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DESCRIPTION:Mary Daheim signs Loco Motive.
DTSTART:20100907T120000
DTEND:20100907T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Mary Daheim
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DESCRIPTION:Seattle real estate developer Mark Schuster founded the Schuste
 r Group at age 22 and now heads one of the most successful private equity 
 investment and development firms in the Northwest. His book\, Lofty Pursui
 ts: Repairing the World One Building at a Time (Brown Books)\, presents bo
 th some of his own history\, and some ideas about sustainability and commu
 nity engagement.
DTSTART:20100907T190000
DTEND:20100907T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY: Mark Schuster
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DESCRIPTION:&lt\;a href=&quot\;http://www.litfuse.us/&quot\;&gt\;LiTFUSE&lt
 \;/a&gt\;  launches with a fundraiser. Words and music featuring Tara Hard
 y\, Susan Rich\, Mimi Allin\, Elizabeth Austen\, Dan Peters and more! $5.
DTSTART:20100907T190000
DTEND:20100907T210000
LOCATION:1634 11th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA (Richard Hugo House)
SUMMARY:LiTFUSE Launch Party
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Join the library for a reading and book signing with the Mary D
 aheim\, local author of Loco Motive.
DTSTART:20100907T190000
DTEND:20100907T203000
LOCATION:1111 110th Ave NE\, Bellevue\, WA (Bellevue Regional Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Mary Daheim
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Join cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson for a discussion of his n
 ewest novel\, Zero History\, a timely thriller featuring the return of Hub
 ertus Bigend\, set in a future that is all too similar to our present.
DTSTART:20100907T190000
DTEND:20100907T203000
LOCATION:2675 NE University Village\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - U
 niversity Village)
SUMMARY:William Gibson: Zero History
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:David Callahan\, co-founder of the think tank Demos\, says some
 thing big is happening among the wealthiest Americans: They&rsquo\;re turn
 ing liberal. Exploring the influence of left-leaning affluence on Wall Str
 eet\, in Hollywood\, and now in Silicon Valley\, Callahan\, author of Fort
 unes of Change\, explains how our politics and culture are changing&mdash\
 ;and what the future may hold. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100907T193000
DTEND:20100907T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:David Callahan: The New Liberal Rich
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Peter Lewis signs Dead in the Dregs.
DTSTART:20100908T120000
DTEND:20100908T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Peter Lewis
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DESCRIPTION:SM Stirling reads and signs High King of Monitval: A Novel of t
 he Change. In the post-apocalyptic Sunrise Lands&ndash\;setting for S.M. S
 tirling&#039\;s Emberverse series\, now on its fourth novel&ndash\;Rudi Ma
 ckenzie has returned to the Pacific Northwest where he must face the armie
 s of the Prophet. Making a coalition of his enemies\, he must defend his h
 omeland and assume his place as its king.
DTSTART:20100908T190000
DTEND:20100908T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:SM Stirling
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Come meet New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George! S
 he is the author of the marvelous British mysteries featuring Scotland Yar
 d Detective Inspector Lynley. This Body of Death is the new Lynley novel f
 or 2010. Ms. George will talk about her writing and sign her books.
DTSTART:20100908T190000
DTEND:20100908T203000
LOCATION:27100 164th Ave SE\, Covington\, WA (Covington Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Elizabeth George
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DESCRIPTION:The authors present their definitive break-up pictorial\, Why H
 e&#039\;s My Ex\, exploring true stories of bad male behavior with hilario
 us results. It&rsquo\;s the perfect gift for the recently unhitched or the
  single gal who runs through men like water.
DTSTART:20100908T190000
DTEND:20100908T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Krishna Devine &amp\; Jessica G. Hill
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Jack Straw Reading with Brian James Barr\, Bill Carty and Rober
 to Ascalon.  Brian\, Bill\, and Martha are talented locals whose work has 
 appeared in journals and magazines of note like The Believer\, Tin House\,
  Diagram\, Opium\, and The Oxford American.
DTSTART:20100909T190000
DTEND:20100909T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Jack Straw Reading Series
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Carol Cassella follows up on the promise and wonder of her debu
 t\, Oxygen\, with an ambitious\, wide-ranging second novel\, Healer (Simon
  &amp\; Schuster). A woman&#039\;s ambitions for a medical career get put 
 on hold in order for other life to be lived\, only to see her calling real
 ized\, after much travail has ensued\, in rich and surprising ways.
DTSTART:20100909T190000
DTEND:20100909T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Carol Cassella
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Join Barnes and Noble for an evening of fun with award-winning 
 local author Jane Porter! Jane will be reading and discussing her latest b
 ook\, She&#039\;s Gone Country.
DTSTART:20100909T190000
DTEND:20100909T203000
LOCATION:626 106th Ave NE\, Bellevue\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - Bellevue)
SUMMARY:Jane Porter: She&#039\;s Gone Country
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Local author Peter Lewis presents his debut mystery\, Dead in t
 he Dregs: when a grotesque murder shocks Northern California&rsquo\;s wine
  country\, one-time star sommelier Babe Stern must unravel a tangle of int
 erlocking secrets in this thrilling tale of wine and homicide.
DTSTART:20100909T190000
DTEND:20100909T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Peter Lewis
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Truthdig editor-in-chief Robert Scheer believes our financial m
 eltdown is at its heart an old-fashioned swindle. Scheer\, author of The G
 reat American StickUp\, exposes the bipartisan group that paved the way fo
 r the crash of 2008 (including power-couple Phil and Wendy Gramm\, former 
 Goldman Sachs leaders Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson\, and former Treasury
  Secretary Lawrence Summers)&mdash\;and says it&rsquo\;s still flying unde
 r the media radar. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100909T193000
DTEND:20100909T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Robert Scheer: The Culprits Behind Our Collapse
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Evelyn Smith promotes Boardinghouse Stew. Through one crisis af
 ter another - some more comic than tragic - the people who live in the hou
 se manage to pull together and become a kind of family. In the center of i
 t all is Eileen\, narrating their stories which she is able to observe fro
 m her unique vantage point behind the swinging kitchen door that never qui
 te closes on its rusty hinges.
DTSTART:20100910T120000
DTEND:20100910T130000
LOCATION:1501 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Borders - Downtown)
SUMMARY:Evelyn E. Smith
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Ann Littlewood promotes Did Not Survive. When a reliable old el
 ephant mauls his zookeeper it&rsquo\;s up to pregnant Iris Oakley to find 
 out why.  Iris uncovers nefarious plots amongst the other zookeepers leadi
 ng her to believe the elephant attack was anything but a freak accident.
DTSTART:20100910T183000
DTEND:20100910T193000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Ann Littlewood
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:New York Times Magazine contributing writer Melanie Thernstrom\
 , author of The Dead Girl and Halfway Heaven\, is up from her Portland-are
 a home with an arresting book on chronic pain\, The Pain Chronicles: Cures
 \, Myths\, Mysteries\, Prayers\, Diaries\, Brain Scans\, Healing and the S
 cience of Suffering (Farrar\, Straus &amp\; Giroux).
DTSTART:20100910T190000
DTEND:20100910T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Melanie Thernstrom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times bestselling author Wm. Paul Young (The Shack)
  joins local Seattle author James L. Rubart (Rooms) for an engaging discus
 sion of the themes issues raised in each novel and what they mean for huma
 nity today. Signing to follow.
DTSTART:20100910T190000
DTEND:20100910T203000
LOCATION:2675 NE University Village\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - U
 niversity Village)
SUMMARY:Wm. Paul Young and James L. Rubart
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Gail Carriger promotes Blameless. While Lord Maccon elects to g
 et progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to 
 hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together\, Alexia flees England for Italy i
 n search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the prete
 rnatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition\, but they may
  be worse than the vampires -- and they&#039\;re armed with pesto.
DTSTART:20100910T190000
DTEND:20100910T200000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Gail Carriger
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Seattle-based parenting expert Jan Faull not only offers parent
 s the essential tools to recognize and encourage their children&#039\;s na
 tural development\, she makes it fun. Faull\, a former columnist for The S
 eattle Times\, distills the latest developmental research into a chronolog
 ical account of what babies are capable of\, then explains practical exerc
 ises and fun games to enhance their innate learning process.
DTSTART:20100911T110000
DTEND:20100911T123000
LOCATION:15311 Main Street \, Mill Creek\, WA (University Book Store - Mill
  Creek)
SUMMARY:Jan Faull
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Ann Littlewood signs Did Not Survive.
DTSTART:20100911T120000
DTEND:20100911T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Ann Littlewood
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Five days after Labor Day and over from Australia\, where she i
 s director of the Sydney Alliance\, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions N
 SW\, and teaches at the University of Sydney is labor scholar/activist Ama
 nda Tattersall. She is here with the newly published Power in Coalition: S
 trategies for Strong Unions and Social Change (ILR Press/Cornell Universit
 y Press).
DTSTART:20100911T130000
DTEND:20100911T143000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Amanda Tattersall
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:The booming microstock industry has made it possible for amateu
 r photographers&mdash\;previously shut out of exclusive stock photography&
 mdash\;to show and sell their images. This afternoon microstock guru Ellen
  Boughn presents information for the serious amateur photographer interest
 ed in selling photos on microstock\, with examples of travel photos\, phot
 os of family and friends\, and advice about working with models. Much more
  of her expert advice appears in her new book\, Microstock Money Shots (Cr
 own).
DTSTART:20100911T160000
DTEND:20100911T173000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Ellen Boughn
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Influential comix artist Carol Tyler will appear to present her
  two-volume graphic memoir YOU&#039\;LL NEVER KNOW with an exhibition of o
 riginal art and book signing
DTSTART:20100911T180000
DTEND:20100911T210000
LOCATION:1201 S Vale St\, Seattle\, WA (Fantagraphics Books)
SUMMARY:Carol Tyler
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Kirby Lawson presents The Fences Between Us. After the devastat
 ing attack on Pearl Harbor\, where her brother is stationed\, Piper Davis 
 begins chronicling her compelling journey through one of history&rsquo\;s 
 most tragic and unforgettable eras.  Kirby will accompany her talk with a 
 Powerpoint presentation.
DTSTART:20100911T183000
DTEND:20100911T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Kirby Larson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:&quot\;Here I was\, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway wi
 th a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the tr
 unk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles ...&quot\; This begins the pre-
 apocalyptic\, cross-country race with death chronicled in Joseph Mattson&#
 039\;s debut novel\, Empty the Sun (Barnacle Books). The book includes a C
 D soundtrack by Seattle&#039\;s Six Organs of Admittance.
DTSTART:20100911T190000
DTEND:20100911T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Joseph Mattson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Carla Salvo promotes Just Say The Word. Rita Napapolus&#039\; f
 ingerprints were murder weapon\, beckoning authorities onto her path and i
 nto her past. They immediately hit a wall when they find no record of the 
 petite office manager&#039\;s history before she appeared in Seattle with 
 her daughter twenty years ago
DTSTART:20100912T130000
DTEND:20100912T140000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Carla Salvo
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:The reconciliation of sexuality with religion is always challen
 ging\, especially for lesbian\, bi\, transgendered\, or queer women whose 
 roots are in Orthodox Judaism. Editor/contributor Miryam Kabakov is joined
  by other contributors to the groundbreaking anthology\, Keep Your Wives A
 way from Them: Orthodox Women\, Unorthodox Desires (North Atlantic Books)\
 , a collection that shares perspectives of LGBT women struggling to build 
 integrated lives.
DTSTART:20100912T140000
DTEND:20100912T153000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Miryam Kabakov and friends
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:This special Sunday visit brings back much-missed former Seattl
 e residents Steve Murray and Tiina Nunnally. Individually\, and collective
 ly\, they represent much of the major translating of fiction (detective an
 d otherwise) to be brought from Scandinavian languages over the past sever
 al years. They published some of these (some excellent English-language or
 iginals\, too) when operating Fjord Press. A special focus of this program
  no doubt will be Steve Murray&#039\;s translations\, under a &quot\;Reg K
 eeland&quot\; pseudonym\, of the hugely popular\, hugely-acclaimed three S
 tieg Larsson novels: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\, The Girl Who Played
  with Fire\, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#039\;s Nest (Vintage\, Vi
 ntage\, and Knopf).
DTSTART:20100912T170000
DTEND:20100912T183000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Steve Murray and Tiina Nunnally
END:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Rhys Bowen signs Royal Blood.
DTSTART:20100913T120000
DTEND:20100913T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Rhys Bowen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:Inara Scott promotes Delacroix Academy\, Book One: The Candidat
 es.
DTSTART:20100913T170000
DTEND:20100913T183000
LOCATION:6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA (Ravenna Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Inara Scott
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232647Z
DESCRIPTION:The short story may not have the word count or the epic storyli
 ne of the novel\, but it can certainly have the emotional sweep and the li
 terary artistry. And Deborah Willis&#039\;s new book of 14 stories (Vanish
 ing and Other Stories) are literary artistry not writ large and not writ s
 mall\, but instead writ just right.
DTSTART:20100913T190000
DTEND:20100913T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Deborah Willis
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:A timely novel\, if that can be said\, novelist/playwright Beve
 rly Olevin&#039\;s new novel\, The Good Side of Bad (White River Press)\, 
 goes back and forth between Seattle and New York\, in the aftermath of 200
 8&#039\;s economic meltdown. Besides trying to hold lives and livelihoods 
 together\, this novel also tells the story of adult siblings coming to kno
 w themselves as family in surprising ways.
DTSTART:20100913T190000
DTEND:20100913T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Beverly Olevin
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Successful businessman Richard LeMieux lost his business\, his 
 family\, his home\, and found himself eating at &quot\;Sally&#039\;s&quot\
 ; -- what the homeless call the Salvation Army&#039\;s soup kitchen. LeMie
 ux\, who now lives in Bremerton\, used a beat-up typewriter to movingly de
 scribe his experience of life on the street. Terry Tazioli\, host of Autho
 r&rsquo\;s Hour on TVW\, will interview Richard LeMieux.
DTSTART:20100913T190000
DTEND:20100913T203000
LOCATION:1111 110th Ave NE\, Bellevue\, WA (Bellevue Regional Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Richard LeMieux
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Arnold\,  the founder of Canine Assistants\, offers sh
 ining examples of the heroism of service dogs\, from anticipating seizures
  to resetting a ventilator switch. Through a Dog&#039\;s Eyes is the basis
  for the PBS documentary of the same name!
DTSTART:20100913T190000
DTEND:20100913T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Jennifer Arnold
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a Zen Buddhist priest as well as a poet\, and
  his poetry reflects the presence\, depth\, and spark that come with such 
 a vocation. His most recent collection is Questions/Places/Voices/Seasons 
 ($16 Singing Horse Press)\, a title that prepares the reader for the richl
 y varied sections within. oining Mr. Fischer is poet\, essayist\, teacher\
 , and editor Emily Warn\, whose own work has often explored the confluence
  of faith\, language\, and the world from which both arise. The author of 
 five collections\, her most recent book is Shadow Architect ($15 Copper Ca
 nyon Press)\, an inventive and compelling consideration of the Hebrew alph
 abet.
DTSTART:20100913T193000
DTEND:20100913T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Norman Fischer and Emily Warn
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Just 100 years ago\, Arabs viewed the United States as a benevo
 lent power that was neither imperialist nor covetous. Award-winning histor
 ian Ussama Makdisi says that one single choice changed the American-Arab r
 elationship forever: our decision to support the creation of an Israeli st
 ate. Makdisi\, author of Faith Misplaced\, re-examines the tumultuous hist
 ory of this relationship at a time when it is more fractured\, and more im
 portant\, than ever. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100913T193000
DTEND:20100913T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Ussama Makdisi: The Devolution of American-Arab Relations
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Maria Ross promotes Branding Basics for Small Business. Small b
 usinesses\, start-ups and even non-profits enviously watch the big guys li
 ke Apple\, Nike and Harley Davidson create loyal evangelists and attract r
 epeat customers. The secret is starting with a strong brand strategy. Bran
 d is more than just a pretty logo\; it is your core promise\, personality 
 and reason for being. The book shows how organizations of any size and wit
 h any budget can create a winning brand to attract\, delight and connect w
 ith their audiences for maximum success.
DTSTART:20100914T110000
DTEND:20100914T120000
LOCATION:1501 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Borders - Downtown)
SUMMARY:Maria Ross
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author\, filmmaker\, and screenwriter\, most know
 n for her book\, Savage Summits\, Jennifer Jordan visits this evening with
  her new tale of Himalayan adventures in days of yore (1939)\, The Last Ma
 n on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (W.W. Norton)
 .
DTSTART:20100914T180000
DTEND:20100914T193000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Jennifer Jordan
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Brandon Sanderson promotes The Way of Kings.
DTSTART:20100914T190000
DTEND:20100914T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Brandon Sanderson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0036RUjPGF@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have combined their passion for a
 ccuracy to form TEAL: the Typo Eradication Advancement League\, and togeth
 er they have journeyed across America\, armed with markers to right the gl
 aring wrongs displayed in grocery stores\, museums\, malls\, restaurants\,
  and even a national park. The Great Typo Hunt chronicles their quirky and
  adventurous exploits and appeals to the English major in all of us.
DTSTART:20100914T190000
DTEND:20100914T203000
LOCATION:6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA (Ravenna Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0040fUELKS@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Lauren Kessler presents My Teenage Werewolf.  With the help of 
 a teen expert (her daughter)\, as well as teachers\, doctors\, therapists\
 , and other mothers\, Lauren Kessler illuminates the age-old mother/daught
 er struggle from both sides\, gracefully interweaving personal experience 
 with journalistic inquiry.
DTSTART:20100914T190000
DTEND:20100914T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Lauren Kessler
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-00439S2c0J@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections\, Franzen
 &rsquo\;s new novel Freedom will debut just in time to open SAL&rsquo\;s s
 eason. &lt\;a href=&quot\;http://www.lectures.org/box_office/tickets.php?e
 vent=264&quot\;&gt\;Cheapest tickets are $15&lt\;/a&gt\;.
DTSTART:20100914T193000
DURATION:PT2H0M0S
LOCATION:200 University St\, Seattle\, WA (Benaroya Hall)
SUMMARY:Jonathan Franzen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0048O0eVVV@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles-based fiction writer Eric Puchner won raves for his
  debut book of stories\, Music Through the Floor. He then received more pr
 aise and prominence for his first novel\, Model Home (Scribner\, new in pa
 per).
DTSTART:20100914T200000
DTEND:20100914T213000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Eric Puchner
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0052EOelHK@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:A raised glass is more than in order this evening as we help ce
 lebrate the publication of Seattle writer Peter Lewis&#039\; much-awaited 
 debut novel\, Dead in the Dregs (Counterpoint). This excellent\, smart\, w
 hodunit takes readers from the Napa Valley to C&ocirc\;te d&#039\;Or\, in 
 search of a killer&mdash\;with some excellent wine-seeking\, and wine coun
 try lore along the way. As the longtime (now onetime) guiding hand behind 
 Campagne\, he is one who would know that way.
DTSTART:20100915T190000
DTEND:20100915T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Peter Lewis
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0055F56Z78@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Alaska native Jennifer Aist\, author of Babes in the Woods and 
 a parenting and childbirth educator\, shares her tried and tested advice f
 or taking babies and toddlers into the woods and out onto boats at very ea
 rly ages.
DTSTART:20100915T190000
DTEND:20100915T200000
LOCATION:2214 NW Market St\, Seattle\, WA (Secret Garden Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Jennier Aist
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0059nVHJb1@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Irene Butler presents Trekking the Globe With Mostly Gentle Foo
 tsteps.  The authors took on the challenge of traveling for the same cost 
 as staying at home while still adhering to the traveller&rsquo\;s motto &l
 dquo\;we are not here to suffer&rdquo\;.  They immersed themselves in othe
 r cultures\, spent as little as possible\, tread gently and managed to com
 e out the other side with a wealth of stories.
DTSTART:20100915T190000
DTEND:20100915T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Irene Butler
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0062elwadl@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:David Plouffe not only led the groundbreaking digital-technolog
 y-meets-grassroots campaign that put Barack Obama in the White House\, but
  some say he also changed the face of politics forever and re-energized th
 e idea of democracy itself. Plouffe\, author of The Audacity to Win\, reve
 als the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate (a
 nd campaign) tackled challenges and opportunities. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100915T193000
DTEND:20100915T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:David Plouffe: Inside Obama&rsquo\;s Victory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-00675m32kS@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Seattle-based parenting expert Jan Faull not only offers parent
 s the essential tools to recognize and encourage their children&rsquo\;s n
 atural development\, she makes it fun. Faull\, a former columnist for The 
 Seattle Times and author of the just-released Amazing Minds\, distills the
  latest developmental research into a chronological account of what babies
  are capable of\, then explains practical exercises and fun games to enhan
 ce their innate learning process. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100915T193000
DTEND:20100915T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Future of Health: Jan Faull: Nurturing Babies&rsquo\; Minds
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0070jNb4Mo@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Meet gardening guru Bunny Henderson as she signs her book\, Dig
 ging It\, at the Queen Anne Books booth.  Live happily\, healtfully\, and 
 frugally with your own victory garden-- dig it?
DTSTART:20100916T150000
DTEND:20100916T190000
LOCATION:W Crockett St at Queen Anne Ave N \, Seattle\, WA (Queen Anne Farm
 ers Market)
SUMMARY:Bunny Henderson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0074obtTpl@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Beside the prophet Muhammad stood his wives\, eleven very diffe
 rent women. Poet and editor Tamam Kahn\, author of Untold: A History of th
 e Wives of Prophet Muhammad\, spends time introducing readers to each of t
 hese women\, explaining their place in Muslim history in a way no author h
 as before. Suggested donation $5.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T203000
LOCATION:1415 NE 43rd St\, Seattle\, WA (University Temple UMC)
SUMMARY:Tamam Kahn
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0077UGuDBs@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The ruined economy is the backdrop for this smart satire by Nat
 ional Book Award nominee Jess Walter\, The Financial Lives of the Poets. M
 att Prior\, a business journalist\, leaves his job to create a money-theme
 d poetry website&ndash\;which\, of course\, goes about as well as one coul
 d expect. He attempts to return to his job\, but finds himself the recipie
 nt of a layoff notification\, and a tiny severance package. His finances t
 attered\, he fears losing his house to the bank\, his wife to an ex on Fac
 ebook\, and his father to senility.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Jess Walter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0081uWJVoW@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Marjorie Manwaring\, Katherine Grace Bond\, and Martha Clarkson
  read in a Jack Straw Production.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T200000
LOCATION:1300 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Art Museum)
SUMMARY:SAM Word
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0087OGhnA5@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION: Whether as lead judge on the PBS series\, The Winemakers\, or 
 as a regular contributor to Martha Stewart&#039\;s Living Today\, Mark Old
 man has been helping wine enthusiasts navigate the world of wine without b
 reaking the bank. His writing and wine picks appear in Food and Wine\, and
  in Everyday with Rachel Ray. Oldman&#039\;s Brave New World of Wine: Plea
 sure\, Value and Adventure Beyond Wine&#039\;s Usual Suspects (W.W. Norton
 ) contains information about taste\, source\, price\, food pairings and mo
 re\, all delivered with his signature mix of wit and authority.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Mark Oldman
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0090K9kmoZ@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Laura Read of Spokane reads from her prize-winning chapbook\, &
 quot\;The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You.&quot\;  Fina
 lists Ann Gerike of Coupeville and Kimalisa Kaczinski of Cheney will also 
 present work.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T203000
LOCATION:1634 11th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA (Richard Hugo House)
SUMMARY:Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Reading
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0094XciuCc@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jean Haner presents The Wisdom of Your Child&rsquo\;s Face. Wat
 ch author Jean Haner demonstrate face reading with volunteers from the aud
 ience (adults or children)!
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Jean Haner
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0098PRLbgB@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Lawhead signs The Skin Map. Enter the ultimate treasure
  hunt--with a map made of skin\, a playing field of alternate realities\, 
 and a prize that is the greatest mystery of all.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T200000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Stephen Lawhead
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0101S0IEfu@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:The author reads from Liar Liar.
DTSTART:20100916T190000
DTEND:20100916T200000
LOCATION:219 Broadway E\, Seattle\, WA (Pilot Books)
SUMMARY:K. J. Larsen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0104VdiZ7S@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:Jeff Lindsay signs Dexter is Delicious.
DTSTART:20100917T120000
DTEND:20100917T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Jeff Lindsay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0108T1jLOB@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:L.A. novelist and screenwriter Mark Haskell Smith visits with h
 is newest novel\, Baked (Black Cat/Grove). Published in the season that Ca
 lifornia&#039\;s Proposition 19&mdash\;which would legalize marijuana use&
 mdash\;this entertaining mystery has ganga growing at its core. Protagonis
 t Miro Basinas is a botanist whose skills result in his winning Amsterdam&
 #039\;s Cannabis Cup&mdash\;which sets in motion a whole array of intrigue
 s and escapades.
DTSTART:20100917T180000
DTEND:20100917T193000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Mark Haskell Smith
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0112ou0gL6@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:I&rsquo\;m with Fatty chronicles Ugel&rsquo\;s attempt to follo
 w his doctor&rsquo\;s orders and lose 50 pounds or risk dropping dead whil
 e standing in line at Popeye&rsquo\;s. It details the complex love triangl
 e between himself\, his wife\, and all things crispy\, braised\, barbecued
 \, and saut&eacute\;ed.
DTSTART:20100917T183000
DTEND:20100917T193000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Edward Ugel
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0116c8XrkM@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Paul Park is the author of 10 critically acclaimed novels and a
  collection of short stories. He is known as one of the finest authors on 
 the &quot\;humanist&quot\; wing of American literary speculative fiction a
 nd his work has been nominated for multiple awards. He teaches creative wr
 iting at Williams College in Massachusetts.
DTSTART:20100917T190000
DTEND:20100917T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction: Paul Park
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0120FOCRUL@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
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DESCRIPTION:The wonderfully prolific Rick Bass\, already author or editor o
 f twenty-five books of both fiction and non-fiction\, makes this welcome r
 eturn to Elliott Bay from his home in northwest Montana&#039\;s Yaak Valle
 y. The occasion is the delightful new Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin H
 arcourt)\, a novel one which returns him to his more southern roots.
DTSTART:20100917T200000
DTEND:20100917T213000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Rick Bass
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0123KU6SAu@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Neil Low signs Unreasonable Persuasion.
DTSTART:20100918T120000
DTEND:20100918T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Neil Low
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0127EuLwma@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Mercer Island&#039\;s own Michael Sherer returns with the lates
 t installment in his acclaimed Emerson Ward mystery series\, Death on a Bu
 dget.
DTSTART:20100918T130000
DTEND:20100918T160000
LOCATION:3014 78th Ave SE\, Mercer Island\, WA (Island Books)
SUMMARY:Michael Sherer
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0130uB6gKW@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Simcox signs The Magic Warble. Dwarfs\, gnomes\, fairi
 es\, talking animals\, and an evil queen - all these and more can be found
  in The Magic Warble\, an enchanting tale of adventure and friendship.
DTSTART:20100918T130000
DTEND:20100918T140000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Victoria Simcox
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-013451fw0D@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In Fallout\, the voices of three youths&ndash\;Hunter\, Autumn\
 , and Summer Snow&ndash\;finish the story Ellen Hopkins began with the boo
 k Crank and continued with the book Glass.
DTSTART:20100918T140000
DTEND:20100918T153000
LOCATION:15311 Main Street \, Mill Creek\, WA (University Book Store - Mill
  Creek)
SUMMARY:Ellen Hopkins
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0138gRaxGk@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Minneapolis poet Seth Berg visits with a debut collection\, Mut
 ed Lines from Someone Else&#039\;s Memory\, newly published by Dark Sky Bo
 oks\, itself newly transplanted to the Seattle area from South Carolina.
DTSTART:20100918T140000
DTEND:20100918T153000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Seth Berg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0141rtV1gs@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jean Haner will share secrets of what your child&#039\;s face c
 an tell you about their personality\, learning style\, and much more. Afte
 rward\, Haner will demonstrate face reading with the audience and sign cop
 ies of her book The Wisdom of Your Child&#039\;s Face.
DTSTART:20100918T140000
DTEND:20100918T153000
LOCATION:626 106th Ave NE\, Bellevue\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - Bellevue)
SUMMARY:Jean Haner: The Wisdom of Your Child&#039\;s Face
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0145DLE10B@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Bill Chandler promotes The Ultimate Inventor&#039\;s Handbook. 
 Before you blow $1\,000 on a development company\, or waste another year w
 ondering what to do next\, read this book.
DTSTART:20100918T140000
DTEND:20100918T150000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Bill Chandler
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0149p46piG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Julia Glass\, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes
 \, and other reader (book group) favorites I See You Everywhere and The Wh
 ole World Over\, is back with a nuanced\, insightful new novel\, The Widow
 er&#039\;s Tale (Pantheon).
DTSTART:20100918T160000
DTEND:20100918T173000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Julia Glass
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0152GgtwV5@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The author presents The Warriors and Wordsmiths of Freedom. Jou
 rney from the days of William &ldquo\;Braveheart&rdquo\; Wallace during th
 e Wars of Independence in Scotland\, to the days when Scottish and Irish p
 eople immigrated to the American Colonies and helped George Washington and
  Thomas Jefferson fight for freedom in America during the Revolutionary Wa
 r.
DTSTART:20100918T170000
DTEND:20100918T183000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Linda MacDonald-Lewis
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0156JVM9JF@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:For seven years\, Alison Arngrim played a wretched\, scheming\,
  selfish\, lying\, manipulative brat on one of TV history&#039\;s most bel
 oved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie viewers hated 
 Nellie Oleson and her evil antics\, Arngrim grew to love her character-and
  the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her. In Confessions of a Pr
 airie Bitch\, Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood and recalls her mo
 st cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of the sho
 w. She also bravely recounts her life&#039\;s challenges and her second ca
 reer in social and political activism. Arngrim relays all this and more wi
 th biting wit\, and describes how Nellie Olson taught her to be bold\, dar
 ing\, and determined.
DTSTART:20100918T190000
DTEND:20100918T203000
LOCATION:6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA (Ravenna Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Alison Arngrim
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0160mWRneR@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Few expected that Elizabeth Hughes\, diagnosed with juvenile di
 abetes in 1919\, would live to adulthood\, much less to welcome children a
 nd grandchildren into the world. Her story\, and that of the Canadian rese
 archers who first identified and purified the animal insulin that saved no
 t only her life but also the lives of many millions of other diabetics\, i
 s told by Seattle writer Thea Cooper in the new book\, Breakthrough: Eliza
 beth Hughes\, the Discovery of Insulin\, and the Making of a Medical Mirac
 le (St. Martin&#039\;s Press\, co-authored with Arthur Ainsberg).
DTSTART:20100918T190000
DTEND:20100918T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Thea Cooper
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0164F1Cb1L@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The author will be reading from his new book of poetry\, Muted 
 Lines from Someone Else&#039\;s Memory. Seth Michael Berg earned his MFA i
 n poetry from Bowling Green State University in 2003 and has since been bo
 uncing around the country teaching\, tending bar\, sculpting\, writing\, a
 nd occasionally snowshoeing. His poems and fiction can be found in Connect
 icut Review\, Lake Effect\, Word Riot\, JMWW\, 13th Warrior Review\, Chiro
 n Review\, BlazeVOX\, Pike Magazine\, Disappearing City Literary Review\, 
 and Dark Sky Magazine\, among others.
DTSTART:20100918T190000
DTEND:20100918T200000
LOCATION:219 Broadway E\, Seattle\, WA (Pilot Books)
SUMMARY:Seth Berg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0168Ozr1P7@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:It&#039\;s a brand new book from internationally acclaimed youn
 g adult fantasy author Cornelia Funke. Reckless is the story of young Jaco
 b Reckless\, a boy with access to the secrets and treasures of the Mirrorw
 orld. But what happens when Jacob&#039\;s younger brother follows Jacob to
  the Mirrorworld? Dark magic turns the boy to beast\, and endangers everyt
 hing Jacob holds dear. Two tickets are free with the purchase of Reckless 
 from University Book Store beginning September 14.
DTSTART:20100919T133000
DTEND:20100919T150000
LOCATION:1426 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Showbox at the Market)
SUMMARY:Cornelia Funke
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-01723NFPWm@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Now series editor and creator of Things Asian Press guidebooks\
 , Kim Fay is here to share her love of Vietnamese culture\, people\, and f
 ood\, all beautifully presented in her new book\, Communion: A Culinary Jo
 urney Through Vietnam (Things Asian Press).
DTSTART:20100919T160000
DTEND:20100919T173000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Kim Fay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0175sTnp9t@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Ken Armstrong discusses Scoreboard\, Baby: A Story of College F
 ootball\, Crime and Complicity. This\, warts and all\, is the story of the
  2000 University of Washington football season&ndash\;a story of great suc
 cess (and a Rose Bowl appearance) on the field\, and questionable behavior
  off. The book expands on some eye-opening reporting done by reporters at 
 The Seattle Times.
DTSTART:20100920T190000
DTEND:20100920T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Ken Armstrong
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0179ajtcBK@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Esteemed Columbia University historian Mae Ngai\, whose first b
 ook (on illegal immigration of an earlier time) Impossible Subjects receiv
 ed the AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize and the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner A
 ward for best first book on any topic in American history\, focuses more o
 n the Chinese American immigrant experience in her new book\, The Lucky On
 es: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghto
 n Mifflin Harcourt).
DTSTART:20100920T190000
DTEND:20100920T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Mae Ngai
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0182PxEmfg@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Susan Casey discusses &quot\;The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues
 \, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean.&quot\;
DTSTART:20100920T190000
DTEND:20100920T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Susan Casey
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0186Gu99C3@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Justin Somper promotes Vampirates 5: Empire of the Night. There
 &rsquo\;s a bloody battle brewing in the seas\, and each crew will need al
 l hands on deck. This time\, Vampirate twins Grace and Connor may find the
 mselves fighting for their lives-or against each other.
DTSTART:20100920T190000
DTEND:20100920T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Justin Somper
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0190OWICDE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Safran Foer&mdash\;the acclaimed author of Everything 
 Is Illuminated\; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close\; and a new worker of
  non-fiction\, Eating Animals&mdash\;spent his youth oscillating between o
 mnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood\, and facing the pr
 ospect of making dietary choices on a child&rsquo\;s behalf\, his casual q
 uestioning became more urgent\; Foer ended up visiting factory farms in th
 e middle of the night\, dissecting the emotional ingredients of meals from
  his childhood\, and probing some of his most primal instincts about right
  and wrong. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100920T193000
DTEND:20100920T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Jonathan Safran Foer: &lsquo\;Eating Animals&rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0194dKS5bG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:When kids fall off a bike or wake from a bad dream\, sometimes 
 a make-it-all-better kiss just isn&rsquo\;t enough. But hypnotherapist and
  homeopath Judith Simon Prager believes what you say to your child in thos
 e first moments of pain or fear could make all the difference. Prager\, co
 -author of Verbal First Aid\, explains how calming words can promote heali
 ng\, relieve pain\, even save lives. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100920T193000
DTEND:20100920T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Future of Health: Judith Simon Prager: Healing Words
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0197ovVBn5@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In the fifth addition to the &#039\;Vampirates&#039\; saga\, UK
  bestselling author Justin Somper continues the adventures of twins Connor
  and Grace in Empire of Night with a bloody battle on the high seas. All h
 ands on deck for this exciting adventure!
DTSTART:20100921T160000
DTEND:20100921T173000
LOCATION:2675 NE University Village\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - U
 niversity Village)
SUMMARY:Justin Somper
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-020141wCDN@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In the world of Inter/Supernatural crime\, there&#039\;s no vil
 lain quite like teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. Eoin Colfer read
 s and signs Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex.
DTSTART:20100921T183000
DTEND:20100921T200000
LOCATION:3003 NE 75th St\, Seattle\, WA (Eckstein Middle School)
SUMMARY:Eoin Colfer
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0204lkju3p@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:One of the finest younger writers to come from England in recen
 t years\, Tom McCarthy is here from his London home to read from his new n
 ovel\, C. (Knopf)\, which is longlisted for this year&#039\;s MAN Booker P
 rize. Already highly praised for his debut novel\, Remainder (&quot\;One o
 f the great English novels of the past ten years&quot\; - Zadie Smith)\, a
 nd an earlier work\, Tintin and the Secret of Literature\, Tom McCarthy in
  C. takes readers back a century to turn-of-the-century England\, and then
  sets off wildly and inventively from there.
DTSTART:20100921T190000
DTEND:20100921T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Tom McCarthy
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-02097r1vpT@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Juliet\, an ambitious\, utterly engaging historical novel on th
 e scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus\, follows a young wo
 man who discovers that her family&rsquo\;s origins reach all the way back 
 to literature&rsquo\;s greatest star-crossed lovers. Join the library for 
 a special evening with author Anne Fortier as she reads from and discusses
  her celebrated new book
DTSTART:20100921T190000
DTEND:20100921T203000
LOCATION:1111 110th Ave NE\, Bellevue\, WA (Bellevue Regional Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Anne Fortier
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0212SOM71N@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Tamam Kahn promotes Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet M
 uhammad. This fascinating subject matter comes alive as Tamam Kahn reveals
  the stories of these largely unknown &ndash\; and empowered &ndash\; hist
 orical women. Her talk joins prose\, poetry\, and spoken word.
DTSTART:20100921T190000
DTEND:20100921T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Tamam Kahn
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0216gGd2kw@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:As the U.S. debates a new national policy on climate change\, o
 ur public utilities will be transformed utterly. Peter Fox-Penner\, author
  of Smart Power\, explains the coming energy revolution\, examining option
 s for low-carbon emissions along with the real-world challenges the indust
 ry and its regulators face in retooling and financing new sources and syst
 ems. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100921T193000
DTEND:20100921T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Soundings from Island Press: Peter Fox-Penner: &lsquo\;Smart Power&
 rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0225v3IkZP@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Cited as a &quot\;5 Under 35&quot\; Award-winner by the Nationa
 l Book Foundation for his book of stories\, Third Class Superhero\, Charle
 s Yu hits Seattle with his winning debut novel\, How to Live Safely in a S
 cience Fictional Universe (Pantheon).
DTSTART:20100922T160000
DTEND:20100922T173000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Charles Yu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0229jEgBls@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In this young adult novel\, Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholi
 c girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She has spent years keeping everyone
  at a distance--even her closest friends--and it seems as if her senior ye
 ar is going to be more of the same . . . until Luc Cain enrolls in her cla
 ss. No one knows where he came from\, but Frannie can&#039\;t seem to stay
  away from him.
DTSTART:20100922T190000
DTEND:20100922T203000
LOCATION:6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA (Ravenna Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Lisa Desrochers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0232BbCUEk@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The author reads and signs How to Live Safely in a Science Fict
 ional Universe. Charles Yu\, an author\, presents a novel about Charles Yu
 \, a protagonist in a future world. In a wholly original novel\, Yu has pr
 oduced a book that author Nick Harraway calls: &quot\;Funny\, touching\, a
 nd weirdly beautiful. This book is awesome.&quot\;
DTSTART:20100922T190000
DTEND:20100922T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Charles Yu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0236Vx6epU@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:British Columbia writer John Vaillant wrote what has been an en
 during favorite of Northwest coast nature writing with his earlier book\, 
 The Golden Spruce. He works his way all the way around the northern Pacifi
 c Rim to Siberia for his absolutely riveting new book\, The Tiger: A True 
 Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf).
DTSTART:20100922T190000
DTEND:20100922T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:John Vaillant
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0240Zb7F9S@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Koren Zailckas\, bestselling author of Smashed\, returns with h
 er second memoir\, Fury. Combining sophisticated sociological research wit
 h a dramatic and deeply personal story\, Fury delves into the psychologica
 l consequences of repressed anger.
DTSTART:20100922T190000
DTEND:20100922T203000
LOCATION:2675 NE University Village\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - U
 niversity Village)
SUMMARY:Koren Zailckas
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0243n4BWX5@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jan Faull presents Amazing Minds. Drawing on the latest fascina
 ting research in child brain development\, noted parenting expert Jan Faul
 l gives parents the essential tools to recognize and encourage their child
 &rsquo\;s natural development- and have fun with their kids in the process
 .
DTSTART:20100922T190000
DTEND:20100922T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Jan Faull
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0247WBrKNX@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:It is no accident that &ldquo\;futurists&rdquo\; flop\, says Pr
 ofessor John L. Casti: Most social prediction is based on the extrapolatio
 n of present trends into the future\, and generally fails because trends c
 hange. Casti\, author of Mood Matters\, explains how the collective mood o
 f a population biases the events we can expect\, arguing that the presumpt
 ion that events cause social moods and trends is exactly backward. Tickets
  are $5.
DTSTART:20100922T193000
DTEND:20100922T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:John Casti: How Our Mood Affects Our Future
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0251S7Vzbt@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Meet Jennifer Worick\, the author of Simple Gifts: 50 Little Lu
 xuries to Craft\, Sew &amp\; Knit.  Craft with Jennifer and get autographe
 d copies of her book at the Queen Anne Books booth.
DTSTART:20100923T170000
DTEND:20100923T190000
LOCATION:W Crockett St at Queen Anne Ave N \, Seattle\, WA (Queen Anne Farm
 ers Market)
SUMMARY:Jennifer Worick
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0254F6SObO@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jasmine Alinder will speak about her book\, Moving Images: Phot
 ography and the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Pr
 ess). Published as part of a series edited by esteemed historian and forme
 r Seattle resident Roger Daniels\, Moving Images examines how photography 
 was used to document and present the World War II impounding of Japanese A
 mericans\, and includes analysis of work by Dorothea Lang\, Ansel Adams\, 
 and Manzanar inmate Toyo Miyatake\, who secretly constructed his own camer
 a to document camp life.
DTSTART:20100923T180000
DTEND:20100923T193000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Jasmine Alinder
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0258t5hjsj@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Rowan Jacobsen discusses and signs American Terroir. Terroir: a
  French word that means &quot\;foods that are what they are because of whe
 re they come from.&quot\; Rowan Jacobsen traveled the U.S. to sample the l
 ocalest of local delicacies\, and in a dozen witty essays\, he talks about
  it. And he explains ecologically why it is some foods thrive in some regi
 ons&ndash\;our own Yakima Valley apples\, for instance. Expect an apple ta
 sting at this event.
DTSTART:20100923T190000
DTEND:20100923T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Rowan Jacobsen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0262WW7TaK@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Jason Lester discusses and signs Running on Faith. The loss of 
 use of his right arm seemed like an end to Jason Lester&#039\;s desire to 
 be a professional athlete\, but it didn&#039\;t. In fact\, Lester pushed t
 hrough\, and has thrived and become one of the stars of the Ironman and Ul
 traman competitions where he bikes\, swims\, and runs more miles than most
  of us can imagine\, all with the use of only three limbs.
DTSTART:20100923T190000
DTEND:20100923T203000
LOCATION:7210 E Greenlake Dr N\, Seattle\, WA (Super Jock n Jill)
SUMMARY:Jason Lester
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0266KGb7Pz@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In 1987\, the newly divorced Rita Golden Gelman set out to live
  her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad.  She wrote a 
 book about her ongoing journey\, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large 
 in the World and\, in 2001\, insisted on putting her personal e-mail addre
 ss in the last chapter--against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuito
 us decision. She has met thousands of readers\, stayed in their homes\, an
 d sat around kitchen tables sharing stories and food and laughter.
DTSTART:20100923T190000
DTEND:20100923T200000
LOCATION:2214 NW Market St\, Seattle\, WA (Secret Garden Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Rita Golden Gelman
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0269doL7X1@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Susan Rich\, author of three collections of poetry\, The Cartog
 rapher&rsquo\;s Tongue / Poems of the World\, Cures Include Travel\, and T
 he Alchemist&rsquo\;s Kitchen\, reads from her work.
DTSTART:20100923T190000
DTEND:20100923T200000
LOCATION:219 Broadway E\, Seattle\, WA (Pilot Books)
SUMMARY:Susan Rich
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0273Dk3SSF@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:John Valliant presents The Tiger. The grisly rampage of a man-e
 ating Siberian tiger and the effort to trap it frame this suspenseful and 
 majestically narrated introduction to a world that few people are familiar
  with. Vaillant has written a mighty elegy that leads readers into the lai
 r of the tiger and into the heart of the Kremlin to explain how the Siberi
 an tiger went from being worshipped to being poached.
DTSTART:20100923T190000
DTEND:20100923T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:John Vaillant
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0278RewIbz@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Terry McMillan&rsquo\;s Waiting to Exhale was more than just a 
 best-selling novel&mdash\;its publication was a watershed moment in litera
 ry history. McMillan&rsquo\;s sassy and vibrant story about four African-A
 merican women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched
  a cultural nerve\, inspired a blockbuster film\, and garnered a devoted a
 udience. Now\, in her new work Getting to Happy\, McMillan revisits Savann
 ah\, Gloria\, Bernadine\, and Robin 15 years later\, when all are at midli
 fe crossroads\, learning to heal past hurts and reclaim their joy and drea
 ms. They&#039\;ve exhaled\; now they are learning to breathe. Tickets are 
 $5.
DTSTART:20100923T193000
DTEND:20100923T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:CD Forum: Terry McMillan: &lsquo\;Getting to Happy&rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0281vZvXWu@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Larsen presents Liar\, Liar. Private Investigator Cat DeLuca an
 d her Pants on Fire Detective Agency have a reputation for catching cheate
 rs.
DTSTART:20100924T183000
DTEND:20100924T193000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:K. J. Larsen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0285XNFTuR@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra MacKenzie reads and signs Immortal Quest. It&#039\;s 
 London\, England\, and Detective Nick Wilson finds himself confronted by a
  burglar who insists that Nick is his best friend suffering from amnesia\,
  and that he\, the burglar\, is a 500-year-old immortal mage. Logic and re
 ason force Nick to believe that this is simply impossible. Complicating ma
 tters further is the burglar&#039\;s claim than an evil mage named Vere ha
 s just been released from limbo\, and wants three objects of power that co
 uld destroy humankind.
DTSTART:20100924T190000
DTEND:20100924T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Alexandra MacKenzie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0289vWIwdM@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Grace Bond\, Amber Flame and Marjorie Manwaring from 
 the Jack Straw program read.
DTSTART:20100924T190000
DTEND:20100924T203000
LOCATION:16600 NE 80th St\, Redmond\, WA ( Old Redmond Schoolhouse Communit
 y Center)
SUMMARY:RASP Reading Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0293TcxG1g@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Over a decade in the research and writing\, Isabel Wilkerson&#0
 39\;s magisterial work of narrative history\, The Warmth of Other Suns: Th
 e Epic Story of America&#039\;s Great Migration (Random House)\, is one of
  those rare books which stands out not only in its publication season\, bu
 t over some serious time. This is one of those books\, tracing the lives o
 f three African-Americans\, their individual decisions to move from the So
 uth to the North or West (Chicago\, New York\, Los Angeles)\, and how thos
 e decisions played out over their lives and that of their families\, in a 
 time ranging from World War I into the 1970s.
DTSTART:20100924T190000
DURATION:PT2H0M0S
LOCATION:2300 S Massachusetts St\, Seattle\, WA (Northwest African American
  Museum)
SUMMARY:Isabel Wilkerson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0296UCxfOF@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Rosner is here for the newly released paperback of he
 r newest novel\, Blue Nude (Gallery). Blue Nude was originally inspired by
  the author&#039\;s involvement with a project called Acts of Reconciliati
 on\, which brought together second generation Germans and Jews in order to
  confront their shared legacy from World War II and before.
DTSTART:20100924T190000
DTEND:20100924T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rosner
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0300REMfxe@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Neff&#039\;s book\, Hard Cache\, takes a look at events
  forcing people to examine their commitments&mdash\;past\, present and fut
 ure&mdash\;in the light of day.
DTSTART:20100924T203000
DTEND:20100924T213000
LOCATION:3014 78th Ave SE\, Mercer Island\, WA (Island Books)
SUMMARY:Charlie Neff
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0304uA5cmU@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Karianne Larsen signs Liar Liar.
DTSTART:20100925T120000
DTEND:20100925T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Karianne Larsen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0308uO04Xz@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Join Island Books for an evening of memories\, food\, and fun w
 ith Andrea Lott. Now\, as an international traveler and former management 
 consultant\, she is immersed in the Seattle food world from soups to nuts&
 mdash\;from the shopping expeditions\, to the impressive evening meals she
  prepares for many friends and family. The Dining In Seattle: Past &amp\; 
 Present project allowed her to peek into the kitchens of prominent Seattle
  chefs of today and the past four decades\, scratching her itch for detail
 s\, details\, details.
DTSTART:20100925T130000
DTEND:20100925T160000
LOCATION:3014 78th Ave SE\, Mercer Island\, WA (Island Books)
SUMMARY:Andrea Lott
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0311wuV89s@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Local authors Laura Cooper and Kiyo Marsh share stories and sea
 food tips as they discuss their new book\, &quot\;The Fishes and Dishes Co
 okbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska&#039\;s Commercial F
 isherwomen.&quot\;
DTSTART:20100925T140000
DTEND:20100925T150000
LOCATION:5614 22nd Ave NW\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Ballard 
 Branch)
SUMMARY:Laura Cooper and Kiyo Marsh
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0315uVeG1O@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:See poetry come to life! My Tooth Fell in My Soup is a charming
  book written by Erik Korhel. It contains 21 lovely poems about childhood\
 , first love\, falling teeth\, picking teams\, breathing fire and much mor
 e!
DTSTART:20100925T160000
DTEND:20100925T173000
LOCATION:600 Pine St Suite 107\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - Downto
 wn)
SUMMARY:Erik Korhel
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0319xRwSre@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Rodney Smith promotes Stepping Out of Self Deception. Smith emp
 hasizes the importance of discovery and experimentation\, following the Bu
 ddha&rsquo\;s dictum of testing principles rather than accepting dogma.
DTSTART:20100925T183000
DTEND:20100925T193000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Rodney Smith
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0322dANWuE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION: In their new book\, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Cross
 roads to Psychedelic London\, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (Da Cap
 o)\, music journalist/archivists Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber focus on h
 is formative musical experiences between 1962 and 1966\, years that saw hi
 m out of Seattle\, eventually in Europe.
DTSTART:20100925T190000
DTEND:20100925T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0326K6t1ac@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Noted portrait photographer Nancy Medwell presents her new volu
 me of pictures and reflections\, Eternal Moments\, awakening us to the imp
 ortance and beauty of sharing our hearts with others\, both on a spiritual
  and artistic level.
DTSTART:20100925T190000
DTEND:20100925T203000
LOCATION:3014 78th Ave SE\, Mercer Island\, WA (Island Books)
SUMMARY:Nancy Medwell
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0330eJUWWp@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Sisters Julianne\, Kristen and Kari Larsen craft an intriguing 
 tale with Liar Liar\, the first book in the Cat DeLuca Mysteries. Fans of 
 Janet Evanovich\, Mary Janice Davidson and Lisa Lutz will love this book.
DTSTART:20100926T120000
DTEND:20100926T130000
LOCATION:2000 S Commons\, Federal Way\, WA (Borders - Federal Way)
SUMMARY:Julianne\, Kristen and Kari Larsen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0334P5wUPf@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:A.J. Rathbun\, editor of &quot\;In Their Cups: Poems about Drin
 king Places\, Drinks\, and Drinkers\,&quot\; reads from the new anthology\
 , along with contributors Emily Bedard\, Allen Braden\, James Gurley\, and
  others.
DTSTART:20100926T150000
DTEND:20100926T163000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:In Their Cups: Poems about Drinking Places\, Drinks\, and Drinkers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-03388dJ2Kw@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Tao Lin reads from his newest work\, Richard Yates (Melville Ho
 use). Yes\, it&#039\;s fiction\, and &quot\;Richard Yates&quot\; is named 
 after the late writer&mdash\;but isn&#039\;t about him.
DTSTART:20100926T170000
DTEND:20100926T183000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Tao Lin
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0341WTf5Dt@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Debrah Morkun&#039\;s first full-length book of poems\, Project
 ion Machine\, was released by BlazeVox Books in April 2010. Hera Calf Ligh
 tning Rod\, a small chapbook\, was released by Splitleaves Press shortly t
 hereafter.
DTSTART:20100926T190000
DTEND:20100926T200000
LOCATION:219 Broadway E\, Seattle\, WA (Pilot Books)
SUMMARY:Debrah Morkun &amp\; friends
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0345SkVe7v@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Sara Gruen will drop by the store to sign copies of her newest 
 book Ape House.  Get your copy signed at this special afternoon event. Thi
 s is not a traditional signing\, she is swinging by the store and will sig
 n books for about 30 minutes.
DTSTART:20100927T130000
DTEND:20100927T133000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Sara Gruen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0349oVsM8S@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Ken Scholes reads and signs Antiphon. The third book in a five 
 book series\, Antiphon continues the story of the Androfrancine Order. Epi
 c fantasy and post-apocalyptic science fiction are fused in this series of
  books about myth\, prophecy\, and epic adventure.
DTSTART:20100927T190000
DTEND:20100927T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Ken Scholes
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0352XsvLP5@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Dividing his time between Vienna and Berlin\, Daniel Kehlmann i
 s most known for his novel\, Measuring the World\, which was translated in
 to more than forty languages. Recipient of numerous awards\, including the
  Candide Prize\, the Thomas Mann Prize\, the Literature Prize of the Konra
 d Adenauer Foundation\, and more\, he is here with the newly translated Fa
 me: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Pantheon\, translated by Carol Janeway).
DTSTART:20100927T190000
DTEND:20100927T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Daniel Kehlmann
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0356NGFvUf@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Sara Gruen\, author of the international bestseller &quot\;Wate
 r for Elephants\,&quot\; reads from &quot\;Ape House.&quot\;
DTSTART:20100927T190000
DTEND:20100927T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Sara Gruen reads at the Central Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0360vvCJZ4@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Linguist Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life traveling a
 nd learning languages\, but nothing prepared her for the surprises of lear
 ning Mandarin\, China&rsquo\;s most common language\, or for the intensity
  of living in Shanghai and Beijing. But Fallows\, author of Dreaming in Ch
 inese\, realized that as her skill with Mandarin increased\, bits of the l
 anguage became windows into the romance\, humor\, protocol\, relationships
 \, and humanity of modern China. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100927T193000
DTEND:20100927T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Deborah Fallows: Seeing China through Language
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-03642aK6am@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Marla Martenson presents Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker. M
 arla takes her readers for a hilarious romp through her matchmaking-agency
  days and the battle to keep her self-esteem from imploding in L.A. where 
 looks are everything and money talks. With juggling the demands of her out
 - of-touch clients\, valiantly trying to meet the capricious demands of an
  insensitive boss and balancing the tightrope of her own marriage\, it is 
 remarkable that Marla found the stamina to pen this story of the universal
  struggles that single men and women face in their lives.
DTSTART:20100928T183000
DTEND:20100928T200000
LOCATION:1501 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Borders - Downtown)
SUMMARY:Marla Martenson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-03696SAjeL@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The Monkey Bible is a scientific and mythological exploration o
 f the need in humans for creation myths and storytelling. It is a study of
  what it means to be human as well as a timely and necessary plea to alter
  the stories by which humans define themselves as a way to protect our lif
 e and livelihood from extinction.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T203000
LOCATION:6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA (Ravenna Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Mark Laxer
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0373Tw8vtG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever considered working in state\, local\, or the fede
 ral government? Or thought it might be fulfilling to work in a nonprofit o
 r a corporate organization that serves the public good? Heather Krasna&#03
 9\;s Jobs That Matter can help you find entry into that world.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Heather Krasna
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0377kJ3V6X@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Annabel Lyon&#039\;s astounding debut novel\, The Golden Mean: 
 A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Knopf) takes readers viscera
 lly and with verisimilitude back to the day\, 2300 years ago.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Annabel Lyon
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0380OhAUUj@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:&quot\;Design for Good\,&quot\; the first program in the six-pa
 rt &quot\;Design in Depth: Solving Problems with Design&quot\; series\, fe
 atures industrial designer Yves B&eacute\;har.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:&#039\;Design in Depth: Design for Good&#039\; at the Central Libra
 ry
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0384a2rneE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:A Spankstra Press event\, featuring: Readers: Eli Richardson\, 
 Stacey Levine\, David La Terre\, Maged Zaher\, Ira Parnes\, Arne Pihl\, Am
 anda Dellinger\, John Persak\, Roger Weaver\, Brian McGuigan\, Loraine Cam
 pbell Many will have chapbooks for sale. Also: First Ever and Forever Last
 ing &quot\;SpankstraGeneous Award&quot\; will be given out.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T210000
LOCATION:219 Broadway E\, Seattle\, WA (Pilot Books)
SUMMARY:Last of the Living Spankstra (and friends)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0389lGRzuh@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Join local Seattle chef Ethan Stowell for the release of his fi
 rst cookbook\, with recipes that honor Italian tradition while celebrating
  the best ingredients the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T203000
LOCATION:2675 NE University Village\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - U
 niversity Village)
SUMMARY:Ethan Stowell&#039\;s New Italian Kitchen
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0392HH1SUk@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Fallows presents Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons 
 In Life\, Love\, And Language. Nothing prepared Deborah Fallows for the su
 rprises of learning Mandarin\, China&rsquo\;s most common language\, or th
 e intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. As her skill with Mandarin 
 increased\, bits of the language became windows into understanding the rom
 ance\, humor\, protocol\, relationships\, and the overflowing humanity of 
 modern China.
DTSTART:20100928T190000
DTEND:20100928T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Deborah Fallows
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-03980V6VzK@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Pearl is a reader and a librarian\, not a travel agent&md
 ash\;so instead of recommending 120 places to visit before you die\, she r
 ecommends 120 places to read about before you visit. Known for her librari
 an action figure and her influential Book Lust\, Seattleite Pearl&mdash\;a
 uthor of the new Book Lust to Go&mdash\;summons the perfect book to connec
 t with any interest or adventure\, whether it requires a passport or just 
 an armchair: V.S. Naipaul&rsquo\;s Among the Believers before a trip to In
 donesia\, for example\, or Nuala O&rsquo\;Faollin&rsquo\;s Are You Somebod
 y? before heading to Ireland. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100928T193000
DTEND:20100928T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Nancy Pearl: &lsquo\;Book Lust to Go&rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04013NZHJR@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Gary Friedly promotes Bridge Over The Valley. Trevor Jensen is 
 a smart\, free spirited young man who has taken a summer job on a train tr
 aveling between Washington State and North Dakota. When he finds himself i
 n the midst of controversy\, Trevor must learn who he truly is by acceptin
 g change\, loss and survival.
DTSTART:20100929T110000
DTEND:20100929T120000
LOCATION:1501 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Borders - Downtown)
SUMMARY:Gary A. Friedly
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0405zvhlvE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:In his cycling memoir\, Riding with Reindeer\, you follow Bob G
 oldstein through his two-wheeled\, pedal-powered tour of Scandinavia. Gold
 stein\, winner of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award for travel writing\, su
 ffuses this book with humor and a keen sense of adventure. It&#039\;s sure
  to please armchair&ndash\;or stationary bicycle seat&ndash\;travelers eve
 rywhere.
DTSTART:20100929T190000
DTEND:20100929T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Bob Goldstein
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0409p25ees@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist and scholar Emma Donoghue\, now based in Canada\
 , is here for her new novel\, Room (Little\, Brown). A longlist nominee fo
 r this year&#039\;s MAN Booker Prize\, Room is a story told form the point
  of view of a five-year-old who has never left the room in which he&mdash\
 ;and his mother&mdash\;are imprisoned.
DTSTART:20100929T190000
DTEND:20100929T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Emma Donoghue
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0412WBrGvE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Lee Carroll promotes Black Swan Rising.  When New York City jew
 elry designer Garet James opens a vintage silver box\, otherworldly things
  start happening. When Garet begins to investigate\, she is pulled into a 
 prophecy that is hundreds of years old.
DTSTART:20100929T190000
DTEND:20100929T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Lee Carroll
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0416bfFabg@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:With age comes wisdom&mdash\;and a renewed sense of purpose\, s
 ays writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson. The author 
 of Composing a Further Life\, Bateson sees aging today as an &ldquo\;impro
 visational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn\,&rdq
 uo\; and calls this new stage of the life cycle &ldquo\;Adulthood II.&rdqu
 o\; Bateson explores how people boosted by unprecedented levels of health\
 , energy\, time\, and resources are finding new meaning and new ways to co
 ntribute\, thinking about and approaching later lives with the full force 
 of imagination\, curiosity\, and enthusiasm. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100929T193000
DTEND:20100929T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Mary Catherine Bateson: Aging With Purpose
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0420K738Dr@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Judith Skillman reads from her new book of poetry about the nat
 ural world and endangered and extinct species\, &quot\;The Never\,&quot\; 
 a finalist for the FIELD/Oberlin Press Book Award and the Orphic Prize. Sh
 e&#039\;ll be joined by friends from her poetry group\, the Mount Baker Po
 ets\, Pat Hurshell\, Susan Lane &amp\; Joannie Kervran Stangeland.
DTSTART:20100929T193000
DTEND:20100929T210000
LOCATION:1634 11th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA (Richard Hugo House)
SUMMARY:Judith Skillman and Friends: Book Release Party for &quot\;The Neve
 r
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0424LmwSlu@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Laura Numeroff reads from Otis &amp\; Sydney and the Best Birth
 day Ever. A sweet and tender tale by the New York Times #1 bestselling aut
 hor of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the Jellybeans series\, Otis &amp\
 ; Sydney and the Best Birthday Ever introduces young readers to two lovabl
 e bears who understand that friendship is the only thing needed to make an
 y day special.
DTSTART:20100930T103000
DTEND:20100930T113000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Laura Numeroff
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0428vvfWN3@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:John Andrews promotes Rude Buay - Unstoppable.  This poignant a
 nd hard hitting story intensifies\, as Rude Buay - pronounced &#039\;Rude 
 Boy&#039\; a dedicated and stubborn Drug Enforcement Agent\, goes after a 
 powerful drug cartel threatening the government of Jamaica. Rude Buay is a
  gritty action drama with deviant twists\, entangled between the thin line
  of law and order.
DTSTART:20100930T110000
DTEND:20100930T120000
LOCATION:1501 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Borders - Downtown)
SUMMARY:John Andrews
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0431fMZInB@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:One of the most popular children&#039\;s book authors of all\, 
 Laura Numeroff makes this special mid-day appearance for her newest book\,
  Otis &amp\; Sydney and the Best Birthday Ever (Abrams Books for Young Rea
 ders). This enchanting tale of what happens when Otis plans a surprise for
  his friend Sydney&#039\;s birthday should join the list of other enduring
  favorites Laura Numeroff has created over the years&mdash\;The Jellybeans
  and the Big Dance\, When Sheep Sleep\, If You Give a Moose a Muffin\, If 
 You Give a Pig a Pancake\, and many\, many more. At her publisher&#039\;s 
 request\, Laura Numeroff will sign her books purchased for this visit\, al
 ong with one book brought from home.
DTSTART:20100930T130000
DTEND:20100930T143000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Laura Numeroff
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0435cTkFeU@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Seattle chef/owner Ethan Stowell&#039\;s is here 
 to promote his first book\, Ethan Stowell&#039\;s New Italian Kitchen (Ten
  Speed Press\, co-authored by Leslie Miller). In this beautifully produced
  book\, the proprietor of Union\, Tavolata\, How to Cook a Wolf\, Olives &
 amp\; Anchovies\, and the new Staple &amp\; Fancy brings the best of Itali
 an tradition and Pacific Northwest bounty together
DTSTART:20100930T170000
DTEND:20100930T183000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Ethan Stowell
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0439h8xOTG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Gary Friedly reads and signs Bridge Over the Valley.
DTSTART:20100930T180000
DTEND:20100930T193000
LOCATION:600 Pine St Suite 107\, Seattle\, WA (Barnes &amp\; Noble - Downto
 wn)
SUMMARY:Gary A. Friedly
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0442M03jnv@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Laaren Kate reads and signs Torment. Falling in love is never e
 asy. And falling in love with a fallen angel? Well\, that&#039\;s even har
 der to navigate. Luce loves Daniel\, but Daniel must hunt down a group of 
 immortals who want to kill Luce. So he hides her at a school for Nephilim\
 , the offspring of angels and humans. There\, though\, she learns that Dan
 iel hasn&#039\;t told her everything about himself and is hiding a dangero
 us secret.
DTSTART:20100930T183000
DTEND:20100930T200000
LOCATION:15311 Main Street \, Mill Creek\, WA (University Book Store - Mill
  Creek)
SUMMARY:Lauren Kate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04463ZxsdG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Dan Wells reads and signs Mr. Monster. John Wayne Cleaver\, a y
 oung man with an unhealthy obsession for serial killers\, used his intimat
 e knowledge of the inner workings of a monster&#039\;s mind to save his to
 wn in the book I Am Not a Serial Killer. But that monster\, it seems\, was
  not an island unto himself. He had friends\, and one of them turns up in 
 Clayton County\, giving Cleaver another case to solve\, another killer to 
 catch or kill. But the monster inside Cleaver seems to be getting stronger
 \, and that gives him two foes to face.
DTSTART:20100930T190000
DTEND:20100930T203000
LOCATION:4326 University Way NE\, Seattle\, WA (University Book Store - U D
 istrict)
SUMMARY:Dan Wells
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0450T8T5v7@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Starting with her breakout debut\, the enduringly popular Anywh
 ere But Here in 1986\, and with each of her three novels since\, Mona Simp
 son has read at Elliott Bay. My Hollywood (Knopf) tells the story of two s
 eemingly very different families&#039\; lives&mdash\;lives deeply examined
  and explored in contrast with superficial concerns suggested in a Hollywo
 od setting.
DTSTART:20100930T190000
DTEND:20100930T203000
LOCATION:1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Elliott Bay Book Co.)
SUMMARY:Mona Simpson
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04544gBSAs@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The spin-off of the popular &quot\;Cheap Wine and Poetry&quot\;
  series presents a ladies&#039\; night of prose writers\, featuring Karen 
 Finneyfrock\, Wilson Diehl\, Margot Kahn and Paullette Gaudet. Hosted by C
 harla Grenz.
DTSTART:20100930T190000
DTEND:20100930T210000
LOCATION:1634 11th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA (Richard Hugo House)
SUMMARY:&quot\;Cheap Beer and Prose&quot\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0457zSzMeu@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Carol Cassella promotes Healer. From national bestselling autho
 r Carol Cassella comes the story of one doctor&rsquo\;s struggle to hold h
 er family together through a storm of broken trust and questioned ethics. 
 Healer exposes the vulnerabilities of the American family\, provoking ques
 tions of choice versus fate\, desire versus need\, and the duplicitous pow
 er of money.
DTSTART:20100930T190000
DTEND:20100930T200000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Carol Cassella
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04624NEJTE@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:David Young&#039\;s contributions to poetry are considerable. A
  professor at Ohio&#039\;s Oberlin College for some years\, he has served 
 as an editor of that school&#039\;s esteemed literary magazine\, FIELD\, a
 nd of its well respected press\, known for its contemporary poetry series 
 and its works in translation. He has long been a translator himself\, most
  recently of the poetry of Du Fu and Paul Celan. But he travels here today
  to read from his own work\, the just published Field of Light and Shadow:
  Selected and New Poems ($27.95 Knopf)\, which draws from his decades of t
 houghtful\, often deeply moving poetry.
DTSTART:20100930T193000
DTEND:20100930T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:David Young
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0465XaJSFO@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity\, 
 but National Geographic senior editor Peter Miller says we 21st-century hu
 mans could learn a lot from the ancient instincts of ants\, bees\, and bir
 ds&mdash\;creatures who crowd. Already\, says Miller\, author of Smart Swa
 rms\, their collective intelligence has influenced airline-boarding proced
 ures\, spy networks\, and robotics\, and the wisdom we glean about crowd b
 ehavior could even help us solve our own complex problems with business\, 
 politics\, and technology. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20100930T193000
DTEND:20100930T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Science: Peter Miller: Learning from Swarms
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04692XaM7C@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Mary Daheim presents Loco Motive.
DTSTART:20101001T183000
DTEND:20101001T193000
LOCATION:17171 Bothell Way NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA (Third Place Books)
SUMMARY:Mary Daheim
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-04730K8tLG@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Tina Schumann&rsquo\;s manuscript &ldquo\;As If&rdquo\; was awa
 rded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for 2010 and will see publication by Pa
 rlor City Press this year. Her work received honorable mention in The Atla
 ntic Poetry Writing Contest for 2008 and she is the recipient of the Ameri
 can Poet Prize for 2009 from The American Poetry Journal.
DTSTART:20101001T190000
DTEND:20101001T203000
LOCATION:621 N 35th St\, Seattle\, WA (Fremont Place Book Company)
SUMMARY:Tina Schumann
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0477cW3o6x@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Attention\, Ken Follett fans: You might want to clear your cale
 ndar for the next four years. One of the world&rsquo\;s most beloved novel
 ists (The Pillars of the Earth)\, Follett has a new historical epic\, and 
 it&rsquo\;s just the first installment in a new series called The Century 
 Trilogy. Volume One\, Fall of Giants\, follows five interrelated families&
 mdash\;American\, German\, Russian\, English\, and Welsh&mdash\;through Wo
 rld War I and the Russian Revolution\; the second book\, due in 2012\, wil
 l feature their descendants in the Depression and WWII\; and the third (20
 14) will continue the tale through the Cold War. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20101001T193000
DTEND:20101001T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Ken Follett: Fall of Giants
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0481upv1pR@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Dana Haynes signs Crashers.
DTSTART:20101002T120000
DTEND:20101002T130000
LOCATION:117 Cherry St\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Mystery Bookshop)
SUMMARY:Dana Haynes
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0485E9uVDj@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Islamic radicalism believes in government by theocracy\, curtai
 ls civil liberties\, embraces torture\, represses women\, wants to eradica
 te homosexuals from society\, and insists on the use of force over diploma
 cy. Markos Moulitsas\, liberal pundit and founder and publisher of Daily K
 os\, sees a natural (if unlikely) ally in the American political spectrum&
 mdash\;the modern conservative movement&mdash\;and wryly explores their co
 mmon cause in his latest work\, American Taliban. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20101003T193000
DTEND:20101003T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Markos Moulitsas: Conservatives as &#039\;American Taliban&#039\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20100906T162648PDT-0489xGI16u@http://reading.kingrat.biz/events
DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Millions are out of work\, but Candice Reed\, co-author of the 
 hot\, new &quot\;anti-career&quot\; book\, Thank You for Firing Me! How to
  Catch the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job has all the soluti
 ons.
DTSTART:20101004T190000
DTEND:20101004T203000
LOCATION:7824 Center Blvd SE\, Snoqualmie\, WA (Snoqualmie Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Candice Reed
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTAMP:20100906T232648Z
DESCRIPTION:Michele Norris\, the host of NPR&rsquo\;s All Things Considered
 \, had set out to report and write a book about &ldquo\;the hidden convers
 ation on race&rdquo\; going on in this country. But along the way\, she un
 earthed some painful family secrets. And so\, in contemplating a &ldquo\;p
 ost-racial America\,&rdquo\; Norris\, author of The Grace of Silence\, dis
 covered through her story and her family&rsquo\;s how character is forged 
 by both repression and revelation\, and how silence can become a form of s
 elf-protection and a means of survival. Tickets are $10.
DTSTART:20101004T193000
DTEND:20101004T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:CD Forum: Michele Norris: &lsquo\;The Grace of Silence&rsquo\;
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DESCRIPTION:Hershey bars\, Tabasco sauce\, Spam\, even Google&mdash\;all co
 me from a &ldquo\;company town\,&rdquo\; where one business dominates the 
 local economy and culture. Seattle has in the past had the same designatio
 n&mdash\;and though most would say we&rsquo\;ve diversified in the last 25
  years\, there are still a handful of players that cast undeniably long sh
 adows. These towns are the essence of America\, says former BusinessWeek a
 ssociate editor Hardy Green\, who analyzes how the American economy has gr
 own and changed\, and how the company town has reflected the best and wors
 t of American capitalism. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20101004T193000
DTEND:20101004T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Hardy Green: &lsquo\;The Company Town&rsquo\;
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DESCRIPTION:Millions are out of work\, but Candice Reed\, co-author of the 
 hot\, new &quot\;anti-career&quot\; book\, Thank You for Firing Me! How to
  Catch the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job has all the soluti
 ons.
DTSTART:20101005T190000
DTEND:20101005T203000
LOCATION:12315 NE 143rd St\, Kirkland\, WA (Kingsgate Library)
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Candice Reed
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DESCRIPTION:When the 2008 recession hit\, blame was directed toward a bloat
 ed financial industry lacking government oversight or accountability. But 
 former Secretary of Labor and economist Robert Reich suggests a different\
 , structural\, reason for the meltdown: The distribution of wealth in the 
 United States is wildly off\, and the middle class in particular suffers f
 or it. Reich\, author of 2007&rsquo\;s Supercapitalism and the new Aftersh
 ock\, suggests that if we are to lastingly improve our economy\, it will t
 ake a serious examination of our nation&rsquo\;s principles\, and a much b
 roader safety net for the middle class. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20101005T193000
DTEND:20101005T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Robert Reich: What Really Caused the Recession
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DESCRIPTION:Foreign correspondent and Washington Post bureau chief\, Reid&r
 squo\;s books include the bestselling The Healing of America: A Global Que
 st for Better\, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care. &lt\;a href=&quot\;http://
 www.lectures.org/box_office/tickets.php?event=271&quot\;&gt\;Cheapest tick
 ets are $15&lt\;/a&gt\;.
DTSTART:20101005T193000
DTEND:20101005T210000
LOCATION:200 University St\, Seattle\, WA (Benaroya Hall)
SUMMARY:T. R. Reid
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DESCRIPTION:The 10th parallel&mdash\;the line of latitude 700 miles north o
 f the equator&mdash\;is a geographical and ideological front line where Ch
 ristianity and Islam collide: More than half the world&rsquo\;s 1.3 billio
 n Muslims live along it\, as do 60 percent of the world&rsquo\;s 2 billion
  Christians. Investigative journalist and poet Eliza Griswold\, author of 
 The Tenth Parallel\, examines the area&rsquo\;s complex relationships of r
 eligion\, land\, and oil\; local conflicts and global ideology\; politics 
 and martyrdom\; and faith and violence in the contemporary world. Tickets 
 are $5.
DTSTART:20101006T193000
DTEND:20101006T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Eliza Griswold: The Line Between Christianity and Islam
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Assume the worst\, says David Rakoff\, and you&rsquo\;ll never 
 be disappointed. By examining his own life alongside the realities of our 
 sunny\, everyone-can-be-a-star culture\, Rakoff\, author of the bestsellin
 g Don&rsquo\;t Get Too Comfortable and the new memoir Half Empty\, finds t
 hat the best is not yet to come\, adversity will triumph\, justice will no
 t be served\, and your dreams won&#039\;t come true. Whether he&rsquo\;s l
 acerating the musical Rent for its cutesy depiction of AIDS or criticizing
  the sad state of the outdated &ldquo\;House of Tomorrow&rdquo\; at Disney
 land\, his sharp and witty observations positively revel in the power of n
 egativity. Tickets are free with the purchase of Half Empty from Universit
 y Book Store\; otherwise $5 beginning September 21 and at the door.
DTSTART:20101007T193000
DTEND:20101007T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:David Rakoff: &lsquo\;Half Empty&rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:The past 20 years have drastically transformed our relationship
  with nuclear weapons. In The Twilight of the Bombs\, the culminating volu
 me in Richard Rhodes&rsquo\; prizewinning history of nuclear weapons\, Rho
 des offers a comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post&nda
 sh\;Cold War age\, detailing how the five original nuclear powers&mdash\;R
 ussia\, Great Britain\, France\, China\, and especially the United States&
 mdash\;have struggled with new realities. Assessing the hope for our futur
 e\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author also gauges the emerging threat of n
 uclear terrorism. Tickets are $5.
DTSTART:20101007T193000
DTEND:20101007T210000
LOCATION:1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Town Hall Seattle)
SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes: &lsquo\;The Twilight of the Bombs&rsquo\;
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco poet Matthew Zapruder reads from his third full-l
 ength collection\, Come on All You Ghosts\, from Copper Canyon Press. He i
 s an editor at Seattle&#039\;s Wave Books.
DTSTART:20101008T193000
DTEND:20101008T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Join the library for &iexcl\;Biblio Loco! A Celebration of the 
 Washington State Book Awards. This event will feature remarks and readings
  by award recipients in four adult categories: fiction\, poetry\, history/
 biography and general nonfiction. The Scandiuzzi Children&rsquo\;s Book Aw
 ard will honor one picture book for children\, one book for early readers 
 (grades one to three\, ages 6 to 9)\, and one book for middle grades and y
 oung adults (10- to 18-year-olds).  Winners will be announced in mid-Septe
 mber.
DTSTART:20101008T193000
DTEND:20101008T213000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:&iexcl\;Biblio Loco! Celebrate the Washington State Book Awards at 
 the Central Library
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Lauren Conrad promotes Lauren Conrad Style. Lauren Conrad is be
 st known for starring in the MTV hit series The Hills. Her first novel\, L
 .A. Candy\, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She began her career as a 
 fashion designer in spring 2008 with the debut of the Lauren Conrad Collec
 tion and expanded in 2009 with a second line\, LC Lauren Conrad\, exclusiv
 ely for Kohl&#039\;s.
DTSTART:20101009T140000
DTEND:20101009T150000
LOCATION:7525 166th Ave NE \, Redmond\, WA (Borders - Redmond)
SUMMARY:Lauren Conrad
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Gail Collins discusses &quot\;When Everything Changed: The Amaz
 ing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.&quot\;
DTSTART:20101011T190000
DTEND:20101011T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Gail Collins
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Ron Chernow discusses his new biography\, &quot\;Washington: A 
 Life.&quot\;
DTSTART:20101015T190000
DTEND:20101015T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Ron Chernow reads at the Central Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:R. A. Salvatore signs Gauntlgrym. Drizzt joins Bruenor on his q
 uest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich w
 ith ancient treasure.
DTSTART:20101015T190000
DTEND:20101015T200000
LOCATION:3000 184th St SW\, Lynnwood\, WA (Borders - Alderwood)
SUMMARY:R. A. Salvatore
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Ms. Agodon reads from Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room\, w
 hich received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She lives in Kingston\, W
 ashington.
DTSTART:20101017T150000
DTEND:20101017T163000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Kelli Russell Agodon
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Dinaw Mengestu reads from &quot\;How to Read the Air.&quot\;
DTSTART:20101018T190000
DTEND:20101018T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Dinaw Mengestu reads at the Central Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Leslie Marmon Silko discusses &quot\;The Turquoise Ledge: A Mem
 oir&quot\;.
DTSTART:20101019T190000
DTEND:20101019T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Leslie Marmon Silko reads at the Central Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Cartier Diamond Dagger and Gold Dagger Award-winner\, Paretsky 
 and her character V.I. Warshawski have revolutionized the mystery genre. &
 lt\;a href=&quot\;http://www.lectures.org/box_office/tickets.php?event=265
 &quot\;&gt\;Cheapest tickets are $15&lt\;/a&gt\;.
DTSTART:20101019T193000
DTEND:20101019T210000
LOCATION:200 University St\, Seattle\, WA (Benaroya Hall)
SUMMARY:Sara Paretsky
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Paul Harding reads from &quot\;Tinker\,&quot\; winner of the 20
 10 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
DTSTART:20101020T190000
DTEND:20101020T203000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Paul Harding
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Judy Bentley will read from her new book\, &quot\;Hiking Washin
 gton&#039\;s History&quot\; published by the University of Washington Pres
 s.
DTSTART:20101021T183000
DTEND:20101021T200000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:&#039\;Hiking Washington&#039\;s History&#039\; at the Central Libr
 ary
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Poetry by Rich Jensen\, Mary Sherwin\, and Jason Whitmarsh\, fi
 ction by Nancy Jooyoun Kim\, ukelele player Jenny Symons\, and Stacey Levi
 ne\, as host.
DTSTART:20101021T190000
DTEND:20101021T220000
LOCATION:1001 E Pike\, Seattle\, WA (Sole Repair Shop)
SUMMARY:The Off Hours Reading Series
END:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Bellingham poet Ms. Colen&#039\;s first full-length collection\
 , Money for Sunsets\, received the Judge&#039\;s Prize from Steel Toe Pres
 s. Shane McCrae&#039\;s collection Mule is from Cleveland State University
  Press. A resident of Iowa\, he holds degrees both from Harvard Law School
  and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
DTSTART:20101022T193000
DTEND:20101022T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Elizabeth J. Colen and Shane McCrae
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Seattle poet Snyder-Camp reads from her book The Forest of Sure
  Things\, published by Tupelo Press and winner of its award for Outstandin
 g First Book.
DTSTART:20101026T193000
DTEND:20101026T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Megan Snyder-Camp
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Ian Frazier discusses &quot\;Travels in Siberia\,&quot\; a hist
 orical travelogue.
DTSTART:20101031T140000
DTEND:20101031T153000
LOCATION:1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA (Seattle Public Library - Central Libr
 ary)
SUMMARY:Ian Frazier reads at the Central Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Dorothea Lasky reads from her second collection\, Black Life\, 
 published by Wave Books. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr
 . Warsh\, of New York City\, will read from both recent poetry and prose. 
 He is the author of numerous books\, including A Place in the Sun\, from S
 puyten Duyvil\, and Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005\, from Granary Books.
DTSTART:20101104T193000
DTEND:20101104T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Dorothea Lasky and Lewis Warsh
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:We begin our Open Elsewhere Series with a reading by the much l
 auded Tacoma-born poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg at the beautiful Chapel Perf
 ormance Space in the Good Shepherd Center\, just two blocks north of Open 
 Books on Sunnyside. Ms. Schnacken-\nberg reads from her just released sixt
 h collection\, Heavenly Questions\, published by Farrar\, Straus &amp\; Gi
 roux.
DTSTART:20101109T193000
DTEND:20101109T210000
LOCATION:4649 Sunnyside Ave N\, Seattle\, WA (Good Shepherd Center)
SUMMARY:Open Elsewhere Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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DESCRIPTION:Poet and prose writer Kazim Ali\, a professor at Oberlin Colleg
 e in Ohio\, reads from his latest book\, Bright Felon: Autobiography and C
 ities\, a work of creative non-fiction published by Wesleyan. Sarah Vap re
 ads from her third collection\, Faulkner&#039\;s Rosary\, from Saturnalia 
 Books. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula.
DTSTART:20101118T193000
DTEND:20101118T210000
LOCATION: 2414 N 45th St\, Seattle\, WA (Open Books)
SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Sarah Vap
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