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Powell's City of Books
1005 W Burnside
Portland,
OR
97209
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.52306687976776,
-122.68125772476196
[a href="http://www.powells.com/bookmachine"][img src="http://www.powells.com/images/bookmachine.jpg"][/a] The Espresso Book Machine® has arrived! Visit the Purple Room in the City of Books to publish your own book or print hard-to-find titles, all in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. [a href="http://www.powells.com/bookmachine"]Learn more.[/a] [div align="center"]÷÷÷[/div] Get turn-by-turn directions to books — on your phone! Download the free Meridian app for iPhone and Android. [a href="http://www.powells.com/app"]Click here[/a] to learn more. Powell's City of Books is a book lover's paradise, the largest used and new bookstore in the world. Located in downtown Portland, Oregon, and occupying an entire city block, the City stocks more than a million new and used books. Nine color coded rooms house over 3,500 different sections, offering something for every interest, including an incredible selection of out-of-print and hard-to-find titles. Each month, the Basil Hallward Gallery (located upstairs in the Pearl Room) hosts a new art exhibit, as well as dozens of author events featuring acclaimed writers, artists, and thinkers such as Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Chabon, Annie Leibovitz, and President Jimmy Carter. The City's Rare Book Room gathers autographed first editions and other collectible volumes for readers in search of a one-of-a-kind treasure. And the City's newest addition (October 2010) is Powell's Books Bldg. 2, a relocation of Powell's Technical Books, brings mathematics, sciences, computing, engineering, construction, and transportation sections closer to visitors at the flagship store. Bldg. 2 is located across the street from the City of Books on the corner of NW 10th and Couch. Every day at our buyers' counter in the Orange Room we purchase thousands of used books from the public. Powell's purchases special collections, libraries, and bookstore inventories as well. A few facts about the City of Books: • 68,000 square feet packed with books. • We buy 3,000 used books over the counter every day. • Approximately 3,000 people walk in and buy something every day. • Another 3,000 people just browse and drink coffee. • We stock 122 major subject areas and more than 3,500 subsections. • You'll find more than 1,000,000 volumes on our shelves. • Approximately 80,000 book lovers browse the City's shelves every day in Portland and via the Internet. So is our mother ship the world's largest bookstore? Heck, it may be bigger than your whole town. The Washington Post called Powell's "perhaps the best bookstore in the world." You can also browse our store map online in .PDF format. If you've already placed an order for a book via our website and would like to check on its status, please email the internet office at help@powells.com.
map and directions
Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Book buying hours:
Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Rare Book Room:
Saturday - Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Bldg. 2 hours:
Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Powell's Books Bldg. 2
40 NW 10th Avenue
Portland,
OR
97209
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.523427687852305,
-122.68149375915527
Powell's Technical Books is now Powell's Books Bldg. 2, on the corner of 10th and Couch, across the street from Powell's City of Books. The new space brings our mathematics, sciences, computing, engineering, construction, and transportation sections closer to our flagship store.
map and directions
Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton,
OR
97005
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.49436771181202,
-122.81029343605042
Powell's Books has served Beaverton, Oregon, with a west-side location since 1984. In November 2006, Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing opened, confirming the company's commitment to Beaverton customers. The new store location with 32,500 square feet is more than double the space of the previous Cascade Plaza location and rivals the City of Books in downtown Portland. (Okay, we may be pushing it with that statement since the Burnside location is over 68,000 square feet of retail space!) With over half a million used, new, rare, and hard-to-find titles, it's very easy to get lost in the aisles of Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. "I think we take the best elements of all the Powell's stores and roll them into one," says store manager Paul Smailes. "We have the big store feel of the City of Books, a very large technical book selection to serve our neighbors like Tektronix, Intel, and Nike, along with the largest children's book section of any book store on the West Coast." An expanded author events space and upgraded amenities bring more best-selling authors and children's events to Cedar Hills Crossing. Each month the store hosts authors such as Mirielle Guiliano, Erik Larson, Nick Bantok, and Christopher Kimball. The funky atmosphere of a Powell's Bookstore and a knowledgeable book-loving staff complete this biblio paradise in Portland's western suburbs. The entirety of the Cedar Hills Crossing mall is Wi-Fi enabled, so you can connect your laptop to the wireless network from anywhere in our store.
map and directions
Monday - Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Book buying hours:
Monday - Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland,
OR
97214
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.51214382316533,
-122.62604981660843
From appropriately funky beginnings in a slightly funky neighborhood, Powell's on Hawthorne has grown into the largest used and new bookstore on Portland's east side. Located in a vibrant, diverse, and highly desirable neighborhood, Powell's on Hawthorne now covers more than 10,000 square feet of retail space and offers more than 200,000 used and new books. The atmosphere is relaxed, but the store is big enough to warrant a map. Not as extensive as the labyrinth at the City of Books, Powell's on Hawthorne is divided into just three rooms, each named for a neighborhood landmark: Madison, Hawthorne, and Tabor. The latter is named for Mt. Tabor, the world's only extinct volcano residing within city limits. Powell's on Hawthorne hosts lively and interesting author readings several times each week in its Tabor Room. Adjacent to the reading space, readers congregate in The Fresh Pot, an inviting corner of the store serving delicious homemade pastries and other sweet delights, along with some of the best coffee in a town that really knows its coffee. Judy Jewell says, "My favorite thing about working at the Hawthorne store is the lively feeling of community I get from my co-workers and customers. I think next best is the great used books we see here. You just never know what's going to turn up or who's going to turn up to buy it. Like the other day, we got in this copy of Huber the Tuber, a book about tuberculosis. We thought it was goofy and charming so we put it in the front window. That same afternoon, a customer snatched it up, saying it was her first book. Her father had been a lung doctor, and the book had come out when she was a toddler. She was way thrilled and we were all pretty tickled about it." --
map and directions
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday - Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Book buying hours:
Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Powell's Books for Home and Garden
3747 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland,
OR
97214
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.51236185397973,
-122.62664794921875
Whether it's instructions for home and garden projects, inspiration for decorating and remodeling, or books on cooking and entertaining, Powell's Books for Home and Garden carries the latest to help enhance your nest. In addition to ideas to transform your space, we stock a wide range of books on crafts like knitting, jewelry making, and woodworking, as well as information on the latest approach to landscape design and gardening. Here you'll also find a unique selection of items from around the world: cooking utensils, tablecloths, garden tools and accessories, antique prints, quality dishware, and more. Plus, Powell's Books for Home and Garden is only two doors down from Powell's on Hawthorne, a quintessential general bookstore and hangout. About the Neighborhood The Hawthorne District lies across the Willamette River from downtown and is home to funky shops, restaurants, coffee houses, and pubs. Of Portland's neighborhoods, Hawthorne is "the bohemian." It reflects an urban niche where alternative is considered mainstream, and tie-dyes aren't a thing of the past. Here a hint of patchouli drifts from stores; a flower vendor brightens the sidewalk scenery; "art car" sightings are commonplace (cars decorated hood to trunk with treasures ranging from high-heeled shoes to bowling trophies); and trendsetters shop in hip used-clothing boutiques. On any given evening, live music spills from the open doors of pubs, bibliophiles linger at Powell's, and sidewalk tables host many a brew enthusiast. Brews, that is, as in beer and coffee.
map and directions
Monday - Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Book buying hours:
Sell your books just down the street at Powell's on Hawthorne.
Powell's Books at PDX
7000 NE Airport Way - Suite 2250
Portland,
OR
97218
United States of America
Work 503 228 4651
45.588996160486325,
-122.59589910507202
Powell's currently has three locations at Portland International Airport, our main store in the Oregon Market with satellite stores in the C and D concourses. Within all three branches, Powell's PDX offers an eclectic mix of the latest bestsellers, popular fiction and non-fiction, choice used books, games, toys and a wide range of gifts. Travelers usually don't expect to find a used bookstore in an airport, but book loving wanderers have made Powell's Books PDX a primary destination since 1988. We're not a magazine stand that carries a few books: we're a full-service bookstore offering all the amenities and services found at other Powell's locations. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff offers quick, on-the-mark recommendations for long flights, all-day business trips, vacation reading, journeys involving long hours with restless children, or any other combinations of factors involving your travel plans. Even Powell's airport locations buy used books. Sellers can drop off books to sell at any of the three airport locations. Here, these buying transactions require one or two days. After the books are assessed our buyer notifies the seller so that they can return to pick up either the books or their used book payout. PDX is voted the seventh best airport in the world for airport shopping! Read the story at the Huffington Post
map and directions
Oregon Market location:
Daily: 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Concourse C location:
Daily: 5:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Concourse D location:
Daily: 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Hours subject to change without notice.
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Justin Halpern
Fans of Sh*t My Dad Says will recognize the voice of Justin Halpern's dad as it crackles through the pages of Halpern's hysterical new book, I Suck at Girls (It Books). The story begins when Halpern announces to his dad that he's decided to propose to his girlfriend. His dad's advice: Take a day off and think back over everything he's learned in life about women, relationships, and himself before making the decision. I Suck at Girls is a pilgrim's progress through the landscape of sex and love — by one of the funniest writers of today.
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Peter Carey
From Peter Carey, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, comes The Chemistry of Tears (Knopf). An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the most admired writers of our time.
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Please God Let It Be Herpes
Comedy Central regular Carlos Kotkin is lucky in love — if lucky in love means he's had enough horrible, pathetic, and downright bizarre dating experiences to write a book. In Please God Let It Be Herpes (NAL), Kotkin shares his ups and (mostly) downs of bachelorhood, including romantic conquests with a slew of childhood crushes, insane yogis, a Playboy vixen, an STD host, the flaky, the deaf, and the just plain dumb.
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A Silence of Mockingbirds
Investigative journalist and author Karen Spears Zacharias never thought she would become involved in a high-profile murder case. But when she reconnects with a close family friend named Sarah, Karen discovers that Sarah's daughter, Karly, had been murdered in Corvallis. In A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder (MacAdam/Cage), Karen uses court documents and investigative interviews with friends, family, law enforcement officials, and key witnesses to piece together what happened to Karly.
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Get Your Pitchfork On!
For office workers Kristy Athens and husband Michael, farming was a romantic dream. After purchasing farm land in the Columbia Gorge, the couple were surprised to learn that the realities of farming were challenging and unexpected. Practical and often hilarious, Get Your Pitchfork On! provides the nuts-and-bolts of rural living from city folk who were initially out of their depth. Athens gives urban professionals the tools they need to realize their dream, with basics of home, farm, and hearth. It also enters territory that other books avoid: straightforward advice about the social aspects of country living, from health care to schools to small-town politics.
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Paul Dickson
Paul Dickson's Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick (Walker & Co.) is a richly detailed portrait of an American original: baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit and unflinching advocate of racial equality, Bill Veeck. Dickson brings fully to life a transformational, visionary figure who spent a lifetime challenging baseball's and society's well-entrenched status quo.
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Matt Love
In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home-grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was Sometimes a Great Notion. In Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel (Nestucca Spit Press), Matt Love documents the legend of that magical summer.
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Lisa Jackson, Cathy Lamb, & Rosalind Noonan
What makes a perfect summer? Golden sand, pounding surf, a sense of endless possibility — and four unforgettable stories of love, friendship, and second chances. Meet three of the four authors featured in the new romance anthology Beach Season (Kensington) as they set the tone for the sweetest of summers — just in time for vacation.
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The Art of Intelligence
With The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service (Penguin Press), legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert Henry Crumpton tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions. Drawing from the full arc of his exploits, Crumpton explains what America's spies do and why their service is more valuable than ever. Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
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Thai Jones
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the U.S. was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. With More Powerful Than Dynamite (Walker & Co) historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a portrait of New York on the edge of chaos and charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic paternalism converged in July of 1914.
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No One Has to Die Alone
Caring for a terminally ill loved one can be the single biggest challenge of your life. Drawing from her experience of sitting with over 500 people as they died and of caring for her own terminally ill father, Lani Leary guides caregivers, family, and friends through the difficult transitions of illness, death, and bereavement in her book No One Has to Die Alone (Beyond Words).
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The Book of Obama
How did a charismatic young president, elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation, lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as conservative, risk-averse, and tone-deaf. In The Book of Obama (Seven Stories), Rall revisits the rise and fall of Obama — and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements — and draws a startling conclusion: We, the people, weren't lied to; we lied to ourselves, both about Obama and about the two-party system.
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Kids' Storytime
Join us every Saturday for kids' storytime. Today we're reading Jamberry by Bruce Degen.
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Buzz Bissinger
With Father's Day (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August, journeys into the psyche of his son and traveling companion, where he finds not only the skills and debilities known as savantism but a host of qualities we should all emulate. As father and son journey from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, Buzz gains a new and uplifting wisdom, realizing that Zach's worldview has a sturdy logic of its own, a logic that deserves the greatest respect. And with the help of Zach's twin, Gerry, Buzz learns an even more vital lesson about Zach: character transcends intellect.
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Sunday, June 3rd @ 3:00PM
Pastaworks
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd (503) 232-1010
Molly Moon
When Molly Moon Neitzel opened the first of her five boutique ice cream shops in 2008, she was an instant hit with the folks of Seattle. Now you can make her delicious ice creams, sorbets, and toppings at home. Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream (Sasquatch) features recipes that focus on using local, fresh fruits and herbs in combinations that are both familiar and surprising. From childhood favorites to avant-garde fare, including the classic Vanilla Bean to the adventurous Balsamic Strawberry and comforting Maple Bacon (try it on oatmeal for a winter breakfast treat!), these ice creams and sorbets are both simple and fun to make. Please note: This free event takes place at Pastaworks on Hawthorne, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford, the distinguished modern American master and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, returns with Canada (Ecco), a haunting and elemental novel about a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world that has been rendered unrecognizable. Fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is spirited across the Canadian border by a family friend in hopes of delivering him to a better life. Instead, he is set on a collision course with an enigmatic and charismatic American whose cool reserve masks a dark and violent nature. A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is destined to become a classic.
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Darrin Drda
In The Four Global Truths (Evolver Editions), Darrin Drda contends that as global temperatures rise and natural systems decline, humanity will be forced to confront the destructiveness of unfettered material progress and mechanistic thinking. Writing in a warm, open style recalling Eckhart Tolle, Drda integrates elements of Western philosophy, transpersonal psychology, deep ecology, modern cosmology, and quantum physics to get at the heart of worldwide ecological suffering and to encourage responsible participation in this critical moment in life.
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Kim Barnes
In the Kingdom of Men (Knopf) is the mesmerizing, richly imagined novel from award-winning author Kim Barnes. It's 1967 and Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her after she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. When he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia, Gin steps into a luxurious world far from the two-room Oklahoma shack she grew up in. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Gin's world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found.
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Nell Freudenberger
A surprising story about love, secrets, and betrayals, and the exhilarations and complications of getting and staying married, The Newlyweds (Knopf) takes the reader from the backyards of America to the back alleys of Bangladesh. What has always set Nell Freudenberger apart is the sly, gimlet eye she turns on collisions of all kinds, be they sexual, cultural, or familial. In the relationship between Amina Mazid and George Stillman, she has found her perfect foil. At once revelatory and affecting, The Newlyweds is a stunning achievement, a powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers.
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Daniel Wilson
As he did in his New York Times-bestselling Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world in his new thriller, Amped (Doubleday). People are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats, but soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the rights of these "amplified" humans. On the day that the first law is passed, 29-year-old Owen Gray joins their ranks and is forced to flee, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where it is rumored a group of the most enhanced "amps" may be about to change the world
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Jan Wallentin
The Arctic, 1897: Nils Strindberg crashes his hydrogen balloon during an expedition to the North Pole. Germany, 1942: Gruesome and inexplicable experiments are performed on concentration-camp prisoners. Sweden, present day: Cave diver Erik Hall finds a dead body, wearing an ancient ankh, buried deep in an abandoned mine. A religious-symbol expert sets out to study the ankh but finds Erik dead and is soon being chased across Europe to escape a secret society that will do anything to obtain the ankh. In Strindberg's Star (Viking), Jan Wallentin weaves together each of these fascinating strands to create a mind-blowing cross-genre thriller.
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Chris Guillebeau
Still in his early 30s, Chris Guillebeau has visited more than 175 nations, and yet he's never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. There are many others like Chris, those who've found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. In The $100 Startup (Crown), Guillebeau shows how you, too, can lead a life of adventure, meaning, and purpose — and earn a good living — by turning ideas into income, often with only a modest investment.
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First Thursday
Portland has a long tradition of calligraphy. The Portland Society for Calligraphy was founded by Lloyd J. Reynolds and a group of his students in 1969. This month, members of the PSC will exhibit their artwork in the Basil Hallward Gallery. Please join us for the First Thursday reception.
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Cinda & Linea Johnson
The Johnsons — mother, father, and two daughters — were a loving and close Seattle family. Then the younger daughter, Linea, started experiencing crippling bouts of suicidal depression. After multiple trips to the psych ward, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and it took many trial runs of drugs and ultimately electroshock therapy to bring Linea back. Perfect Chaos (St. Martin's) is Linea and Cinda's story, the dual memoir of a mother and daughter and their journey through mental illness towards hope.
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Eleanor Brown
Eleanor Brown's The Weird Sisters (Berkley) is the "delightful" (People) bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere. It's the story of the three Andreas sisters as they return to their childhood home, where books are a passion and TV is something other people watch. Communicating with their parents and lovers is difficult, but communicating with one another is even harder. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what she expected.
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William Dietrich
By 1803, swashbuckling, ribald, and irreverent hero Ethan Gage has outsmarted wily enemies and survived dangerous challenges across the globe. Now, the rakish hero finds himself on a desperate hunt to secure the lost treasure of Montezuma. Combining science, history, and mythology, William Dietrich has woven a larger-than-life tale that sees Ethan embroiled in the Napoleonic era's ideals, opportunism, and inventions. Filled with intrigue, voodoo, a hurricane, violent political unrest, and unexpected passion, The Emerald Storm (Harper) is Dietrich's most captivating novel to date.
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Ron Paul's Revolution
In Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books), journalist Brian Doherty details Paul's career, traces the evolution of his ideas, and explores his significance in American politics. He explains Paul's appeal and identifies his constituents — a rising generation of cross-partisan activists concerned with government overreach.
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Rosecrans Baldwin
A self-described Francophile since childhood, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed of living in Paris. So, when an opportunity presented itself to work for an advertising agency there, he couldn't turn it down. An offbeat, up-to-date, surprising entry in the expat canon, Baldwin's Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (Farrar Straus & Girous) is a memoir about a young man who witnesses his preconceptions replaced by the oddities of a vigorous, nervy city
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Rhiannon Held
In Rhiannon Held's Silver (Tor), Andrew Dare is a werewolf and the enforcer for the Roanoke pack. He's responsible for capturing or killing any Were intruders in Roanoke's territory. But the lone Were he's tracking doesn't smell or act like anyone he's ever encountered. And when he catches her, it doesn't get any better. She's beautiful, crazy, and someone has tortured her by injecting silver into her veins. She says her name is Silver and that she's lost her wild self and can't shift any more. The packs in North America have a live-and-let-live attitude, and try not to overlap with each other. But Silver represents a terrible threat to every Were on the continent.
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Anthony Swofford
Following the success of his memoir, Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons. But in the searing, courageous pages of his new book, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (Twelve), he recounts his struggles to make sense of what his military service meant and to decide what his life can and should become, all while raising questions about masculinity, fathers and sons, and love.
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Scott Jurek
Ultrarunner and star of Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, Scott Jurek delivers an inspiring memoir of a remarkable running career, fueled, surprisingly, by an entirely plant-based diet. Eat and Run (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) will motivate everyone to go the distance, whether that means getting out for your first run, expanding your food horizons, or simply exploring the limits of your own potential. This event is cosponsored by Fit Right NW, who will host a fun run with Jurek, beginning at Fit Right (2258 NW Raleigh St.) at 6:30 and ending at Powell's for Jurek's reading at 7:30.
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Lily Raff McCaulou
Lily Raff McCaulou had been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and an animal lover and, though a meat eater, had always abided by the principle that harming animals is wrong. But when she left New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, her perspective shifted. She began spending time fly-fishing and interviewing hunters for her articles, realizing that many of them were more thoughtful about animals and the environment than she was. Lily Raff McCaulou's Call of the Mild (Grand Central) is a beautifully written and contrarian narrative that explores the tension between hunters and environmentalists and the new models of sustainable and ethical food procurement.
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Laura Harrington
Tomboy Alice Bliss is heartbroken when her father is deployed to Iraq. He'll miss seeing Alice blossom into a teenager: she'll learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love — all while trying to be strong for her mother and precocious little sister. At once universal and very personal, Laura Harrington's Alice Bliss (Penguin) is a profoundly moving novel about those who are left home during wartime.
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Peter Zuckerman
For as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when 11 climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillfed mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky (W. W. Norton) reveals their astonishing story for the first time. This gripping, white-knuckled adventure from Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan explores Sherpa customs and culture and recreates one of the most dramatic catastrophes in mountaineering history from a fascinating new perspective.
Wednesday the 13th, 7:30pm / Powell's City of Books
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
The top one percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the benefits of their wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live." With The Price of Inequality (W. W. Norton), Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable. But if left unchecked, it can result in a divided society that cannot tackle its most pressing problems. This event cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
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The Great American Ale Trail
The Great American Ale Trail (Running Press) is the definitive guide to the best places to drink craft beer in America. Author Christian DeBenedetti has traveled across the country to find the worthiest beer destinations, from major breweries to tiny farmhouse startups. With hundreds of entries, including top-10 lists for "Best Dive Bars for Craft Beer Lovers," "Best Beer Festivals," and "Best Beer Cities," The Great American Ale Trail is sure to set anyone on their first beer pilgrimage.
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Samuel Popkin
There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: the inevitable winner when it begins and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate: What It Takes to Win — and Hold — the White House (Oxford Univ. Press), Samuel Popkin draws on a lifetime of presidential campaign experience and academic research and analyzes what it takes to win the next campaign.
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Frank Deford
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter (Atlantic Monthly) is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He's worked for Sports Illustrated, The National Sports Daily, written 10 novels, won an Emmy (not to mention being a fabled Lite Beer All-Star), and continues to delight sports fans with his commentary on NPR's Morning Edition. This is an inspired book — equal parts funny and touching — a real treasure, just like Frank Deford.
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Charlotte Vivian Rodenberg
In Bronto and the Pterodactyl Eggs (Craigmore Creations), author and illustrator Charlotte Vivian Rodenberg presents a heartwarming picture book of one lone Apatosaurus who must protect a nest of tiny pterodactyls from the dangers of the Jurassic. Through breathtaking watercolor and ink paintings, we are carried to a world of unexpected joy as we discover Bronto, his heart as big and warm as the afternoon sun, and his four new dino-fledgling friends.
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Saturday, June 16th @ 2:00PM
Pastaworks
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd (503) 232-1010
Food in Jars
With Food in Jars (Running Press), popular food blogger Marisa McClellan takes the reader through all manner of food in jars, storing away seasonal tastes for later. Basics like jams and jellies are accompanied by pickles, chutneys, conserves, whole fruit, tomato sauces, salsas, marmalades, nut butters, seasonings, and more. Small batches make them easy projects for a canning novice, and the surprising flavors will keep more experienced jammers coming back for more. Her home-canned food — learned from generations of the original "foodies" — is detailed in more than 100 recipes. Please note: This free event takes place at Pastaworks on Hawthorne, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Cosponsored by Edible Portland.
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Saturday, June 16th @ 7:30PM
Newmark Theater
1111 SW Broadway (503) 248-4335
Jane Lynch
You might know actress Jane Lynch as the cheerleading coach everyone loves to hate on Glee, the intense lesbian dog-trainer in Best in Show, or the store manager offering to deflower Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But before that, she was just a teenager in Dolton, Illinois, with a dream to be an actress, a journey that she details in her comic and inspirational new memoir, Happy Accidents (Hyperion). For this special event, Lynch will be joined by KOPB's Dave Miller for a "behind-the-scenes" conversation, sure to be funny, poignant, and brutally honest, just like the actress herself. Please note: This event, presented by Powell's Books and Third Rail Repertory Theatre, takes place at the Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com, the PCPA box office, and by phone at 800-745-3000.
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Rick Woodford
Just as it can for humans, natural food can enable dogs to live longer, healthier lives, and with the meals, treats, and cookies in Rick Woodford's Feed Your Best Friend Better (Andrews McMeel) dogs will never miss commercial kibble. Using extensive research and veterinarian manuals as guides, Woodford makes the transition to homemade dog food easy with simple recipes and other helpful tips. This event is cosponsored by Animal Aid of Portland.
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Andrew Blum
When your Internet cable leaves your house, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives — and the broader scheme of human culture — can be found on the Internet. In Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Ecco), journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the physical infrastructure to reveal an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. Like Tracy Kidder's classic The Soul of a New Machine, Tubes combines on-the-ground reporting and lucid explanation into an engaging, mind-bending narrative to help the reader understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives.
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Low-Carbon Living
While the routine decisions that shape our days — what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work — may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. Based on an in-depth, two-year study by experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists, Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living (Island Press) presented by contributor Jeff Deyette, shows how to cut your own carbon emissions by 20 percent or more. Including chapters on transportation, home energy, diet, and personal consumption, Cooler Smarter offers science-based strategies for low-carbon living, which can help you save money and live healthier but also will empower you to confront the planet's greatest threat.
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Ernest Cline
At once wildly original and stuffed with '80s nostalgia, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (Broadway), now in paperback, is an ambitious and spectacularly genre-busting debut novel that's part quest, part love story, and part virtual space opera, set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
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Anna Keesey
Orphaned after the death of her mother, 18-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Pick leads her to a tiny cabin where she'll begin her new life as a homesteader. If she can hold out for five years, the land will join Pick's already impressive spread. But Esther discovers that this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a range war filled with cutthroats and greed. Anna Keesey's Little Century (Farrar Straus Giroux) is a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts.
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Craig Johnson
Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has a more important matter on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married. Walt and old friend Henry Standing Bear are the de facto wedding planners and fear Cady's wrath when the location arrangements go up in smoke two weeks before the big event. The pair set out to find a new site on the Cheyenne Reservation, but their scouting expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's majestic cliffs. With the growing popularity of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series, fans new and old will relish As the Crow Flies (Viking), the sheriff's latest quirky and complex investigation.
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Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams's mother told her, "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them. In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams has created a lyrical and caring meditation on the mystery of her mother's journals. When Women Were Birds (Farrar Straus & Girous) is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning the question "What does it mean to have a voice?"
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Francine Du Plessix Gray
Historical fiction of the highest order, Francine Du Plessix Gray's The Queen's Lover (Penguin Press) reveals, in a fresh vision of the French Revolution and the French royal family, the untold love affair between the Swedish count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
In Once upon a River (W. W. Norton), Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine. Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane is a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, Margo takes to her boat and sets out on the Stark River in search of her vanished mother. But the river is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive, using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability to look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her.
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Matthew Batt
When a season of loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. Instead, they set their sights on a dilapidated house in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. With no homesteading experience and a full-blown life crisis on their hands, these perpetual grad students decide to seek salvation through renovation and do all they can to turn a former crack house into a home. Batt's account of their adventure, Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home (Mariner), is heartfelt, joyous, and improbably funny.
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Steven Raichlen
From the celebrated author of the bestselling cookbooks Planet Barbecue and How to Grill comes a surprising first novel about love, loss, redemption — and really good food. Claire Doheney agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick island, hoping to find solace, strength, and sufficient calm to finish her biography of the iconoclastic psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich. The last thing she expects to find is love. Told with a keen eye for Chappaquiddick's natural beauty, Island Apart (Forge) has it all: romance, travel, crime, and cooking scenes so vivid they'll make your taste buds ache. Think The Bridges of Madison County with better food.
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Alafair Burke
In Never Tell (Harper), Alafair Burke's fourth Ellie Hatcher novel, Hatcher is forced to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of a teenage girl named Julie who has intriguing connections to New York's wealthiest, as well as to its most dispossessed. Hatcher is soon pulled into Julie's inner circle, an eclectic mix of overly precocious teenagers from Manhattan's most privileged families and street kids from Greenwich Village, and forced to acknowledge that Julia may have learned the hard way that some secrets should never be told.
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Kids' Storytime
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today we're reading Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin.
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Ridley Pearson
Rutherford Risk specializes in the recovery of hostages. After a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight, the security company recruits two outsiders to help located them. Grace Chu is a forensic accountant hired to follow the money; John Knox is a civilian with unparalleled training in both combat and culture. They begin by following the money, which leads to consequences neither anticipated. Rich with the atmosphere of Shanghai and crackling with tension-filled suspense, The Risk Agent (Putnam) introduces two compelling new characters — and heralds the start of a brilliant new series.
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Joe Sacco & Chris Hedges
In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Nation Books), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco present a searing portrait of an American underclass in crisis. Reporting from the coal fields of West Virginia, from Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, from undocumented farm worker colonies in California, and from Camden, New Jersey, the poorest city in the nation, Hedges and Sacco warn of a bleak near future — where cities and states fall easily into bankruptcy, neofeudalism reigns, and the nation's working and middle classes are decimated. A shocking report from the frontlines of poverty in America, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a clarion call for reform.
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Sheila Heti
A bawdy, genre-busting novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium, Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be (Henry Holt) is a portrait of the artist as a young woman and a delicious combination of pop and art. What begins as curiosity about how to live well becomes, in Heti's hands, an irresistible, torn-from-life novel exploring the eternal questions of why we connect, whom we desire, and how a person should be.
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Natalie Serber
In Natalie Serber's stories of resilient, flawed women, Shout Her Lovely Name (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing and love. In a battle between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread and plain yogurt become weapons. An aimless college student, married to her much older professor, sneaks cigarettes while caring for their newborn son. And in a series of stories set in 1970s California, the reader follows capricious single mother Ruby and her steadfast daughter Nora through their tumultuous life of stray men, stray cats, and psychedelic drugs. Emotionally generous, achingly real, and beautifully written, these unforgettable stories lay bare the connection and conflict in families.
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Classics Book Group
This month we meet to discuss The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Join us!
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Jess Walter
Jess Walter, the award-winning author of The Financial Lives of the Poets, returns with his funniest and most romantic novel yet. Beautiful Ruins (Harper) is the story of an almost love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and is rekindled in Hollywood 50 years later. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is full of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.
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Cindy Pawlcyn
Cindy Pawlcyn has been making her mark on the national food scene for decades, pioneering a farm-to-table philosophy and running some of Napa Valley's most beloved restaurants, including the legendary Mustards Grill. Her new cookbook, Cindy's Supper Club (Ten Speed Press), serves up more than 125 recipes from the world's greatest food destinations. From the familiar Italian to the adventurous Ethiopian, distinct fare from great food cities and countries gets a touch of Pawlcyn's easy sophistication and focus on freshness.
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Glen Duncan
With Talulla Rising (Knopf), Glen Duncan gives readers a follow-up to last year's bestseller, The Last Werewolf, which has been hailed as "a brilliantly original thriller, a love story, a witty treatise on male (and female) urges, even an existential musing on what it is to be human" (James Medd, The Word). Talulla Rising pushes the werewolf myth further into new territory to give us a novel rich in action and ideas, delivering in the process the definitive 21st-century female of the species.
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Translator Judson Rosengrant
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth in his early 20s. Although in his old age he would famously dismiss it as an "awkward mixture of fact and fiction," generations of readers have disagreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace, and color. Judson Rosengrant has translated and edited a wide range of Russian literature, and presents his new translation of Tolstoy's autobiographical classic.
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Kristen Iversen
Full Body Burden (Crown) is a haunting work of nonfiction about the life of a young woman, author Kristen Iversen, who grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, the secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It follows her through childhood and adolescence, at the height of the Cold War, living in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and, unknown to those who lived there, tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium
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Dorothy Wickenden
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, Woodruff's granddaughter, found the teachers' buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children they taught, and other unforgettable people they got to know. With Nothing Daunted (Scribner), Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the "settling up" of the West.
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