famed climber Reinhold Messner -- "leads you out of the impossible."

CANCELLED


 
Laurell K. Hamilton
Friday the 11th, 7:00PM Bagdad Theater

Laurell K. Hamilton Laurell K. Hamilton is the master of blending the paranormal and the erotic in her unforgettable Meredith Gentry novels. Her latest book, Divine Misdemeanors, comes on the heels of the heart-stopping ending of Swallowing Darkness. Now that Merry has refused the throne of faerie and retreated with her bodyguards to Los Angeles, she is called in by the LAPD to help solve a baffling and brutal crime. Someone is killing the fey, and they need help finding the killer.

Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of Divine Misdemeanors, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets.

Preorder a signed edition of Divine Misdemeanors (Meredith Gentry Novels)

 
Greg Mortenson SOLD OUT
Monday the 14th, 7:30PM Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Greg Mortenson <b style=SOLD OUT" BORDER=0> From Greg Mortenson, the author of the bestseller Three Cups of Tea, comes Stones into Schools (Viking) the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Mortenson recounts his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; and shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women -- all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort. This event is presented by Powell's Books and Literary Arts.

Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. Tickets are available at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 800-745-3000.

SOLD OUT


 
Macintosh Users Group
Tuesday the 15th, 6:30PM Powell's Technical Books

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.


 
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group
Friday the 18th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group This month we meet to discuss An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James. Join us!


 
Macintosh Users Group
Tuesday the 29th, 6:30PM Powell's Technical Books

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.


 
Classics Book Group
Wednesday the 30th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

Classics Book Group This month we meet to discuss Rabbit at Rest by John Updike. Join us!


 
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