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04.24: Urban Waite
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
The Carrion Birds (William Morrow & Company) from Urban Waite, author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living, is a remarkable work of literary noir. Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his 12-year-old son and start a new life — away from the violence of the last 10 years. One last heist will take him there. All he has to do is steal a rival's stash. Simple, easy, clean. But when things start to go very wrong, Ray realizes the path to redemption isn't always easy. A soulful tale of violence, vengeance, and contrition, The Carrion Birds is an elegant depiction of one man's last chance to make things right.
04.24: Classics Book Group
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month we meet to discuss Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett. Join us!
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04.24: On Mount Hood
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
Jon Bell's On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak (Sasquatch) is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and paved the way for snowboarding in the mid-1980s. Its forests provide some of the purest drinking water in the world, and its snowy peak captures the attention of the nation almost every time it wreaks fatal havoc on climbers seeking the summit. On Mount Hood builds a compelling story of a legendary mountain and its impact on the people who live in its shadow, and includes interviews with a forest activist, a volcanologist, and a para-rescue jumper.
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