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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='/app/'][img src='/images/meridian_app_promo.jpg' class='left' style='border:0' /][/a]Get turn-by-turn directions to books -- on your phone! Download the free Meridian app for iPhone and Android. Click here 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. Once again, Powell's Books is proud to announce the annual Springer Yellow Sale. Nearly 150 mathematics titles from the world's leading science and technology publisher are offered at discounts up to 50% off regular price. You don't need a complicated equation to arrive at the correct conclusion: that's a great deal.
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.
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Kids' Storytime
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading Groundhog Stays Up Late by Margery Cuyler. Children of all ages welcome.
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Lodro Rinzler
The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation (Shambhala) is Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler's introduction to Buddhism for those who are spiritual but not religious, who are disillusioned by the state of the world, who are sick of their jobs (and just started last Tuesday), who like drinking beer and having sex and hate being preached at, and who are striving to deepen their social interactions beyond the digital realms of Twitter and Facebook. This is Buddhism presented to the generation that is just leaving the safety of college and entering a turbulent world.
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The Electric Jesus
When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous energy healings that reshape his skeptical worldview. With The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic (Evolver Editions), he chronicles the rise of an international movement that is trailblazing new ways to address our current planetary crisis by raising consciousness.
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Love Stories from StoryCorps
In All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps (Penguin Press), StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from this revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. Just in time for Valentine's Day, this powerful collection bears witness to love in its varied forms, enriching our understanding of that most magical feeling. Copsonsored by OPB.
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Sarah Jio
In the summer of 1942, 21-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry. Their friendship soon blossoms into something more, and under the thatched roof of a beach bungalow the two share a private world — until they witness a gruesome crime. Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, Sarah Jio's novel The Bungalow (Plume) chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truths about life and love that have haunted her for 70 years.
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Jonathan Evison
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of disparate men and women unified only by a shared vision of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family, but his obsession with creating a brighter future ultimately results in the damming of the mighty Elwha in order to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map. West of Here (Algonquin) is Jonathan Evison's multilayered saga of destiny and greed, adventure and passion, a grand and playful odyssey that reflects, in the story of one small town, the history of the nation writ large.
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City of Dragons
In City of Dragons (Harper Voyager), the third volume in Robin Hobb's thrilling Rain Wilds Chronicles series, dragons once again inhabit the world of the Rain Wilds. But unlike their ancestors, these half-formed, flightless creatures are unable to care for themselves. Their only hope is to return to their ancient homeland of Kelsingera. Helpless to make the dangerous trek alone, the dragons are accompanied by a rag-tag group of human keepers. Dragon and human must learn to trust one another if they are to survive, but these bonds will be severely tested during the journey.
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The Sex Diaries Project
Sex is everywhere in our culture, yet how people connect is largely a mystery. Arianne Cohen — the first editor of New York magazine's popular Sex Diaries column — spent four years collecting 1,500 Sex Diaries. In The Sex Diaries Project (Wiley), she takes the reader on a tantalizing tour of the American bedroom through the sometimes shocking, often moving, and always provocative real diaries of 40 sex diarists.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer. Join us!
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William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than 20 years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when the shocking murder of a young student shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His 14-year-old son is charged with the crime. With his new thriller Defending Jacob (Delacorte), award-winning author William Landay has written a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a searing portrait of an embattled family in crisis.
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Book Fan Friday
Book Fan Friday is a workshop for kids 10 to 18 years old who love to write. This month, Susan Blackaby (Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox) and Emily Whitman (Wildwing) present Setting the Hook, a talk about writing first paragraphs with zing!
Friday the 10th, 4:30pm / Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing
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Pam Houston
Pam Houston, author of the bestselling Cowboys Are My Weakness, presents her new novel, Contents May Have Shifted (W. W. Norton). Stuck in a dead-end relationship, her fearless narrator finds comfort in the air, "feeling safest with one plane ticket in her hand and another in her underwear drawer." She flies around the world, finding reasons to love life in dozens of far-flung places. With the help of a squad of loyal, funny, and wise friends, she learns to sort truth from self-deception, and self-involvement from self-possession.
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Matt Ruff
It's September 11, 2001. Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. From Matt Ruff, author of the cult hits Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys, comes The Mirage (Harper), a mind-bending psychological thriller in which an alternate history of 9/11 uncovers startling and harrowing truths about America and the Middle East.
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Peggy Orenstein
Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somehow, since the exhilarating rise of "girl power" in the 1990s, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source — the source — of female empowerment. Peggy Orenstein's Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Harper) reveals the dark side of "girlie-girl" values and offers a path forward for anyone trying to help a young girl navigate the rocky road to adulthood.
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Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House), by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, is a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of life in one of the 21st century's great cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another, Boo carries the reader headlong into hidden worlds and into the lives of people who are impossible to forget. Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
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Science Fiction Book Group
This month our group meets to discuss The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. Join us!
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Lisa Gardner
In Lisa Gardner's latest D. D. Warren thriller, Catch Me (Dutton), the relentless Boston investigator must solve a coldly calculated murder — before it happens. Detective D. D. Warren is hard to surprise. But a lone woman outside D. D.'s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition. Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days, and she wants Boston's top detective to handle the death investigation. Is Charlene truly in danger, or is she hiding a secret that may turn out to be the biggest threat of all?
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Ramona Ausubel
In Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead), it's 1939, and a remote Jewish village in Romania feels the war closing in from every direction. Yet, the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, and children are reassigned. For years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one. This beguiling story explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths.
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Dana Stabenow
In Dana Stabenow's Restless in the Grave (Minotaur), she teams up two of her most beloved characters for the first time, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell. Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant has been killed in a fiery crash, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and even Liam Campbell's wife. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Sergeant Jim Chopin for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate in on the case. What starts with a murder quickly expands into a much larger conspiracy, revealing treason and the darkest of family secrets.
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Arthur Goldwag
Arthur Goldwag's The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right (Pantheon) is a fascinating history of the role that organized hatred has played in American politics from the Colonial Era to our own. From the "Truthers" to the "Birthers," extremism in this country is increasingly becoming a mainstay of American life. Tracing the economic and social forces that have contributed to the current popularity of extremist ideas, Goldwag shows how deeply rooted they are in our history, and how, in fact, the only thing new about them is how mainstream they've become.
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Nathan Englander
The author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories that grapple with the great questions of modern life. Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Nathan Englander's What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank (Knopf) displays a gifted young author with a command of language and with a depth of imagination that place him at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction. "Put him alongside Singer, Carver, and Munro. Englander is, quite simply, one of the very best we have" (Colum McCann).
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Kids' Storytime
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith. Children of all ages welcome.
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Alexandra Day
In Alexandra Day's The Fairy Dogfather (Green Tiger), young Hector has trouble differentiating the letters d and g. Therefore, when he wrote a request to the universe for a fairy godfather, he shouldn't have been surprised when the Fairy Dogfather arrived instead. Like Carl in Day's classic Good Dog, Carl series, Hector's Fairy Dogfather is an emblem of mischievous but responsible caretaking. In Day's capable hands, he is also a unique character that will entertain children old and young.
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Patrick deWitt
With The Sisters Brothers (Ecco), Patrick deWitt transforms the classic Western into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters — losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells of all stripes — and told by a complex and compelling narrator, The Sisters Brothers is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underbelly of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West.
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Monday, February 20th @ 7:00PM
Newmark Theater
1111 SW Broadway (503) 248-4335
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program
The only "cure" for Alzheimer's is prevention, and The Alzheimer's Prevention Program (Workman), by Gary Small and his wife, Gigi Vorgan, shows the reader how to take control. An easy-to-follow regimen based on the latest Alzheimer's research and with an emphasis on the connection between lifestyle and susceptibility, this science-based breakthrough program can add years of brain health and mental clarity to a person's life. Please note: This event kicks off the OHSU Brain Awareness Lecture Series at the Newmark Theater (1111 SW Broadway). Tickets are available at TicketsWest.com or by phone at 800-992-8499.
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The Non-Toxic Avenger
After learning that the autism and cancer that had impacted her family were most likely the result of environmental toxins, Deanna Duke, author of the acclaimed environmental blog TheCrunchyChicken.com, undertook a mission to dramatically reduce her family's chemical exposure. The Non-Toxic Avenger: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You (New Society) follows Duke's journey as she uncovers how insidious and invasive environmental toxins are. Learn about the chemicals the average American is exposed to every day, the implications for your health, and what you can do about it.
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Carolyn Turgeon
Carolyn Turgeon has a gift for imagining magical worlds. Her new novel for teens, The Next Full Moon (Dowtown Bookworks), begins as 12-year-old Ava is looking forward to a lazy summer. And everything is going beautifully — until Ava begins to grow feathers. Horrified, she hides out in her bedroom, clad in a hoodie, longing for her dead mother, and worrying about her freakish life. Then, Ava discovers an other-worldly place that belongs to the Swan Maidens, one of whom is Ava's mother.
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The End of Money
The age of paper dollars and metal coins is coming to a close. In The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers — and the Coming Cashless Society (Da Capo Press), David Wolman introduces the people, technologies, and trends that are powering this shakeup and takes the reader on a tour through the hotspots of the cashless revolution. Along the way, he examines the implications of next-generation payment innovations, investigates alternative and virtual currencies, and showcases the boom in mobile-phone banking. As cash gets pushed toward extinction, now is the time to explore its effect on our wallets and on our lives.
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Lysley Tenorio
In stories structured around tense, fascinating dichotomies, Lysley Tenorio reveals the lives of people on the outside looking in with rare skill, humor, and understanding. Breathtakingly original, Monstress (Ecco) marks the arrival of a bold new voice in American fiction who explores the clash and meld of disparate cultures with heart and style.
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Amy Hatvany
Outside the Lines (Washington Square Press) is Amy Hatvany's gripping new novel about a woman who sets out to find her father but ends up discovering herself. When Eden was 10 years old, she found her father, David, on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life. Twenty years later, Eden decides it's time to find her father, to forgive him at last, and to move forward with her own life. Her search takes her to a downtown Seattle homeless shelter, to Jack Baker, its handsome and charming director, and, finally, to the painful truths Eden must face if she is ever to move forward.
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Rachel Lloyd CANCELLED
With the power and verity of First They Killed My Father and A Long Way Gone, Rachel Lloyd's riveting memoir, Girls Like Us (Harper Perennial), is about her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her subsequent determination to help other young girls escape "the life." This unflinchingly honest and powerful story is one of deep pain, enduring hope, and, ultimately, the promise of redemption. "Never again will you look at young girls on the street as one of 'those' women — you will only see little girls that are girls just like us" (Demi Moore, actress and activist).
We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
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Kevin Fox
For Sean Corrigan, the past is unimportant; it's simply what happened yesterday. But on his 21st birthday, he is given a journal that belonged to his father's brother Michael, a man he didn't even know existed. Left behind when his uncle fled to Ireland to escape prosecution for a murder he didn't commit, the journal sends Sean on a search for answers. Like The Time Traveler 's Wife and the classic Time and Again, Kevin Fox's Until Next Time (Algonquin) is a romance cloaked in a mystery. It's also a remarkable story that shows how ancient myths affect everything from what we believe to who we love.
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Kids' Storytime
Join us every Saturday for storytime. Today, we're reading And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano. Children of all ages welcome.
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Tim Dorsey
In Pineapple Grenade (William Morrow), the latest comic thriller from Tim Dorsey, Serge Storms has finagled his way into a job as a spy for the president of a banana republic. Will he still have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down? To learn the answer, put on your favorite pink-flamingo shirt and join us.
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Tupelo Hassman
With her debut novel, Girlchild (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), Tupelo Hassman tells the story of young Rory Hendrix, who is determined to get out of the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother and prove she's not the feeble-minded imbecile she's been labeled. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her mother's habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workers' reports, half-recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that paints a vivid picture of her world — while she searches for a way out of it.
Monday the 27th, 7:30pm / Powell's City of Books
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Joanne Fluke
When amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at a festival in Lake Eden, Minnesota, she bakes up a supply of their namesake confection to welcome them. But tragedy strikes when their tour bus overturns on its way into town. And keyboardist Buddy Neiman's minor injuries turn deadly serious when someone plunges surgical scissors into his chest. With Cinnamon Roll Murder (Kensington), Joanne Fluke "continues to delight cozy mystery readers with superb characters, inventive storylines, and the best recipes in the genre" (Library Journal).
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Gail Carriger
In Timeless (Orbit), the final novel of Gail Carriger's bestselling Parasol Protectorate series, Lady Maccon, and her werewolf husband are mysteriously summoned to Egypt. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly spreading? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire? Find out!
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The Illustrated Practical Guide to Gardening for Seniors
Tending gardens is a lifelong pleasure, but, as we age, our energy and physical abilities become more limited. Packed with projects, garden plans, and step-by-step sequences designed for older gardeners, Patty Cassidy's The Illustrated Practical Guide to Gardening for Seniors (Annes Publishing) will appeal to active gardeners in their early retirement as well as seniors with more limited abilities and will show how the joy of gardening can remain undiminished for years to come.
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