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08.18: John Scalzi

2015-07-15 01:03:13| Powells Books Events Calendar

Hugo Award—winning author John Scalzi returns to his Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things (Tor), the sequel to 2013's The Human Division. Humans expanded into space, only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth and keep humanity's union intact — or else risk oblivion, extinction, and the end of all things.

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08.18: An Ivan Doig Tribute with Craig Lesley & Jeff Baker

2015-07-15 01:03:13| Powells Books Events Calendar

Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in the Two Medicine Country region of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate — bossy, opinionated, and tyrannical — is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. The pair light out for the territory together, meeting an ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Ivan Doig's final novel, Last Bus to Wisdom (Riverhead), is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers. In tribute to the late author, this event will feature Craig Lesley (author of Winterkill and The Sky Fisherman) and Jeff Baker (book editor at The Oregonian) in conversation.

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08.18: James Rollins

2014-07-16 01:40:56| Powells Books Events Calendar

In The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel (William Morrow), a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, James Rollins takes mankind to its endpoint, to a fate written in rock and ice. A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: kill us all. When soldiers arrive to investigate, they discover everyone in the lab is dead — and not just the scientists. Every living thing for 50 square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is completely sterile, and the blight is spreading. To prevent the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must decipher a threat that rises out of the distant past, a time when Antarctica was green and Earth's life balanced on a knife edge. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge yet: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.

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08.18: Chelsea Cain

2014-07-16 01:40:56| Powells Books Events Calendar

Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick Lannigan captured America's hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now 21, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that will put her talents to the test. Trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist, and bomb maker by her abductor, Kick could not return to the life of the average young girl after her release. So, in lieu of therapy, she mastered martial arts, boxing, and knife throwing and learned how to escape from the trunk of a car, jimmy a pair of handcuffs, and walk without making a sound — all before age 13. Kick has trained herself to be safe. But then two children go missing in three weeks. With lives hanging in the balance, Kick is set to be the crusader she has always imagined herself to be. A heart-stopping, entertaining thrill ride, One Kick (Simon & Schuster) announces the arrival of a blistering new series by Chelsea Cain, author of the critically acclaimed Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers.

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08.18: Hawthorne Street Fair

2013-07-10 23:33:40| Powells Books Events Calendar

Please join us in celebration of the annual Hawthorne Street Fair — Portland's longest-running street fair. Drop by our Hawthorne store between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. for great deals and special offerings!

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