“Lucia Perillo has aready won (& broken) hearts through her poetry, but now she takes it up a notch, blossoming into a flawless collection of incredible short stories. This collection is raw, yet so polished . . . Not since Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff has a gathering of stories packed themselves into one powerful punch.”—Donna, Powell’s …
Portland author David Wolman will discuss his new book, The End of Money, in Hood River, OR tonight at Springhouse Cellars at 6:30 pm. The event is co-sponsored by Waucoma Bookstore and the Gorge Owned Business Network. “For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical …
“Jane Kirkpatrick excels at telling the stories of strong women who make a contribution to history and who otherwise might be forgotten. Where Lilacs Still Bloom is the story of one such woman, a passionate gardener who created a slew of gorgeous, fragrant new lilac cultivars at a time women were not expected to have interests …
“I’m very interested in languages, although I’ve only studied four of them (other than my native tongue) and only a little of each of those. Despite this, it seems that I have somewhat of a facility for languages, and it seemed clear in my language classes that learning languages was easier for some people than …
“Carmen and Matt’s wedding was festive, full of dancing, drinking and celebrating the joining of two lives. But their wedding night would be remembered as the night a car full of their relatives and close friends headed out into the dark and accidentally killed a young girl on a lonely stretch of road. The occupants …
“Take advantage of a lazy morning or afternoon and read this delightful debut novel from a new voice among Portland authors. This is a day in the life of Isabel, an unassuming twenty-something who grew up in Alaska. She now resides as a Portland library employee. We visit her memories and dreams while following her …
“Among other things, Nathaniel Philbrick wrote In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which was a National Book Award winner and covered an event that was an inspiration and backdrop of Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick. I’ve never read Moby-Dick, and it is unlikely I would read as much into the …
“This novel is set in Sage Meadows, a small town suspiciously like Sisters (okay, it is Sisters, albeit a fictionalized version). Julia is leaving Portland to start a bookstore in the vacation town she’s always dreamed of living in. Accompanied by her two dogs, Frick and Frack, Julia, at 39, is single, childless and feeling …
“These quirky poems make connections between gardening and life’s deeper quandaries, reflecting on how, throughout the gardening year, life relates to the growing cycle.”—The Bookloft, Enterprise, OR. Buy Going to Seed from The Bookloft.
“A grief memoir like no other . . . immediate, whimsical, loving and full of cultural richness. From NYC to Mexico, family relationships and a deep abiding love are examined through dialogue and the life story of Aura, Goldman’s wife. Very powerful and accessible.”—Katherine, Waucoma Bookstore, Hood River, OR
