Norma Wong will discuss her book When No Thing Works, a guide to co-creating new worlds from one in crisis. Grounded in Zen Buddhism, interconnection, and decades of community activism, When No Thing Works explores questions like: as we stand at a threshold of collective change, what leaps must we make? How can we push […]
Omar El Akkad’s debut novel American War was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. His second novel, What Strange Paradise, centers on Amir, a young boy from Syria who has survived the sinking of a ship that was carrying him and other refugees, and his developing bond with Vänna, a teenage […]
“Popular science writing at its very best.” (Kirkus Reviews) In Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, Ferris Jabr shows us how Earth became the world we’ve known, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come. Historically, […]
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. […]
Whiskey Tender is a memoir about family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and […]
Elizabeth Chai is a graphic designer and coffee aficionado. In her book How to Buy Essentially Nothing for a Year she tells the story of what led her to the completely unorthodox, outlandish, and incredible decision to buy nothing for an entire year. Now deep into her fifth consecutive year of Buying Essentially Nothing, she […]
In The Cost of Free Land, this award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish family's land in South Dakota, and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. The Cost of Free Land was named a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Review, The Jewish Forward, The Tribal […]
The Milwaukie Poetry Series Seventeenth Season! A Reading by Armin Tolentino In person at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie and LiveStreamed on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM The Milwaukie Poetry Series is delighted to continue our Seventeenth Season with a reading by Armin Tolentino on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. His reading […]
