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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
arly tourists to Seattle enjoyed lovely lodging, and Robin Shannon’s collection of photos and memorabilia recall the grand old hotels. Seattle’s dramatic history includes its rich Native lore, the 1889 fire, and the Gold Rush. Mark Sundquist’s overview tells the story.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Talk about this bitterly funny novel of an autistic boy’s search for a dog’s killer, and knit more HATS for the homeless. We’ll read The Loud Silence of Francine Green for the May 10 meeting.
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Start: 9:15 am
End: 11:30 am
The Lake Forest Park Garden Club holds its monthly business meeting at 9:15am, and a public program at 10:00am. Arborist Paul Witberger discusses practical pruning methods.
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. This month, Playtime! heads down the escalator (or the elevator) to the downstairs lobby area outside the Library.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Practice yourFrench with Madame Genevieve Bodner.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Teens who modeled for Magic Kingdom hologram guides get a surprise – some nights they wake up in a Disney park as holograms, in Ridley Pearson’s third Kingdom Keepers book.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
For those who met Maisie Dobbs in the original book, this seventh installment will kindle memories of Maisie’s wartime experiences, as she investigates a soldier’s murder 20 years after the crime.
IN THE BOOKSTORE DEN
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
In his eleventh book, Washington author Gregg Olson outlines the case of Nick Hacheney, a philandering minister convicted of killing his wife and burning down their home near Bainbridge Island the day after Christmas, 1997.
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Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Writers get feedback and positive critique in this free, weekly workshop, led by author Frances Dayee and sponsored by the Friends of LFP Library.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
This presentation provides an inside look at linguistic, behavior and cultural differences among the many immigrant groups in the area, so that service providers can be more effective in their work.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
3rd Thursday of each Month
Listening dogs wait patiently in our kids’ section for young readers to read to them. Drop in and pick a dog. Many return each month and get to know “their” children.
Learn More about the Reading with Rover program:
www.readingwithrover.org
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Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Teachers, this event is full. For more information please email cmckeon@thirdplacebooks.com
This first novel in the six-part Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School series centers on Ben and his pals’ efforts to save his historic elementary school from amusement-park developers.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Glenn Rockowitz is a writer, comedian, and four-time cancer survivor. This coming -of -death memoir is heartbreaking, funny, misanthropic, loving and ultimately heroic.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
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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: 10:00 pm
Already play? Just learning? Come to Heroscape game day!
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Ree Drummond Signing Info.
Signing line tickets are required for this event. We are giving out signing line tickets to anyone with a copy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks.
You can purchase a copy at our store, or bring in the copy that you already own and you will get a signing line ticket.
We plan on this event being large, and the tickets are a way for us to organize the signing line. Each ticket has a letter on it, and that will be your signing line group.
To ensure that our event goes smoothly we will only be lining up one group at a time.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
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