Cloud and Leaf Bookstore

07/26/2026

07/24/2026

Sat, JULY 25, 5:30 pm
AUTHOR JUSTIN HOCKING
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HOFFMAN CENTER | Manzanita
JULY 25| 5:30 pm

FREE EVENT
Join popular Oregon author Justin Hocking at the Hoffman Center while he reads from his latest work, A Field Guide to the Subterranean, and takes questions from the audience.

Books will be available for sale and author signing at the event through Cloud & Leaf Bookstore.

How might we transform our traumas into deeper care for each other and the landscapes that sustain us? How do we transcend the mythos of the rugged American male so rooted in extraction and exploitation? And how far can we move beyond the self in a memoir? Hocking explores these and other vital questions by combining personal narrative with expansions into geology, ecology, gender theory, mining history, labor rights, and even skateboarding.

Abundant with historical research and teeming with birdlife—and ranging in location from remote caves and mountains to secluded surf breaks in Costa Rica—A Field Guide to the Subterranean heralds a boldly original and kaleidoscopic approach to the genre of nature writing.

07/21/2026

Meet and Greet | Book Signing
DEREK SHEFFIELD
Washington State Poet Laureate

Cloud and Leaf Bookstore | Manzanita
JULY 31st | 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
FREE EVENT

Join us at the store for a rare opportunity to meet Washington State's current Poet Laureate. During the last 15 months, he has done over 100 events, bringing poetry into prisons, churches, schools,
universities, land trusts, arts centers, senior centers, and even Congress.

Most recently, he was
the voice of Gouverneur Morris, the Founding Father who wrote the Constitution, in the Netflix
documentary The American Experiment, which was produced by Tom Hanks.

Derek Sheffield is the 8th poet laureate of Washington State. His books include Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award; Not for
Luck, selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize; Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, and Dear America: Letters of Hope,
Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. A two-time finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Other awards include the Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year in Nature Writing and the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. He teaches at Wenatchee Valley
College, edits poetry for Terrain.org, and can often be found in the woods of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington.

07/10/2026

Local watercolor artist Kate Johnstone in the house!

07/07/2026

READING & RECEPTION
Cloud and Leaf Bookstore | Manzanita
JULY 11 | 5:30 pm

DR. MARY FARIBA AFSARI

IN CONVERSATION WITH
AUTHOR KATE NASON
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FREE EVENT
Join us for Books After Hours, drinking wine from grandma's crystal while we gather and listen to stories.

THE BOOK
Labor: One Woman's Work

A powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother’s mysterious death while reimagining women’s health care from a mobile clinic—for readers of The Beauty in Breaking and The In-Between.

In Labor: One Woman’s Work, Dr. Mary Afsari takes us on a deeply personal and transformative journey through her life as an ob-gyn. Set against the vivid backdrops of Portland, Oregon, and Shiraz, Iran, this powerful memoir intertwines the complexities of her professional life with the hidden truths of her family’s past, exploring the intersection of medicine, identity, and the enduring search for agency.

Praise for Labor:
"This remarkable and nuanced memoir ... joins the best medical memoirs with a moving personal story and a passion for the work." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

06/25/2026

BIG BOOK LAUNCH!

NY Times Bestselling author Lisa Jackson will be in conversation with author Roz Noonan at Cloud & Leaf on Tues, June 30, 5:30 pm. We'll be celebrating the release of her newest thriller: NOT WHAT IT SEEMS.

06/23/2026

This is Uva, my reading companion. Who is yours?