DECEMBER 2010 • VOLUME 8 : ISSUE 12
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Wednesday • December 1 • 7pm
Kathy Gehrt
Discover Cooking with Lavender (SIMON &
SCHUSTER)
Ever feel the urge to experiment with flavor in
your cooking? Want to expand your kitchen
color palette to include a little light purple?
Kathy Gehrt’s new book will introduce you to
the power of lavender to enhance and change
your cooking.
Thursday • December 2 • 5pm
Apolo Ohno signs
Zero Regrets: Be Greater than Yesterday
(ATRIA)
Mill Creek store
Federal Way’s favorite son, medal-winning
speed skater Apolo Ohno, has a new book
about his life philosophy and personal story.
Join us in the Mill Creek store for a book
signing with Ohno, and bask in a little bit of
local sports pride. A signing ticket is required to
stand in the signing line. Signing tickets available
by purchasing Zero Regrets from University Book
Store Other signing guidelines apply. Please visit
www.ubookstore.com for details.
Thursday • December 2 • 6:30pm
Ken Armstrong &
Jonathan Martin
The Other Side of Mercy: A Killer’s Journey
Across the American Divide (DOG EAR
PUBLISHING)
Tacoma store
Coverage of the Maurice Clemmons
crime—Clemmons shot and killed four police
officers in an early morning ambush at a
coffee shop—won a Pulitzer for the Seattle
Times. But a story as significant, full, and
nuanced as this one deserved a much deeper,
more penetrative look. Ken Armstrong and
Jonathan Martin have done their best to
examine all aspects of the case—one that
involved the Puget Sound, Arkansas, and even
a presidential candidate—in this new book.
Thursday • December 2 • 7pm
Kate Morton
The Distant Hours (ATRIA)
One might expect that the contents of a letter
arriving 51 years late would have minimal
consequences on the receiver. Not so in Kate
Morton’s romantic thriller, The Distant Hours,
where a books editor named Edie Burchill
must travel to Milderhurst Castle, where her
mother lived during the air raids on London
to find out why a letter from one of the young
inhabitants of that castle has shattered her
mother so. It’s a complex—and compelling—
narrative.
Saturday • December 4 • 6:30pm
Jessica Theroux
Cooking with Italian Grandmothers:
Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily
(WELCOME BOOKS)
Enza Cucina
2128 Queen Anne Avenue N
In the intersection of the venn diagram of
kitchen and grandmother, one finds all the
best comfort foods. Research for Jessica
Theroux’s Cooking with Italian Grandmothers
likely made her the most comforted—and
luckiest—human being on the planet,
as she was invited into many an Italian
grandmother’s home to learn, to share, and
to eat. Get stories and recipes from Theroux’s
new book. This event will take place at the Enza
Cucina restaurant, and will accompany a meal.
The menu for this authentic, four-course Sicilian
dinner is available at their website ( http://www.
enzaseattle.com/). The price is only $35 (excluding
beverages, tax & gratuity) or $70 with the book
included at a discounted rate. We’ll start serving at
6:30 PM but you’re certainly welcome to come earlier
and have an aperitivo! To make a reservation call
the restaurant at 206.694.0055 or send Mamma
Enza an email (enza@enzaseattle.com).
Monday • December 6 • 7pm
David Volk
Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Seattle
(GLOBE PEQUOT)
Hey, we don’t judge. Seattle is a fantastic city
with great food and good times around every
corner. But wouldn’t you like to enjoy all that
in a more frugal kind of way? Come out to
meet David Volk and find out his secrets to
large living on the cheap.
Monday • December 6 • 7:30pm
Stan Fields
Genetic Twists of Fate (MIT)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
Science is unraveling the genetic basis of
disease and behavior so rapidly that within the
next 10 years, hospitals might present parents
with their newborn’s complete DNA code,
right along with her footprints. UW Professor
Stan Fields, co-author of Genetic Twists of Fate,
breaks down this genetic revolution through
real-life stories, explaining our personal DNA
codes; how a few differences make us unique;
and how they influence our appearance, our
behavior, and our risk for disease. Presented as
part of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science
Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored
by Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided by
KPLU. Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com or
800/838-3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30
pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Tuesday • December 7 • 7pm
Candace Dempsey
Murder in Italy (BERKELEY)
Bellevue Regional Library
1111 110th Ave NE
Award-winning journalist Candace Dempsey
does her best to unravel the mystery of the
murder of a British student and the University
of Washington student arrested for, and
ultimately, convicted of the crime in an
Italian court. The media frenzy was enormous,
the rumors, rampant, and the facts hard
to separate from the fictions. But Candace
Dempsey saw it all from the front row.
Tuesday • December 7 • 7:30pm
Sam Verhovek
Jet Age (AVERY)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
Great Britain launched the world’s first
commercial jet service, but its De Havilland
Comet was cursed, and an upstart Seattle
company put a new competitor in the
sky: the Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. Seattle
journalist Sam Howe Verhovek, author of Jet
Age, moderates a discussion with those who
designed, built, sold, and flew the iconic jet
airliner: Joe Sutter, legendary Boeing 707
engineer and “Father of the 747”; test pilot
Brien Wygle; engineer Peter Morton; and
PanAm stewardess Paula Clark. The event also
features rare photographs and promotional
film footage of the 707. Presented by the
Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with University
Book Store. Series media sponsorship provided by
PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company
Charitable Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation.
Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/8383006, and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town
Hall members receive priority seating.
Tuesday • December 7 • 7pm
Brad Craft reads A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote
Our Used Book Buyer Brad Craft will read
Truman Capote’s somewhat sad, but very
lovely holiday family story, A Christmas Memory.
This is the fifth year Brad has favored us with
this reading, and we have to say, it’s becoming
one of our favorite holiday traditions.
Wednesday • December 8 • 7pm
Charles Wilkinson
The People Are Dancing Again (UW Press)
UW Kane Hall, Room 210
The history of the Siletz is in many ways
the history of many Indian tribes: a story of
heartache, perseverance, survival, and revival.
The history of the Siletz people began in a
resource-rich homeland thousands of years
ago. Today, the tribe is a vibrant, modern
community with a deeply held commitment
to tradition. Event co-sponsored by Kane Hall/
Classroom Support Services, Native American Law
Center, Native American Studies. Free and open to
the public.
Wednesday • December 8 7:30pm
Wendell Potter
Deadly Spin (BLOOM)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
In June 2009, former insurance executive
Wendell Potter made national headlines
with his scorching testimony before the
Senate panel on health-care reform. Now
Potter, author of Deadly Spin, explains how
a huge chunk of our health-care spending
actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign
and lobbying effort focused on protecting
one thing: profits. And, he says, whatever the
fate of the current health-care legislation, it
makes no attempt to change that fundamental
problem. Presented by Town Hall’s Future of
Health Lecture Series with University Book Store.
Series sponsored by Bastyr University and PCC
Natural Markets. Series media sponsorship provided
by KPLU. Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com or
800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30
pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt and the bestseller Theodore Rex, he
has written the third and final volume of one
of the most indelible and significant figures
in American history. Beginning in 1909,
Colonel Roosevelt chronicles the last ten years
of Roosevelt’s life—years in which he went on
a great African safari, ran for president again
(leading a progressive insurgency against the
Taft administration), explored an unknown
tributary of the Amazon, which almost cost
him his life, and was shot in the chest just
before he was to deliver a campaign speech,
but went ahead and delivered the speech
anyway.
Saturday • December 11 • Noon
Sixth Annual Family Holiday Story
Time with ReAct Theatre
Mill Creek store
Our friends at the ReAct Theatre will be
by for the sixth year in a row to perform
dramatic readings of some holiday classics.
There will be selections from How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, The Polar Express, Olive the
Other Reindeer, and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop
Screaming—just the thing to get you in the
holiday mood and make an afternoon at the
Mill Creek store even more enjoyable than
usual.
Saturday • December 11 • 3pm
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Holiday Party
Issaquah Writer’s Cottage at
Issaquah’s Gilman Village
Join the Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Holiday Party for their annual holiday party
and author book signing with Robert Dugoni,
Susan Wingate, Marcella Burnard, and
Elizabeth Boyle.
Tuesday • December 14 • 7pm
Greg Bear
Thursday • December 9 • 7pm
Grace Krilanovich with Ryan
Boudinot & Gabriel Blackwell
The Orange Eats Creeps (TWO DOLLAR
RADIO)
Grace Krilanovich’s remarkable debut
novel—which earned her a National Book
Foundation “5 Under 35” honor—is a dark
piece of work, to be sure. In it, hobo vampire
junkies roam a dreamy, apocalyptic Pacific
Northwest scoring drugs and attending
basement punk rock shows. It’s hard-edged,
but the prose is gorgeous, and the book stays
with you. Krilanovich will be joined by the one
and only Ryan Boudinot, one of the locals we
love the most, who will give a sneak peek at an
upcoming—and mind-blowing—new novel,
and a talented young Portland author named
Gabriel Blackwell.
Friday • December 10 • 7pm
Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt (RANDOM HOUSE)
Seattle Public Library, Central Branch
1000 Fourth Avenue
Thirty years after Edmund Morris published
Hull Zero Three (ORBIT)
A starship crew member wakes up naked,
disoriented by amnesia, and just out of a state
of hibernation called Dreatime to find himself
on a ship gone astray. Killing machines haunt
the maze of hallways, and the man must team
up with an equally discombobulated crew as
they attempt to figure out what disaster has
befallen the ship. Bear, the master of accurate
and challenging science fiction, really gives
readers an experience with this one.
Tuesday • December 14 • 7:30pm
Bill Shore
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
(PUBLIC AFFAIRS)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
A small cadre of scientists is determined to
develop a vaccine for malaria—a feat most
tropical-disease experts have long considered
impossible. Dogged by skepticism, doubt, and
logistical and financial obstacles, they might
not succeed. Why, and how, do they persist?
Share Our Strength founder Bill Shore,
author of The Imaginations of Unreasonable
Men, uses their story as a springboard into
the character and moral fabric of those who
devote their lives to solving the world’s most
pressing problems. Presented by the Town Hall
Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store.
Series media sponsorship provided by PubliCola.
Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable
Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets
at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800.838.3006,
and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall
members receive priority seating.
Wednesday • December 15 • 7pm
Chris Guillebeau
The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your
Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and
Change the World (PEDIGREE)
Chris Guillebeau wrote an online manifesto
called “A Brief Guide to World Domination,”
that argued for the jettisoning of common
assumptions about life and success while
advocating for creative self-employment and
radical goal setting. The Art of Non-Conformity
expands on that manifesto and hopes to teach
readers how to live a life of their own devising,
based on their own terms.
Thursday • December 16 • 7pm
Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice
(PENGUIN KIDS)
Even redheads get the blues, readers.
But, perhaps that’s a good thing, as local
redheaded favorite Richelle Mead seems to
have turned her blues into the inspiration
for some of the best urban fantasy series
out there. Join us as she signs copies of the
latest in her YA series, The Vampire Academy.
Customers who pre-order Last Sacrifice from
University Book Store will receive a prioritized place
in the signing line. Other signing guidelines apply.
Please visit ubookstore.com for details.
Thursday • December 16 • 7:30pm
Gary Small
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her
Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories Of His Most
Bizarre Cases (W.W. NORTON)
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue,
Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
True stories are often more bizarre than
fiction, and after 30 years of psychiatry and
brain research, Gary Small has seen the truly
bizarre. Small, director of the UCLA Memory
and Aging Center and author of The Naked
Lady Who Stood on Her Head, relates his most
bewildering cases in a behind-the-scenes
look at psychiatry, mental disease, and the
puzzling eccentricities that make us human.
Presented by Town Hall’s Future of Health
Lecture Series with University Book Store and The
Alzheimer’s Association. Series sponsored by Bastyr
University and PCC Natural Markets. Series media
sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets at www.
brownpapertickets.com or 800.838.3006, and at
the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members
receive priority seating.