Lake Forest Park
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
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Call 206-366-3333
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| Monday - Saturday |
9am to 10pm |
| Sunday |
9am to 8pm |
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Events
« February 27, 2010 - March 29, 2010 »
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02 / 27
Start: 8:45 am
End: 9:45 am
Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Prepare for an energetic hour of jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop and modern dance, guaranteed get Saturday afternoon moving in the Commons.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Pacific Northwest author Sara Donati presents the sixth and final book in her Wilderness series, set in the nineteenth century New York frontier. Paradise, NY is devastated by a flood, but the Bonner family’s personal struggles are its biggest challenge.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
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02 / 28
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
There could be no better way to celebrate African American Heritage Month than with Pastor Patrinell Staten Wright’s internationally known gospel singing choir. The Total Experience Gospel Choir bursts with love, joy and enthusiasm, and is hailed as one of the Pacific Northwest's finest soulful ensembles.
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03 / 1
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
David Shields calls for a new art form to match the needs of a new century – and suggests in this age of reality TV, Facebook and YouTube that we need to re-think how we approach the truth and art.
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03 / 2
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:30 am
Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 in front of the stage for art, games, and conversation,sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Young teen readers are invited to share pizza and books in this Friends of LFP Library gathering.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.
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03 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
What if you could look at people and tell how they feel? Based on the same 3,000 year old foundation as acupuncture and Chinese medicine, face reading is a powerful source of wisdom.
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03 / 4
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Veterans support, referrals, emergency assistance. First Thursday of every month. Call ahead to schedule an appointment: (206) 296-7656.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Oregon author Dave Metz has kayaked across Alaska and trekked in Peru, Brazil, and Borneo. This memoir is the tale of his three-month death-defying journey across the Alaskan Arctic with his beloved Airedales.
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03 / 5
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Beth Rowles Scott’s memoir follows her from the Canadian prairie to BC, her marriage at 63, and the evolution of her NGO, the African Canadian Continuing Education Society.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
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03 / 6
Start: 8:45 am
End: 9:46 am
Practitioners of all ages and abilitiesare welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us for our annual Dr. Suess’ birthday party and Read-Across-America celebration, with special guest THE CAT IN THE HAT. Bring your cameras!
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
RESCHEDULED
Seattleites know Tony Ventrella from his almost 30 years as a news and sports radio and TV personality, and also from his inspirational first book: Smile in the Mirror. Meet Tony as he introduces his sequel.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
A combination of both Country & Blues, what they like to call, “Porch Music” because it’s what you play on the porch with your friends.
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03 / 7
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Join in spirited conversation on a variety ofsubjects.
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03 / 8
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Inspired by 14-year-old Hannah’s plea to DO something about poverty and inequity, her family sold their Atlanta mansion and lived more frugally, creating deeper bonds among themselves. Their book shows how others can do the same.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Lucia’s large Italian family is content in 1950’s Greenwich Village, but turns of fortune force the young seamstress to find happiness where she least expects it. Join us to knit Hats for the Homeless and discuss this engaging novel.
In April : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
ALL ARE WELCOME!
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03 / 9
Start: 9:15 am
End: 11:30 am
The Lake Forest Park Garden Club holds its monthly business meeting at 9:15, and a public program at 10. This month, Diana Reeck from Collectors Nursery in Battleground, WA discusses the meaning of botanical names.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:30 am
Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 for art, games, and conversation, sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center. Today, Playtime meets downstairs on the lower level of the shopping center.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:25 pm
Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
“David Corbett's new novel is a bold look into the darkness that is human-trafficking, a sharp revelation of the intended and unintended consequences of such evil," says Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone.
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03 / 10
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03 / 11
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.
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03 / 12
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Seattle writer Bruce Taylor has been co-director of The Wellness Program at Harborview Medical, and is a hypnotherapist and a teacher. His work includes magical realism and spiritualism. This book is the first to be designed, printed, and released by The Third Place Press Company, located in our store.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Mark DuFresne is one of the most sought after Blues talents in the Northwest.
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03 / 13
Start: 8:45 am
End: 9:45 am
Practitioners of all ages and abilitiesare welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Sponsored by the City of Lake Forest Park's Economic Development Commission, this is an opportunity to network, market and learn. Open to everyone.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join publishers and authors of fiction and nonfiction from Washington State.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
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03 / 14
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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03 / 15
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Eat, Memory by Amanda Hesser (Norton)
AND Jamie’s Food Revolution by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion)
Join Erica in the Den to discuss this month’s books and sample recipes. All are welcome for tastings and food conversation.
All are welcome for tastings and food conversation.
Please register at :
ecooper@thirdplacebooks.com
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03 / 16
Start: 10:45 am
End: 11:30 am
The Canyon Creek Chorus, under the direction of Patricia Bourne, performs music from a broad landscape of musical styles, cultures, and languages. This 80 member ensemble sings in the Northshore School District in Bothell.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Teen writers share their work at this meeting, open to all and sponsored by Friends of LFP Library.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The second novel of the Codex of Souls series further explores the occult world introduced in Lightbreaker. Mark Teppo's vision of a magical underworld is a non-stop adventure that brings new light to the occult origins of history.
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03 / 17
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Study, discuss and act on governmental issues.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with storyteller Debbie Deutsch. If you don’t have green jammies, we’ll fix you up with a shamrock – and green bedtime snacks, of course! for leprechauns!)
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Uptight Seattleite, whose Seattle Weekly column offers tips on reaching one’s inner leftist, brings his savvy smugness to a larger audience. Enjoy laughs from the pinnacle of political correctness.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Enjoy a diverse evening with 3 student combos performing a selection of standards, fusing rhythm and blues, and ending with traditional and contemporary Brazilian music.
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03 / 18
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Seattle author Jeffrey Overstreet follows his first two novels, Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight, with another fantasy gem, in which King Cal-raven establishes New Abascar, clinging to the vision he sees in Auralia’s colors
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03 / 19
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
House Rules goes on sale March 2. Purchase the book at Third Place to receive a ticket assuring a place in the signing line to have Jodi autograph it. No ticket is required to attend.
We are pleased to welcome Jodi Picoult back to Third Place, as she introduces her 13th novel, this one a gripping story of a boy with Asperger’s accused of murder.
Seating is first come, first served.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
There will be no music on Friday, March 19th.
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03 / 20
Start: 8:45 am
End: 9:45 am
Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Fountain pen fans welcome all who share their hobby.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Comeand share the spirit of aloha and enjoy a traditional hula show with the dancers of Hula O Lehualani.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Already play? Just learning? Come to Heroscape game day!
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Gabry is surrounded by the ravenous undead, relatively happy inside the Barrier. But soon she must face the forest to save herself and the one she loves.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Ocho Pies (eight feet in Spanish) is a quartet of multi-instrumental, cross-cultural music.
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03 / 21
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Join in spirited conversation on a variety ofsubjects
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03 / 22
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.
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03 / 23
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
From an editor at National Geographic Society Press comes the harrowing story of the British obsession with finding the Northwest Passage, starting in 1815 and ending with the disappearance of two ships and 145 men 30 years later.
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03 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Mark Spragg returns to Ishawooa, Wyoming, and the characters from An Unfinished Life in his novel Bone Fire. The author of the award-winning Where Rivers Change Direction’s third novel resonates with his love of the West.
Laura Bell’s memoir of moving to Wyoming from Kentucky, seeking roots, follows her through life as a sheep herder, wife, mother, and forest ranger, and is imbued with an appreciation for the beauty of the Western landscape.
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03 / 25
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
The Alliance of People with Disabilities invites anyone who shares their concerns to this meeting. For info contact the Alliance at 206-545-7055.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Bite Me goes on sale March 23. Purchase the book at Third Place to receive a ticket assuring a place in the signing line to have Christopher autograph it. No ticket is required to attend.
Love. Vampires. Chris Moore’s 12th novel, third in his Bloodsucking Fiend series. Don’t miss it.
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03 / 26
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's eighth Rachel Morgan urban fantasy, the charming bounty hunter and witch fights a deadly battle with elves, demons, and even a leprechaun.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Hard-driving blues, R&B, and funk band that will keep you on the dance floor all night, or just as easily, let you just sit back and enjoy the music.
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03 / 27
Start: 8:30 am
End: 11:00 am
Because we have all been touched by cancer in one way or another, Friends joins with Team Survivor NW to raise money for a great cause as we walk with friends (2- and 4-legged) on the Burke Gilman Trail. Registration information at www.thirdplacecommons.org
Start: 8:45 am
End: 9:45 am
Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:30 pm
Seattle artist Mike Simi talks about his work, and The Influence of Blue Collar: Defining Mr. Weekend. Curious? Come learn how Simi creates with robotics, sound, plastics, and photography.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Frustrated with re-gaining half of the 188 pounds she’d dieted off, Frances Kuffell met four others on line who shared her moods, fears and hopes, and her memoir tells how they found their best selves.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The always popular Little Bill!!
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03 / 28
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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03 / 29
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
March - what better month to read a novel set in mid-twentieth century Ireland, written in lyrical prose by Sebastian Barry, included on the Booker short list in 2005. The 100-year-old Roseanne is writing her memoirs, from the asylum where she’s lived for decades. Mystery, history, and a cautionary tale.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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