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
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Daily: 5am to 1:30pm; 8:30pm to 11:00pm
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Space Magic
Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-nominated writer David D. Levine's first short story collection, Space Magic (Wheatland Press) features 15 sci-fi and fantasy tales, including the Hugo-winning "Tk'Tk'Tk" and the multiple-award-nominated "The Tale of the Golden Eagle," as well as the previously unpublished "Falling off the Unicorn."
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Book Bags Book Group
This month the women's book group meets to discuss The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. New members to the group are always welcome.
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John Kroger
Starting from his time as a new recruit and ending at the peak of his career, former federal prosecutor John Kroger steers readers through the complexities of life as a prosecutor. Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is an unflinching portrait of a crucial but little-understood part of the American justice system.
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John Straley
A gripping period crime story, The Big Both Ways (Alaska Northwest Books) incorporates actual events and real places. In his much-anticipated new novel, John Straley has crafted a completely original thriller that pays homage to Raymond Chandler's gritty detective stories and John Dos Passos's evocative U.S.A. trilogy.
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David Samuels CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (New Press) collects Harper's contributing editor David Samuels's previously published stories depicting a skewed odyssey through an America populated by idealists and outsiders. Samuels's The Runner (New Press), based on one of the most talked-about New Yorker articles from the past decade, tells how James Hogue created a new identity for himself and lied his way into Princeton University, made the track team, and dated a millionaire's daughter before his deception was finally exposed.
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The God of War
From the author of No Direction Home comes The God of War (Simon & Schuster), Marisa Silver's indelible novel of the end of childhood set in the California desert. "A stunning second novel," raves Kirkus Reviews. "[A] powerful, often tragic tale."
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Garth Stein
Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain (Harper), a bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyalty, and hope. Enzo is a philosopher with a nearly human soul, and he's gained a wealth of knowledge from hours spent in front of the TV.
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Cheeky Pages Book Group
Join our romance book group this month to discuss The Cobra and the Concubine by Bonnie Vanak. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Will Durst
In The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing (Ulysses Press), equal-opportunity offender Will Durst swats partisan political piñatas, from both sides of the spectrum, upside their heads.
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Saturday, May 17th @ 7:00PM
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. (503) 233-1994
Live Wire!
Live Wire! is a radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The May 17th show features special guests QUASI, which is accumulating material for its next album and may perform new songs; Marc Acito, author of the new book Attack of the Theater People; Mark Galbraith and Peter Kallen, lead product designers for clothing label NAU; comedian Will Durst; Americana band The Builders and the Butchers; improv and sketch comedy goddess Shelley McLendon; plus original sketch comedy from Faces for Radio Theater, music from Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops, host Courtenay Hameister, and, as always, a few surprises!
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2K7 Kids' Reading
The Class of 2K7 is a group of debut children's and YA authors with books that came out in 2007. Featured authors are Joni Sensel (Reality Leak (Henry Holt), part Saturday morning cartoon, part secret agent mystery), Thatcher Heldring (Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer (Delacorte), "[a] truly great basketball story," says Phil Jackson), and Sundee T. Frazier (Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It (Delacorte), "[Frazier] writes affectingly about what being biracial means in 21st-century America" — School Library Journal).
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Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens
While introducing fascinating ecological and geological insights, In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens (Oregon State University Press) also tells compelling stories about how science informs our lives and our relationship to nature. These writings will startle readers with new recognition of the matchless gift Mount St. Helens makes to our region and the world. Editors Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick Swanson are joined by contributors Kim Stafford and Ursula K. Le Guin at this special Mt. St. Helens anniversary event.
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Susan Hubbard
Fourteen-year-old Ariella Montero is half human and half vampire. In The Year of Disappearances (Simon & Schuster) Susan Hubbard's sequel to her supernatural thriller The Society of S, Ariella continues her quest to discover if humans or vampires ultimately inherit Earth.
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Focused and Fearless
Jhana is a powerful meditative technique that opens the way to unfettered joy, radiant calm, and abiding happiness. An engaging mix of contemporary examples, practical exercises, and how-to instructions that anyone can try, Shaila Catherine's Focused and Fearless (Wisdom Publications) is an accessible, friendly, and wise guide that is ideal for both novices and the more seasoned practitioner who wishes to explore advanced meditative states.
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Such a Pretty Fat
From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big Ass and Bitter Is the New Black comes Jen Lancaster's latest hilarious memoir, Such a Pretty Fat (New American Library). Lancaster offers a laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating look at the real struggles and temptations a person faces while trying to lose weight and keep it off.
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Get Gardening with Jeff Gillman
It is often assumed that any product or practice labeled as organic is automatically safe for humans. In The Truth about Organic Gardening (Timber Press), Jeff Gillman examines gardening practices on a case-by-case basis in order to determine whether they are safe and whether they accomplish the task for which they are intended.
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Tuesday, May 20th @ 7:00PM
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
Stephenie Meyer The Host
SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT!
Stephenie Meyer, the author of the #1 bestselling Twilight series, delivers The Host (Little Brown and Company), her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake, featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies. Booklist praises it as "propulsive reading, laden with unforgettable, unsettling scenes." Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of The Host, 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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Chris Bohjalian
Capturing both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war, Chris Bohjalian's latest novel Skeletons at the Feast (Shaye Areheart Books) puts a moving face on one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies.
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Wednesday, May 21st @ 7:00PM
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
James Frey & Josh Kilmer-Purcell
From the bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces comes Bright Shiny Morning (Harper), James Frey's sweeping, kaleidoscopic novel that captures the divided soul of America's most alluring city. It is a portrait of Los Angeles as it has never been seen before. Candy Everybody Wants (Harper Perennial) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (author of I Am Not Myself These Days) is a novel about Jayson, a teenage boy determined to achieve the celebrity status he feels is rightfully his. He soon discovers that celebrity is not always what it's cracked up to be, and always comes at a price. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $27, include admission and a copy of Bright Shiny Morning, 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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CFI/Freethinkers Book Club
This month's nonfiction book group meets to discuss Richard Carrier's Sense and Goodness without God. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Easy Company Soldier
Easy Company Soldier (St. Martin's Press) is the harrowing memoir of Don Malarkey, a Band of Brothers soldier who spent more consecutive days in combat than any other member of the Easy Company. This is his dramatic tale of those bloody days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how an adventurous kid from Oregon became a leader of men.
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Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid
For more than 25 years, both separately and together, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid have journeyed all over the outlying regions of China, sampling local home cooking and street food, making friends, and taking lustrous photographs. In Beyond the Great Wall (Artisan) they offer a bold new cookbook with magnificent photos and unforgettable stories.
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Linda Sue Park
Even those readers who think they don't care about baseball will be drawn into Newbery Medal winner Linda Sue Park's latest book, Keeping Score (Clarion Books), the captivating story of a young girl who follows her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers during the Korean War. "A winner at every level," cheers Kirkus (starred review).
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American Nerd
Benjamin Nugent's American Nerd (Scribner) explores the concept of nerdiness and the history of the nerd subculture: how they developed and how they have manifested in media, literature, schools, the workplace, and in the general public. "A triumph," raves Publishers Weekly (starred review).
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go
A rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry by the former editor of Screw and High Times, Mike Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go (Faber & Faber) combines the fear and loathing of Hunter Thompson's journalistic thrill rides with the acerbic insider voice of Toby Young. It's an eye-opening, gleeful view of life on the edge — and the outlaws and oddballs encountered there.
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The Triumph of Caesar
Steven Saylor, the New York Times-bestselling author of Roma — and "modern master of historical fiction" (USA Today) — returns with The Triumph of Caesar (St. Martin's Minotaur), the latest installment in his critically acclaimed series set in ancient Rome and featuring Gordianus the Finder.
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The Fruit Hunters
Journalist Adam Leith Gollner's "rollicking" (Publishers Weekly) The Fruit Hunters (Scribner) takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit — from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets — in a broadly appealing and vividly written tale of horticultural obsession.
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Armistead Maupin
Almost 20 years after ending Tales of the City, his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero in Michael Tolliver Lives (Harper Perennial), letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. "[G]reat fun," praises the New York Times. "Maupin is a master at sustained and sustaining comic turns."
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Washington County Peak Oil Reading Group
This month we meet to discuss the last third of The Great Turning by David C. Korten. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Andrew Sean Greer
From Andrew Sean Greer, the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, comes a love story full of secrets and astonishments in 1950s San Francisco. Set in a climate of fear and repression — political, sexual, and racial — The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.
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Phillip Margolin & Steve Martini
With nonstop action, unforgettable characters, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Executive Privilege (Harper) asks if a president of the United States could be a serial killer — and proves once again that bestseller Phillip Margolin belongs in the top echelon of thriller writers. Murder reaches deep into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shadow of Power (William Morrow), Steve Martini's electrifying new thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani.
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Classics Book Group
This month our classics book group meets to discuss both Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Shamela by Henry Fielding. New members to the group are always welcome.
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The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk (Pantheon) is an irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize. More than a collection of amazing and entertaining anecdotes, The Drunkard's Walk reminds us that much in our lives is as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man, fresh from a night at the bar.
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Willamette Valley Railways
Long before modern light rail vehicles, electric trains were providing Portland and the Willamette Valley with reliable, elegant transportation that was second to none. Richard Thompson's Willamette Valley Railways (Arcadia) tells the story of the electric inter-urban railways that ran through Oregon's Willamette Valley and of the streetcars that operated in the towns they served.
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The Undercover Philosopher
Why do we trust doctors to give us the medicines we need? How can we know who to vote for? How valuable are the opinions of "experts"? Drawing on cognitive and behavioral psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, Michael Philips unpacks a new kind of thinking about knowledge in The Undercover Philosopher (Oneworld Publications), showing us how flawed our acceptance of certain beliefs is.
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The Maternal Is Political
Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political (Seal Press) features 30 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families — both their own and other women's — in this country and globally. Editor Shari MacDonald Strong appears with contributors Jennifer Margulis, Alisa Gordaneer, Gigi Rosenberg, and Margaret McConnell.
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Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley
The Masque was Brendan Mullen's grimy basement club in late 1970s Los Angeles that became a haven for assorted misfits with attitude problems and home to bands like The Germs, X, The Weirdos, and so many more. Filled with classic photos and ephemera, Live at the Masque (Gingko Press) showcases the influential fashion of an era with no rules.
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