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The Informed Gardener Blooms Again
by Linda Chalker-Scott
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
[The Informed Gardener Blooms Again] The Informed Gardener Blooms Again
Do using drought-tolerant plants reduce water consumption? Does aerobically brewed compost tea suppress disease? Urban horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott discusses common gardening practices, drawing from science to separate the stereotypes from helpful practices, all encompassed in her new book,…

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Do using drought-tolerant plants reduce water consumption? Does aerobically brewed compost tea suppress disease? Urban horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott discusses common gardening practices, drawing from science to separate the stereotypes from helpful practices, all encompassed in her new book, The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (University of Washington Press).

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Working in the Shadows:
A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
by Gabriel Thompson
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Wednesday, March 3
7:00pm
GABRIEL THOMPSON
Journalist and Studs Terkel Media Award-winning writer Gabriel Thompson, last here with his book, There's No José Here, traveled the U.S. working as a lettuce cutter, chicken killer, delivery person. These jobs—unseen, unacknowledged work that help maintain the U.S. economy and its first world …

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Journalist and Studs Terkel Media Award-winning writer Gabriel Thompson, last here with his book, There's No José Here, traveled the U.S. working as a lettuce cutter, chicken killer, delivery person. These jobs—unseen, unacknowledged work that help maintain the U.S. economy and its first world standard of living—are some of the jobs performed by immigrant laborers. He relates his experiences in his book, Working in the Shadows: A Year Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do (Nation Books).

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Thursday, March 4
7:00pm
SIDNEY S. ANDREWS
Pioneer Square's Boren Block One, once home to the Seattle Hotel, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous "Sinking Ship" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city, a movement that would, within a decade, help …

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Pioneer Square's Boren Block One, once home to the Seattle Hotel, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous "Sinking Ship" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city, a movement that would, within a decade, help save both the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square from a similar fate. Sidney S. Andrews, author of Boren's Block One: A Sinking Ship (Create Space), speaks tonight about the block's history, which includes stories from Seattle's earliest days—totem pole thefts, Japanese American hoteliers, the ill-fated (recent) monorail, and more. We can't think of a better time to reminisce about Pioneer Square's past and contemplate its future.

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Reality Hunger:
A Manifesto
by David Shields
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Friday, March 5
7:00pm
DAVID SHIELDS
Seattle writer and University of Washington professor David Shields takes on writing, perception, reality proposed or reality disposed, and much more, in his rousing new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf). This work has garnered a goodly amount of pre-publication attention, buzz in all the …

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Seattle writer and University of Washington professor David Shields takes on writing, perception, reality proposed or reality disposed, and much more, in his rousing new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf). This work has garnered a goodly amount of pre-publication attention, buzz in all the spheres and zones, from the printed to the virtual.

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Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney
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Saturday, March 6
1:00pm
Little Nutbrown Hare Storytime
Meet Little Nutbrown Hare and hear his story. During a bedtime game, every time Little Nutbrown Hare demonstrates how much he loves his father, Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that the love is returned even more.
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Offbeat Bride:
Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides
by Ariel Meadow Stallings
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Saturday, March 6
7:00pm
ARIEL MEADOWS STALLINGS
Thinking of planning a "Demolition Derby" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters, nonconformists, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book, The Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in…

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Thinking of planning a "Demolition Derby" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters, nonconformists, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book, The Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in a second edition from Seal Press).

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The Politics of Cocaine:
How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America
by William L. Marcy PhD
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Saturday, March 6
7:00pm
WILLIAM L. MARCY
William L. Marcy, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University, makes the case that the U.S. has, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "War on Drugs," played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic…

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William L. Marcy, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University, makes the case that the U.S. has, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "War on Drugs," played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He talks tonight about this and more, as chronicled in his book, The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books).

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The Forty Rules of Love:
A Novel of Rumi
by Elif Shafak
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
ELIF SHAFAK
Three years after circumstances in Istanbul, in largest part, dictated cancellation of a planned Seattle visit for her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak makes this long-awaited first visit here, this for her newest novel, The Forty Rules of Love (Viking). The author…

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Three years after circumstances in Istanbul, in largest part, dictated cancellation of a planned Seattle visit for her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak makes this long-awaited first visit here, this for her newest novel, The Forty Rules of Love (Viking). The author of ten novels in her homeland, and now five in English, Elif Shafak (or Safak) in The Forty Rules of Love weaves together two narratives, set hundreds of years apart, linking an unhappy, contemporary U.S. housewife and the great Sufi mystic and poet Jelaluddin Rumi, and his dervish mentor, Shams of Tabriz.

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Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books)
by Joel Schalit
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Tuesday, March 9
7:00pm
ELLIOTT BAY CURRENT ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP
Our selection for March is Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit. Israel is a synonym for many things: the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the antagonist of the Palestinians, the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about…

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Our selection for March is Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit. Israel is a synonym for many things: the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the antagonist of the Palestinians, the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about its rights and wrongs, its legitimacy and illegitimacies, as Israel. In this new volume, Israel vs. Utopia Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans and Europeans. Israel is a state of mind, Schalit argues, as much as it is a sovereign state. Exploring this tension—in America, in Israel, in Europe—through a combination of personal observations, political analysis, and cultural commentary, Schalit defines the instability of Israel, as a metaphor, and America's troubled love for it, as only an Israeli American could. Doug Henwood said of the book, "Fresh thinking about the Middle East is rare, but that's Joel Schalit's specialty. Regardless of your politics, you probably won't see Israel in the same way again after reading this admirable and engaging book—and that's something we all need. And you'll probably develop an irresistible appetite for good hummus along the way."

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey:
A Novel
by Zachary Mason
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Thursday, March 11
7:00pm
ZACHARY MASON
Few debuts have arrived on the scene with the lightness and gravity, and that harken to the original, in its fullest sense, as Zachary Mason's luminous novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Yes, that Odyssey. This is one of the rare cases where one of the enduring works is…

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Few debuts have arrived on the scene with the lightness and gravity, and that harken to the original, in its fullest sense, as Zachary Mason's luminous novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Yes, that Odyssey. This is one of the rare cases where one of the enduring works is taken on, with the result that the new work itself becomes adorned with the essence of timelessness.

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Ceremony for the Choking Ghost
by Karen Finneyfrock
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Friday, March 12
7:00pm
KAREN FINNEYFROCK
Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet, novelist, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a "Legend" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of…

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Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet, novelist, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a "Legend" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners, naming her "Queen of the Spoken Word." She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.

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Angelology:
A Novel
by Danielle Trussoni
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Wednesday, March 17
7:00pm
DANIELLE TRUSSONI
Danielle Trussoni received good attention for her 2006 memoir, Falling Through the Earth, including citation by the New York Times for being one of the ten best books of the year. She goes a whole other direction for her first novel, the radiantly absorbing Angelology (Viking).
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Player's Handbook 3:
A 4th Edition D&D Core Rulebook
by Mike Mearls and Rob Heinsoo
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Saturday, March 20
2:00pm
Player's Handbook 3 : A 4th Edition D&D Core Rulebook
Meet and greet the authors of PHB3. Stay for our Q&A and D&D Game day! Players Handbook three expands the range of options available to D&D players with new classes, races, powers, and other materials.
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Home & Away
by Kevin Miller
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Tuesday, March 23
7:00pm
ALLEN BRADEN, KEVIN MILLER & DEREK SHEFFIELD Group Reading
A trio of poets, each of whom lives, works, and writes in the Pacific Northwest, share the stage tonight to read from recently published work. Derek Sheffield will read from his new chapbook, A Revised Account of the West (Iowa State University Press), the inaugural winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental…

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A trio of poets, each of whom lives, works, and writes in the Pacific Northwest, share the stage tonight to read from recently published work. Derek Sheffield will read from his new chapbook, A Revised Account of the West (Iowa State University Press), the inaugural winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award. The 2007 writer-in-residence at the Bernheim Research Forest in Kentucky, he teaches at Wenatchee Valley College. Also tonight are Olympia-based teacher and poet Kevin Miller, whose Home & Away: The Old Town Poems (Pleasure Boat Studio) invites readers and listeners into a "home" of memories and dreams. Allen Braden, whose work has appeared in Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, celebrates the publication of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood (VQR/University of Georgia Press).

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Shadow Princess:
A Novel
by Indu Sundaresan
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Wednesday, March 24
7:00pm
INDU SUNDARESAN
A writer whose work is popular in her home country of India, Indu Sundaresan has been doing that writing here in the Seattle area—and winning readers in the U.S. (and elsewhere), as well. She follows her recent book of present-day stories, In the Convent of Little Flowers, with a return to …

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A writer whose work is popular in her home country of India, Indu Sundaresan has been doing that writing here in the Seattle area—and winning readers in the U.S. (and elsewhere), as well. She follows her recent book of present-day stories, In the Convent of Little Flowers, with a return to historically-set, Mughal-era novels that she is first known for. The Twentieth Wife, The Feast of Roses, and The Splendor of Silence, are now joined by her newest, Shadow Princess (Atria).

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The Ask:
A Novel
by Sam Lipsyte
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Thursday, March 25
7:00pm
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte reads from The Ask. “Another savage, hilarious black comedy from Lipsyte . . . . The author’s most ambitious work yet—a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Bone Fire:
A novel
by Mark Spragg
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Friday, March 26
7:00pm
MARK SPRAGG & LAURA BELL
Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir, Where Rivers Change Directions, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, is here tonight with a new novel, Bone Fire (Knopf).…

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Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir, Where Rivers Change Directions, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, is here tonight with a new novel, Bone Fire (Knopf). A murder in a Wyoming town methlab sets certain things in motion, the unfolding of mysteries of a larger dimension. "A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work ... Not one word is out of place, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable ... This 'bone fire' is in fact the burning we call life, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings." - Henry Bankhead, Library Journal. From Cody, Wyoming, comes Laura Bell with a remarkable nonfiction debut, Claiming Ground: A Memoir (Knopf).

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Whip Smart:
A Memoir
by Melissa Febos
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Saturday, March 27
7:00pm
MELISSA FEBOS
Melissa Febos co-curates and hosts New York City's Mixer Reading and Music series, has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and teaches at both SUNY Purchase and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. En route to all of this, she spent much of her younger adult life as a sex worker. She tells the story of her years …

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Melissa Febos co-curates and hosts New York City's Mixer Reading and Music series, has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and teaches at both SUNY Purchase and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. En route to all of this, she spent much of her younger adult life as a sex worker. She tells the story of her years as a drug addict and dominatrix ("one of the few high-paid acting gigs in the city") in Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books).

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Tuesday, March 30
7:00pm
PAUL VERHOEVEN
Renowned Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, whose credits include Robocop, Basic Instinct, and The Black Book, is probably less well-known for his religious interests and pursuits. He is one of a very few non-theologians admitted into the Jesus Seminar, a group of eminent scholars working in theology,…

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Renowned Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, whose credits include Robocop, Basic Instinct, and The Black Book, is probably less well-known for his religious interests and pursuits. He is one of a very few non-theologians admitted into the Jesus Seminar, a group of eminent scholars working in theology, linguistics, philosophy, and biblical history, whose ranks include Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, among others. Paul Verhoeven's book, Jesus of Nazareth (Seven Stories, translated by Susan Massotty), aspires to reveal the humanity of Jesus, "a true radical who brought humanity a few steps closer to an enlightened view of ourselves." "Paul Verhoeven breaks out of the box of scholarly orthodoxy with this thoughtful and daring reassemblage of the evidence—old and new—for the life of Jesus ... The result is a revelation for scholar and casual reader alike." - Chris Shea.

And yes, this looks to be the last such evening we will present at 101 South Main Street—25-1/2 years after Lewis Hyde held forth in July 1984, addressing both his then-recent book, The Gift and this work-in-progress on the trickster—we conclude here, due to resume matters in-house come mid-April at the new place, 1521 Tenth Avenue. Meanwhile, writers we present, and co-present, will be found here and there, which is not something entirely new.

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Clifford The Big Red Dog (board Book)
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Saturday, April 3
1:00pm
Clifford the Big Red Dog!
Meet Clifford! Clifford will be in the Children's Department on Saturday! We will be reading about his big red house, his big red bowl, and his big red adventures!
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