A four-season guide to adventures with kids - authors at Third Place Books

From secret beaches to off-the-radar bike paths to tree house hotels, this is a local’s guide to the most affordable and awesome family outings around the Puget Sound region and beyond. Organized by season, the book helps parents make the most of this extraordinary region, highlighting indoor and outdoor adventures for every week of the year. 

Author Elisa Murray presents her book 52 Seattle Adventures with Kids: A Four-Season Guide Saturday, June 15 at 6pm at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, intersection of Bothell and Ballinger Way NE.

And the rest of the week:

Monday, June 10 at 7pm 

Susan Jane Gilman
Donna Has Left the Building

Donna Koczynski is an ex-punk rocker, a recovering alcoholic, and the mother of two teenagers whose suburban existence detonates when she comes home early to the surprise of a lifetime. From the beloved, New York Times-bestselling author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress comes a hilarious, timely, and big-hearted new novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster.

Tuesday, June 11 at 7pm
Sarah Gailey
Magic for Liars

Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister. Ivy Gamble is a liar. Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey.

Friday, June 14 at 7pm
Megan Griswold
The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies

Megan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced New Age California culture. But when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he's landed in jail, Megan must accept that her many certificates, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she'd once imagined them to be, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest, most growth-insisting journey of her life.