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11.13: Theo Chocolate
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
Theo Chocolate is dedicated to making the world a better place. From bean to bar, Theo uses organic ingredients and is committed to Fair Trade practices, working closely with farmers around the world who grow the cocoa beans used in their chocolate. Debra Music's Theo Chocolate (Sasquatch), cowritten by Joe Whinney, offers delicious, sweet, and savory chocolate recipes, along with the fascinating story of how North America's first organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory came to be. Music will be joined in conversation by Naomi Pomeroy, James Beard Award winner, Portland Monthly's 2008 Chef of the Year, and chef-owner of Beast.
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11.12: Cthulhu Fhtagn!
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
In his house at R'lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming... Collected by Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn! (Word Horde) features 19 weird tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. This event will feature readings by contributors Wendy Wagner, Cameron Pierce, Mike Griffin, Nathan Carson, and Christine Morgan.
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11.12: Deadly Diversions Book Group
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month our mystery group meets to discuss Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent. Join us!
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11.11: Tim Flannery
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
A decade after his groundbreaking book The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery argues that earth's climate system is fast approaching a crisis, but that there is a promising "third way" forward. Drawing on the latest science, Atmosphere of Hope (Atlantic Monthly) gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and, more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a "third way" of soft geo-engineering.
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11.11: The Three-Year Swim Club
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
For readers of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Julie Checkoway's The Three-Year Swim Club (Grand Central), the inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on Maui challenged a group of kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.
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