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Shoreline Schools and Third Place Books Black Books Fair ends Feb. 14

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Black Books Fair open through Sunday


The Black Voices: Black Books Fair ends at midnight this Sunday, February 14, 2021. 

In partnership with Third Place Books, this fundraiser is helping purchase books by Black authors for all Shoreline school libraries. 

Learn more and find ordering instructions HERE.

PLEASE DON'T FORGET: For your order to count towards the book fair, you must:
  • Check the box that asks if you are participating in a book fair towards the end of the check out screen
  • Then enter "Black Voices" in the ensuing text box
  • If you do not select the book fair participation box and enter the name of your school, we will not know that your order corresponds to this book fair, and it will not count towards the fundraiser.


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Purchase tickets for Cicely Tyson event Thursday

Wednesday, January 27, 2021


Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 3:00pm
This is a virtual event, and tickets are required!

Ticket includes one copy of Just As I Am.*

"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. 
"Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. 
"I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by His hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say." --Cicely Tyson


Join Third Place Books, along with partners from around the country, for a special livestream event with Cicely Tyson!

Miss Cicely Tyson is an actress, lecturer, activist, and one of the most respected talents in American theater and film history. From her starring role on Broadway in The Blacks (1961), to the Emmy-nominated 1999 HBO film A Lesson Before Dying, her work has garnered critical and commercial applause for more than sixty years. 

Her two Emmys for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman made her the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for Best Actress. In 2013, Miss Tyson won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful

A capstone achievement came in 2018, when she became the first Black woman to receive an honorary Oscar. The Board of Governors voted unanimously to honor her with the award, which came 45 years after her Academy Award nominated performance in Sounder.

*Books will be shipped to purchasers via USPS Media Mail. Please note that Third Place Books DOES NOT OFFER INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING.



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Wednesday authors from Third Place Books

Tuesday, January 26, 2021


Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 7:00pm

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

The odds of getting hit by a bus are 495,000 to 1. But the odds that you’re going to die some day of something? Exactly. 

In Case You Get Hit By A Bus will help even the most disorganized among us take control of our on- and off-line details so our loved ones won't have to scramble later. 

Breaking the task down into three levels, from the most urgent (like granting access to passwords), to the technical (creating a manual for the systems in your home), to the nostalgic (assembling a living memory), this clear, step-by-step program not only removes the anxiety and stress from getting your life in order, it's actually liberating.

Abby Schneiderman co-founder, and co-CEO of Everplans, is an industry expert in the areas of digital estate planning, technology, and consumerism, a Forbes.com Contributor and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and co-CEO of Everplans, has helped create multiple huge online communities and networks and is an inventor on "the social networking patent" now owned by LinkedIn.

Gene Newman serves as Everplans' editorial and education director and has spent his career as a writer, editor, and content leader for Maxim.com, Hachette Filipacchi Digital, and other lifestyle properties.



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Tuesday authors presented by Third Place Books: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Madeline ffitch

Monday, January 25, 2021


Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 7:00pm

This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar

Register for this livestream event here!

Join us for an evening with this dynamic author duo, as we celebrate Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's acclaimed new book The Freezer Door, and the paperback release of Madeline ffitch's Stay and Fight!

When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there's something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn't sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.
--The Freezer Door

The Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life.

Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.

Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy -- her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss -- and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen and Lily, are awaiting the arrival of their first child, a boy, which means their time at the Women's Land Trust must end.

So Helen invites the new family to throw in with her -- they'll split the work and the food, build a house, and make a life that sustains them, if barely, for years. Then young Perley decides he wants to go to school. And Rudy sets up a fruit-tree nursery on the pipeline easement edging their land. The outside world is brought clamoring into their makeshift family.

Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a family, to live well, to make peace with nature and make deals with the system. It is a protest novel that challenges our notions of effective action. It is a family novel that refuses to limit the term. And it is a marvel of storytelling that both breaks with tradition and celebrates it. Best of all, it is full of flawed, cantankerous, flesh-and-blood characters who remind us that conflict isn't the end of love, but the real beginning.

Absorbingly spun, perfectly voiced, and disruptively political, Madeline ffitch's Stay and Fight - now in paperback - forces us to reimagine an Appalachia--and an America--we think we know. And it takes us, laughing and fighting, into a new understanding of what it means to love and to be free.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014, and her previous book, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy, was one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle.

Madeline ffitch co founded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and is part of the direct-action collective Appalachia Resist! Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Guernica, Granta, VICE, and Electric Literature, among other publications. She is the author of the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn.

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Monday's authors at Third Place Books

Sunday, January 24, 2021


Monday, January 25, 2021 7pm

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

In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival factions must work together to reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other.

Her voice was her prison...
Now it's her weapon.

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding.

But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or follow in the queen's footsteps and become a monster herself.

Julia Ember was born in Chicago, but raised in London and Edinburgh. She now lives in Seattle with her wife, where they are the proud parents of two cats and a very fluffy pony. She has previously worked as a teacher, bookseller and wedding cake decorator, and she is also the author of the Seafarer's Kiss duology. When she isn’t working on her prose fiction, Julia writes for video and app games.

C.B. Lee is a Lambda Literary Award nominated writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. Her works include the Sidekick Squad series (Duet Books), Ben 10 graphic novels (Boom! Studios), Out Now: Queer We Go Again (HarperTeen), Minecraft: The Shipwreck (Del Rey Books), From A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Del Rey Books) and A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Feiwel and Friends). Lee’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Wired Magazine, Hypable, Tor’s Best of Fantasy and Sci Fi and the American Library Association’s Rainbow List.



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Third Place Books author events this week - all online

Saturday, January 9, 2021


Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 12:00pm
Virtual Event
This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!

B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture.

Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy.

It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for Malcom X. It's an ABC book like no other, and a story of hope and love.

In addition to rhyming text, the book includes back matter with information on the events, places, and people mentioned in the poem, from Mae Jemison to W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer to Sam Cooke, and the Little Rock Nine to DJ Kool Herc.



Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 7:00pm
Virtual Event
This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!

In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival factions must work together to reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other.

Her voice was her prison...
Now it's her weapon.

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding.

But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or follow in the queen's footsteps and become a monster herself.

Julia Ember was born in Chicago, but raised in London and Edinburgh. She now lives in Seattle with her wife, where they are the proud parents of two cats and a very fluffy pony. She has previously worked as a teacher, bookseller and wedding cake decorator, and she is also the author of the Seafarer's Kiss duology. When she isn’t working on her prose fiction, Julia writes for video and app games.


Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 7:00pm
Virtual Event
This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immediate family would have guessed that her childhood was fraught with every imaginable hardship: a mentally ill mother who was in and out of jails and psych wards throughout Stephanie's formative years, neglect, hunger, poverty, homelessness, truancy, foster homes, a harrowing lack of medical care, and ongoing sexual abuse.

Stephanie, in turn, knew very little about the past of her mother, from whom she remained estranged during most of her adult life. All this changed with a phone call that set a journey of discovery in motion, leading to a series of shocking revelations that forced Stephanie to revise the meaning of almost every aspect of her very compromised childhood.

American Daughter is at once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption. Stephanie's story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive.

Stephanie Thornton Plymale is the CEO of Heritage School of Interior Design and the founder of the Heritage Home Foundation, a nonprofit serving families transitioning from homelessness. She lives with her husband and three children in Portland, Oregon.


Saturday, January 16, 2021 - 3:00pm
Virtual Event
This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here!

Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a collector of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined.

What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?

Todd Robert Petersen grew up in Portland, Oregon, and now teaches film studies and creative writing at Southern Utah University. Petersen's previous books include Long After Dark, Rift, and It Needs to Look Like We Tried. He and his family live in Cedar City, Utah, on the western edge of the Markagunt Plateau.

Liberty Hardy is a senior contributing editor for Book Riot and host of the popular All the Books! podcast. She lives in the great state of Maine, where she reads 500-600 books a year and hangs out with her three cats, who hate to read.



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Third Place Books presents on zoom: Tara Moss, in conversation with Gertie Hirsch

Saturday, January 2, 2021


Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 6:00pm
A virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar 

The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young immigrant man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in glamorous postwar Sydney.

Sydney, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. So she reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking.

At first, Billie's bread and butter is tailing cheating husbands. Then, a young man, the son of European immigrants, goes missing, and Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead up into the highest levels of Sydney society and down into its underworld. What is the young man’s connection to an exclusive dance club and a high class auction house? 
When the people Billie questions about the young man start to turn up dead, Billie is thrown into the path of Detective Inspector Hank Cooper. Will he take her seriously or will he just get in her way? As the danger mounts and Billie realizes that much more than one young man’s life is at stake, it becomes clear that though the war was won, it is far from over.

Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, human rights activist, documentary host, and model. Her crime novels have been published in nineteen countries and thirteen languages, and her memoir, The Fictional Woman, was a #1 international bestseller. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has received the Edna Ryan Award for significant contributions to feminist debate and for speaking out for women and children, and in 2017 she was recognized as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life.

Gretchen "Gertie" Hirsch is a passionate home seamstress, a sought-after sewing teacher, and the creator of one of the web’s most popular sewing blogs: Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing. She has written five books including Gertie Sews Jiffy Dresses and Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing. Gretchen now produces her own independent pattern line called Charm Patterns, creates exclusive content for her Patreon subscribers, and makes inspiring videos and tutorials for her YouTube channel Gertie’s World.

The War Widow (A Billie Walker Novel) (Hardcover)
By Tara Moss
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593182659
Availability: Out of stock, usually available in 3-10 days
Published: Dutton - December 29, 2020

 

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Black Voices Read-Along Tuesday at Third Place Books

Monday, November 30, 2020

Join Shoreline Schools for a special Black Voices Read-Along in partnership with Third Place Books Lake Forest Park beginning on December 1, 2020.


The featured author is Jewell Parker Rhodes and participants can choose from two of her books, Ninth Ward or Ghost Boys, for the read-along.

Learn more and sign up at https://www.shorelineschools.org/Page/7877 (If necessary, copy the link and paste it into your browser)

In preparation of our read-along, please make sure to get a book! Thanks to our generous sponsors at Third Place Books, readers are able to use a coupon to purchase a copy of the Black Voices books for 20% off at the Lake Forest Park store.




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Third Place Books presents Brittany Powell, with Alissa Quart and Bayete´ Ross Smith

Thursday, October 29, 2020


Third Place Books presents Brittany Powell, with Alissa Quart and Bayete´ Ross Smith - The Debt Project

Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 4:00pm

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

Finalist for the 2015 and 2016 Dorothea Lange / Paul Taylor Prize in Documentary
Featured on Politico, The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, and The Huffington Post, USA Today, Business Insider, Refinery29, and Fast Company

Join us for a thought-provoking panel featuring author Brittany M. Powell, photographer Bayete´ Ross Smith, and Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project!

Based on the popular online photo series and now published in print for the first time, The Debt Project collects 99 portraits of debt across the US, featuring people of all different backgrounds and stories, to recontextualize an often stigmatized experience.

In 2013, Brittany Powell made the difficult decision to file for bankruptcy for her photography business. In the years following the 2008 economic collapse, she found herself in a significant amount of debt, a position many Americans across the country still share, a common yet isolating and private experience often steeped in shame.

Her personal experience, bolstered by the We Are the 99% slogan that came out of the Occupy movement, brought her to start The Debt Project, an exploration of the role debt and finance plays in our personal identity and social structure. This book presents an intimate look into 99 different lives: each shares an arrestingly honest portrait in the person's home, surrounded by all their belongings, accompanied by a handwritten note of the amount of debt that person is in and the story behind the numbers.

The Debt Project, with a foreword by writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor plus resources at the back of the book to support people in debt, examines the social and personal hold financial debt has on us and invites others into a private world, while at the same empowering people to share their stories and overcome the shame they may feel.

Brittany M. Powell is a photographer, multimedia artist, and educator working in central Vermont. She spent more than a decade as a freelance documentary and editorial photographer in San Francisco, CA before moving to New England. Her work focuses on income inequality, identity, and class divides across America. She has a BFA in photography from California College of the Arts and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Norwich University and an arts administrator at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

The Debt Project: 99 Portraits Across America (Hardcover)
By Brittany M. Powell, Astra Taylor (Foreword by)
$34.99
ISBN: 9781513264332
Availability: On our shelves now at one or more of our stores
Published: Graphic Arts Books - October 27, 2020


 

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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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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 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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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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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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