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Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About Animalia:
(Young Adult Fantasy) In the frosty landscapes of Norway, nestled on an isolated peninsula, lies the prestigious and secretive Svalbard School. This institution specializes in teaching the secrets of the Victorian-era world to a select group of students from across the globe. Among the diverse programs offered at Svalbard, one stands out: Animalia, where young talents learn the ancient art of working with animals' unique abilities.
The story follows thirteen-year-old Sunday Gråe, who aspires to follow in her late father's footsteps and become an Animalia student. Sunday's dreams come true when she gains admission to Svalbard School. However, as she delves deeper into her studies, she learns the school is hiding dark secrets. Mysterious disappearances plague the Animalia students, and she falls into a perilous mystery that could put her own life in danger.
Author bio:
Shauna C. Murphy is a film producer and a writer of young adult content. She is a researcher of children's imaginary worlds, the psychology behind fantasy, and the corresponding best practices for commercial storytelling. She is passionate about helping others understand the benefits of imagination and empathy.
Her unique perspective, rooted in a childhood spent amidst the theatre and her summers exploring the great outdoors, shines through in Animalia, a story where the bond between humanity and nature takes center stage. She has a MS from The University of Oregon and a BS from Portland State.
Our weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth, features books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
On May 18, we’re excited to welcome special Storytime Guests! Local artist Megan Marie Myers and author Lucas Alberg will read from their new book, Good Morning, Mother Nature.
Join us for a "good morning" with this heartwarming kids picture book that pays homage to nature and wildlife.
Book signing to follow.
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything:
Writer and baseball historian Eric Vickrey has written the first-ever book on the deadliest accident in American professional sports history.
Vic Picetti, Bob Paterson, and Bob Kinnaman. These names may be known to baseball historians, but they could have been as recognizable as Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, and Mickey Mantle. They were just three of the promising athletes who died in a tragic bus crash on a treacherous stretch of road in Washington state’s Cascade mountains on June 24, 1946. They played for the Spokane Indians and were among the nine who lost their lives when the bus skidded off the road and into a ravine. To this day it remains the deadliest accident in the history of American professional sports.
Season of Shattered Dreams brings to life a bygone baseball era. With many athletes serving in World War II, baseball of the 1940s limped along with players that were too old, too young, or unfit for the military. The end of the war revived the sport. Like many teams, the minor-league Spokane Indians saw an influx of talented players who, finally home, were eager to be back on the field.
Vickrey gives us an intimate portrayal of the lives of the athletes who were on the bus on that tragic day, including Jack Lohrke, Ben Geraghty, and Vic Picetti. Lohrke, known as “Lucky Lohrke,” survived the Battle of the Bulge, the bus accident, and also narrowly missed being on a plane that crashed and killed everyone onboard. He went on to play for the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies. Geraghty survived the bus crash but was haunted by it for life. Called “the ultimate baseball man,” he had a celebrated career as a manager, but was plagued by alcoholism and fears of travel. Dedicated to making the sport more equitable for players of color, Geraghty was hailed as the “finest human being I have ever known,” by Hank Aaron. Picetti was the son of Italian immigrants, fiercely talented, and destined for the big leagues. He was killed in the accident days after writing his mother one of his tender letters.
Author bio:
Eric Vickrey is an Illinois native with a lifelong love of baseball. He has written dozens of articles as a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and is the author of two books: Runnin' Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals (McFarland, 2023) and Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024). He currently lives in Washington state.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About From Chicken to Eagle: Seven Women Paddling Whitewater and Navigating Life:
From Chicken to Eagle: Seven Women Paddling Whitewater and Navigating Life is a story of seven women who took a wilderness adventure at a time—1979—when women were starting to test their mettle in society and in the wilderness. Unique for that era, we received sponsorship from Canoe magazine, REI and other outfitters, and were covered extensively at the time by Eugene media and Canoe magazine. The eleven-day journey was a time of laughter, friendship, fear and life-threatening challenge.
The river adventure also helped launch each of us on new pathways in our lives and careers, and inspired us to accomplish things beyond our imaginations and comfort levels. At our 40th reunion we decided to write this book. Our chapters share how the courage we used in Alaska helped push our careers into upper levels of responsibility and management where previous generations of women had not succeeded.
Author Bios:
Jesse Reeder: Jesse was the first female general manager of an electric utility, and later taught communication and management skills, including for the Oregon Health Sciences University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Residing during the winter at their home in Loreto, Mexico, where she paddleboards and kayaks, Jesse spends summers in Bend, Oregon with her husband Dirk.
Deb Jackson Brewer: Deb was head of strategic management for a mid-sized utility, and opened a child-development center at the utility that is still operating today. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Recently an active member of the Ambassadors Ski Patrol at Mt Bachelor, Deb hikes, backpacks and rafts with friends, and spends time with her grandchild
Rosalyn McKeown-Ice: Rosalyn directed a research center at the University of Tennessee and was a program specialist at UNESCO, where she led development in the field of education for sustainable development. She holds Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Geography and a Master’s in Education. Living in Salem Oregon, and near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Rosalyn canoes and rides a tandem bicycle with her husband Gene (recently completing a cross country ride from San Diego to Florida!), anchors a prison ministry and babysits grandchildren.
Kamala Bremer: Kamala was region manager for a state agency that pioneered changes to eldercare, and later consulted with human service and community organizations to develop and improve their programs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Public Administration. Living in Portland, Oregon, Kamala writes about and volunteers for nature with her husband Les, monitoring wildlife for Portland Audubon and for state and federal parks.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Songs are literature! Join us for an intimate evening of song and story with delightful Bay-area folk duo Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan. $20 suggested donation per person.
About Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan:
Claudia Russell is a California troubadour with a guitar case full of highly-engaging songs, the voice of an angel, and a suitable partner in husband Bruce Kaplan, who supplies the perfect counterpoint to Russell’s inventive guitar work with accompaniment on electric guitar and mandolin. Whether soothing or stirring, Russell and Kaplan always hit the spot.
The Bay Area-based duo traverse a wide Americana landscape, stopping at wondrous musical landmarks along the way, tipping their hat to the great Laurel Canyon troubadours, legendary Village folkies, soulful blues divas, jazz cats and Bakersfield cowboys. Driven by Claudia’s expressive voice, nimble guitar and distinctive songwriting, it all comes together beautifully.
Since their debut in 2000, Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan have amassed an impressive resume of over 1000 performances. Their distinctive music has graced the stages of clubs, festivals, barns, and concert series across North America wowing audiences with their engaging songs wherever the perform. Claudia has also achieved recognition as a Kerrville New Folk Finalist on two occasions, while her talent has garnered praise in notable publications such as American Songwriter, UK Country People and Sing Out as well as NPR’s All Things Considered.
Russell is a third-generation singer. Her father, Val Rosing was the vocalist of the Henry Hall BBC Dance Orchestra 1931 original hit recording of Teddy Bears Picnic. Her grandfather, Vladimir Rosing was an opera singer who performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
“One of the best shows I have seen in a very long time. It was all there – great songs and playing, entertaining stories, and beautiful singing.” – Helene Korolenko, New Bedford Folk Festival
“Claudia Russell is the Judy Collins of our generation” – Christine Lavin, performer & songwriter
What is a house concert? A house concert is an intimate listening event where music is the focus. A community gathering in support of artists and their work.
Seating is limited. We are asking for a $20 suggested donation per person attending. All donations go to the artists! Please RSVP to reserve your seats at events@paulinaspringsbooks.com.
About I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War:
Lived to Tell the World presents thirteen inspiring profiles of men and women who have endured unthinkable cruelty, only to resume productive lives in their new homes in Oregon. They come from Rwanda, Myanmar, Bosnia, Syria, and more—different stories, different conflicts, but similar paths through loss and violence to a new, not always easy, life in the United States. The in-depth profiles are drawn from hours of interviews and oral histories; journalist Elizabeth Mehren worked collaboratively with the survivors to honor the complexity of their experiences and to ensure that the stories are told with, and not just about, them. Mehren also weaves in historical, cultural, and political context alongside these personal stories of resilience.
These profiles will inspire readers to reflect on their own experiences, and to view these survivors as a source of hope in their own dark times. As more states adopt Holocaust and genocide education curricula, and as issues around refugees, immigration, and racial justice gain increasing attention, I Lived to Tell the World highlights the purposeful lives led by these Oregonians despite their painful pasts. Their experiences not only humanize the atrocities often seen in headlines, but also convey a universal message of courage.
Author bio:
Elizabeth Mehren is a Portland-based writer, editor, and educator. After working at The Washington Post, she became a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and later spent a decade on the faculty at Boston University. Mehren earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at UC Berkeley and has written for national magazines, appeared on television and radio, and received awards for teaching and journalism. I Lived to Tell the World is her fifth book.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About Betrayal:
Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago. For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Aaron Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.
In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.
Author bio:
Phil Margolin graduated from The American University in 1965 and New York University School of Law in 1970. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. From 1972 until 1996, he practiced criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels, appearing before the United States Supreme Court and representing 30 people charged with homicide, including several who faced the death penalty.
Since 1996, Phil has been writing full-time. He is the author of 27 novels, most of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has been nominated for an Edgar, two of his books have been made into movies, two have been nominated for an Oregon Book Award and two of his short stories have been included in “The Best American Mystery Stories” Anthology.
Phil was a co-founder of Chess for Success, a non-profit charity that uses chess to teach elementary and middle school children in Title I schools study skills.
About Around Sisters:
Sharon E. Karr uses rare vintage images from a variety of local sources to celebrate the rich history of Sisters, Oregon. Located at the foot of the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains is the charming town of Sisters, Oregon, named for the three majestic, snow-covered peaks, North, Middle, and South Sisters, known as Faith, Hope, and Charity. Sisters saw its beginning only a short time after the early central Oregon pioneers settled to the north at Camp Polk. Geographically, Sisters encompassed communities now long gone - Cloverdale, Gist, and Plainview. These small communities depended on Sisters for mail, supplies, groceries, and other services. The development of Black Butte Ranch and the Metolius recreation area contributed to today's tourism hub. By stepping back in time, the reader can explore the past of ranching and irrigation and trace the logging, rodeo, and recreation history of those who came before today's travelers and tourists. Sisters is more than just a place. What sets Sisters apart is the bond of friendship that permeates every facet of this small town. A feeling of community and unity that fosters an unyielding spirit of what is home and creates the extraordinary place it is today.
Author bio:
Sharon E. Karr is a retired technology writer and a graduate of the University of Oregon with a bachelor of arts in history and a master's degree from Santa Clara University. She brings history alive with the help of longtime residents, research, and local historical societies.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About The Sunriver Murders:
Who would turn a shotgun on a well-dressed seventy-seven-year-old man driving a Mercedes on a sunny summer morning in the happy golf resort of Sunriver? Carl Breuninger, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Detective, is left with no witnesses, no weapon, no motives, and no obvious suspects.
Leon Martinez paints a watercolor of the vivid crime scene before discovering he has multiple connections to the victim, two possible killers, and even the murdering shotgun. A new killer, plunging through a forest fire threatening all of Sunriver, threatens to kill Leon, his wife, and his friends in pursuit of a treasure hidden in Leon’s house.
A clue Leon does not even know he possesses leads Detective Breuninger to a secretive ex-con who knows just enough to help Breuninger identify the killer.
Author bio:
Ted Haynes is the author of six books, four of them set in Central Oregon. Ted graduated from Dartmouth College and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He has studied writing with Nancy Packer, Hillary Jordan, Tom Parker, and Donna Levin. He serves on the board of the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. For more info, visit tedhaynes.com.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About The Entire Sky:
With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make.
With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked him an outcast. When the long-simmering abuse from his uncle finally boils over, Justin has no choice but to break free, in a violent act that will haunt him, and try to make it on his own as a runaway.
Meanwhile, in rural Montana, Rene Bouchard, a rancher nearing retirement, grieves the recent death of his wife. Her passing has revealed precisely how fractured the family has become—particularly the relationship between Rene and his daughter, Lianne. As old wounds ache anew, father and daughter begin to doubt the possibility of reconciliation, even as they each privately yearn for it.
Justin’s wanderings bring him to the Bouchard family ranch, and soon Rene and Lianne take the boy in as their own. But before long, Justin’s past threatens to catch up with him, jeopardizing not only his new bond with Rene and Lianne but also the home he’s finally been able to claim. With its lyricism, tangible evocation of place, and piercing insight reminiscent of the novels of Barbara Kingsolver and Kent Haruf, The Entire Sky is an unforgettable piece of modern, American fiction.
About Joe Wilkins:
Joe Wilkins is the author of the novel Fall Back Down When I Die, which was short-listed for the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, and the award-winning memoir The Mountain and the Fathers. He has published four books of poetry, including Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Harvard Review, Orion, and elsewhere. He is a Pushcart Prize winner, a three-time High Plains Book Award winner, and a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the National Magazine Award, and the PEN/USA Award. He lives with his wife and two children in western Oregon, where he teaches writing at Linfield University.
About Ellen Waterston:
Ellen Waterston is an award-winning author, poet, and arts advocate whose third and latest nonfiction title, Walking the High Desert, Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail, University of Washington Press, is receiving strong praise and is a staff-pick favorite here at PSB!
Ellen is also the author of a collection of essays, Where the Crooked River Rises, Oregon State University Press; a memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group; and four poetry titles: Hotel Domilocos, Moonglade Press, Between Desert Seasons, Wordcraft of Oregon and I Am Madagascar, Ice River Press. Her fourth poetry title and verse novel, Vía Láctea, A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino, published by Atelier 6000, she subsequently converted to a libretto. It premiered as a full-length opera and is slated for a second staging.
She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants and residencies. She was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by Oregon State University Cascades for her accomplishments as an author and poet and her promotion of the literary arts. She was recently awarded the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award by Literary Arts, given annually to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.
Best-selling author Marie Bostwick will join us for a meet & greet/signing for her books during the quilt show! This has become a tradition here at PSB, and we always love welcoming Marie! Marie will be signing from 10 am to 2pm.
Author Bio:
A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen uplifting works of historical and contemporary fiction, Marie’s books are beloved by readers across the globe.
Drawing on her lifelong love of quilting and her unshakable belief in the power of sisterhood, Marie’s popular Cobbled Court Quilt series has been embraced by quilters and non-sewers alike. Her standalone books have also found a passionate following among lovers of women’s fiction. Marie’s novel, “The Second Sister” was adapted into the 2018 Hallmark Hall of Fame feature film “Christmas Everlasting”, starring Patti LaBelle. Marie’s novel, Hope on the Inside, was published in March 2019 and was chosen as a Reader’s Digest “Select Editions” book.
Marie lives in Oregon with her husband and a beautiful but moderately spoiled Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About As the Sky Begins to Change:
As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin.
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.
“Kim Stafford is a priest and poet, songwriter and philosopher. Each of these meticulously crafted poems offers the ability to see our interconnected world with a tender, resilient heart that only grows stronger over time. You will come to the book like that lucky raccoon who finds a plum tree in one of the early poems, feasting until you are “bandit happy, lusty gusto, shaky elbow, roly poly / on your side helpless with joy.” —James Crews, author of Kindness Will Save the World
Author Bio:
Founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, Kim Stafford teaches and travels to raise the human spirit. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. He has also written the memoir, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, and a children’s book, We Got Here Together. His most recent book is the poetry collection As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen, 2024). He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate by Governor Kate Brown for a two-year term. His call to writers everywhere: “In our time is a great thing not yet done. It is the marriage of Woody Guthrie’s gusto and the Internet. It is the composing and wide sharing of songs, poems, blessings, manifestos, and rants by those with voice for those with need.”
Kim Stafford will be joined by Beth Wood, local poet and songwriter who will share a few songs and poems inspired by Stafford’s work.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
About Gallop Toward the Sun:
The conquest of Indigenous land in the American East through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. Acclaimed author Peter Stark exposes the fundamental conflicts at play through the little-known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders.
William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He journeyed west, became governor of vast Indiana Territory and sought statehood by attracting settlers and imposing one-sided treaties. Tecumseh belonged to an honored line of Shawnee warriors and chiefs. His father died while fighting the Virginians flooding into Kentucky in the 1770s, and in his dying words, Tecumseh’s father extracted a promise from his sons to "Never give in" to the land-hungry Americans. Tecumseh was, by all accounts, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest leaders.
An eloquent speaker, he travelled from Minnesota to Florida and west to the Great Plains convincing far flung tribes to to join a great confederacy to hold onto their lands and face down their common, American, enemy. Eager to stop U.S. expansion, the British backed Tecumseh’s confederacy in a series of battles during the forgotten western front of the War of 1812 that would determine control of the North American continent.
Tecumseh’s brave stand was likely the last chance to protect Indigenous people from U.S. expansion – and prevent the upstart United States from becoming a world power. In this fast-paced narrative—with its bloody battles, high-stakes diplomacy, and sharply drawn characters—Peter Stark brings this pivotal moment to life.
Author bio:
Peter Stark is an adventurer and historian. Born in Wisconsin, he grew up in an adventurous and outdoorsy family and graduated from Dartmouth College. After taking a master's in journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and working briefly for The Missoulian newspaper in Montana, he set out to write adventure-travel articles about Greenland, Tibet and elsewhere for magazines such as Outside, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, and others. His 1997 article for Outside, "Frozen Alive," is considered a classic of the adventure genre and formed the basis for his book Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, named Amazon's best outdoors book of 2001. With his wife, choreographer and writer Amy Ragsdale, and their two children, Stark and family lived for a year each in Mozambique and a remote region of Brazil.
After taking part in the harrowing "first descent" of Mozambique's 750-kilometer-long Lugenda River by kayak in 2002, Stark decided to pull back from edgy adventure himself and pivot toward exploration history. Based in Missoula, Montana, he now specializes in researching and writing historical accounts of early American explorers in wilderness settings and their contact with Indigenous peoples. His book Astoria, a New York Times bestseller in 2014, told the epic story of the first American colony on the West Coast (at the Columbia River's mouth) and was named a PEN USA finalist and made into a two-part play by Portland Center Stage. His Young Washington (2018) was named a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Join C4C and Paulina Springs Books for a discussion of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream. Written by New York Times economic reporter Conor Dougherty, this “Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020” uses San Francisco as a case study for examining America’s current housing crisis. The book offers insights and lessons applicable for communities across the country facing “punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of [home] ownership.”
Co-facilitated by Sarah McDougall (C4C board president) and Chris Laing (Co-founder of 100 Women Who Care – Sisters), this event is an opportunity for community members to examine and discuss the historical, economic, and social forces that have created our modern housing challenges. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of the complexities of this social issue, and ideas for how Sisters Country can learn from the experiences of other West Coast communities.
No RSVP required. Complimentary light refreshments will be provided. A caregiver reimbursement stipend is available for parents and caregivers in attendance. Interpretation services are available upon request. (Please email director@citizens4community.com at least one week before the event to request.) Please contact Kellen Klein, C4C Executive Director, with any questions – director@citizens4community.com.
About Community Open Mic Night:
We want to celebrate our creative community by creating space for sharing and supporting each other. Bring poetry, a song, a short story to share. (There will not literally be a mic, just a space for listening and sharing.) Each participant is limited to 5 minutes. Even if you are not sharing, we hope you’ll come hang out in our new event space and listen to your neighbors!
Sign-ups for open mic will begin at 6 pm, and we’ll begin at 6:30. This is an all-ages event, and all are welcome.
We're hosting a gently-used puzzle swap! Tired of working the same old puzzle year after year? This is your chance to swap out your gently used puzzles for new-to-you puzzles!
Here's how it works: Bring in your gently-used puzzle or puzzles to the store any time from Monday, April 22nd to Tuesday, April 30 . We will give you a voucher good for the number of puzzles you drop off, and you can come back on Puzzle Swap Day (Wednesday, May 1) and pick out your new-to-you puzzle or puzzles! There is no cost for swapping puzzles…it’s just for fun! Also, new puzzles will be 10% off all day long, so even if you don't have used puzzles to swap, it's a great time to stock up for summer. Come hang out and get cozy and up your puzzle game with us! You can even stay for open mic!
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
About No Perfect Mothers:
There is much about her hometown that Carrie Buck loves: Venable Elementary where she first learned to read; Starr Hill because that’s where Miss Mora lives; Chancellor’s Drugstore where she sometimes gets a free cola; and Anderson’s Bookstore where a girl can look through all the books she likes. While 1920s Charlottesville, Virginia, is a charming place to grow up, there’s one thing Carrie doesn’t like about her hometown—her home. Abandoned by her father and taken from her mother, Carrie is put up for fostering as a toddler. A silent child, her foster parents regard her as slow. She feels no obligation to correct them.
At age ten, Carrie is forced to leave school to work as a domestic. Carrie’s lone ally, Miss Mora, a Scottish immigrant, is hindered by racial barriers from being the helper Carrie so desperately needs. But when Carrie turns up pregnant at seventeen, itis Miss Mora—Charlottesville’s most competent midwife—who she turns to. Fearing their nephew’s assault of Carrie will be discovered, Carrie’s foster parents fraudulently commit her to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. They claim custody of her infant daughter. Dr. Priddy, the colony’s superintendent, deceptively labels Carrie an imbecile, unfit to bear children. In pursuit of a legal argument granting states the right to forcibly sterilize individuals, he exploits her.
No Perfect Mothers explores characters, historical and imagined, who over the late 1800s to the 1920s were parties to the infamous Buck v. Bell U.S. Supreme Court case of 1927. Here, Carrie is given back what was denied her by the Court and by society some 100 years ago—her own voice and personhood.
Author Bio:
Karen spears Zacharias is an American writer, a former journalist, she holds a MA in Appalachian studies from Shepherd University, West vVirginia, and a MA in creative media practice from the University of West Scotland, UK. Her debut novel Mother of Rain received the Weatherford Award for Best in Appalachian fiction from the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College, Kentucky. Zacharias was named Appalachian Heritage Writer in 2018 by Shepherd University. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post and in numerous anthologies. She lives at the foot of the Cascade mountains in Deschutes County, Oregon, where she serves as president of the League of Women Voters. She is a member of Phi Beta Delta and Phi Kappa Phi. A Gold Star Daughter, she is devoted to sharing the stories of forgotten women.
Young Writers Workshop With Robin Duncan (ages 13-17)
Calling all young creative writers! Want to write more? Do you have an idea for a novel, or love to write poetry? Come join us at Paulina Springs Bookstore for a fun opportunity to write creatively in a small group with other teens. Robin Duncan has 20 years of experience as a high school English teacher and for the past 8 years as a writing coach, helping authors and aspiring writers. Each 75 minute writing session in the Young Writers Workshop will be based on a writing genre; which will include fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We will learn about the genre, read samples, be inspired, and write our own versions. This will be a fun, interactive experience where young writers gain confidence, practice their writing, find their voice, and support each other in their creativity.
Ages 13-17. There will be 4 sessions on Tuesday April 9, 16, 23, 30 from 3:30- 4:45, at Paulina Springs Books.
Bring your notebooks, or laptops. Feel free to bring any works in progress! Required text: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need by Jessica Brody (please order from Paulina Springs Books if possible).
Other Recommended books, but NOT required:
Bird by Bird - Annie Lamott
The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Elements of Style
Please email: robinduncan5@gmail to sign up! Or don’t hesitate to call Robin if you have questions: : 858-531-4088
Cost is on a sliding scale in order to make this accessible for all youth! Please pay what you're comfortable with - $80 to $150 covers 4 sessions at 75 minutes each. Payable through Zelle or Venmo.
Other costs: Save the Cat! available at Paulina Springs Books
About Robin Duncan:
Robin retired from teaching high school after 20 years, but still felt the burning need to keep inspiring young writers. She coached her son, Matthew Wolf, who started writing in college and is now a well-known fantasy writer having published 5 books with an avid audience. Robin now consults other writers and has worked with several TED talk speakers in preparing their talks. She is also passionate about helping students write their college essays. She coaches students to write the college essay that they are proud of which includes thoughtful self-reflection to help them gain admission to the colleges of their dreams. In her free time, she hikes the trails of Central Oregon, paddles on the Deschutes, and travels.
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
About Just Like Click:
Just Like Click is a superhero adventure story for a new era.
Nick Townley has lived his entire life—all eleven years—at Black Butte Ranch, nestled in the foothills of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. While his parents push him to study harder, practice sports more, and make friends his own age, Nick prefers to retreat into his superhero universe and create exciting Adventures of Click comics.
When a string of robberies threatens Dad' s job, forcing them to move across the country, Nick' s world implodes. He loves his home, and what will he do about the $237,000 in cash under his bed that Great Gramp secretly gave him before he died? Desperate to stop the move, Nick steps off his comic book pages and ventures into the night as Click, an undercover superhero. Catching thieves would be a lot easier if he had actual superpowers.
When three new kids—Patrick, Celia, and Jacey—discover his identity and want to join him, Nick vows to remain undercover, working solo like Superman. But when a little girl is lost on top of Black Butte, Nick realizes even a superhero needs help at times. Now with new friends, he has more reason than ever to thwart the lumber thieves so he can stay at Black Butte Ranch, but is he willing to put his friends in danger? What would Click do?
Just Like Click won the Kraken Book Prize sponsored by Regal House Publishing to recognize outstanding middle grade fiction. Each chapter begins with a delightful and humorous comic-book-style illustration that adds another layer of interest to draw readers in.
Author bio:
A native Oregonian, Sandy Grubb and her family have enjoyed many vacations at Black Butte Ranch in Central Oregon, the setting for her debut middle grade novel, Just Like Click, coming out April 16, 2024, with Fitzroy Books. Just as her protagonist, Nick, aspires to be a superhero, Sandy hopes her readers come away from her story realizing they each have their own unique superpowers.
A former elementary school teacher, Sandy has an English and French Literature degree from Stanford University and a teaching certificate from U.C. Berkeley. Sandy and her husband live near Portland, Oregon. When she isn’t writing, Sandy enjoys exploring the beauty of our planet, meeting interesting people, and experiencing other cultures. Volunteer work with World Vision has led Sandy off the beaten path to meet amazing children around the world—from tunnels under the streets in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to densely populated slums in Bangladesh, to small remote villages in Zambia.
Young Writers Workshop With Robin Duncan (ages 13-17)
Calling all young creative writers! Want to write more? Do you have an idea for a novel, or love to write poetry? Come join us at Paulina Springs Bookstore for a fun opportunity to write creatively in a small group with other teens. Robin Duncan has 20 years of experience as a high school English teacher and for the past 8 years as a writing coach, helping authors and aspiring writers. Each 75 minute writing session in the Young Writers Workshop will be based on a writing genre; which will include fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We will learn about the genre, read samples, be inspired, and write our own versions. This will be a fun, interactive experience where young writers gain confidence, practice their writing, find their voice, and support each other in their creativity.
Ages 13-17. There will be 4 sessions on Tuesday April 9, 16, 23, 30 from 3:30- 4:45, at Paulina Springs Books.
Bring your notebooks, or laptops. Feel free to bring any works in progress! Required text: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need by Jessica Brody (please order from Paulina Springs Books if possible).
Other Recommended books, but NOT required:
Bird by Bird - Annie Lamott
The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Elements of Style
Please email: robinduncan5@gmail to sign up! Or don’t hesitate to call Robin if you have questions: : 858-531-4088
Cost is on a sliding scale in order to make this accessible for all youth! Please pay what you're comfortable with - $80 to $150 covers 4 sessions at 75 minutes each. Payable through Zelle or Venmo.
Other costs: Save the Cat! available at Paulina Springs Books
About Robin Duncan:
Robin retired from teaching high school after 20 years, but still felt the burning need to keep inspiring young writers. She coached her son, Matthew Wolf, who started writing in college and is now a well-known fantasy writer having published 5 books with an avid audience. Robin now consults other writers and has worked with several TED talk speakers in preparing their talks. She is also passionate about helping students write their college essays. She coaches students to write the college essay that they are proud of which includes thoughtful self-reflection to help them gain admission to the colleges of their dreams. In her free time, she hikes the trails of Central Oregon, paddles on the Deschutes, and travels.
We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
About Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery:
Operated on as an infant, without anesthesia, Wendy P. Williams began life at war with her body. There were tubes everywhere, in and out of every opening, her mother reminded her on every anniversary of her surgery. Autobiography of a Sea Creature takes readers on Williams’ difficult sensory journey toward healing, as she communes along the way with horseshoe crabs, dolphins, and other marine life that taught her the restorative power of beauty, resilience, and interdependence. At times luscious and lyrical, at other times analytical and reflective, this literary memoir portrays the dissociative experience of trauma and the roots of self-destructive cycles, as well as the tragic results of medical beliefs at the time that infants could not feel pain. Autobiography of a Sea Creature is both a love letter to the earth and a hopeful testament of humans' capacity to heal our deepest wounds.
Author bio:
Wendy Williams earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College and taught English at the College of Alameda and Folsom Lake College and served on the Sacramento Poetry Center Board. Her poetry collection, In Chaparral: Life on the Georgetown Divide, California, was published by Cold River Press, 2016. She currently lives with her wife in southern Oregon.
Wendy blogs at https://healinginfanttrauma.org and appears in the film Cutdown: Infant Surgery without Anesthesia, a free youtube video produced by Roey Shmool. More information is available on her author page: https://www.wendywilliamsauthor.org.
Young Writers Workshop With Robin Duncan (ages 13-17)
Calling all young creative writers! Want to write more? Do you have an idea for a novel, or love to write poetry? Come join us at Paulina Springs Bookstore for a fun opportunity to write creatively in a small group with other teens. Robin Duncan has 20 years of experience as a high school English teacher and for the past 8 years as a writing coach, helping authors and aspiring writers. Each 75 minute writing session in the Young Writers Workshop will be based on a writing genre; which will include fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We will learn about the genre, read samples, be inspired, and write our own versions. This will be a fun, interactive experience where young writers gain confidence, practice their writing, find their voice, and support each other in their creativity.
Ages 13-17. There will be 4 sessions on Tuesday April 9, 16, 23, 30 from 3:30- 4:45, at Paulina Springs Books. Minimum of 3, maximum of 10 participants.
Bring your notebooks, or laptops. Feel free to bring any works in progress! Required text: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need by Jessica Brody (please order from Paulina Springs Books if possible).
Other Recommended books, but NOT required:
Bird by Bird - Annie Lamott
The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Elements of Style
Please email: robinduncan5@gmail to sign up! Or don’t hesitate to call Robin if you have questions: : 858-531-4088
Cost is on a sliding scale in order to make this accessible for all youth! Please pay what you're comfortable with - $80 to $150 covers 4 sessions at 75 minutes each. Payable through Zelle or Venmo.
Other costs: Save the Cat! available at Paulina Springs Books
About Robin Duncan:
Robin retired from teaching high school after 20 years, but still felt the burning need to keep inspiring young writers. She coached her son, Matthew Wolf, who started writing in college and is now a well-known fantasy writer having published 5 books with an avid audience. Robin now consults other writers and has worked with several TED talk speakers in preparing their talks. She is also passionate about helping students write their college essays. She coaches students to write the college essay that they are proud of which includes thoughtful self-reflection to help them gain admission to the colleges of their dreams. In her free time, she hikes the trails of Central Oregon, paddles on the Deschutes, and travels.
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
About Community Open Mic Night:
We want to celebrate our creative community by creating space for sharing and supporting each other. Bring poetry, a song, a short story to share. (There will not literally be a mic, just a space for listening and sharing.) Each participant is limited to 5 minutes. Even if you are not sharing, we hope you’ll come hang out in our new event space and listen to your neighbors!
Sign-ups for open mic will begin at 6 pm, and we’ll begin at 6:30. This is an all-ages event, and all are welcome.
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
5-8 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm
Come play Scrabble with us!
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!
Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!
5-8 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm
541.549.0866
info@paulinaspringsbooks.com
252 W Hood Ave
PO Box 3500-407
Sisters, OR 97759