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07.22: Kids' Storytime
2015-06-16 23:04:40| Powells Books Events Calendar
Join us every Wednesday during the summer months for a special midweek kids' storytime. Today we're reading The Sky Is Falling! by Mark Teague.
07.22: Robert Brockway
2015-06-16 23:04:40| Powells Books Events Calendar
From Robert Brockway, senior editor and Cracked.com columnist, comes The Unnoticeables (Tor), a funny and frightening urban fantasy with horror elements that can be favorably compared to David Wong's John Dies at the End. There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. Carey doesn't much like that idea. As a punk living in New York City, 1977, Carey is sick and tired of watching strange kids with unnoticeable faces abduct his friends. He doesn't care about the rumors of tar-monsters in the sewers or unkillable psychopaths invading the punk scene — all he wants is to drink cheap beer and dispense ass-kickings. Kaitlyn isn't sure what she's doing with her life. She came to Hollywood in 2013 to be a stunt woman, but last night a former teen heartthrob tried to eat her, her best friend has just gone missing, and there's an angel outside her apartment. Whatever she plans on doing with her life, it should probably happen in the few remaining minutes she has left.
07.22: Emma Campion
2014-06-13 21:34:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
Emma Campion, the critically acclaimed author of The King's Mistress (and pen name of Candace Robb), brings another fascinating woman from history to life in an enthralling story of political intrigue, personal tragedy, and illicit love. In A Triple Knot (Broadway), Joan of Kent, renowned beauty and cousin to King Edward III, is destined for a politically strategic marriage. As the king begins a long dynastic struggle to claim the crown of France, plunging England into the Hundred Years' War, he negotiates her betrothal to a potential ally and heir of a powerful lordship.
07.22: Matthew Specktor & Jodi Angel
2013-06-13 22:35:34| Powells Books Events Calendar
Matthew Specktor's American Dream Machine (Tin House) is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life. Mammalian, funny, and filled with characters both vital and profound, American Dream Machine is a piercing interrogation of the role — nourishing, as well as destructive — that illusion plays in all our lives. Jodi Angel's second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail (Tin House), chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after a parent's overdose to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity.
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