A BOOK SIGNING Uof O Professor of Journalism LAUREN KESSLER will sign copies of her new book Stubborn Twig Wednesday, October 20th 12:30 1:30, Upstairs UNIVERSITY 0~F OREGON Stubborn Twig is the moving saga of a Japanese immigrant family who moved to Oregon in 1903 to face struggle, success and suicide. Lauren Kessler has written a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction and chronicles the promise and perils of America and the meaning of becoming an American. I tU£SDA*s 1 OotD«/ W 4* Rtpnnts Lasher by Anne Rice 29 ♦ ca WEDNE*0*^ Oot-Hr P^*° 99‘ •(HUlSOA^i OvW* 99* _ »_ CL. OpticoU* i 05/24* too ASA Anne Rice's new novel Lasher brings us once again into the midst of the dy nasty of witches she intro duced in her phenomenal runaway best-seller The Witching Hour. At the center: the brilliant Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she now flees. Rowan's attempt to escape Lasher and his pursuit of her and their child are at the heart of this extraordi nary saga. A novel that