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In this issue of Events: OWC Presents Rebecca Harrsion, "Against the Stream," Bucky Sinister and Jon Longhi, Richard K. Morgan, "The Poe Shadow," Classics Book Group, "The Apocalypse Reader," Lisa See, and more!
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OWC Presents Rebecca Harrison
Monday the 23rd of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
At this month's Oregon Writers Colony meeting, Rebecca Harrison,
author of Deep, Dark and Dangerous: On the Bottom with the Northwest
Salvage Divers, discusses aspects of the writing life.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1688
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Noah Levine
Monday the 23rd of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
Presenting the basics of Buddhism with personal anecdotes, exercises,
and guided meditations, bestselling author Noah Levine's Against
the Stream guides the reader along a spiritual path that has led
to freedom from suffering and has saved lives for 2,500 years.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1689
Preorder a signed edition of Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748067
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Bucky Sinister & Jon Longhi
Monday the 23rd of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Legendary poet Bucky Sinister is back with his newest poetry collection,
All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go, featuring circus elephants,
East Bay punks, and enough booze to pickle your thoughts. The
side-splittingly funny short stories in John Longhi's Rise and
Fall of Third Leg relive the twisted glory days of homegrown DIY
punk rock.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1690
Preorder a signed edition of All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135747992
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Make Magazine's Phil Torrone
Tuesday the 24th of July @ 6:00PM
Powell's Technical Books
Make magazine senior editor and blogger Phil Torrone will take
a break from OSCON to show off his hobbyist skills at Powell's
Technical Books. Torrone will demonstrate how to make open source
hardware. Don't miss this DIY event!
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1704
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Washington County Peak Oil Reading Group
Tuesday the 24th of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Are you concerned about the looming crisis caused by the peaking
of world petroleum supplies? Join this newly formed reading group
as we discuss books related to the peak oil crisis and its economic,
environmental, and social implications. This month we meet to
discuss the first half of The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1691
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Richard K. Morgan
Tuesday the 24th of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived
on the scene with his groundbreaking bestsellers Altered Carbon,
Broken Angels, and Woken Furies. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically
reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and
unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a
man without a country... or a p***t. "Stellar," raves Publishers
Weekly (starred review).
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1692
Preorder a signed edition of Thirteen
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748074
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Matthew Pearl
Wednesday the 25th of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew
Pearl has once again crossed pitch-perfect literary history with
innovative mystery in The Poe Shadow, a beautifully detailed,
ingeniously plotted tale of suspense that opens a new window on
the truth behind the still-unsolved demise of Edgar Allan Poe.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1693
Preorder a signed edition of The Poe Shadow: A Novel
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748081
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Classics Book Group
Wednesday the 25th of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
This month our book group meets to discuss both Anthony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare and Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard
Shaw. New members to the group are always welcome.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1694
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Jonathan Selwood
Wednesday the 25th of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Jonathan Selwood's fresh and funny debut novel, The Pinball
Theory of Apocalypse, a fresh and highly imaginative talent captures
the frenetic life of post-earthquake, pre-apocalyptic L.A. "Selwood
is a talented writer and his novel is frequently funny," lauds
Publishers Weekly.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1695
Preorder a signed edition of The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse (P.S.)
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748098
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Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
Wednesday the 25th of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's Technical Books
OSCON week is crazy here in Portland, but don't miss your chance
to see a panel of A-list programmers discuss problems and challenges
in software development, covering topics in Beautiful Code: Leading
Programmers Explain How They Think. The all-star panel features
Andy Oram, chromatic, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Karl Fogel, and Simon
Peyton Jones. Ward Cunningham will moderate this lively discussion.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1705
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Jay Lake
Thursday the 26th of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In his latest novel, Mainspring, Jay Lake envisions a clockwork
solar system, where a young clockmaker's apprentice is visited
by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key
Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth, or disaster will
ensue. Library Journal calls Mainspring "an original and intriguing
vision....Highly recommended."
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1696
Preorder a signed edition of Mainspring
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748104
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The Myths of Innovation
Thursday the 26th of July @ 6:00PM
Powell's Technical Books
Bestselling author Scott Berkun asks timeless, important questions
in his latest book, The Myths of Innovation. How do you know whether
a new technology will succeed or fail? Where will the next big
idea come from? We think we know what innovation is, but Berkun
dispels the myths in this thoughtful, important little book.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1706
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The Apocalypse Reader
Sunday the 29th of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
These are the ways the world ends. Edited by Justin Taylor, The
Apocalypse Reader offers 34 new and selected doomsday scenarios:
an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures,
contemporary masters, and a few rising stars (including respectively
Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman)... all of
whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Joining
Taylor at this event are contributors Lucy Corin & Brian Evenson.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1697
Preorder a signed edition of The Apocalypse Reader
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748111
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Lisa See
Monday the 30th of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Peony in Love, the new novel from the bestselling author of
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, three women in seventeenth-century
China become obsessed with a famous opera called The Peony Pavilion,
which was thought to cause lovesickness and even death. Publishers
Weekly raves, "Peony's vibrant voice, perfectly pitched...carries
her story beautifully -- in life and afterlife."
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1698
Preorder a signed edition of Peony in Love
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748128
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Alafair Burke
Monday the 30th of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In the electrifying thriller Dead Connection, from former Portland
deputy DA Alafair Burke, a rookie detective goes undercover on
the Internet dating scene to draw out a serial killer targeting
single women in Manhattan. "Holds the reader's attention from
first word to last, and begs for a sequel," hails Kirkus.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1699
Preorder a signed edition of Dead Connection
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748135
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Jasper Fforde
Tuesday the 31st of July @ 7:00PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in Thursday
Next: First Among Sequels, the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's
wildly popular series. While investigating the untimely deaths
of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, Thursday Next receives a death
threat clearly intended for her written self -- and realizes there's
a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. "Fans of satiric
literary humor are in for a treat," promises Publishers Weekly.
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1700
Preorder a signed edition of First Among Sequels (Thursday Next Mysteries #05)
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748159
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Matt Ruff
Tuesday the 31st of July @ 7:30PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Bad Monkeys, acclaimed author and cult favorite Matt Ruff (Fool
on the Hill) recasts the age-old rivalry between good and evil
as a futuristic psychological thriller full of jolting shocks
and existential showdowns. "The fiendishly clever plot twists...only
add to the mind-bending experience," praises Booklist (starred
review).
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html#1701
Preorder a signed edition of Bad Monkeys
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135748166
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