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04.10: Fonda Lee

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

Carr Luka is a rising star in the weightless combat sport called zeroboxing. To help him win the championship title, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his personal marketing strategist. But as his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational hero on Earth, a once-great planet that's fallen into the shadow of its more prosperous colonies. Fonda Lee's Zeroboxer (Flux) is a Rocky meets Gattaca thrill-ride novel for young adults.

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04.10: DIY Magic: A Strange and Whimsical Guide to Creativity

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

In DIY Magic (Perigee), Anthony Alvarado provides readers with a collection of techniques for accessing deeper levels of creative thought — for hacking into their subconscious. From Salvador Dalí's spoon technique and ornithomancy (divination by crows), to bibliomancy and using (legal) stimulants, the exercises in this book will help anyone chasing the muse. Alvarado will be joined for a panel discussion by three local artists: Eric Mast (aka E*Rock), Farel Dalrymple, and Jennifer Parks.

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04.10: The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba

2014-03-18 00:36:13| Powells Books Events Calendar

Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene. Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise (Seal Press) offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us. This event is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.

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04.10: Deadly Diversions Book Club

2014-03-18 00:36:12| Powells Books Events Calendar

This month our mystery group meets to discuss Midnight in Peking by Paul French. Join us!

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04.10: Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

2014-03-18 00:36:12| Powells Books Events Calendar

Can working parents ever find true leisure time? In Overwhelmed (Sarah Crichton), Brigid Schulte, a Washington Post staff writer, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time"? Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds and a look at how to put the pieces back together.

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