With poems from 120 North American and international poets, a statement from Lilly Ledbetter herself (she after whom the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is named) and blurbs from human-rights activists and poets Carolyn Forche and Cynthia Hogue, this book was a labor of love for more than three years.

This event will take place at Furever Pets, 1902 NE Broadway 

 

We're excited to welcome back Portland author Linda Lee Peterson with the latest installment of her Maggie Fiori mysteries, The Spy on the Tennessee Walker.

Maggie receives a package containing a photograph of a mysterious 19th-century woman who is a dead ringer for Maggie. The unnamed woman is seated confidently on a handsome Tennessee Walker horse, and as Maggie brings the photo closer she feels an immediate kinship with the woman. Through old letters, flashbacks, and modern-day investigation, the secrets within Maggie's family are revealed. Peterson's well-researched book presents a captivating tale of spies, forbidden love, and secrets hidden for generations, traveling from the Civil War to the present.

This third Maggie Firori mystery follows Edited to Death and The Devil's Interval. Peterson has also written several nonfiction books and is one of the founding partners of Peterson Skolnick & Dodge, a marketing-communications firm that serves education, arts & culture, environmental, and health-care clients around the United States.
 

Scott Nadelson joins us to read from his new novel, Between You and Me. The book tells the store of Paul Haberman, happy living alone in the city until he meets Cynthia, an enchanting suburban single mother. After he moves to New Jersey to marry her, Paul's life reshapes itself dramatically around his new family and home, evolving over the years in ways he could never have imagined. In this funny, moving, episodic novel, Nadelson reveals the quiet beauty, doubt, and longing of a blended family's life in the American suburbs.

Nadelson is the author of three story collections and a memoir, all published by Hawthorne Books. A winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction and a finalist for creative nonfiction, Nadelson teaches creative writing at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Back again is one of our favorite store events: Book Night, in which we tell you about some of the hot new books just out and forthcoming -- a great chance to get inspiration for holiday gift-giving or planning ahead for book club reading -- and we get to share with you what we're most excited about for our own giving (and what's on our own wish lists)

There will be door prizes and nosh and beverages -- we promise a good time. Attendance will be limited, so don't delay! The cost to register for this event is $15, and that payment can be applied to anything you purchase in the store during the event. You can register in the store or on our website.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks is back on our shelves with The Secret Chord, a retelling of the life of King David. This novel is a more muscular historical fiction than her previous books March and Year of Wonders  -- reminiscent of Mary Renault's stories of Greek heroes. The prophet Natan is the chief narrator, but Brooks gives voice to David's wives, lovers, mother, and daughter, all silent in the Bible. Her research for the book included mule-riding and sleeping in a goat-skin tent in the desert, to help her get the sounds and smells of the period right. And yes, she did get the title from the Leonard Cohen song.