Book and Wine Tour
Spring Book and Wine Tour
hosted by:
Rediscovered Bookshop & The Basque Market
Join us for a night of books, wine, and food.
Tickets are available in store, and over the phone at Rediscovered Bookshop, as well as at the Basque Market. Buy Tickets!
$50 per person
Price includes all tastings and appetizers, as well as one bottle of wine and one book.
Portland Authors Alexis M. Smith and Evan Schneider will be joining us for our second Book and Wine Tour. Smith will be featuring her debut novel Glaciers. Evan Schneider is the author of A Simple Machine: Like the Lever.
About Glaciers, by Alexis M. Smith:
Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. "Glaciers" follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska.
"Glaciers" unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel's sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories--the remnants--of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.
About A Simple Machine, by Evan Schneider:
A Simple Machine, Like the Lever from Propeller Books on Vimeo.
Nicholas Allander, 31 — carless and careerless — is trying to get his life on track while holding his head high. He's trying to pay off his debt, impress his girlfriend, keep his job, cast off his introversion, and accept the world's imperfections without abandoning his heart. Unsure of what moves to make, though, he considers growing his beard, taking up alcoholism, abandoning scrounging, and owning an automobile — before too much slips by. All the while he clings to his bicycle, a simple machine whose purpose and workings he grasps.
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- 180 N. 8th St
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- Boise ,
- Province:
- Idaho
- Postal Code:
- 83702
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- United States
March Indie Next List Selection: The Book of Lost Fragrances
A Secret Worth Dying For …
Jac L’Etoile has always been haunted by visions of the past, her earliest memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. These worsened after her mother’s suicide until she finally found a doctor who helped her, teaching her to explore the mythological symbolism in her visions and thus lessen their painful impact. This ability led Jac to a wildly successful career as a mythologist, television personality and author.When her brother, Robbie—who’s taken over the House of L’Etoile from their father—contacts Jac about a remarkable discovery in the family archives, she’s skeptical. But when Robbie goes missing before he can share the secret—leaving a dead body in his wake—Jac is plunged into a world she thought she’d left behind.
Traveling back to Paris to investigate Robbie’s disappearance, Jac discovers that the secret is a mysterious scent developed in Cleopatra’s time. Could the rumors swirling be true? Can this ancient perfume hold the power to unlock the ability to remember past lives and conclusively prove reincarnation? If this possession has the power to change the world, then it’s not only worth living for . . .
it’s worth killing for, too.
MJ Rose talks about her new book |
The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses history, passion and suspense in an intoxicating web that moves from Cleopatra’s Egypt and the terrors of revolutionary France to Tibet’s battle with China and the glamour of modern-day Paris. This marvelous, spellbinding novel mixes the sensory allure of Perfume with the heartbreaking beauty of The Time Traveler’s Wife, coming to life as richly as our most wildly imagined dreams.
“The Book of Lost Fragrances takes the reader on a aromatic carpet ride from Egypt to New York City to China to Paris and back again through the ages, involving a secret people would kill for. Cleopatra believed a fragrance could enable one to remember past lives. Today, China has forbidden Tibetans from exploring their belief in reincarnation to the extant that the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama has disappeared. At the same time Jac L'Etoile, daughter of the famous Paris perfume manufacturer has visions of past lives and lovers. Their stories are connected by a two thousand year-old fragrance. A sensuous thriller combined with a heartbreaking love story and a modern dilemma for a country under siege.”
-- Karen Briggs, Great Northern Books and Hobbies, Oscoda, MI
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