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Recent favorites: Anita de Monte Laughs Last, The Bright Sword, Ferris, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Tartufo
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From January through March 2025, we'll be reading Solito and exploring themes of migration, El Salvador, coming-of-age, families and found families and culture. Read the book and join us at an event or discussion, beginning January 2025. Literary Arts hosts "An Evening with Javier Zamora" on March 11, 2025.
Escape the 24 hour news cycle with these books about calm, focus and gathering energy.
Over 218,000 street trees, 1.2 million park trees, and 2.9 million private property trees -- that's Portland's precious urban forest! Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) Urban Forestry's mission is to manage and ensure Portland's urban forest infrastructure for current and future generations. Become a tree champion with these books for all ages.
Summer lives large in our collective imagination and in the worlds created by writers. These books share a strong sense of place, that place being summertime. While you're thinking summer reading, don't forget to play the adult summer reading game, Read 4 Life.
Trees are complex systems, and so much more than a product to be harvested. Check out some of these titles and you'll realize that everyday is Arbor Day.
