We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled. ]]> Shards (Grove Press) is the provocative and energetic debut novel by Ismet Prcic about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. A harrowing war story, Shards is also a stunningly inventive coming-of-age novel and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family. In January, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association named Shards a recipient of a 2012 PNBA Book Award. The award which will be presented at the event. ]]> 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.]]> And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano. Children of all ages welcome.]]> 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.]]> 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 ]]> 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).]]> The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Join us!]]> 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!]]> 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.]]> Kirkus Reviews), Dragonswood (Dial) is a worthy sequel to Janet Lee Carey's popular young-adult novel Dragon's Keep. ]]> Tobias S. Buckell's new science-fiction novel, Arctic Rising (Tor), global warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean. Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself ]]> Dream School (Figment), Andrea Marr, the heroine of Blake Nelson's teen novel Girl, is back — and she's headed to college. Imagining a typical "J. Crew catalog" experience, Andrea leaves Portland to attend prestigious Wellington College in Connecticut. Surrounded by the best and the brightest, she works hard to adjust and keep up. But Andrea has a way of finding her own people: not the well-heeled and well-scrubbed, but the weird, the wild, and the brilliant. It isn't long before her college career veers wildly off course. Suddenly her entire future is in question. But in her darkest hour, Andrea will find the key to her destiny.]]> Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola. Children of all ages welcome.]]> The Lorax, is as timely today as it was when it was first published in 1971. Now, this classic has been transformed into an elaborate pop-up book by master paper engineer David A. Carter. With the dynamic spreads in The Lorax Pop-Up! (Random House), Carter has enhanced Seuss's powerful message and brought to life the Lorax, the Bar-ba-loots, the Truffula Tree Tufts, and all the rest for a new generation.]]> Impulse and Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems; a live poetry and jazz recording with Rich and Carson Halley, Children of the Blue Supermarket; and a new collection of poems, The State I'm In: New Poems. Joining Dan Raphael will be James Grabil, author of a dozen books of poetry and creative nonfiction. He also teaches sustainability at Clackamas Community College. ]]> Portland Mercury reporter Sarah Mirk and the Dill Pickle Club proudly present a boxed set of 10 short comic books that each tells a little-known story from Oregon's past. From women's suffrage in Oregon to the tragic Vanport Flood to the legendary X-Ray Café, Oregon History Comics takes presumably dry topics and makes them exciting and accessible through the bold illustrations of some of Portland's best comics illustrators. Whether you're a history buff or a comics reader, you'll enjoy this innovative blend of historical detail and pop culture.]]> Mattilda Sycamore, the essays in Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? (AK Press) reinvoke the anger, flamboyance, and subversion that once thrived in the gay subculture in order to inspire a debate about the perils of assimilation — and a new vision for change. Sycamore will be joined at the event by contributor Ezra RedEagle Whitman.]]> Turing's Cathedral (Pantheon), legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson focuses on the small group of men and women who realized Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine by building one of the first computers. Their work broke down the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things — and our universe will never be the same. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing's one-dimensional model became John von Neumann's two-dimensional implementation, Turing's Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.]]> Touchstone (Tor), Melanie Rawn returns to high fantasy with an engaging tale about a young playwright who combines the talents of Merlin, Shakespeare, and John Lennon. Cayden Silversun is part Elven, part Fae, part human Wizard — and all rebel. His aristocratic mother would have him follow his father to the Royal Court to make a high-society living off the scraps of kings. But Cade lives and breathes for the theater, and he's good, very, very good. With his company, he'll enter the highest reaches of society and power as an honored artist — or die trying. A wholly charming character in a remarkably original fantasy world created by a master of the art.]]> Kim Harrison's Hollows series, A Perfect Blood (Harper Voyager), ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati. Pulled in to help investigate by the FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: A would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons — but it can't be done without Rachel's blood. As a bounty hunter, she has battled vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more. But humanity itself might be her toughest challenge yet. ]]> A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio. Join us!]]> Michael Orr's The 1975 Portland Timbers (History Press) is the story of 17 players and two coaches who came from different clubs and different countries to form a team — just days before their inaugural game. Orr weaves together player interviews, news coverage, and game statistics to capture the Timbers single-season journey from expansion team to championship contender, a few short months that won the hearts of Portlanders and left an indelible stamp on the Rose City's sporting landscape. The author will be joined by Timbers players Willie Anderson, Roger Goldingay, and Mick Hoban.]]> Ruth Tenzer Feldman (Blue Thread) and Michelle R. McCann (Luba) present a workshop titled Down the Rabbit Hole: Writing Time Travel and Fantasy that will help young writers to design their own fantastical trip to another time.]]> I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage) captures the singular voice of Maxine Hong Kingston as she reflects on her 65 years. Circling from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, Kingston presents an American life of great purpose and joy and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.]]> Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh. Children of all ages welcome.]]> Julian T. Brolaski's Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press) attempts to reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in "Manahatta" with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. The concatenated series of poems in Judith Goldman's L. B.; or, Catenaries charts the narratives formed by texts of uniform density hanging freely from two fixed readings not in the same semantic line. Sunday the 11th, 4pm / Powell's on Hawthorne]]> 6:00 Randy Blazak (Mission of the Sacred Heart)
6:15 Ryan Chin (Without Rain There Can Be No Rainbows)
6:30 Elly Blue (PDX by Bike, Bikenomics)
6:45 (break)

7:00 Adam Gnade (Heat and the Hot Earth)
7:15 Daniel Libman (Married But Looking)
7:30 Martha Grover (One More for the People)
7:45 (break)

8:00 Joseph Riippi (The Orange Suitcase, A Cloth House)
8:15 Anonymous (Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You're Not Making...)
8:30 Lisa Wells (Beast, Yeah. No. Totally.)
8:45 (break)

9:00 Sierra Nelson (I Take Back the Sponge Cake)
9:15 Diana Salier (Wikipedia Says It Will Pass)
9:30 Brian S. Ellis (Yesterday Won't Goodbye)
9:45 (the end)]]> Jim Gullo's young son Joe was beginning to develop a true passion for the game, the bombshell news of players' steroid use made it clear that America's pastime wasn't what it claimed to be. Gullo's Trading Manny (Da Capo Press) is the moving story of how a father and his young son recaptured their love of baseball — a winning testament to why the game matters and how it can still bring us together in spite of itself.]]> The Door to Lost Pages by Claude Lalumiere, with the author in attendance. Join us!s]]> The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret (Thomas Dunne Books), industry insider Kent Hartman tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the artists who dominated the sounds of Top 40 radio during the most creative era in American music culture. Lyle Ritz, a bassist in the Wrecking Crew and "father of the jazz ukulele," will join Hartman with his ukulele.]]> Joy Wilson approaches baking with inspiration, heart, and humor — and she can write, which might explain how she's able to both run an extremely successful Los Angeles catering company and write one of the best cooking blogs on the Internet: JoyTheBaker.com won Saveur's 2011 Best Baking and Dessert Blog award. Now, in Joy the Baker (Hyperion), she presents the best of her incredibly delicious recipes for all kinds of sweets — pancakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, cakes, and more — with the same warmth, humor, and irreverence that have already won her so many fans. ]]> Hari Kunzru's new novel is full of big ideas, but it's also built around a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, who all converge at a strange town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, Gods without Men (Knopf) is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.]]> David Rothkopf's Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry between Big Business and Government — and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) provides a fresh, timely look at how, today, thousands of companies have amassed greater power than all but a handful of states. A fast-paced tale in which champions of liberty are revealed to be paid pamphleteers of moneyed interests, and greedy scoundrels trigger changes that lift billions from deprivation, Power, Inc. traces the brutal jockeying for influence that has led to the current financial crisis, the rapid increase in inequality, the breakdown of international institutions, and the raging battle over the proper relationship between governments and markets.]]> The Things You Would Have Said (Hudson Street Press) brings together an outpouring of emotion that is as compelling as it is cathartic. ]]> Raymond Bonner's Anatomy of Injustice (Knopf) is an impassioned investigation into the shortcomings of our justice system that were brought to light by a mishandled murder case in South Carolina. In 1982, a 23-year-old black man named Edward Lee Elmore was arrested after the brutally beaten body of a white widow was found in the closet of her home. Though Elmore was an unlikely killer — he was mentally retarded and gentle and loving by nature — and his connection to the victim was tenuous, barely 90 days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Raymond Bonner reveals many specific injustices in Elmore's trial — the blunt racism, the misconduct of the prosecution, the ineptitude of the defense — and makes clear that every year similar tragedies play out in courts across the country. Bonner is joined by pro-death-penalty Oregon prosecutor Josh Marquis for a conversation on executions.]]> St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons. Children of all ages welcome.]]> Hannah Pittard's The Fates Will Find Their Way (Ecco) is a haunting literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows. ]]> Sara Benincasa, the comedian Newsweek called "freaking hilarious," comes a funny, raw, and poignant account of her battle with agoraphobia. Relatable, unpretentious, and unsentimental, Agorafabulous! (William Morrow) recounts how a terrified young woman, literally trapped by her own imagination, evolved into a (relatively) high-functioning professional smartass.]]> Ellen Ullman's By Blood (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) is a dark, intensely personal novel, an ambitious work that establishes her as a major writer.]]> Esi Edugyan's novel Half-Blood Blues (Picador), a finalist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, is the story of Hieronymus Falk, a now legendary black trumpet player who was disappeared in Paris during WWII, as told by Sid Griffiths, an African American musician living in Baltimore in the '50s. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs, and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves — and demand of others — in the name of art.]]> Cheryl Strayed lost her mother, her family, and her marriage. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made an impulsive decision: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert through California, Oregon, and Washington — alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker. The plan was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But that promise, of reconstructing her undone life, helped her to face down rattlesnakes, black bears, intense heat, and record snowfalls and to discover both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense, style, and humor, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf) vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.]]> Jennifer duBois's mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dial Press), reveals the stubbornness and splendor of the human will even in the most trying of times.]]> Run Like a Mother, Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell have built a vibrant community of women runners — more than 10,000 fans on Facebook and an average of 2,500 daily visitors to their website, AnotherMotherRunner.com — all of whom have been clamoring for another book. Well, here it is. Geared to both beginners and experienced runners, Train Like a Mother (Andrews McMeel) provides everything busy women need to know to train for a race, including training plans for various race distances, pre- and post-race nutrition, strength training, injury prevention (and rehab), and much more, all presented with the same wit, empathy, and practicality that have won the pair so many avid fans. Please note: Only Sarah Bowen Shea will attend the event. ]]> Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Children of all ages welcome.]]> David Schiff's The Ellington Century (Univ. of California Press) offers a compellingly integrated view of 20th-century music. Placing Duke Ellington at the center of the story, Schiff, a professor of music at Reed College, explores music written during the composer's lifetime, while demonstrating how Ellington's work is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.]]> The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, now in paperback, former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur.]]> Lancelot by Walker Percy. Join us!]]> Toxic Talk, radio talk show host and political commentator Bill Press presented the ways in which the right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace. In his new book, The Obama Hate Machine (Thomas Dunne), Press returns to present his thoughts on how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation's 44th president. In his characteristic style, Press shows how the peculiar nature of Obama-hating subverts issue-driven debate and threatens not only the outcome of the 2012 election but the future of the American democratic system.]]> Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds (Inner Traditions), Scott Teitsworth explains how the Bhagavad Gita provides guidelines for the spiritual use of entheogens. Uncovering new depths to this revered manual of spiritual instruction, Teitsworth reveals psychedelic experience to be an ancient path that will bring realization in the prepared student, turn theory into direct experience, and bring the written teachings to life.]]> Anne Lamott burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with Operating Instructions. This now-classic memoir of her son Sam's first year of life endeared her to single mothers, parents, and even non-parents across the country. With her new book, Some Assembly Required (Riverhead), she is set to do the same for grandparenthood. Stunned to learn that Sam, now 19, is about to become a father, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26.95, include admission and a copy of Some Assembly Required and are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, CascadeTickets.com, or by phone at 855-227-8499. Books distributed at event.]]> The Last Testament. As dictated to his mortal amanuensis, 11-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum, God looks back with unprecedented candor on his time in the public sector. It's the ultimate celebrity autobiography, sure to appeal not only to hardcore God fans, but to anyone who's ever had total omnipotence. If you place complete faith in the literal truth of one book written by God, make it The Last Testament.]]> The Thingamabob by Il Sung Na. Children of all ages welcome.]]>