All Upcoming Events

Elizabeth Mehren, Sankar Raman, and Cambodian refugee Saron Khut host a reading of I Lived to Tell the World: Stories From Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide and the Atrocities of War by Elizabeth Mehren at Rose City Book Pub. 

The book is a collection of 13 stories of survivors of some of the most significant events of the last 75 years, ranging from the Holocaust in Europe to events that are transpiring at this moment. All the men and women depicted in the book reside here in Oregon. The stories have particular urgency now, as the national conversation around immigration grows louder and more strained.

Visit rosecitybookpub.com to learn more.

Rose City Book Pub, 1329 Northeast Fremont Street, Portland, OR 97212

Join us for remarks by Katherine Hubler, editor of the new collection Listening to Survivors: Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University during the PRAx Prelude prior to Dr. Irene Butter's talk "From Holocaust to Hope." 

Irene Butter was born in Berlin in 1930. Her Jewish family fled to Amsterdam in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution, settling in the same neighborhood as Anne Frank. When the Nazis invaded, Irene's family was sent to Camp Westerbork and, eventually, Bergen-Belsen, where she briefly re-encountered Anne Frank. Irene will discuss her Holocaust and refugee experiences, as well as her current peace work.

Dr. Butter is a Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Michigan and the author of From Holocaust to Hope: Shores Beyond Shores, a memoir. In 2024, Dr. Butter received the German Order of Merit for her work in Holocaust Education. She is co-founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Medal and Lecture Series at the University of Michigan and a founding member of Zeitouna (lemon tree), an Arab/Jewish women's dialogue group in Ann Arbor.

This is a FREE event. Visit the PRAx website to reserve your seat.

Toomey Lobby, PRAx, 470 SW 15th St, Corvallis, OR 97331

Join Old Firehouse Books in welcoming Kurt Fausch in celebration of his newest release, A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters!

Kurt will be hosting a talk at Old Town Library followed by a Q&A and book signing! Books can be purchased beforehand at our store front or at the event, but we ask you wait until the very end before asking for personalization. Books can be shipped to you from our online store too! (but not internationally)

Visit oldfirehousebooks.com to learn more.

Old Town Library, 201 Peterson St, Fort Collins, CO 80524

Powell’s City of Books welcomes Jonathan Bach and his book High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West for an in-store launch event. Bach will be joined in conversation by Brent Walth, associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication and author of Fire at Eden’s Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story.

Nestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West, Bend has too few homes for everyone clambering for access. In High Desert, Higher Costs (Oregon State University Press), Jonathan Bach takes a closer look at the housing crisis in this mid-sized city that is both the population center for rural Central Oregon and a major recreation area. Bach uses Bend as a lens into the growing housing crisis in the region, where residents and tourists alike prize access to outdoor recreation, and housing issues have been brewing for decades. Like other cities in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado, Bend serves as a gateway to popular natural areas while also experiencing a limited amount of new housing, increasing populations, amenity migrants in the age of remote work, depressed or stagnating wages, and a widening gulf between homeowners and renters. High Desert, Higher Costs introduces us to regular people — from the former political candidate evicted during COVID-19 to the nonprofit worker hoping to build apartments for the houseless — who struggle to call Bend home. Bach explores the causes of these issues and the political, legal, economic, and cultural factors influencing them, and also offers potential solutions for current and future residents to build their lives now, and in the years to come, in Bend and throughout the American West.

Visit powells.com to preorder a signed copy.

Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209

Linda Ziedrich will give a talk at the Lebanon Public Library on the horticultural history of the Willamette Valley. This free presentation is sponsored by the Lebanon Museum Foundation in partnership with the Library.

Ziedrich will tell the story of Henderson, John, and Seth Lewelling, co-founders of the Pacific coast fruit industry. Best known among the brothers is Henderson, who hauled a wagonload of fruit trees from Iowa in 1847 and planted the first grafted-fruit orchard in the Oregon Country, in what would become Milwaukie. Seth kept the nursery going for more than forty years and won his own fame by originating the Bing and Black Republican cherries. John, after helping to establish the Oregon fruit business, founded a nursery and orchards in California and led in the development of the Napa Valley wine industry. But the brothers were much more than horticulturists; they were also abolitionists, gold miners, and Quakers turned Spiritualists. One attempted to found a utopian colony in Honduras, another helped grow the Grange in California, and the third fought for democratic reforms in Oregon. Spanning the continent and nearly a century, the brothers’ lives provide fresh perspectives on nineteenth-century westward expansion.

Author Linda Ziedrich will discuss her book First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry. This is a free event, with seating available on a first-come, first-seated basis. This author talk is supported by the Salem Public Library Foundation.

First Fruits offers a fascinating look at the lives of Pacific Coast horticulturists Henderson, Jonathan, and Seth Lewelling. Traveling across the Overland Trail--Henderson to Oregon in 1847, with a wagonload of fruit trees, and Seth and John to California three years later--the brothers would establish themselves as pioneers in the West's growing fruit industry. By recounting how Henderson planted the first orchard of grafted fruit trees in Oregon, how Seth originated the Black Republican and Bing cherries, and how John led the development of the Napa Valley wine industry, First Fruits preserves the Lewellings' place in history.

Linda Ziedrich writes about food from garden to table, culinary history, and the cuisines of the world. Her books include The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants and How to Eat Them and The Joy of Pickling, now in its third edition. She lives in Lebanon, Oregon.

Visit the library's website to learn more.

Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St., SE Salem, OR 97301

Corvallis-Benton County Public Library welcomes everyone to this free author event.  Linda Ziedrich will tell the story of Henderson, John, and Seth Lewelling, co-founders of the Pacific coast fruit industry. 

Best known among the brothers is Henderson, who hauled a wagonload of fruit trees from Iowa in 1847 and planted the first grafted-fruit orchard in the Oregon Country. Seth kept the nursery going for more than forty years and won his own fame by originating the Bing and Black Republican cherries. John, after helping to establish the Oregon fruit business, founded a nursery and orchards in California and led in the development of the Napa Valley wine industry. But the brothers were much more than horticulturists; they were also abolitionists, gold miners, and Quakers turned Spiritualists. One attempted to found a utopian colony in Honduras, another helped grow the Grange in California, and the third fought for democratic reforms in Oregon. Spanning the continent and nearly a century, the brothers’ lives provide fresh perspectives on nineteenth-century westward expansion.

Books will be available for sale by Grass Roots Books & Music.

Visit the library's website to learn more.

Corvallis-Benton County Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave Corvallis, OR 97330

Join Dudley's Bookshop Cafe and OSU Press in Bend, Oregon for an event with author Jonathan Bach and other local voices bringing different perspectives to the housing crisis in the West.

Jonathan will be "in-conversation" with local voices bringing a City of Bend perspective. The panelists include Tim Trainor, Editor for the Redmond Spokesman and Bend Bulletin, and Brenna Visser, Land Use Communications Coordinator for the City of Bend.

The event is FREE and open to the public with an RSVP. 

Reserve your ticket online today!

Ray Hall Atrium, OSU Cascades, 1500 Southwest Chandler Avenue, Bend, OR 97702

Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon welcomes Linda Ziedrich and Samantha Swindler for an in conversation event celebrating the release of Ziedrich's new book, First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry.

First Fruits offers a fascinating look at the lives of Pacific Coast horticulturists Henderson, Jonathan, and Seth Lewelling. Traveling across the Overland Trail—Henderson to Oregon in 1847, with a wagonload of fruit trees, and Seth and John to California three years later—the brothers would establish themselves as pioneers in the West’s growing fruit industry. By recounting how Henderson planted the first orchard of grafted fruit trees in Oregon, how Seth originated the Black Republican and Bing cherries, and how John led the development of the Napa Valley wine industry, First Fruits preserves the Lewellings’ place in history.

Visit broadwaybooks.net to preorder the book.

Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232

Join Judith Barrington—poet, essayist, writing instructor, feminist, LGBTQ activist, and winner of the Lambda Book Award—to discuss her memoir collection, Virginia’s Apple, “a nod to love, feminism and Virginia Woolf” at Bend's Roundabout Books & Cafe.

The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia’s Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington’s life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked—characters reappear and, taken together, the pieces create a larger narrative.

Tickets for this event are $5 general admission or book purchase. 

Visit roundaboutbookshop.com to purchase a book and to learn more about this upcoming author event.

Roundabout Books & Cafe, 900 NW Mt. Washington Dr. Suite #110, Bend, OR 97703