<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi OYANers!</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Multnomah County Library is excited to be hosting critically acclaimed YA and middle-grade author <b>A.S. King</b><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b> 7 pm, Tuesday, May 2, 2017</b>, at Taborspace in southeast Portland. We hope you can join us!</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <a href="https://multcolib.org/events/evening-king/72829">https://multcolib.org/events/evening-king/72829</a> (Facebook: </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/189644004875702/">https://www.facebook.com/events/189644004875702/</a></span></font><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/189644004875702/"> </a>)</span></div><div><div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a8598234-825e-fd8c-af17-f04e7537ed08"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Printz honoree A.S. (Amy) King writes provocative novels that balance raw, unflinching depictions of trauma with magic realist elements, humor, and hope. </span><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The New York Times</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> has said of her work: “Maybe there are writers more adept than King at capturing the outrageous and outraged voice of teenagers, but it’s difficult to think of one.” </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The event is <b>free</b>; book sale and signing to follow. A.S. King’s visit is made possible by gifts to </span><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/wdovk/onq5am/g9d8yc" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Library Foundation</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a local nonprofit dedicated to our library's leadership, innovation and reach through private support.</span></font></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="282"><col width="342"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sara Ryan</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Teen Services Specialist</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">pronouns: she/her</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">503.988.6046 </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://multcolib.org" target="_blank"><font size="2">multcolib.org</font></a><font size="1"> </font></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vert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