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Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
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Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR 97005
United States

(503)228-4651

Web site: http://www.powells.com/

Events URL: http://www.powells.com/calendar.…

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Description: With over half a million used, new, rare, and hard-to-find titles, it will be very easy to get lost in the aisles of Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. "I think we take the best elements of all the Powell's stores and roll them into one," says store manager Paul Smailes. "We have the big store feel of the City of Books, a very large technical book selection to serve our neighbors like Tektronix, Intel, and Nike, along with the largest children's book section of any book store on the West Coast."

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Upcoming events

Rhys Bowen (July 28 at 7:00pm)
Rhys Bowen reads from A Royal Pain.
From critically acclaimed author Rhys Bowen comes A Royal Pain, another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, "a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers" (Jacqueline Winspear).
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Naomi Novik (July 29 at 7:00pm)
Naomi Novik reads from Victory of Eagles .
Naomi Novik's acclaimed series starring the fighting dragon Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, reaches a peak of excitement with Victory of Eagles, the latest installment and the first in hardcover.
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Classics Book Group (July 30 at 7:00pm)
This month the classics book group meets to discuss Orlando by Virginia Woolf. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Past events

Gin Phillips (March 3 at 7:00pm)
Gin Phillips reads from The Well and The Mine: A Novel.
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Jennifer Hooper McCarty (March 4 at 7:00pm)
Jennifer Hooper McCarty reads from What Really Sank the Titanic.
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Kim Harrison (March 5 at 7:00pm)
Kim Harrison reads from The Outlaw Demon Wails.
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Steve Duno (March 11 at 7:00pm)
Steve Duno reads from Be the Dog.
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Science Fiction Book Group (March 11 at 7:00pm)
This month our group meets to discuss Ringworld by Larry Niven. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Sharan Newman (March 12 at 7:00pm)
Sharan Newman reads from The Shanghai Tunnel.
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Book Bags Book Group (March 12 at 7:00pm)
Join our women's book group this month when we discuss Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. New members to the group are welcome.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group (March 13 at 7:00pm)
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Dan Heims (March 18 at 7:00pm)
Dan Heims reads from Heucheras and Heucherellas.
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Joanne Fluke (March 19 at 7:00pm)
Joanne Fluke reads from Key Lime Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries).
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Secular Topics Meet-up Book Club (March 19 at 7:00pm)
Join our newly formed discussion group, Secular Topics Meet-up Book Club, when we meet to discuss Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. This book group will meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group (March 21 at 7:00pm)
Join our newly formed romance book group when we meet to discuss Marked by Moonlight by Sharie Kohler. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Neale Donald Walsch (March 22 at 2:00pm)
Neale Donald Walsch reads from Happier Than God.
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Geronimo Tagatac (March 24 at 7:00pm)
Geronimo Tagatac reads from The Weight of the Sun.
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Washington County Peak Oil Reading Group (March 25 at 7:00pm)
This month we meet to discuss the first half of The Great Turning by David Korten. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Mario Acevedo (March 25 at 7:00pm)
Mario Acevedo reads from The Undead Kama Sutra.
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Classics Book Group (March 26 at 7:00pm)
Our classics reading group meets this month to discuss Ovid's Metamorphoses. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Jodi Picoult (March 31 at 7:00pm)
Jodi Picoult reads from Change of Heart.
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Science Fiction Book Group (April 8 at 7:00pm)
This month our group meets to discuss Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Murder with Friends (April 9 at 7:00pm)
Please join us for a special suspense-filled evening featuring an impressive body of mystery authors: Greg Rucka (Patriot Acts), Gregg Olsen (A Cold Dark Place), Bill Cameron (Lost Dog), Shirley Tallman (The Cliff House Strangler), Lono Waiwaiole (Wiley's Lament), Sharan Newman (The Shanghai Tunnel), ... (more)Robert Dugoni (Damage Control), Nancy Bush (Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery), Lisa Jackson (Lost Souls), Ed Goldberg (Better Dead), Ashna Graves (Death Pans Out), Doc Macomber (Wolf's Remedy), Katy King (City of Suspects), Robert Napier (Love, Death and the Toyman) and more!
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Book Bags Book Group (April 9 at 7:00pm)
Join our women's book group this month when we discuss The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. New members to the group are welcome.
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Karen Joy Fowler (April 10 at 7:00pm)
Karen Joy Fowler reads from Wit's End .
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Deadly Diversions Book Group (April 10 at 7:00pm)
This month our mystery book group meets to discuss Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Peter F. Hamilton (April 11 at 7:00pm)
Peter F. Hamilton reads from The Dreaming Void.
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Katie Crouch (April 15 at 7:00pm)
Katie Crouch reads from Girls in Trucks.
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CFI/Freethinkers Book Group (April 16 at 7:00pm)
Newly formed nonfiction book group meets to discuss Jennifer Michael Hecht's "Doubt: A History". New members to the group are always welcome.
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Jane Smiley (April 17 at 7:00pm)
Jane Smiley reads from Ten Days in the Hills.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley returns with Ten Days in the Hills (Anchor Books), a sexy, irreverent novel that dives into Hollywood culture, and the dynamic personalities that move in its inner circles, in the days following the 2003 Academy Awards.
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Jane Kirkpatrick (April 18 at 7:00pm)
Jane Kirkpatrick reads from A Mending at the Edge.
Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society
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Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group (April 18 at 7:00pm)
This month the romance book discussion group meets to discuss Venetia by Georgette Heyer. New members to the group are always welcome.
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James Howard Kunstler (April 21 at 7:00pm)
James Howard Kunstler reads from World Made by Hand.
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Martha Beck (April 24 at 7:00pm)
Martha Beck reads from Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!.
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Alexander McCall Smith (April 25 at 7:00pm)
Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Miracle at Speedy Motors.
the ninth mystery in Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
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Alice Hoffman (April 28 at 7:00pm)
Alice Hoffman reads from The Third Angel.
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Margaret Peterson Haddix (April 29 at 7:00pm)
Margaret Peterson Haddix reads from Found.
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Classics Book Group (April 30 at 7:00pm)
This month our classics book group meets to discuss The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Jane Kotapish (May 1 at 7:00pm)
Jane Kotapish reads from Salvage.
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Jeff Stone (May 2 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Stone reads from Eagle: The Five Ancestors #5.
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Louise Erdrich (May 5 at 7:00pm)
Louise Erdrich reads from The Plague of Doves.
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Diana Abu-Jaber (May 7 at 7:00pm)
Diana Abu-Jaber reads from Origin.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group (May 8 at 7:00pm)
This month the mystery book group meets to discuss The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Richelle Mead, Caitlin Kittredge (May 8 at 7:00pm)
Richelle Mead reads from Frostbite.; Caitlin Kittredge reads from Night Life.
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Rose City Romance (May 9 at 7:00pm)
Shirley Karr reads from Confessions of a Viscount.; Stephanie Rowe reads from He Loves Me, He Loves Me Hot.; Lucy Monroe reads from Three Brides for Three Bad Boys.; Alexis Morgan reads from Redeemed in Darkness.; Delle Jacobs reads from Aphrodite's Brew.; Minnette Meador reads from Starsight.; Megan Clark reads from Rescue Me.; Samantha James reads from The Seduction of an Unknown Lady.; Paty Jager reads from Marshal in Petticoats.; Karen Duvall reads from Desert Guardian.
A special evening featuring an impressive and diverse body of Pacific Northwest romance authors.
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Cathy Lamb (May 12 at 7:00pm)
Cathy Lamb reads from The Last Time I Was Me.
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John Gierach (May 13 at 7:00pm)
John Gierach reads from Fool's Paradise.
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Science Fiction Book Group (May 13 at 7:00pm)
This month the sci-fi book group meets to discuss Jumper by Steven Gould. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Space Magic (May 14 at 7:00pm)
David Levine reads from Space Magic.
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David D. Levine (May 14 at 7:00pm)
David D. Levine reads from Space Magic.
Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-nominated writer David D. Levine's first short story collection, Space Magic (Wheatland Press) features 15 sci-fi and fantasy tales, including the Hugo-winning "Tk'Tk'Tk" and the multiple-award-nominated "The Tale of the Golden Eagle," as well as the previously unpublished ... (more)"Falling off the Unicorn."
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Book Bags Book Group (May 14 at 7:00pm)
This month the women's book group meets to discuss The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. New members to the group are always welcome.
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John Straley (May 15 at 7:00pm)
John Straley reads from The Big Both Ways.
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Garth Stein (May 16 at 7:00pm)
Garth Stein reads from The Art of Racing in the Rain.
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Cheeky Pages Book Group (May 16 at 7:00pm)
Join the romance book group this month to discuss The Cobra and the Concubine by Bonnie Vanak. New members to the group are always welcome.
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2K7 Kids' Reading (May 18 at 2:00pm)
The Class of 2K7 is a group of debut children's and YA authors with books that came out in 2007. Featured authors are Joni Sensel (Reality Leak (Henry Holt), part Saturday morning cartoon, part secret agent mystery), Thatcher Heldring (Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer (Delacorte), "[a] truly great ... (more)basketball story," says Phil Jackson), and Sundee T. Frazier (Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It (Delacorte), "[Frazier] writes affectingly about what being biracial means in 21st-century America" — School Library Journal).
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Susan Hubbard (May 19 at 7:00pm)
Susan Hubbard reads from The Year of Disappearances.
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Jeff Gillman (May 20 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Gillman reads from The Truth about Organic Gardening.
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CFI/Freethinkers Book Club (May 21 at 7:00pm)
This month's nonfiction book group meets to discuss Richard Carrier's Sense and Goodness without God. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Don Malarkey (May 21 at 7:00pm)
Don Malarkey reads from Easy Company Soldier.
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Lee Child (June 6 at 7:00pm)
Lee Child on tour for Nothing to Lose.
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Worldwide Dungeons and Dragons Game Day (June 7 at 2:00pm)
Join two of Powell's best dungeon masters, who will guide players through an introductory fourth-edition adventure. There will be drawings, trivia, snacks, giveaways of dice and miniatures, and loads of D&D delight!
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David Guterson (June 9 at 7:00pm)
David Guterson reads from The Other.
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Richard Preston (June 10 at 7:00pm)
Richard Preston reads from Panic in Level 4 .
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Science Fiction Book Group (June 10 at 7:00pm)
This month the science fiction book group meets to discuss Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Jen Sookfong Lee (June 11 at 7:00pm)
Jen Sookfong Lee reads from The End of East.
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Book Bags Book Group (June 11 at 7:00pm)
This month the women's book group meets to discuss Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Jana Kohl (June 12 at 7:00pm)
Jana Kohl reads from A Rare Breed of Love .
A Rare Breed of Love (Fireside Books) is a true story that chronicles the travels of Baby, a three-legged poodle rescued from a puppy mill, who, along with her human, Jana Kohl, aims to raise awareness and help stop animal cruelty. "Kohl's accounts of how dogs suffer at the hands of puppy mill breeders...will ... (more)doubtlessly rally new crusaders to this cause," says Publishers Weekly.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group (June 12 at 7:00pm)
This month the mystery book group meets to discuss The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Salman Rushdie (June 13 at 7:00pm)
Salman Rushdie reads from The Enchantress of Florence.
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Jacqueline Carey (June 24 at 7:00pm)
Jacqueline Carey on tour for Kushiel's mercy.
From Jacqueline Carey, the New York Times-bestselling author of Kushiel's Scion and Kushiel's Justice, comes Kushiel's Mercy (Hachette), the final adventure in the Imriel Trilogy. Publishers Weekly calls it "a vivid conclusion....Carey delivers a heady mix of adventure, power struggles and romance."
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Andre Dubus (June 25 at 7:00pm)
Andre Dubus reads from The garden of last days : a novel.
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Classics Book Group (June 25 at 7:00pm)
This month the classics book group meets to discuss The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões.
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Chris Hedges (June 27 at 7:00pm)
Chris Hedges reads from Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians.
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges (War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning) and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how Iraqi civilians are affected.
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The Return of the Sword (July 1 at 7:00pm)
The Return of the Sword (Cyberwizard Productions) is a brand-new anthology of pulse-pounding, spine-tingling stories by some of fantasy's most critically acclaimed Sword and Sorcery authors. This event features readings from contributors Jeff Draper, Michael Ehart, Allen B. Lloyd, and Nathan Meyer.
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Gary Vaynerchuk (July 2 at 7:00pm)
Gary Vaynerchuk reads from Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World.
Millions have logged onto Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV blog to watch him boldly and unconventionally rate hundreds of wines. Now, in Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines (Rodale Press), he reveals his first ranked list of the most exciting and tantalizing wines he's sampled while traveling the globe.
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Science Fiction Book Group (July 8 at 7:00pm)
This month the sci-fi book group meets to discuss Once upon a Winter's Night by Dennis L. McKiernan. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Book Bags Book Group (July 9 at 7:00pm)
This month the women's book group meets to discuss Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Deadly Diversions Book Group (July 10 at 7:00pm)
This month the mystery book group meets to discuss Keeper by Greg Rucka. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Ashley MacEachern (July 12 at 11:00am)
Ashley MacEachern reads from Lance in France.
Based on actual events, former Nike executive Ashley MacEachern's dynamic children's picture book Lance in France follows Lance Armstrong as he participates in the Tour de France. The book includes a framable full-color photo and a signed letter from Armstrong.
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Aaron Elkins (July 14 at 7:00pm)
Aaron Elkins reads from Uneasy Relations.
The Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author of Little Tiny Teeth returns with his professor of forensics, Gideon Oliver, a.k.a. the Skeleton Detective, in Uneasy Relations.
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Nathan Sassaman (July 15 at 7:00pm)
Nathan Sassaman reads from Warrior King: The Triumph and Betrayal of an American Commander in Iraq.
Warrior King, a startling and controversial memoir of combat and betrayal, chronicles the downfall of Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, one of the most prominent members of the U.S. fighting forces in Iraq, and the subsequent effect on the American military.
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CFI/Freethinkers Book Club (July 16 at 7:00pm)
This month's nonfiction book group meets to discuss the second half of Sense and Goodness without God by Richard Carrier. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group (July 18 at 7:00pm)
This month the romance book group meets to discuss All Jacked Up by Penny McCall. New members to the group are always welcome.
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Tyler Colman (July 22 at 7:00pm)
Tyler Colman reads from Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink.
In Wine Politics, Tyler Colman, author of the popular website DrVino.com, offers an insightful comparative view of winemaking in Napa and Bordeaux, tracing the different paths American and French wines take as they travel from vineyard to dining room table and revealing just how deeply politics ... (more)matters — right down to the taste of the wine in your glass tonight.
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