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The Club's Library is well stocked with the latest in popular fiction, mystery, non-fiction and biography. We also have an extensive collection of books on tape and cd and a collection of rare and unusual books on Oregon history.
The library is a quiet haven for our Members, with its overstuffed leather chairs, well-stocked magazine rack, newspapers and, on chilly days, a roaring blaze on the hearth.
Author-in-Residence Lee Montgomery
The Library Committee is pleased to introduce the University Club’s Author-in-residence for 2010, Lee Montgomery.
Biography: (from her website)
Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, A Memoir (Free Press, August 2006), Whose World Is This? Stories (University of Iowa Press, September 2007), and Searching for Emily: Illustrated (Nothing Moments Press, October 2007). The Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and Whose World Is This? the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award.
She has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Antioch College and an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She was the fiction editor at the Iowa Review, the editor of the Santa Monica Review, and editor of Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction (University of Iowa Press), Absolute Disaster: Fiction from Los Angeles (Dove Books), and the upcoming Woof! Writers on Dogs (Viking Penguin, September 2008).
Montgomery's fiction has appeared in Black Clock, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Story Magazine, Black River Review, the Santa Monica Review and the Antioch Review. Nonfiction has been published in Alaska Quarterly, the American Book Review, Boston Magazine, Travel Holiday, 'Scape, The Hollywood Reporter, Tin House, Paris Passion, Boston Phoenix, the Oregonian, Willamette Week New England Monthly, the Antioch Review and the anthology The Honeymoon is Over (January 2007, Warner Books). Whose World is This? was also nominated for the 2008 Ken Kesey Award in Fiction.
She is the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor for Tin House magazine. She lives with her husband and their two bizarre dogs in Portland, Oregon.
Past Authors in Residence
Ursula K. Le Guin (2009)
Elizabeth Burnett (2008)
Scott Poole (2006, 2007)
Larry Colton (2005)
Kim Stafford (2004)
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Author Cocktail Hour
with Hillary Manton Lodge
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Come join us for an informal evening with author Hillary Manton Lodge, niece of UC Member Jill Bushman.
Hillary Manton Lodge writes Generation-Next Contemporary fiction. Her books usually center on normal people learning to live, laugh, heal, and try to understand the concept of God in a crazy world. Her first released novel,
Plain Jayne,is now available nationwide. The second, Simply Sara, was recently released on September 1, 2010. Both books are "Urban Amish," and totally not your mom's Amish books!
Find out more about the author on her website or her blog, Hillary on Writing.
RSVP on the event page.
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2010 Library Committee
James C. Reinhart
Chair
Gail Pemble
Director / Board Liaison
Lee Montgomery
Author-in-Residence
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Jamie Anderson
Joe Bianco
Vickie Bleything
Alan Brickley
Diane Burns
Pat Daggett
Judy Dauble
Chuck Deaver
Theodore Downes-Le Guin
Elaine West Durst
Alan Ford
Bobby Goldsmith
Kurt Hutton
Leonoor Ingraham
Mija Kim
Deidra Miner
Jessica Mozeico
Karen O'Kasey
Lex Page
Elizabeth Schleuning
Natasha Seeley
Steve Seymour
Pat Still
Jim Titus
Laura Vaught
Burton Weast
Heather Weast
Solon Webb
New Books Added to the Library:
May 2010
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The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
(Audio Book)
Martha Grimes
Elegy for April
(Audio Book)
Benjamin Black
The Inheritance
(Audio Book)
Simon Tolkien
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
Eddie Signwriter
Adam Schwartzman
The Edge of Ruin
Irene Fleming
Parrot & Oliver in America
Peter Carey
Private Life
Jane Smiley
The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Peter Hessler
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Alan Brinkley
A Twist of Orchids: A Death in the Dordogne Mystery
Michelle Wan
The Boy Next Door: A Novel
Irene Sabatini
The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander Mccall Smith
This Body of Death
Elizabeth George
Truth
Peter Temple
Eye of the Red Tsar
Sam Eastland
Off Track
Clare Curzon
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
Max Hastings
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