Oregon essayist, poet, and singer-songwriter Kim Stafford will be performing songs from his new CD, Pilgrim at Home: Vagabond Songs. These songs celebrate
encounters by the road—with a witness in New Orleans, a lonesome woman
at the Kaupo Store, the family of three lost boys in Rasharkin, a
homeless saint in Portland, and other precious strangers.Kim is accompanied on thealbum by Jan DeWeese and Harriet Wingard.

Kim will also read from his many works of poetry and prose. Please join us for this very special evening!

Listen to this sample from one of Kim's songs, "Baby Boo": 

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight is the debut novel by acclaimed short story master Gina Ochsner. In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to
heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a translator/censor for a
military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears an aviator’s
helmet; and Tanya.

Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum. When the museum’s director hears of a mysterious American group seeking to fund art in
Russia, he charges Tanya with luring them to the museum—which holds a
fantastic and terrible collection of art knockoffs created by using the
tools at hand, from foam to chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. But
while Tanya scrambles to save her dreams and her neighbors, she might
also be getting closer to finding love right in her own courtyard.

Daniel R. Cobb's The Mine is a riveting thriller that explores the depths of
corporate greed and criminality, and a young couple's will to survive.
Ryan Evans, a biologist working for Oregon's Department of
Environmental Quality, has two obsessions: his lovely new wife, Meagan,
and a cyanide leach mine he wants to see closed. High in Oregon's
rugged Wallowa Mountains, an open-pit mine is churning out gold, plus
cyanide, arsenic, sulfuric acid, and heavy metals. Ryan is shocked when
the DEQ approves the mine's expansion from 1800 to 6600 acres. His
investigation reveals fraud, corruption, and the apparent murder of a
DEQ investigator. Against Meagan's pleas, Ryan digs a little too deep.
His tenacity catches the attention of a whistle-blower, plus people who
will do whatever it takes to silence them both. Sometimes, idealism can
bring a grave penalty. THE MINE is based on Colorado's $200,000,000
Summitville Mine disaster, Europe's Aurul Mine catastrophe, and the
next debacle: Alaska's Pebble Mine.

Purchase the book from us here: The Mine