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Third Place Books presents: Sandy Sabersky and Ruth Neuwald Falcon with Elisabeth Mitchell

Monday, October 19, 2020


Sandy Sabersky and Ruth Neuwald Falcon with Elisabeth Mitchell - The Elderwise Way

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 4:00pm

This is a livestream event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this event here!

Based on a program now more than two decades old, The Elderwise Way: A Different Approach to Life With Dementia summarizes the principles and practices of a unique adult day enrichment program that has a spirit-centered approach to working with people with dementia. Based in Seattle, Elderwise is at the forefront of the expansion of our understanding of how to be with those with cognitive loss.

Reading about dementia can be hard and frightening. While there is more understanding and information available than ever before, it is easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged. One of the core takeaways from many of the books is the belief that when someone is diagnosed with dementia, they are no longer there -- instead, they are lost to those who know and love them, no longer accessible or knowable. One reads and grieves.

Reading The Elderwise Way: A Different Approach to Life With Dementia has a different effect. It opens the heart and mind to the awareness that cognitive losses do not eradicate the essence of a person. It opens the reader to the possibility that someone with memory loss can still expand in ways of the heart. Though relationships will change, they can still be meaningful and loving. Through stories and concepts, it illuminates approaches that can provide opportunities for persons with memory loss to become more joyful, more tolerant and more loving.

This book does not minimize the loss and necessary adjustment required by all involved. It does, however, offer concrete examples of how to adapt and enjoy the relationship in its present form. It provides opportunities for growth, for both the person with memory loss and the care partner.

The Elderwise Way: A Different Approach to Life With Dementia is filled with compassion and connection, humor and honesty. It reminds us of our own humanity and deep capacity for love.

Sandy Sabersky has, for all of her adult life, focused her professional and personal attention on the fields of aging and spiritual growth. After more than two decades as a Physical Therapist, these two threads were brought together when she co-founded Elderwise in 1997. She is grateful for all the opportunities Elderwise has given her: for learning, growth and expansion. She appreciates the opportunities it brings to express herself--artistically, verbally and through movement--and for the community of fellow travelers.

Ruth Neuwald Falcon is an Emmy Award-winning editor, writer, producer, web content creator and blogger. She has also run a small business and been executive director of two non-profit organizations. She enjoys working collaboratively with other authors and filmmakers. At the beginning of the pandemic, as a way of building virtual community, she started the Corona Support Blog. You can learn more about her work as a Creative Content Collaborator atwww.ruthneuwaldfalcon.com.

The Elderwise Way: A Different Approach to Life with Dementia (Paperback)
By Sandy Sabersky, Ruth Neuwald Falcon
$12.95
ISBN: 9781098308858
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: BookBaby - September 22nd, 2020




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Third Place Books presents Deborah Reed, in conversation with Jennie Shortridge

Thursday, October 15, 2020


Deborah Reed, in conversation with Jennie Shortridge - Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan Friday, October 16, 2020 - 7:00pm

This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!

The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life— her family, her art, and the long-buried secrets that won't stay hidden for much longer.

Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon.
The "business of Violet" is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet's death, an earthquake sets a series of events in motion, and her deeply hidden past begins to resurface. When her beloved grandson returns home with a family secret in tow, Violet is forced to come to terms with the life she left behind so long ago-- a life her family knows nothing about.


A generational saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America and into the present day, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan is the story of a girl who escaped rural Georgia at fourteen during World War II, crossing the country alone and broke. It is the story of how that girl met the man who would become her devoted husband, how she became a celebrated artist, and above all, how her life, inspired by nothing more than the way she imagined it to be, would turn out to be her greatest masterpiece.

Deborah Reed is the author of the novels Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan, The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has written two thrillers under the pen name Audrey Braun. She lives on the coast of Oregon and is the owner of Cloud and Leaf, an independent bookstore in Manzanita, Oregon.

Jennie Shortridge is the author of five novels, including Love Water Memory and When She Flew, and is currently working on a memoir. Her books have been translated into several languages, optioned for film and TV, and selected as American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next picks and Library Journal’s Editors’ Picks. A lifelong volunteer, she was the co-founder and executive director of Seattle7Writers, a nonprofit collective of over one hundred Northwest authors who raised money and awareness for literature and literacy from 2009 to 2019. 

Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art (Paperback)
By Deborah Reed
$15.99
ISBN: 9780544817364
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Mariner Books - October 6th, 2020



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Ron Chew discusses his memoir "My Unforgotten Seattle"

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

My Unforgotten Seattle
7-8:30pm, Tuesday, October 13, 2020


Folio Seattle and University of Washington Press are delighted to host award winning reporter, editor and feature writer Carey Gelentner in an interview with Third-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew about his book My Unforgotten Seattle.

Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian American and social justice causes in Seattle. In this deeply personal memoir, he documents the tight-knit community he remembers, describing small family shops, chop suey restaurants, and sewing factories now vanished.

In the International District, he was Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum, and the creative vision for the museum. He led a $23 million capital campaign to build a new Wing Luke Museum in a much larger space.

Ron is currently the Director of the International Community Health Services Foundation which has a large, full-service clinic on Aurora. He was the keynote speaker for the 2018 Third Place Commons annual breakfast.

There is an excellent article about him and his book in The Seattle Times HERE



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Third Place Books presents Jeffrey D. Briggs and James W. Ziskin

Monday, October 12, 2020


Third Place Books presents Jeffrey D. Briggs and James W. Ziskin
Within a Shadowed Forest and Turn to Stone

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00pm

This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here

Recovering from the physical and emotional wounds she suffered in Out of the Cold Dark Sea, Martha Whitaker travels to Duluth, Minn., to help her friend James MacAuliffe. 

Someone blew up his truck and a charred body is discovered in the wreckage. Together, they pursue a trail of clues that leads them up the North Shore to the scenic village of Grand Marais, into the vast northern forest, and onto the frigid waters of Lake Superior in search of a shadowed killer. 

Before they become the next victims. 

Within a Shadowed Forest is the thrilling sequel in the Waterfront Mystery series that began with Out of the Cold Dark Sea.


Florence, Italy, August 1963. In Italy to accept a posthumous award for her late father's academic work, "girl reporter" Ellie Stone is invited to spend a weekend outside Florence with some of the scholars attending the symposium. 

A suspected rubella outbreak leaves the ten friends quarantined in the bucolic setting with little to do but tell stories to entertain themselves. Deciding to make the best of their confinement, the men and women spin tales, gorge themselves on fine Tuscan food and wine, and enjoy the delicious fruit of transient love. 

But the summer bacchanalia takes a menacing turn when the man who organized the symposium is fished out of the Arno. "Morto." As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Ellie must figure out if one or more of her newfound friends is capable of murder.

Jeffrey D. Briggs, a writer and journalist, has been writing about the waterfront since he moved onto his over sailboat thirty years ago. He now lives on land in Shoreline with his wife and dog and can often be found on the shores of Puget Sound, wondering what secrets lie hidden beneath those cold waters.

Jeffrey has published over 350 articles in regional and national magazines. A long-time resident of Seattle, he took a detour in life and moved to Rochester, Minn., where he became a biomedical science writer for Mayo Clinic, and got to preview all his future diseases. He also got to spend many happy times exploring the North Shore of Lake Superior. When he could no longer see out his office window because of snow drifts, he returned home to the Pacific Northwest, dropping anchor in Richmond Beach, on the shores of Puget Sound.

James W. Ziskin, Jim to his friends, is the Anthony and Macavity award-winning author fo the Ellie Stone mysteries. His books have also been finalists for the Edgar, Barry, and Lefty awards. He worked in New York as a photo-news producer and writer, and then as director of NYU’s Casa Italiana. 

He spent fifteen years in the Hollywood post-production industry, running large international operations in the subtitling/localization and visual effects fields. His international experience includes two years working and studying in France, extensive time in Italy, and more than three years in India. He speaks Italian and French.



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Third Place Books presents Sy Montgomery, in conversation with Thor Hanson

Thursday, October 8, 2020



Sy Montgomery, in conversation with Thor Hanson - Becoming a Good Creature

Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 5:00pm

This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!


School is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green's New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship, compassion, and how to be a better creature in the world.

Sy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs, others with four, or even eight! Some have had fur, feathers, or hooves. But they've all had one thing in common: a lesson to share.

The animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas, dogs, octopuses, tigers, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect.

Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir , Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green's beautiful, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead, pass it on.

In addition to researching films, articles, and over twenty books, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science, three honorary degrees, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire, with her husband, Howard Mansfield, and their border collie, Thurber.

Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and author of award-winning books including Buzz, Feathers, The Impenetrable Forest, and The Triumph of Seeds. He lives with his wife and son on an island in Washington State.

Becoming a Good Creature (Hardcover)
By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780358252108
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - September 29, 2020



How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)
By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780544938328
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 25, 2018


The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Paperback)
By Sy Montgomery
$16.99
ISBN: 9781451697728
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Atria Books - April 5, 2016


Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees (Paperback)
By Thor Hanson
$16.99
ISBN: 9781541699533
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Basic Books - September 3, 2019 



The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Paperback)
By Thor Hanson
$16.99
ISBN: 9780465097401
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Basic Books - March 8, 2016


Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Paperback)
By Thor Hanson
$17.99
ISBN: 9780465028788
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Basic Books - July 31, 201

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Third Place Books presents Nicole Tsong, in conversation with Maria Hines - 24 Ways to Move More - plus recipe

Tuesday, October 6, 2020


Nicole Tsong, in conversation with Maria Hines 
24 Ways to Move More
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 7:00pm
Virtual Event


Are you stuck in a rut around movement? Have you resolved to be more active but have trouble sticking with it? Maybe what you need is a new mindset—and some fresh ways to move your body! 

Yoga instructor and fitness expert Nicole Tsong is here to lead you through a year’s worth of new activities— 24 fun, accessible ways to move more that will benefit your body and your soul. With two motivating choices each month and the ability to self-pace, 24 Ways to Move More makes it easy to infuse new energy into your life!

During this event, we'll all be learning how to make Peanut Butter and Jelly Granola Bars, from Maria Hines' book Peak Nutrition. 

Follow along using the recipe below:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Granola Bars
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There’s something simple, satisfying, and familiar about eating a granola bar on the trail. We took this trail classic and packed it full of nutrition as well as lowered the sugar content that you find in most bars.

Tip: We prefer Valencia peanut butter, which we buy at the local co-op, but it can also be purchased online. Valencia peanuts have fewer allergen and mold issues because they are grown in hotter climates, where aflatoxin isn’t an issue. You can also substitute a blend of rolled and flaked grains for the oats in this recipe -- we love rolled spelt or barley flakes. To make a vegan version, substitute coconut butter for the butter.

Makes 16 bars
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/2} cup sugar-free raspberry preserves
1/2 cup honey, tapioca syrup, or coconut nectar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, plus more for coating
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats
1/4 cup hemp seeds
1/4 cup puffed quinoa
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Sea salt, to taste

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with parchment paper, and coat the parchment with butter.

In a large bowl, combine the honey, melted butter, vanilla, peanut butter, and raspberry preserves, mixing well with a wooden spoon. Once everything is blended, add the rolled oats, hemp seeds, quinoa, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, cinnamon, and salt, stirring until thick and well combined.

Scrape the mixture into the baking dish. Press firmly to flatten it, making sure it is an even thickness. 

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until the bars are browning on top and firm to the touch.

Remove from the oven and let cool before cutting into 16 evenly sized pieces. The bars will keep at room temperature for a couple of weeks, or can be individually wrapped and stored in the freezer for up to 2 months.

Nutrition Facts
(per bar)
Calories: 261
Calories from fat: 110
Total fat: 12 g
Saturated fat: 3 g
Cholesterol: 4 mg
Sodium: 69 mg
Potassium: 233 mg
Total carbohydrates: 34 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 10 g
Protein: 8 g

Nicole Tsong is a fitness expert and yoga teacher based in Seattle, who for six years wrote the popular Fit for Life column in The Seattle Times, published in Pacific NW Magazine. Nicole is the author of Yoga for Hikers and Yoga for Climbers with Mountaineers Books, and has taught yoga for more than a decade, including for three years at the White House Easter Egg Roll. 

Nicole lives in Seattle, where she runs a work/life balance coaching business, helping high-achieving women of color find their calling and know why they are here, and stop living life according to other people's rules. In her spare time, you'll find her in the mountains with her pup Coco, or lovingly tending her houseplants.

A James Beard Award-winner for Best Chef Northwest, Maria Hines’s commitment to seasonal, local and certified organic is unwavering. She blends this commitment with her high standards for impeccable service at Tilth Restaurant and Tilth Catering. 

Opened in 2006, Tilth was named one of the top 10 best new restaurants in the country by Frank Bruni of the New York Times and it continues to be a top culinary destination today. 

A leader in the restaurant and sustainability community, Maria donates her time to such causes as James Beard Foundation sustainability programs, American Chef Corps, food equality for low-income families and other food system advocacy and access. 

She is a founding member of Seattle Restaurant Week and previously served on the board for PCC Farmland Trust. Outside of the Tilth kitchen, Maria connects with food and cooking through consulting, brand development, cookbook writing and creating retail food products. 

She also enjoys taking on projects that involve her personal dedication to nutrition and using foods to heal and increase mental and physical performance. Maria is a Food and Wine magazine 10 Best New Chefs and competed in “Top Chef Masters” before going on to win Food Network’s “Iron Chef America: Battle of Pacific Cod.” Maria was also a semifinalist for a James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef in 2013.

24 Ways to Move More: Monthly Inspiration for Health and Movement (Paperback)
By Nicole Tsong, Erika Schultz (Photographer)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781680512748
Availability: Unavailable - due in 2-4 weeks
Published: Skipstone Press - October 1st, 2020




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Third Place Books presents Deborah Tannen, in conversation with Joan Silber

Monday, October 5, 2020


Deborah Tannen, in conversation with Joan Silber: Finding My Father

Monday, October 5, 2020 - 5:00pm
Virtual Event


Long before she became an internationally renowned linguist at Georgetown University and the New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Tannen was a young girl who deeply adored her father, Eli Tannen, profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling.

In Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey From World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life, uncovering secrets not even she could’ve expected — secrets that force Tannen to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life, her parents’ marriage, and the story she for decades told herself about her parents’ love story.

Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, Tannen traces her father’s journey: arriving in New York City in 1920 at 12; quitting high school at 14 to support his mother and sister by working in a factory; through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector; to eventually establishing a thriving law practice and running for Congress. Tannen follows her father through the trials of immigration, the Depression, the American Communist and Labor Movements — and the thicket of relations among men, women and sex, so different in his time than in her own.

Deborah Tannen is the acclaimed author of You Just Don’t Understand, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years; the New York Times bestsellers You’re Wearing THAT?, about mothers and daughters and You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!, about sisters; and many other books. 

A professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, she appears frequently on national television and radio and has been interviewed by 20/20, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC’s Today, NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, and Harvard Business Review, among many others. She lives with her husband in the Washington, D.C., area.

Joan Silber is the author of eight books of fiction. The most recent, Improvement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her previous book, Fools, was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She’s also the author of The Art of Time in Fiction. Her new novel, Secrets of Happiness, will be published in May 2021. She lives in New York, taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.


Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow (Hardcover)
By Deborah Tannen
$28.00
ISBN: 9781101885833
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Ballantine Books - September 15, 2020 



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Third Place Books presents Reid Forgrave, in conversation with Michael Sokolove

Monday, September 28, 2020



Monday, September 28, 2020 - 6:00pm



Zac Easter could be your neighbor, your classmate, your son.

In December 2015, Zac Easter, a twenty-four-year-old from small-town Iowa, decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player.

For this deeply reported and powerfully moving true story, award-winning writer Reid Forgrave was given access to Zac's own diaries and was able to speak with Zac's family, friends, and coaches. He explores Zac's tight-knit, football-obsessed Midwestern community; he interviews leading brain scientists, psychologists, and sports historians; and he takes a deep dive into the triumphs and sins of the sports entertainment industry.

Forgrave shows us how football mirrors America, from the fighting spirit the game has helped inscribe in our national character to the side effects of the traditional notions of manhood that it affirms. But above all, 

Love, Zac is a warning to parents and those entrusted with the care of our kids not to ignore concussions and warning signs of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). F 
or parents struggling to decide whether to allow their kids to play football, this eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and ultimately inspiring story may be one of the most important books they will read.


Reid Forgrave writes about sports and other topics for GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. He has covered the NFL and college football for FoxSports.com and CBS Sports, and he currently writes for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. The article in which he first wrote about Zac Easter is included in Best American Sports Writing 2018 . A past life found him working at the Des Moines Register in Iowa, where he wrote long-form narrative journalism and covered the state's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. Forgrave lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons. Love, Zac is his first book.

Michael Sokolove is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of three previous books: The Ticket Out, Hustle, and Warrior Girls. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.


Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy (Hardcover)
By Reid Forgrave
$27.95
ISBN: 9781616209087
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Algonquin Books - September 8th, 2020



The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball (Paperback)
By Michael Sokolove
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399563294
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Penguin Books - September 24th, 2019 



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Third Place Books presents Christopher Paolini - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Tickets Required!)

Sunday, September 27, 2020


Sunday, September 27, 2020 - 7:00pm

This is a Virtual Event and Tickets are required Purchase Tickets Here!


Each ticket purchase includes access to the event, and a copy of Christopher Paolini's new novel TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS.

The first 100 ticket buyers will receive SIGNED bookplates. All ticket holders will receive a special complimentary swag item! Books will be available for pickup or shipping (within the United States) after the event date.


A brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini.

Exploring new worlds is all Kira Navarez ever dreamed of doing. But now she has found her nightmare. 
On a distant planet ripe for a colony, she has discovered a relic previously unseen by human eyes. It will transform her entirely and forever. Humanity will face annihilation.

She is alone. We are not.
There is no going back.


Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana. He published his first novel, Eragon, in 2003 at the age of nineteen, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle—Eragon and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is his first adult novel.

James Rollins is the author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the "top crowd pleasers" (New York Times) and one of the hottest summer reads (People magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets--and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight. He lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.




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Third Place Books presents Cecilia Aragon, in conversation with Theo Pauline Nestor

Monday, September 21, 2020


Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 7:00pm

This is a virtual event! Register for this livestream event here!

Join us to celebrate the launch of Flying Free, the new memoir from University of Washington Professor Cecilia Aragon!

The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s, targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers.

Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it?

Flying Free is the story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from prejudices of race and gender to rise above her own limits by combining math and logic with her passion for flying in unexpected ways. You don't have to be a math whiz or a science geek to learn from her story. You just have to want to soar.

Cecilia Aragon is an author, air-show pilot, and the first Latina full professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. She coauthored Writers in the Secret Garden, has worked with Nobel Prize winners, taught astronauts to fly, and created musical simulations of the universe with rock stars. Her major awards for research, and a stint at NASA designing software for Mars missions, led President Obama to call her “one of the top scientists and engineers in the country." She lives in Seattle.

Theo Pauline Nestor teaches writing at the University of Washington. Her essay “The Chicken’s in the Oven, My Husband’s out the Door” was published in the New York Times “Modern Love” column and was the genesis of her first book, How To Sleep Alone in a King-Sized Bed. She is also the author of Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can Too) and lives in Seattle, Washington, with her two daughters.


Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the Us Aerobatic Team (Hardcover)
By Cecilia Aragon
$26.99
ISBN: 9781982642464
Availability: Coming soon - available for pre-order now
Published: Blackstone Publishing - September 22, 2020


How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Paperback)
By Theo Pauline Nestor
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307346773
Availability: Unavailable - due in 2-4 weeks
Published: Broadway Books - February 3, 2009



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Author Talk-The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh

Sunday, September 13, 2020


Author Talk - The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh


Tuesday, September 14, 10-11:30am
Join author Kathryn Aalto for a walk through the forest that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books.

This remote program will include a lecture by the author and a chance to interact with her.

Ms. Aalto is an American landscape designer, historian, educator and New York Times Bestselling author based in Exeter, England.

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Third Place Books presents Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager, in conversation with Laurie Frankel - The Writer's Library

Sunday, September 6, 2020



Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 7:00pm



Twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from American's Librarian Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager that celebrates the power of literature and reading to connect us all.

Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this ebullient book, America's favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark.

Illustrated with beautiful line drawings, The Writer's Library is a revelatory exploration of the studies, libraries, and bookstores of today's favorite authors--the creative artists whose imagination and sublime talent make America's literary scene the wonderful, dynamic world it is. A love letter to books and a celebration of wordsmiths, The Writer's Library is a treasure for anyone who has been moved by the written word.


Bestselling author, librarian, literary critic, and devoted reader Nancy Pearl regularly speaks about the importance and pleasure of reading at libraries, literacy organizations, and community groups around the world. 

She can be heard on NPR's Morning Edition and KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, discussing her favorite books. Her monthly television show on the Seattle Channel, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl, features interviews with authors, poets, and other literary figures. 

Among her many honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. 

Nancy is the creator of the internationally recognized program If All of Seattle Read the Same Book, and was the inspiration for the Archie McPhee Librarian Action Figure.

Jeff Schwager is a Seattle-based writer, editor, producer, and playwright who has also had a successful career as an entertainment and media executive. He has written extensively on books, movies, music, and theater, and has interviewed many of the most esteemed artists in each of those mediums. In 2013, Book-It Repertory Theatre produced his acclaimed adaptation of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. The following year, the company's five-hour stage version of his dramatization of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won Theatre Puget Sound's prestigious Gregory Award for Outstanding Production of 2014.

The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Hardcover)
By Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062968500
Availability: Coming soon - available for pre-order now
Published: HarperOne - September 8th, 2020





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Shoreline Rotary to hear from local author Herb Bryce

Friday, September 4, 2020

Author Herb Bryce will be the speaker



Join Shoreline Rotary for a Zoom Meeting Wednesday morning, September 9, 2020. Our meeting starts at 7:30am with President Robert Brouillard and Club Secretary and Greeter Clarita Bhat ringing the bell! 

You can use your computer, your smart phone or even a regular phone to join in the fun (see the NEW zoom link and NEW instructions below).

When you were a child, did you have the freedom to run barefoot among clover flowers full of bees, try drowning yourself on a homemade raft, or ride your horse across a field pock-marked with gopher holes? 
If you did, then you can count yourself among the lucky survivors. 

Our speaker for this meeting is one of those lucky ones! 

Herb Bryce, former Dean of Science and Mathematics at Seattle Central College and long-time Shoreline resident, has written his memoire, “Me and The Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood,” proving that it’s possible to live through an adventurous childhood and come out on the adult side relatively unscathed. 

Herb’s stories of his daring deeds and subsequent lessons learned will absolutely delight you. Please welcome Herb Bryce to our virtual podium.


NEW ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS!!!

To join our zoom meeting as a guest, email contact@shorelinerotary.com for the link.



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Author Voices: Pramila Jayapal with Nick Licata

Wednesday, September 2, 2020


Author Voices: Pramila Jayapal
Tuesday, September 8, 7-8:30pm


Join us for a conversation about political engagement with U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, author of Use the Power You Have. Former Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata will moderate.

A former Washington State Senator and a lifelong organizer for immigrant, civil and human rights, U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) was elected to Congress in 2016 where she now serves as the Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 

Born in India before coming to the United States alone at the age of 16, she was the first South Asian American woman elected to the House of Representatives and is one of only 14 immigrants serving in Congress. She currently serves on the Judiciary Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Education and Labor Committee.

Nick Licata is from a working-class family, where neither parent graduated from high school. Licata, who couldn’t read until the age of nine, was the first of his relatives to attend college.

He led the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Bowling Green State University and subsequently was elected student body president. He became a Seattle City Councilmember despite being significantly outspent, with the majority of the council, the mayor, and both daily newspapers supporting his opponent. He was elected to five terms to the council and became its president.

In 2012 he was named Progressive Municipal Official of the Year by The Nation. He was twice named Best Local Politician by the Seattle Weekly. He was an acknowledged leader in passing Paid Sick and Safe Leave, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and legalizing marijuana. He initiated the founding of Local Progress, the national municipal policy network and served as its first chairman.

He is the author of two books: Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World and Princess Biana and the Vandals, a children’s novel.

Use the Power You Have is available for purchase from Third Place Books, 206-366-3333.


Prepare for the event and get help with technical questions by reading the Crowdcast attendee guide. If you're having issues with video quality, click the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen and change your resolution from "Auto" to 360p.

If you would like to watch the conversation with live captioning, please visit the King County Library System's YouTube Channel on the day of the event to view a simulcast. Automatically generated live captions use machine learning, and the result is imperfect but helpful for many. Chat on YouTube will not be monitored. This event will be recorded. A video with captions will be available on our YouTube channel. An audio-only version will appear in our podcast feed, with a transcript in the show notes. These alternative access points will be available about a week after the event.

Do you have questions for the author? Submit your questions using the "Ask a question" button. Audience members may also vote for the questions they would like to hear answered. Questions submitted in the chat will not be monitored. It's likely that there will not be time to answer every question. Questions will be chosen by the author and moderator.

Part of the Author Voices series, made possible with support from the King County Library System Foundation.




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Purchase tickets for Fredrik Backman presentation Sept 8

Tuesday, September 1, 2020


Third Place Books presents Fredrik Backman - Anxious People (Tickets Required!)

Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 1:00pm

This is a virtual event; tickets are required!
Purchase your ticket here (includes SIGNED copy of ANXIOUS PEOPLE)!

Join Fredrik Backman and Third Place Books to celebrate the launch of Backman's new novel ANXIOUS PEOPLE!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and "writer of astonishing depth" (The Washington Times) comes a poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.

Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. 
The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can't seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. 
Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment's only bathroom, and you've got the worst group of hostages in the world.

Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them- - the bank robber included -- desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.


Rich with Fredrik Backman's "pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature" ( Shelf Awareness), Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious times.

Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime, as well as one work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

His books are published in more than forty countries. His next novel, Anxious People, will be published in September 2020. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.

Tickets are required! Ticket includes a SIGNED copy of ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman!




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Local author releases new Mindfulness Workbook for Teens

Local resident and Certified Mindfulness Coach Linette Bixby has published her first book. 

The “Mindfulness Workbook for Teens” was released mid-August as a tool for teens to navigate the waters of stress and anxiety in their daily lives. 

Between friends, school, home life, and everything else going on, life can be overwhelming during your teenage years. 
But practicing mindfulness for teens can help you keep your cool, stay focused, and be present in any situation ― even the difficult ones.

The Mindfulness Workbook for Teens is full of exercises, strategies, and meditations to help you practice mindfulness so you can cultivate peace and achieve balance in your life. 
Learn practical methods for mindful test-taking, moving through strong emotions, navigating relationships with parents and peers, and much more.


Linette began writing this book well before the onset of Covid-19 and had no idea that the launch of it would coincide with the beginning of a school year amidst a pandemic! 

Her hope is that now more than ever, her workbook will be able to help teens, pre-teens and even parents know how to find hope and allow for self-compassion as they launch into a school environment full of completely unknown territory. 

Teachers, students, and parents alike will benefit from the exercises on how to build focus, boost attention and stay calm. “Mindfulness Workbook for Teens” is available on Amazon AND – Linette has tucked five copies of her book into Little Free Libraries throughout the district, each containing a coupon for a one on one Mindfulness Session!

Linette Bixby


Linette has been teaching Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for seven years and practicing meditation and gratitude for a lifetime. 

Many local area schools, businesses and families have benefited from her loving approach to self-care. She has a true passion for helping others. 

In addition to developing the “Mindfulness Workbook for Teens,” she offers one on one consultations for all ages of students and adults and is currently offering six week class sessions for “Finding Calm” for parents and Mindfulness Self-Compassion (both afternoon and evening classes), and a free meditation class on Tuesday mornings! 

To receive her newsletter filled with self-care tips and information regarding workshops and classes visit her website.




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Third Place Books presents Brad Balukjian in conversation with Larry Stone

Sunday, August 30, 2020


Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 7:00pm
This is a virtual event! 


Part baseball nostalgia and part road trip travelogue, The Wax Pack follows Brad Balukjian as he tracks down players from a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 that had remained sealed for almost thirty years.

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected -- a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down.

To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. 

Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days.

Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects -- taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.

Brad Balukjian is director of the Natural History and Sustainability Program and teaches biology at Merritt College in Oakland, California. He is also a freelance writer and has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, NOVA Next, and Islands.

Larry Stone is a sports columnist for the Seattle Times, where he has covered the Mariners for more than two decades. He is the co-author of Edgar: An Autobiography now available in paperback.


The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife (Hardcover)
By Brad Balukjian
$27.95
ISBN: 9781496218742
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: University of Nebraska Press - April 1, 2020




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Third Place Books presents Jeff Hobbs, in conversation with Helen Thorpe

Thursday, August 20, 2020


Jeff Hobbs, in conversation with Helen Thorpe - Show Them You're Good
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 7:00pm
Virtual Event



The bestselling, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a brilliant and transcendent work that closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college.

Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. Author Jeff Hobbs, writing with heart, sensitivity, and insight, stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person confronting the future -- both their own and the cultures in which they live -- in contemporary America.

Filled with portraits of secondary characters including friends, peers, parents, teachers, and girlfriends, this masterwork of immersive journalism is both intimate and profound and destined to ignite conversations about class, race, expectations, cultural divides, and even the concept of fate. Hobbs's portrayal of these young men is not only revelatory and relevant, but also moving, eloquent, and indelibly powerful.

Jeff Hobbs graduated with a BA in English language and literature from Yale in 2002, where he was awarded the Willets and Meeker prizes for his writing. He is the author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace and The Tourists. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Helen Thorpe was born in London to Irish parents and grew up in New Jersey. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, and Harper's Bazaar. Her radio stories have aired on This American Life and Sound Print. She is the author of Just Like Us, Soldier Girls, and The Newcomers and lives in Denver.

Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College (Hardcover)
By Jeff Hobbs
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982116330
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Scribner - August 18, 2020





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Third Place Books presents Margaret Owen, in conversation with Tara Sim

Tuesday, August 18, 2020


Margaret Owen, in conversation with Tara Sim - The Faithless Hawk

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 7:00pm



Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow. Join us for this virtual launch event!

As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she's hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana's merciless bid for the throne.
With the witch queen using the deadly plague to unite the nation of Sabor against Crows--and add numbers to her monstrous army--Fie and her band are forced to go into hiding, leaving the country to be ravaged by the plague. However, they're all running out of time before the Crows starve in exile and Sabor is lost forever.
A desperate Fie calls on old allies to help take Rhusana down from within her own walls. But inside the royal palace, the only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army. To survive, Fie must unravel not only Rhusana's plot, but ancient secrets of the Crows--secrets that could save her people, or set the world ablaze.

Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow was born and raised at the end of the Oregon Trail and has worked in everything from thrift stores to presidential campaigns. The common thread between every job can be summed up as: lessons were learned. She now spends her days writing and negotiating a long-term hostage situation with her two monstrous cats. In her free time, she enjoys exploring ill-advised travel destinations and raising money for social justice nonprofits through her illustrations. She resides in Seattle, Washington. You can find her on Twitter!

Tara Sim is the author of the Scavenge the Stars duology and the Timekeeper trilogy who can typically be found wandering the wilds of the Bay Area, California. When she’s not chasing cats or lurking in bookstores, she writes books about magic, murder, and explosions. Follow her on Twitter at @EachStarAWorld, and check out her website for fun extras at tarasim.com.

By Margaret Owen
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250191946
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) - August 18th, 2020
206-366-3333



  

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Third Place Books presents Shruti Swamy, in conversation with Angela Garbes

Monday, August 17, 2020



Shruti Swamy, in conversation with Angela Garbes - A House is a Body
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 7:00pm
Virtual Event


"Swamy's A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories -- short and long -- are told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously. Yet, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I've ever had in a short story collection." --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In "Earthly Pleasures," a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India's biggest celebrities, and desire and ego are laid bare. 
In "A Simple Composition," a husband's professional crisis leads to his wife's discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy. And in the title story, an exhausted mother watches, hypnotized by fear, as a California wildfire approaches her home. 
Immersive and assured, provocative and probing, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world. A House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction, from a writer at the start of a stellar career.


The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy's work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In 2012, she was Vassar College's 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in San Francisco.

Angela Garbes is the author of Like a Mother, an NPR Best Book of 2018 and finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Cut, and featured on NPR's Fresh Air. She lives in Seattle.

A House Is a Body: Stories (Hardcover)
By Shruti Swamy
$25.95
ISBN: 9781616209896
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Algonquin Books - August 11th, 2020
206-366-3333




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