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An event like Lake Oswego Reads highlights community connection through shared experience. You are invited to join the conversation and share your ideas of the book with others in the community and enrich your experience of Lake Oswego Reads.
Mona Miller, owner of Pacific Gem Lab, will speak downstairs at the Lakewood Center about her life as a gemologist. A resident G.I.A. Graduate Gemologist, Master Gemologist appraiser and Accredited Senior Gemologist, Miller can answer all your questions about the mythical sea of flames and the nefarious von Rumpel’s obsession with different gems.
Professor Maureen Healy of the Department of History at Lewis & Clark College will speak at the Lake Oswego Public Library. Healy will examine the Nazi Party’s efforts to mobilize certain children before and during World War II. Ironically, the Party idealized the virtues of family, but at the same time attempted to weaken bonds between parents and children.
Like Werner, Geoff Norcross has talked on the radio since the day he turned 16, doing hay reports and funeral notices for a tiny AM station in the hills of West Virginia. After working in several markets around the country, he landed in Portland in 2008. He will discuss his personal history with radio, and the role of radio in historical and current events.
Join Police Chief Don Johnson, former Mayor Jack Hoffman and Rian Lasley from the Bike Gallery on our novel-inspired bike ride from the Library to St. Honore and then to Jefe Mex, and back again to the Library.
Join us at the Lake Oswego Adult Community Center for All the Light We Cannot See, book discussion.
Panel Discussion of memories from World War II. "Every man, woman and child is a partner" declared President Franklin D. Roosevelt of World War II. This slogan underscores the way in which the conflict shaped the lives of everyone who experienced it.
Lake Oswego Women’s Club will host a complimentary community dessert buffet in the Lake Oswego High School cafeteria at 6 pm followed by author Anthony Doerr speaking in the auditorium. Sharing some of his background and the sense of wonder which inspired him to become a writer, Doerr will discuss his 10-year journey of writing All the Light We Cannot See. A slideshow illustra
Corinna Campbell-Sack has trained Guide Dogs for the Blind puppies for five years. Volunteer puppy trainers work with the dogs from eight weeks to fifteen months old when they are passed on for further training. She will share her experiences preparing the puppies to serve and empower individuals who are blind or vision impaired at the Lake Oswego Library at 1:00pm.