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Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Daily: 9am to 11pm
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Powell's Technical Books 33 NW Park Avenue Mon-Sat: 9am to 9pm |
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Mon-Sat: 9am to 10pm |
Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mon-Thurs: 9am to 10pm |
Powell's Books for Home and Garden 3747 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mon-Sat: 9am to 9pm |
Powell's Books at PDX 7000 NE Airport Way Oregon Market Location Concourse C Location Concourse D Location |
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Friday, November 20th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Brom Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom's The Child Thief (Eos) is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade. |
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Friday, November 20th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group This month we welcome author Jessa Slade to our discussion of her book Seduced by Shadows. Join us! Friday the 20th, 7pm / Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing |
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Cranioklepty Fully illustrated with some surprising images, Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty (Unbridled Books) is a fascinating and authoritative anthology of real-after-life gothic tales about those who seek to possess the skulls of the famous dead. |
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Badass Ben Thompson's Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Harper) presents a collection of the most awesome historical figures to ever run screaming into battle. Thompson will be joined by book illustrator Matt Haley. |
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Applique Your Way Appliqué Your Way (Chronicle) goes beyond traditional quiltwork with 35 sweet stitching projects from crafter extraordinaire Kayte Terry. The book is designed for easy use with a lay-flat Wire-O binding and a handy back pocket that holds pattern and template pieces. |
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Oregon Wine Country and Happy Hour Guidebooks Cindy Anderson presents two new guidebooks for aficionados of local food and drink. The Oregon Wine Country Guidebook highlights more than 200 wineries with an easy-to-use, fast-find formula. The Portland Happy Hour Guidebook shows where to eat, drink, and be happy — and save money, too! — in an updated 2010 edition. Preorder a signed edition of Happy Hour Guidebook: Portland (2010 Edition) |
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Wednesday, November 25th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Classics Book Group This month we meet to discuss Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Join us! |
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Sarah Baker Munro: Timberline Lodge Timberline Lodge — the magnificent Oregon icon on Mount Hood — is one of the few 20th-century American buildings of its size constructed and furnished entirely by hand. Richly illustrated with historical photos and stunning new color photography, Timberline Lodge (Timber Press) includes biographical sketches of nearly 60 artists and describes more than 250 works of art in the collection. |
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Sunday, November 29th @ 4:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning More science fiction authors than you can shake a light saber at! Guests include:
We are also pleased to welcome the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Imperial Legion. |
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Macintosh Users Group
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Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide 2010 (Fearless Critic) by Robin Goldstein New - Trade Paper The Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide Cheeky, opinionated, and totally independent from the places reviewed, Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide, edited by Robin Goldstein, is a new kind of restaurant guide. Brutally honest yet entertaining reviews are written by teams of undercover local food critics and professional chefs who don't identify themselves, don't defer to sacred cows, and don't accept free meals. With 300 full-page reviews, 60 pages of reference lists, and a special vegetarian guide, this is an essential reference for anyone who eats out in the area. |
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Wednesday, December 2nd @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 CFI/Freethinkers Book Group This month the nonfiction book group continues November's discussion of The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. Join us! |
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The Map as Art In The Map as Art (Princeton Architectural Press), Katharine Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Vik Muniz, and many more for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. |
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First Thursday: The Art of Boilerplate The Basil Hallward Gallery is pleased to present paintings, photos, and illustrations from Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, the fanciful creation of husband-and-wife team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, who have richly imagined a robot soldier and inserted it into accurate retellings of history. |
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Thursday, December 3rd @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 J. A. Jance Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds returns in Trial by Fire (Touchstone), the newest adventure in the New York Times bestselling series by J. A. Jance. |
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The Three "Only" Things Have you ever said something was "only" a dream, "only" a coincidence, or "only" your imagination? In Robert Moss's new book, The Three "Only" Things (New World Library), you'll discover that these "only" things can be keys to finding and living your bigger story. |
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Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Tinsel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a compelling look at this half-trillion-dollar holiday. |
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Lisa Schroeder There's nothing like a home-cooked meal made with love, which is just what Lisa Schroeder serves in her wildly popular Portland restaurant, Mother's Bistro and Bar. Mother's Best (Taunton) is the cookbook for those who yearn for uncomplicated and uncommonly good food straight from mother's oven. |
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Macintosh Users Group: Graphics/Video
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right Drawing on unprecedented access to Ayn Rand's private papers and original, unedited journals, Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market (Oxford University Press) offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought. |
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Tuesday, December 8th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Science Fiction Book Group This month we meet to discuss Dauntless: Lost Fleet #1 by Jack Campbell. Join us! |
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To Hellholes and Back In the widely acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now, in To Hellholes and Back (Henry Holt), he sets out to discover if some of the world's most ill-reputed destinations -- the Congo, India, Mexico City, and most horrifying of all, Disney World -- live up to their bad raps. |
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Donald Miller In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Thomas Nelson), Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, undertakes a humorous and revealing journey as he edits his life into a purposeful and meaningful experience. |
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John Geiger CANCELLED CANCELLED John Geiger's The Third Man Factor (Weinstein) is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death experience the sense of an unseen presence beside them, encouraging them to survive. Fascinating for any reader, The Third Man Factor at last explains this secret to survival: a Third Man who -- in the words of famed climber Reinhold Messner -- "leads you out of the impossible." CANCELLED |
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Laurell K. Hamilton Laurell K. Hamilton is the master of blending the paranormal and the erotic in her unforgettable Meredith Gentry novels. Her latest book, Divine Misdemeanors, comes on the heels of the heart-stopping ending of Swallowing Darkness. Now that Merry has refused the throne of faerie and retreated with her bodyguards to Los Angeles, she is called in by the LAPD to help solve a baffling and brutal crime. Someone is killing the fey, and they need help finding the killer. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of Divine Misdemeanors, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. |
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson New - Hardcover Greg Mortenson SOLD OUT From Greg Mortenson, the author of the bestseller Three Cups of Tea, comes Stones into Schools (Viking) the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Mortenson recounts his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; and shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women -- all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort. This event is presented by Powell's Books and Literary Arts. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. Tickets are available at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 800-745-3000. SOLD OUT |
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Macintosh Users Group
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Friday, December 18th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group This month we meet to discuss An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James. Join us! |
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Macintosh Users Group
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Wednesday, December 30th @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323 Classics Book Group This month we meet to discuss Rabbit at Rest by John Updike. Join us! |
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