Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St.
Corvallis, OR

Linda Carroll's first book, Love Cycles, describes the five stages of intimate relationships in detail, illuminating the behaviors associated with each stage and strategies for successfully navigating them. This companion workbook, Love Skills, is a practical guide to creating and maintaining a loving relationship. Exercises, activities, self-assessments, and other concrete tools allow readers to understand where they are in their relationship. Her well-researched practices help keep love alive in the midst of seemingly intractable differences, and specific, effective solutions to couples' most common struggles provide a clear map for moving forward.

Linda Carroll, MS, is a writer, therapist, seminar leader, keynote speaker, and private coach to couples, individuals, and families. Carroll lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband of 35 years and their Jack Russell terrier. She has five children and nine grandchildren. This event is free and open to the public.
 

Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St.
Corvallis, OR

What makes life worth living? If you ask Lord Birthday, the answer is visor hats. And lighthouses. And the stranger who gave him a half-eaten panini on the bus the other day. In Your Life Is a Life of Hope!, the Internet’s favorite mustachioed king presents a series of short, illustrated essays in which he argues for hope by way of absurdity and transcendence by way of the mundane. In his signature childlike, dryly humorous style, Lord Birthday explores the things that make life so great, including jackets and bags and “booping someone on the nose.” Both strange and strangely moving, this collection will delight fans and newcomers alike.

Chad Murphy is a father, college professor, failed baseball person, and former Mormon. He created Lord Birthday in 2015 as an anonymous outlet for his newly discovered absurdist streak. His unconventional biography was featured on NPR’s Invisibilia in 2017. Lord Birthday quickly gained traction on social media, leading him to focus on list-based comics, and now, short-short essays. His first book, How to Appear Normal at Social Events, was published in March 2018.

This event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase. 


 

Corvallis-Benton County Public Library 645 NW Monroe Ave

Born and raised in Richland, Washington, the community closest to the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State, Trisha is an attorney, former Occupational Therapist, and was a personal injury plaintiff in the In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, the Hanford downwinder mass toxic tort personal injury litigation.

At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the stories of twenty-four people who joined the litigation that sought recognition of, and recompense for, grievous injury knowingly caused by Hanford’s decades of radiation secretly released onto downwind and downriver communities throughout the Pacific Northwest.
 
Against the heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately, persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford Plaintiffs, draws a damning picture of the failure of the US Congress and the Judiciary to defend the American public, and to adequately redress a catastrophic wrong. This event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase. 

Trisha will also be having an event at Eena Haws Longhouse on the OSU Campus on April 7th, 4:00PM-5:30PM