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POWELLS BOOKS AUTHOR EVENTS
We have another amazing lineup of author events this week, including Christopher Moore, Jonathan Martin & Alexander, Daniel James
Brown with Tom Ikeda, and more. Upcoming later this month, we look forward to welcoming Peter Rock, Willy Vlautin, Julia Glass,
Phil Klay, Ann Leary, and others!
We have another amazing lineup of author events this week, including Jessi Klein, Jeff VanderMeer, Keanon Lowe, Holly Black, and
more. Upcoming later this month, we look forward to welcoming Christopher Moore, Jonathan Martin & Alexander Burns with Governor
Kate Brown,Daniel James Brown with Tom Ikeda, Peter Rock, Willy Vlautin, and others!
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Putsata Reang in Conversation With Omar El Akkad V,,d'll .
MASTERLY...PROPULSIVE AND GRIPPING." THE WAL STREET JOURNAL LUHRIIATILL #1 New York Tim EHIE BOYS IN THE BOAT @ FACING THE
MOUNTAIN An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Gabriela Alemán in Conversation With Rodrigo Fuentes
Adrian McKinty at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing T, THE l ""@"
Angela Garbes in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling ESSENTIAL Author of Like a Mother
THIS WILL NOT PASS Trump, Biden, and the Battle for Americas Future JONATHAN ALEXANDER MARTIN BURNS
May 17
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May 20
Putsata Reang in Conversation With Omar El Akkad V,,d'll .
MASTERLY...PROPULSIVE AND GRIPPING." THE WAL STREET JOURNAL LUHRIIATILL #1 New York Tim EHIE BOYS IN THE BOAT @ FACING THE
MOUNTAIN An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Gabriela Alemán in Conversation With Rodrigo Fuentes
Adrian McKinty at Powellâs Books at Cedar Hills Crossing T, THE l ""@"
Christopher Moore at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing NEW YORK TIMES BESTSEALI.ING AUTHOR CHRISTOPAHER MOORE;
Angela Garbes in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling ESSENTIAL Author of Like a Mother
THIS WILL NOT PASS Trump, Biden, and the Battle for Americas Future JONATHAN ALEXANDER MARTIN BURNS
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Putsata Reang in Conversation With Omar El Akkad
Putsata Reang in Conversation
With Omar El Akkad
Tuesday, May 17th @ 7pm (PT)
Powell's City of Books
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In her startling memoir, â¯Ma and Meâ¯(MCD), Putsata Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight
of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom,⯠Ma and Me â¯is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love,
debt, and duty. Reang will be joined in conversation by Omar El Akkad, author of⯠What Strange Paradise.
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Christopher Moore at Powellâs Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Christopher Moore
Tuesday, May 17th @ 7pm (PT)
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
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Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in Razzmatazzâ¯(Willam Morrow), the outrageous follow-up to his
madcap novel,â¯Noir. San Francisco, 1947. A ragtag bunch of working mugs â last seen in Noir â are on the hustle; gal pals
are using their wartime shipbuilding skills on a secret project that might be attracting the attention of some government Men in
Black; someone is murdering the cityâs drag kings; and Eddie âMoo Shoesâ Shu has been summoned by his Uncle Ho to help save
his opium den from a vicious gangster. Strap yourselves in for a bit of the old razzmatazz, ladies and gentlemen. Itâs
Christopher Moore time.
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Daniel James Brown in Conversation With Tom Ikeda
Daniel James Brown in
Conversation With Tom Ikeda
Wednesday, May 18th @ 5pm (PT)
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From Daniel James Brown, author of⯠The Boys in the Boat, comes Facing the Mountain⯠(Penguin), a gripping World War II saga
of patriotism and courage that tells the story of the special Japanese American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe;
their families, incarcerated back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant
imprisonment. Brown will be joined in conversation by Tom Ikeda, former executive director of Densho and author of â¯Facing the
Mountainâs foreword.
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ESSENTIAL 1AR0 Mothering o Social Change boret Bhea
Angela Garbes in Conversation
With Lydia Kiesling
Wednesday, May 18th @ 7pm (PT)
Powell's City of Books
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In Essential Labor (Harper Wave), Angela Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply
personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative,â¯
Essential Labor â¯is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering.
Garbes will be joined in conversation by Lydia Kiesling, author of⯠The Golden State.
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Gabriela Alemán in Conversation With Rodrigo Fuentes
Gabriela Alemán in Conversation
With Rodrigo Fuentes
Thursday, May 19th @ 5pm (PT)
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In Gabriela Alemánâs new collection of eight hugely entertaining short stories, Family Album (City Lights), Alemán teases
tropes of hardboiled detective fiction, satire, and adventure narratives to recast the discussion of national identity. Family
Album is Alemánâs rollicking follow-up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán will be joined in
conversation by Rodrigo Fuentes, author of⯠Trout, Belly Up.
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THIS WILL NOT PASS JONATHAN ALEXANDER MARTIN BURNS
Jonathan Martin &
Alexander Burns
Thursday, May 19th @ 6pm (PT)
Powell's City of Books
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This Will Not Pass (Simon & Schuster) is the authoritative account of an 18-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared
into the countryâs political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan
Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas. Their book asks the
vitally important (and disturbing) question: can American democracy, as we know it, ever work again?
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Adrian McKinty at Powellâs Books at Cedar Hills Crossing i1 ADRIAN MekinTy
Adrian McKinty
Friday, May 20th @ 7pm (PT)
Powellâs Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
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After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage
daughter. A vacation seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but as soon as they set foot on the island
everything feels wrong. Soon, an unsettling situation turns into an absolute nightmare. Heather that only she can bring her family
home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive. The
Island (Little, Brown) is the âbrilliant and relentlessâ (Don Winslow) new thriller from Adrian McKinty, author of The Chain.
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