3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR
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Sun: 10am to 9pm
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
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Fri-Sat: 9am to 11pm
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7000 NE Airport Way
map and directions Oregon Market Location
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Sun-Fri: 5am to 10pm
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Daily: 5am to 1:30pm; 8:30pm to 11:00pm
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View our upcoming events as a calendar.
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Portland Macintosh Users Group Meeting
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.
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Craft Circle Book Group
This month's craft circle book group meets to discuss Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson and Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara Walker. Bring your crafting supplies as we talk books and crafts the first Tuesday of each month.
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Ian Rankin
In Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Little Brown and Company), a new case lands on Detective Inspector John Rebus's desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus is just a few days shy of retirement -- will he make it that far? "Rankin hits every note on the nose here," proclaims Booklist (starred review).
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John Dear
Nobel Peace Prize nominee John Dear's A Persistent Peace (Loyola Press) invites readers to follow the decades-long journey and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist and to witness Dear's bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government officials, military higher-ups, and even hostile representatives of the church. "[I]nspiring, moving, and thoughtful," praises Booklist.
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Jon Scieszka
How did Stinky Cheese Man author Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead (Viking Children's Books). Part memoir, part scrapbook, this hilarious trip down memory lane provides a unique glimpse into the formation of a creative mind and a free spirit.
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Åsne Seierstad **This even has been canceled**
**This Event Has Been Canceled**
International bestselling journalist and author Åsne Seierstad returns from her most harrowing and dangerous journey yet -- this time into the rarely glimpsed, strife-torn region of Chechnya. A compelling, intimate, and often heartbreaking portrait of Chechnya today, The Angel of Grozny (Basic Books) is a vivid account of a land's violent history and its ongoing battle for freedom. "Powerful, painful, and raw, Seierstad's latest is essential reading," hails Booklist (starred review).
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Book Bags Book Group
This month's women's book group meets to discuss Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Dale Pendell
In Walking with Nobby (Mercury House), retired professor Norman O. Brown and author Dale Pendell, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud, presented as footnoted conversations.
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Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards
In Abortion and Life (Akashic Books), author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner reveals how the most controversial and stigmatized Supreme Court decision of our time cuts across eras, classes, and race. In Opting In (Farrar Straus & Giroux), Amy Richards addresses the anxiety over parenting that many women face, in a book that mixes memoir, interviews, historical analysis, and feminist insight.
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Thursday, October 9th @ 7:00PM
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
Art Spiegelman
In Breakdowns (Pantheon Books), a reissue of his 1978 collection of early strips, Art Spiegelman, creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, explores the comics form -- and how it has formed him. Including a new illustrated essay that looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, this collection alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir. "[R]evelatory," hails Kirkus Reviews. "Fans of graphic novels in general and Spiegelman in particular will savor this." Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $5, are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss Louise Penny's Still Life. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Peter H. Fogtdal
Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Peter H. Fogtdal's The Tsar's Dwarf (Hawthorne Books) is a masterfully told and brilliantly translated novel about aberration, endurance, and the human condition.
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Jennifer Lee Carrell
On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespearean scholar Kate Shelton is given what is claimed to be the Bard's long-lost work. When a killer decides to stage theatrical murders as flesh-and-blood realities, Shelton must unlock one of history's greatest secrets. Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones (Plume) is a "feverishly paced action adventure" (New York Times) and a "spirited and action-packed novel [that] delivers constant excitement" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Friday the 10th, 7pm Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing
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Deborah Copaken Kogan
Between Here and April (Algonquin Books), the haunting debut novel from Deborah Copaken Kogan (Shutterbabe), tells the story of Elizabeth Burns, who becomes obsessed with the long-ago murder of her childhood friend April Cassidy. What she uncovers leads her back to her own life -- and what it means to be a mother and wife. "[B]reathtaking....[An] unflinching portrait of filicide, which still manages to find light in the darkness of a very disturbing subject," hails Publishers Weekly (starred review).
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Marcella Hazan
In Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (Gotham Books), beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America's godmother of Italian cooking. Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Hazan, now 84, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching.
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Kevin Young
Las Vegas, Nashville, despair, the Midwest, "Bar-B-Q Heaven," and his family's Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in Dear Darkness (Knopf), his powerful, heartfelt sixth book of poetry. "[T]he collection effectively becomes an exercise in soul-searching even as it eulogizes Young's father," hails Library Journal (starred review).
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David Macaulay
In his comprehensive and entertaining The Way We Work (Houghton Mifflin), award-winning author David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he can. This one-of-a-kind book takes readers on a visual journey through the human body. With his trademark humor, Macaulay builds a body and explains how it works.
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Thea Hillman & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Thea Hillman's Intersex (for Lack of a Better Word) (Manic D Press) redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights Books) is Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel about a gay man's struggle to find hope in the ruins of the everyday -- from Bikram Yoga and roaches, to chronically bad sex and NPR -- with the help of herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, and sleeping pills.
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Mason Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines
Mason Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines (Potter Craft), the much-anticipated companion to Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne's bestselling Mason Dixon Knitting, features a new batch of addictive patterns and cheerful mayhem -- from the duo who reinvented the knitting-pattern book by combining beautiful knitting projects with smart, hilarious writing.
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Tuesday, October 14th @ 7:00PM
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
Sarah Vowell
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot comes The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead Books), an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today's world, and their myriad oddities. "Gracefully interspersing her history lesson with personal anecdotes, Vowell offers reflections that are both amusing...and tender," hails Publishers Weekly (starred review). Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $25, include admission and a copy of The Wordy Shipmates, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Books will be distributed at the event.
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Science Fiction Book Group
This month our Sci-Fi book group meets to discuss One Foot in the Grave by Wm. Mark Simmons. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Tango: An Argentine Love Story
Overwhelmed with the pain of a failed 15-year relationship, Camille Cusumano took off for Buenos Aires intending to stay a few short weeks -- but when her search for inner peace met with her true passion for tango, she realized she'd need to stay in Argentina indefinitely. Tango (Seal Press) is a memoir of falling in love with a country through the dance that embodies intensity, freedom, and passion -- all pivotal to Camille's own process of self-discovery. (Note: This event coincides with the Portland TangoFest XII, Oct. 15-20.)
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CFI/Freethinkers Book Club
This month's nonfiction book group meets to continue last month's discussion of C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion by John Beversluis.
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Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
After Milton and Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow bear explosion, they are sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is -- or "was" -- a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Find out in Dale E. Basye's Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (Random House), which Publishers Weekly calls "uproarious.... The author's umpteen clever allusions...make this book truly sparkle."
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Betty Fussell
In Raising Steaks (Harcourt), Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food. Fussell finds that when we bite into a steak's charred crust and pink interior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our national identity from the start. "An engaging, eclectic examination of the role of beef in the formation of American myth and reality," praises Kirkus Reviews.
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R. A. & Geno Salvatore
New York Times-bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns with The Pirate King (Wizards of the Coast), a new Forgotten Realms adventure with edge-of-the-seat action and plot twists that will keep Drizzt fans guessing the whole way. Salvatore partners with his son Geno in The Stowaway (Mirrorstone), the first volume of a brand-new saga for younger readers, featuring a cameo from the most beloved fantasy character of all time.
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The Homeowner’s Handbook to Energy Efficiency
Whether you never lift a hammer or you're highly experienced in home repair, whether it's a small project or a major renovation, Chris Dorsi's The Homeowner's Handbook to Energy Efficiency explains, with easy-to-understand instructions, how to plan, where to start, and how to proceed on the path to a more efficient, more enjoyable home.
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Thursday, October 16th @ 7:00PM
Pastaworks
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd (503) 232-1010
William King Reception
In 1985 William King joined McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant in Portland. He was named executive chef within the year. Today he is Vice President of Culinary Development and Training for over 75 restaurants by the well-respected restaurant group. In his new cookbook, The Vintner's Kitchen (Arnica Publishing), King celebrates the pioneering spirit displayed by our regional wineries and vintners in their quest to produce phenomenal, award-winning wines. The book includes recipes from vintners' families, participating restaurants, and King himself. Please note: This ticketed reception takes place at Pastaworks, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $35, include admission, a copy of The Vintner's Kitchen, and food and wine tastings, and
are available at Powells.com or by calling 503-228-4651. Books will be distributed at this event.
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The Owl and the Woodpecker
In his vivid new book, The Owl and the Woodpecker (Mountaineers Books), photographer and naturalist Paul Bannick examines the diversity of these two families of birds and the ways in which they define and enrich the ecosystems they inhabit.
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Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire
In Famous Suicide of the Japanese Empire (Coffee House Press), the debut novel from acclaimed memoirist, poet, and playwright David Mura, Ben Ohara is the sole surviving member of his family. Struggling to support his wife and children, and under pressure to complete his historical study, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, Ben realizes that the key to unlocking the future lies in reassessing the past. "Pure poetry is in these pages, and a voice for the ages," raves Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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Bill Cameron
The second novel from Portland writer Bill Cameron, Chasing Smoke (Bleak House Books) is a "mystery of the highest order" (J. T. Ellison, author of All the Pretty Girls and 14). When Portland homicide detective and cancer patient Skin Kadash's partner tries to drag him into an unofficial investigation of a series of deaths, he’s not interested -- until he discovers the victims all suffered from cancer themselves, and all had one thing in common with Skin: his oncologist.
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Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group
This month the romance book group meets to discuss The Wolverine and the Rose by Rebecca Goings. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Friday, October 17th @ 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 October 17th show is crammed with special guests, including Berkeley Breathed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who created "Bloom County," "Outland," and "Opus"; Congressman Earl Blumenauer; Filmusik: The Superman Orchestra, an artist collective project working in support of live music and performance; the return of Nau, the designer and retailer of outdoor clothing made from sustainable materials; Storm Large and Holcombe Waller, performing their songs from "(D)early Departed," a compilation CD featuring songs by Portland musicians about residents of the Lone Fir Cemetery who met untimely or unusual deaths; and Portland emo rockers The Dimes, whose latest record, "Silent Generation"
(2007), was called a "sparkling pop gem" by Spin Magazine. Plus, as always, original sketch comedy from Faces For Radio Theater, music from Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops, and sparkling wit from host Courtenay Hameister!
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Foreskin's Lament
In Foreskin's Lament (Riverhead Books), his bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God, Shalom Auslander's combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family, and his community. "[A] terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more," hails the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson are at it again, combining comedy and suspense in their hilarious thriller for young readers about foreign criminals who plot to take over the American government by rigging a middle-school science fair. In Science Fair (Disney), a story of mystery, danger, and a very nervous frog, Barry and Pearson turn their attention to our reality (sort of) with laugh-out-loud results.
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Miriam Toews
In the latest novel from Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans (Counterpoint), the Troutmans journey across the United States in search of their father -- and while they experience chaos as diverse as their personalities, they discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them had thought. "Engaging, humorous, grim, and redemptive, this is essential reading," praises Library Journal.
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Stuff White People Like
Based on Christian Lander's popular blog of the same name Stuff White People Like (Random House) is the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.
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Portland Macintosh Users Group
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.
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Diane Wilson
In Holy Roller (Chelsea Green), Diane Wilson -- Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman -- takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers, in a fast-paced, hilarious memoir that readers won't soon forget. "Wilson exuberantly animates a feverish time, a frenetic place, and its fiery people," praises Booklist.
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Murder with Friends Group Reading
More than 10 mystery writers -- all on one thrilling night! Please join us for this special evening featuring: Chelsea Cain (Sweetheart), Sharan Newman (Shanghai Tunnel), Barbara Pope (Cezanne's Quarry), Bill Cameron (Chasing Smoke), April Henry (Shock Point), Dana Fredsti (Murder for Hire), Lono Waiwaiole (Wiley's Lament), Donna Anders (Sketching Evil), Phillip Margolin (Executive Privilege), and more.
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Julia Glass
From Julia Glass, the author of the bestselling Three Junes, comes a richly nuanced tale about the intertwined lives of two sisters. Alternating between the women's voices, I See You Everywhere (Pantheon Books) unfolds across 25 years, offering a candid double portrait that reveals the very nature of sisterhood. "[E]xquisite, piercing," hails Booklist (starred review). "Glass is a wisely questioning, ardent, and artful novelist."
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Katherine Neville
A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, spanning two centuries and three continents, continues in The Fire (Ballantine Books), Katherine Neville's long-anticipated sequel to The Eight. "[S]tellar," raves Publishers Weekly (starred review). "The story's relentless pace is matched by characters both sympathetic and real."
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Thursday, October 23rd @ 7:00PM
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
Madeleine Albright
In Memo to the President Elect (Harperluxe), former Secretary of State Albright offers a persuasive, wide-ranging set of recommendations to the next president by drawing on her extensive experience as an adviser to two presidents and a key figure in four presidential transitions. This event is co-presented by the World Affairs Council of Oregon. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $15, include admission and a copy of Memo to the President, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Books will be distributed at the event.
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Greasy Rider
Is it possible to drive coast-to-coast without stopping at a single gas pump? Two college friends decide to find out by traveling from Vermont to California in a beat-up 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon powered by vegetable oil collected from restaurant grease dumpsters along the way. Part adventure and part investigation of what we're doing (or not doing) to preserve the planet, Greg Melville's Greasy Rider (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) is upbeat, funny, and full of surprising information about the sustainable measures that are within our reach.
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Descartes' Bones
Russell Shorto's Descartes' Bones (Doubleday Books) is a historical detective story about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day -- to the science museum in Paris where the philosopher's skull now resides, and to the church a few kilometers away where, not long ago, a philosopher-priest said a mass for the bones. "Learning lightly worn but hard won; would that all philosophical history were so accessible," praises Kirkus Reviews.
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Righting the Mother Tongue
When did "ghost" acquire its silent "h"? Will cyberspace kill the one in "rhubarb"? Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity, and humor, David Wolman's Righting the Mother Tongue (Collins) explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code, and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words. "Sprightly history that sensibly balances the merits of standardization against the forces for freedom," praises Kirkus Reviews.
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David Heatley
David Heatley, one of the most promising young talents in cartooning, makes his debut with My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Books), a dazzling collection that is filled with visceral art and emotionally resonant storytelling. "Consistently engaging," hails Kirkus Reviews, "with sporadic moments of excellence."
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Alan Cheuse
The story of a forgotten America, To Catch the Lightning (Sourcebooks Landmark), by NPR's "All Things Considered" commentator Alan Cheuse, explores the intertwined plights of the American Indian and a frontier photographer named Edward Curtis. Publishers Weekly proclaims, "[T]he narrative brims with keen insight."
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The Tyranny of Oil
In the tradition of An Inconvenient Truth comes Antonia Juhasz's The Tyranny of Oil (Morrow), a chilling and important exposé of the modern American oil industry -- and a blueprint for what citizens can do to take power back. "A riveting read with a bold blueprint for ending the madness," says Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California EPA. This event co-sponsored by KBOO.
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