John Green SOLD OUT
Sunday the 29th, 2:00PM
Bagdad Theater
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Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when gorgeous Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious novel for young adults yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. Please note: Tickets include admission and are good for one $9.99 discount toward purchase of The Fault in Our Stars, when book is purchased at the event. Tickets are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, etix.com, or by phone at 855-227-8499. Books will be available for purchase in the theater lobby.
We're sorry to report, this event has sold out.
Leanne Grabel
Monday the 30th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Leanne Grabel's Brontosaurus: Memoir of a Sex Life (Quiet Lion) is a startlingly unique memoir that details — with deep insight and remarkable humor — the love and sex life of the author after she survives being kidnapped and raped one afternoon in 1972, when she was 19. She and two college friends set off on a camping trip into Mexico for spring break, and just as their frolic begins on a deserted Baja beach, two masked, armed bandits intervene and change their lives forever. Many years later, that wound has never healed. Then, by chance, she stumbles into a teaching job at a school for incarcerated girls who all suffer from the same wound. As she finds ways to help them heal themselves, she, too, begins to heal. Brontosaurus is profound, heart-wrenching, sexy, and laugh-out-loud funny.
Portland History
Tuesday the 31st, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Jane Comerford's A Northwest Portland History: From the River to the Hills (Dragonfly Press) lets you experience the origins of Northwest Portland. Featuring many previously unpublished photographs, it shows the area when the muddy streets were filled with horse-drawn wagons, the harbor wharves welcomed sailing ships carrying goods and immigrants, and the waterfront teemed with lumber mills, manufacturing plants, saloons, hotels, and boarding houses. With over 175 photos and illustrations culled from a number of private collections, Donald Nelson's A Pictorial History of St. Johns reveals the history of North Portland's St Johns neighborhood from early pioneer years up to today, depicting the gradual transformation of St. Johns from an independent city into one of Portland's most unique communities.
First Thursday
Thursday the 2nd, 6:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Holga is a medium-format toy camera made in China. Because it's so cheaply constructed, Holga photographs often display various types of distortion — vignetting, blurring, light leakage, etc. — that have earned the camera a cult following among photographers who appreciate its unpredictable, and sometimes beautiful, results. This month, we're displaying the work of six Holga photographs: Zeb Andrews, Mark Hadley, Kendall Stewart, Nancy Guidry, Faulkner Short, and Peter Carlson.
Rachel Bertsche
Thursday the 2nd, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
When Rachel Bertsche moved to Chicago and got married, she realized that her new life was missing one thing: friends. Sure, she had plenty of Best Friends Forever — in New York and San Francisco and Boston... But in her adopted hometown, there was no one to call at the last minute for brunch or a reality-TV marathon. Taking matters into her own hands, Bertsche decided to go on 52 friend-dates, one per week for a year, in the hope of meeting her new BFF. Bertsche's thought-provoking, uproarious memoir MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend (Ballantine) combines the story of these girl-dates with a discussion of the latest social research in order to explore how difficult — and hilariously awkward — it is to make new friends as an adult.
Kids' Storytime
Saturday the 4th, 11:00AM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading Groundhog Stays Up Late by Margery Cuyler. Children of all ages welcome.
Lodro Rinzler
Sunday the 5th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation (Shambhala) is Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler's introduction to Buddhism for those who are spiritual but not religious, who are disillusioned by the state of the world, who are sick of their jobs (and just started last Tuesday), who like drinking beer and having sex and hate being preached at, and who are striving to deepen their social interactions beyond the digital realms of Twitter and Facebook. This is Buddhism presented to the generation that is just leaving the safety of college and entering a turbulent world.
The Electric Jesus
Monday the 6th, 7:30PM
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous energy healings that reshape his skeptical worldview. With The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic (Evolver Editions), he chronicles the rise of an international movement that is trailblazing new ways to address our current planetary crisis by raising consciousness.
Love Stories from StoryCorps
Monday the 6th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps (Penguin Press), StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from this revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. Just in time for Valentine's Day, this powerful collection bears witness to love in its varied forms, enriching our understanding of that most magical feeling. Copsonsored by OPB.
Sarah Jio
Tuesday the 7th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In the summer of 1942, 21-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry. Their friendship soon blossoms into something more, and under the thatched roof of a beach bungalow the two share a private world — until they witness a gruesome crime. Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, Sarah Jio's novel The Bungalow (Plume) chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truths about life and love that have haunted her for 70 years.
Jonathan Evison
Tuesday the 7th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of disparate men and women unified only by a shared vision of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family, but his obsession with creating a brighter future ultimately results in the damming of the mighty Elwha in order to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map. West of Here (Algonquin) is Jonathan Evison's multilayered saga of destiny and greed, adventure and passion, a grand and playful odyssey that reflects, in the story of one small town, the history of the nation writ large.
City of Dragons
Wednesday the 8th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In City of Dragons (Harper Voyager), the third volume in Robin Hobb's thrilling Rain Wilds Chronicles series, dragons once again inhabit the world of the Rain Wilds. But unlike their ancestors, these half-formed, flightless creatures are unable to care for themselves. Their only hope is to return to their ancient homeland of Kelsingera. Helpless to make the dangerous trek alone, the dragons are accompanied by a rag-tag group of human keepers. Dragon and human must learn to trust one another if they are to survive, but these bonds will be severely tested during the journey.
The Sex Diaries Project
Wednesday the 8th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Sex is everywhere in our culture, yet how people connect is largely a mystery. Arianne Cohen — the first editor of New York magazine's popular Sex Diaries column — spent four years collecting 1,500 Sex Diaries. In The Sex Diaries Project (Wiley), she takes the reader on a tantalizing tour of the American bedroom through the sometimes shocking, often moving, and always provocative real diaries of 40 sex diarists.
William Landay
Thursday the 9th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than 20 years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when the shocking murder of a young student shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His 14-year-old son is charged with the crime. With his new thriller Defending Jacob (Delacorte), award-winning author William Landay has written a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a searing portrait of an embattled family in crisis.
Deadly Diversions Book Group
Thursday the 9th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer. Join us!
Book Fan Friday
Friday the 10th, 4:30PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Book Fan Friday is a workshop for kids 10 to 18 years old who love to write. This month, Susan Blackaby (Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox) and Emily Whitman (Wildwing) present Setting the Hook, a talk about writing first paragraphs with zing!
Friday the 10th, 4:30pm / Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing
Pam Houston
Friday the 10th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Pam Houston, author of the bestselling Cowboys Are My Weakness, presents her new novel, Contents May Have Shifted (W. W. Norton). Stuck in a dead-end relationship, her fearless narrator finds comfort in the air, "feeling safest with one plane ticket in her hand and another in her underwear drawer." She flies around the world, finding reasons to love life in dozens of far-flung places. With the help of a squad of loyal, funny, and wise friends, she learns to sort truth from self-deception, and self-involvement from self-possession.
Kids' Storytime
Saturday the 11th, 11:00AM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading Amelia Bedelia's First Valentine by Herman Parish. Children of all ages welcome.
Matt Ruff
Sunday the 12th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
It's September 11, 2001. Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. From Matt Ruff, author of the cult hits Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys, comes The Mirage (Harper), a mind-bending psychological thriller in which an alternate history of 9/11 uncovers startling and harrowing truths about America and the Middle East.
Peggy Orenstein
Monday the 13th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somehow, since the exhilarating rise of "girl power" in the 1990s, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source — the source — of female empowerment. Peggy Orenstein's Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Harper) reveals the dark side of "girlie-girl" values and offers a path forward for anyone trying to help a young girl navigate the rocky road to adulthood.
Katherine Boo
Monday the 13th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House), by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, is a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of life in one of the 21st century's great cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another, Boo carries the reader headlong into hidden worlds and into the lives of people who are impossible to forget. Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
Science Fiction Book Group
Tuesday the 14th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
This month our group meets to discuss The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. Join us!
Lisa Gardner
Wednesday the 15th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Lisa Gardner's latest D. D. Warren thriller, Catch Me (Dutton), the relentless Boston investigator must solve a coldly calculated murder — before it happens. Detective D. D. Warren is hard to surprise. But a lone woman outside D. D.'s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition. Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days, and she wants Boston's top detective to handle the death investigation. Is Charlene truly in danger, or is she hiding a secret that may turn out to be the biggest threat of all?
Ramona Ausubel
Wednesday the 15th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead), it's 1939, and a remote Jewish village in Romania feels the war closing in from every direction. Yet, the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, and children are reassigned. For years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one. This beguiling story explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths.
Dana Stabenow
Thursday the 16th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Dana Stabenow's Restless in the Grave (Minotaur), she teams up two of her most beloved characters for the first time, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell. Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant has been killed in a fiery crash, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and even Liam Campbell's wife. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Sergeant Jim Chopin for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate in on the case. What starts with a murder quickly expands into a much larger conspiracy, revealing treason and the darkest of family secrets.
Arthur Goldwag
Thursday the 16th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Arthur Goldwag's The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right (Pantheon) is a fascinating history of the role that organized hatred has played in American politics from the Colonial Era to our own. From the "Truthers" to the "Birthers," extremism in this country is increasingly becoming a mainstay of American life. Tracing the economic and social forces that have contributed to the current popularity of extremist ideas, Goldwag shows how deeply rooted they are in our history, and how, in fact, the only thing new about them is how mainstream they've become.
Nathan Englander
Friday the 17th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories that grapple with the great questions of modern life. Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Nathan Englander's What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank (Knopf) displays a gifted young author with a command of language and with a depth of imagination that place him at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction. "Put him alongside Singer, Carver, and Munro. Englander is, quite simply, one of the very best we have" (Colum McCann).
Kids' Storytime
Saturday the 18th, 11:00AM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith. Children of all ages welcome.
Alexandra Day
Saturday the 18th, 2:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Alexandra Day's The Fairy Dogfather (Green Tiger), young Hector has trouble differentiating the letters d and g. Therefore, when he wrote a request to the universe for a fairy godfather, he shouldn't have been surprised when the Fairy Dogfather arrived instead. Like Carl in Day's classic Good Dog, Carl series, Hector's Fairy Dogfather is an emblem of mischievous but responsible caretaking. In Day's capable hands, he is also a unique character that will entertain children old and young.
Patrick deWitt
Sunday the 19th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
With The Sisters Brothers (Ecco), Patrick deWitt transforms the classic Western into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters — losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells of all stripes — and told by a complex and compelling narrator, The Sisters Brothers is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underbelly of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West.
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program
Monday the 20th, 7:00PM
Newmark Theater
The only "cure" for Alzheimer's is prevention, and The Alzheimer's Prevention Program (Workman), by Gary Small and his wife, Gigi Vorgan, shows the reader how to take control. An easy-to-follow regimen based on the latest Alzheimer's research and with an emphasis on the connection between lifestyle and susceptibility, this science-based breakthrough program can add years of brain health and mental clarity to a person's life. Please note: This event kicks off the OHSU Brain Awareness Lecture Series at the Newmark Theater (1111 SW Broadway). Tickets are available at TicketsWest.com or by phone at 800-992-8499.
The Non-Toxic Avenger
Monday the 20th, 7:30PM
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
After learning that the autism and cancer that had impacted her family were most likely the result of environmental toxins, Deanna Duke, author of the acclaimed environmental blog TheCrunchyChicken.com, undertook a mission to dramatically reduce her family's chemical exposure. The Non-Toxic Avenger: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You (New Society) follows Duke's journey as she uncovers how insidious and invasive environmental toxins are. Learn about the chemicals the average American is exposed to every day, the implications for your health, and what you can do about it.
Carolyn Turgeon
Tuesday the 21st, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Carolyn Turgeon has a gift for imagining magical worlds. Her new novel for teens, The Next Full Moon (Dowtown Bookworks), begins as 12-year-old Ava is looking forward to a lazy summer. And everything is going beautifully — until Ava begins to grow feathers. Horrified, she hides out in her bedroom, clad in a hoodie, longing for her dead mother, and worrying about her freakish life. Then, Ava discovers an other-worldly place that belongs to the Swan Maidens, one of whom is Ava's mother.
The End of Money
Tuesday the 21st, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The age of paper dollars and metal coins is coming to a close. In The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers — and the Coming Cashless Society (Da Capo Press), David Wolman introduces the people, technologies, and trends that are powering this shakeup and takes the reader on a tour through the hotspots of the cashless revolution. Along the way, he examines the implications of next-generation payment innovations, investigates alternative and virtual currencies, and showcases the boom in mobile-phone banking. As cash gets pushed toward extinction, now is the time to explore its effect on our wallets and on our lives.
Lysley Tenorio
Wednesday the 22nd, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In stories structured around tense, fascinating dichotomies, Lysley Tenorio reveals the lives of people on the outside looking in with rare skill, humor, and understanding. Breathtakingly original, Monstress (Ecco) marks the arrival of a bold new voice in American fiction who explores the clash and meld of disparate cultures with heart and style.
Amy Hatvany
Thursday the 23rd, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Outside the Lines (Washington Square Press) is Amy Hatvany's gripping new novel about a woman who sets out to find her father but ends up discovering herself. When Eden was 10 years old, she found her father, David, on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life. Twenty years later, Eden decides it's time to find her father, to forgive him at last, and to move forward with her own life. Her search takes her to a downtown Seattle homeless shelter, to Jack Baker, its handsome and charming director, and, finally, to the painful truths Eden must face if she is ever to move forward.
Rachel Lloyd CANCELLED
Thursday the 23rd, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
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With the power and verity of First They Killed My Father and A Long Way Gone, Rachel Lloyd's riveting memoir, Girls Like Us (Harper Perennial), is about her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her subsequent determination to help other young girls escape "the life." This unflinchingly honest and powerful story is one of deep pain, enduring hope, and, ultimately, the promise of redemption. "Never again will you look at young girls on the street as one of 'those' women — you will only see little girls that are girls just like us" (Demi Moore, actress and activist).
We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
Kevin Fox
Friday the 24th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
For Sean Corrigan, the past is unimportant; it's simply what happened yesterday. But on his 21st birthday, he is given a journal that belonged to his father's brother Michael, a man he didn't even know existed. Left behind when his uncle fled to Ireland to escape prosecution for a murder he didn't commit, the journal sends Sean on a search for answers. Like The Time Traveler 's Wife and the classic Time and Again, Kevin Fox's Until Next Time (Algonquin) is a romance cloaked in a mystery. It's also a remarkable story that shows how ancient myths affect everything from what we believe to who we love.
Kids' Storytime
Saturday the 25th, 11:00AM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano. Children of all ages welcome.
Tim Dorsey
Monday the 27th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Pineapple Grenade (William Morrow), the latest comic thriller from Tim Dorsey, Serge Storms has finagled his way into a job as a spy for the president of a banana republic. Will he still have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down? To learn the answer, put on your favorite pink-flamingo shirt and join us.
Tupelo Hassman
Monday the 27th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
With her debut novel, Girlchild (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), Tupelo Hassman tells the story of young Rory Hendrix, who is determined to get out of the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother and prove she's not the feeble-minded imbecile she's been labeled. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her mother's habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workers' reports, half-recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that paints a vivid picture of her world — while she searches for a way out of it.
Monday the 27th, 7:30pm / Powell's City of Books
Joanne Fluke
Tuesday the 28th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
When amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at a festival in Lake Eden, Minnesota, she bakes up a supply of their namesake confection to welcome them. But tragedy strikes when their tour bus overturns on its way into town. And keyboardist Buddy Neiman's minor injuries turn deadly serious when someone plunges surgical scissors into his chest. With Cinnamon Roll Murder (Kensington), Joanne Fluke "continues to delight cozy mystery readers with superb characters, inventive storylines, and the best recipes in the genre" (Library Journal).
Classics Book Group
Wednesday the 29th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
This month we meet to discuss The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Join us!
Gail Carriger
Wednesday the 29th, 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Timeless (Orbit), the final novel of Gail Carriger's bestselling Parasol Protectorate series, Lady Maccon, and her werewolf husband are mysteriously summoned to Egypt. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly spreading? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire? Find out!
The Illustrated Practical Guide to Gardening for Seniors
Wednesday the 29th, 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Tending gardens is a lifelong pleasure, but, as we age, our energy and physical abilities become more limited. Packed with projects, garden plans, and step-by-step sequences designed for older gardeners, Patty Cassidy's The Illustrated Practical Guide to Gardening for Seniors (Annes Publishing) will appeal to active gardeners in their early retirement as well as seniors with more limited abilities and will show how the joy of gardening can remain undiminished for years to come.
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