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04.13: How to Travel the World on $50 a Day

2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar

For over half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has used his massively popular travel blog to teach readers how to travel the world on the cheap. In the new edition of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day (Perigee), Kepnes reveals the tips, tricks, and secrets to comfortable budget travel that you won't find anywhere else.

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04.13: Atticus Lish

2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar

Called "Perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade" (New York Times), Preparation for the Next Life (Tyrant Books) is the debut novel from Atticus Lish. Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.

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04.13: National Poetry Month Celebration

2014-03-18 00:36:14| Powells Books Events Calendar

Please join us for a special celebration of National Poetry Month. Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen and Matthew Dickman will be on-hand, along with several of Portland's favorite poets, including John Beers, Ashley Toliver, Kathleen Halme, Paul Merchant, John Morrison.

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04.13: Emma Donoghue

2014-03-18 00:36:14| Powells Books Events Calendar

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice — if he doesn't track her down first. In thrilling, cinematic style, Emma Donoghue's Frog Music (Little, Brown) digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime in a lyrical tale of love and bloodshed from the acclaimed author of Room.

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