Events in Oregon and Bend
Join author and former public defender Gabriel Urza and Karla Nash, Assistant Director at Deschutes Defenders, to discuss, The Silver State. When a public defender receives a letter from a client on death row, he is forced to reexamine his role in the murder case he cannot shake; a gripping and thought-provoking legal thriller that redefines …
Join Lauren Kessler, Oregon author of A Grip of Time and Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home, for her new memoir, Everything Changes Everything, a riveting story of walking the Camino de Santiago after the death of her husband and daughter. A resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in …
Lily Brooks-Dalton, author of the GMA Book Club Pick The Light Pirate, will be here to discuss her new book, Ruins (available March 31), a powerful, deeply resonant novel about an ambitious archaeologist in pursuit of a rare artifact from an ancient civilization that would not only change her life but potentially society at large. “Lily …
Who gets to decide what's sane? Explore the metaphor in modern literary asylums. Registration is required. Who decides what's sane—and who benefits from that decision? Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Literature's mental asylums are rarely just hospitals—they're stages where our culture's deepest conflicts play out: Who has power over whom? …
Join local artist Mary Marquiss to discuss her new book, Behind the Painting: An Artist’s Memoir, in conversation with Heidi Berkman. Behind every painting there is a story. In this intimate memoir, artist and author Mary Marquiss tells the personal stories that inspired ten of her paintings. Created across three decades, each work is in response …
Join Eileen Garvin, nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees and Crow Talk, to discuss her new book, Bumblebee Season, a heartwarming story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping in a small Oregon town. Full of warmth, big-hearted characters, and a celebration of nature in all its complexity, Bumblebee Season reminds us that human connection might just be …
Please join us for this FREE event with Aron Nels Steinke, PNBA Book Award Winning author of the Mr. Wolf's Class series and Speechless! Pre-order your books to have them signed at the event. Aron Nels Steinke is a cartoonist and former elementary school teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon. In 2015 he and his wife Ariel Cohn …