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6:00pm Lake Forest Park [SOLD OUT] Peter Brown presents 'The Wild Robot Protects'October 1, 2023 - 6:00pm Lake Forest Park PLEASE NOTE: This event is now sold out. No standby line will be available. The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns!Third Place Books welcomes Peter Brown to our Lake Forest Park store! In The Wild Robot Protects, the third book in Brown's beloved middle grade series, Roz departs on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island. What you need to know: |
7:00pm Ravenna Rebekah Anderson presents 'The Grand Promise'October 2, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna "The Grand Promise is more than a gripping debut from a writer of grand promise. Anderson has given us a poignant exploration of the costs and benefits of progress that is at once hopeful and redemptive. A great addition to the northwest canon.”—Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and Small World
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7:00pm Ravenna Gail Scott with Cedar Sigo — launch event for 'Furniture Music'October 3, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Join Gail Scott for the launch of her new book Furniture Music, in conversation with Cedar Sigo!
7:00pm Seward Park Alexa West presents 'The One-Way Ticket Plan: Find and Fund Your Purpose While Traveling the World'October 3, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park The founder and CEO of The Solo Girl’s Travel Guide reveals her decade’s worth of lessons, regrets, embarrassments, love stories, shortcuts, and problem-solving strategies
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7:00pm Ravenna Alison Pouliot presents 'Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres'October 5, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility.
Third Place Books welcomes Alison Pouliot to our Ravenna store! Pouliot will be discussing her new book, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres. This event is free and open to the public. 7:00pm Seward Park Seattle Urban Book Expo Author NightOctober 5, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Join us for an evening of literary exploration as Seattle Urban Book Expo and Third Place Books proudly present an Author Night event on October 5th, 2023. From 7pm to 8pm, immerse yourself in the captivating world of words as we host three BIPOC authors eager to share their insights, stories, and creative process. |
7:00pm Ravenna Ann Marie Jackson presents 'The Broken Hummingbird: A Novel'October 6, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna The Broken Hummingbird explores a woman’s struggle to truly know her new country and her own heart. |
12:00pm Virtual Event VIRTUAL: Kate Briggs and Pip Adam with Danielle Dutton — 'The Long Form' & 'The New Animals'October 7, 2023 - 12:00pm Virtual Event Dorothy, a publishing project celebrates two new books with booksellers across the country Watch the recording on YouTube. |
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6:30pm Ravenna Magic Monday at RavennaOctober 9, 2023 - 6:30pm Ravenna Held the second Monday of the month, each show features the Pacific Northwest's finest magicians performing feats of mystery, wonder and the bizarre. With its origins in the theaters of London and New York, Magic Monday is a cabaret of conjuring in the intimate setting of our bookstore. 7:00pm Virtual Event Radical Romance Book ClubOctober 9, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event Register nowfor this virtual event Sign up here! |
7:00pm Lake Forest Park Ross Gay presents 'The Book of (More) Delights: Essays'October 10, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy shares this new chronicle of small, daily wonders—and it is exactly the book we need in these unsettling times.
7:00pm Seward Park James Sturz with Thomas Kohnstamm — 'Underjungle'October 10, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Deep below the surface, our world is cold, dark and content. Colors are fickle. Red disappears first as you descend, followed by the yellow of the sun. The hundred shades of blue last the longest, but eventually there is only black—and the candied ooze of the ocean floor...
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Hua Hsu with E.J. Koh — 'Stay True: A Memoir'October 11, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu.
7:00pm Ravenna McKenzie Funk with Kristen Millares Young — 'The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives'October 11, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of.
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6:00pm Lake Forest Park Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris — 'The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom'October 12, 2023 - 6:00pm Lake Forest Park A show unlike any other—children's book author/illustrator duo Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris present the sequel to First Cat in Space7:00pm Seward Park African-American Writers' Alliance Poetry ReadingOctober 12, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Join us for our monthly reading with the African-American Writers' Alliance!The African-American Writers' Alliance, a diverse and dynamic collective of Seattle-area writers of African descent, provides an informal and supportive forum for new and published writers. The African-American Writers' Alliance is funded by Shunpike. 7:00pm Ravenna Diana Helmuth with Julie Gordon — 'The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft'October 12, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest growing, self-directed faith in America: witchcraft.
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7:00pm Ravenna Lindsay Lackey presents 'Farther Than the Moon'October 13, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A heartfelt story about a boy who wants to become an astronaut, but wonders if his dreams can include his brother with disabilities, perfect for fans of We Dream of Space and Song for a Whale.
Third Place Books welcomes Lindsay Lackey to our Ravenna store! Lackey will be discussing her new middle grade novel, Farther Than the Moon. This event is free and open to the public. |
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6:30pm Lake Forest Park Local Author Open MicOctober 16, 2023 - 6:30pm Lake Forest Park Calling all local writers and poets!
What you need to know: 7:00pm Virtual Event Booze and Lasers Book ClubOctober 16, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event Register nowfor this virtual event Sign up here!7:00pm Ravenna Anne Berest presents 'The Postcard' (translated by Tina Kover)October 16, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and a poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.
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6:00pm Lake Forest Park Lora Senf with Lish McBride — 'The Nighthouse Keeper'October 17, 2023 - 6:00pm Lake Forest Park Evie once again leaves her world behind to rescue Blight Harbor’s ghosts in this second book in the bone-chilling middle grade Blight Harbor trilogy that’s reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.
7:00pm Virtual Event In Translation Book ClubOctober 17, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event Register nowfor this virtual event Sign up here!7:00pm Ravenna Pauls Toutonghi with Thomas Kohnstamm — 'The Refugee Ocean'October 17, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked—over time and distance—by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music.
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7:00pm Off-site Seattle Public Library: Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki with Jas Keimig — 'Roaming'October 18, 2023 - 7:00pm Off-site Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city.7:00pm Lake Forest Park Nicola Griffith with Neal Stephenson — 'Menewood'October 18, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park The long-awaited sequel to Hild—bigger, bolder, bloodier, and even more medieval than the beloved original.
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7:00pm Seward Park Sophia Kouidou-Giles with Jean Gilbertson — 'An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption'October 19, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park In this retelling of ancient Greek myth, Circe seeks a new lover, amphibian Glaucus, after Odysseus’s departure from the island of Aeaea—but in a twist of fortune, mortal Skylla complicates her plans
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Josh Tuininga in conversation with Dr. Devin E. Naar and Tom Ikeda — 'We Are Not Strangers'October 23, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japanese neighbors while they are incarcerated during World War II.
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Kevin Pang and Jeffrey Pang with Allecia Vermillion — 'A Very Chinese Cookbook: 100 Recipes from China and Not China (But Still Really Chinese)'October 24, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park James Beard Award winner Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey, hosts of the hit America’s Test Kitchen series Hunger Pangs, show you the way to delicious Chinese cooking in this accessible, funny, heartfelt cookbook.
7:00pm Seward Park Janet Yoder with Jill LaPointe — 'Where the Language Lives: Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed'October 24, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and shared it and the culture it expresses with the world.
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6:00pm Ravenna Miriam Landis with Peter Boal — 'Lauren in the Limelight'October 25, 2023 - 6:00pm Ravenna For fans of the classic novel Ballet Shoes, a coming-of-age dance story reimagined for a new generation
7:00pm Lake Forest Park Kristen Simmons with Kendare Blake and Lish McBride — 'Find Him Where You Left Him Dead'October 25, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout novel for young adult readers that's "Jumanji but Japanese-inspired" (Kendare Blake) about estranged friends playing a deadly game in an eerie folkloric underworld.
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Tessa Floreano presents 'Italians in the Pacific Northwest'October 26, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park From hardscrabble days as homesteaders and farmers in the 1880s to becoming successful entrepreneurs of the postwar boom generation, Italians settled and later thrived in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
Third Place Books welcomes Tessa Floreano to our Lake Forest Park store! Floreano will be discussing her new book, Italians in the Pacific Northwest. This event is free and open to the public. 7:00pm Ravenna M.R. O'Connor presents 'Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World'October 26, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A work of on-the-ground reporting into the science of, and cultural ideas around, wildfires and fire management that challenges the ethos of the conservation movement, offering a hopeful vision of the connection between humans and our environment.
7:00pm Seward Park Terry Repak, Glenda Goodrich, and Jacquelyn Tuxill — 'Circling Home,' 'Solo Passage,' and 'Whispers from the Valley of the Yak'October 26, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Join three She Writes Press authors as they read and celebrate their new work!
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7:00pm Ravenna Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson — 'Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell'October 27, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Elegantly blending science, memoir, philosophy, and drawing on cultures from across the globe, this compassionate portrait of injured turtles and their determined rescuers invites us all to slow down and slip into turtle time.
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10:00am Virtual Event Virtual Event: Mónica Ojeda with Liliana Colanzi — 'Nefando'October 28, 2023 - 10:00am Virtual Event A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda.
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7:00pm Seward Park Catherine Broadwall with Rena Priest — 'Fulgurite'October 30, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park “Here is a poet who understands metaphor as deep transformation, whose lines strike like lightning and fuse to startle us into truth at once spiritual and politically vital.” —Chen Chen
7:00pm Lake Forest Park Stephan Pastis presents 'Looking Up'October 30, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park From the New York Times bestselling author of the Timmy Failure series comes a quirky and heartwarming middle-grade novel about a girl struggling with loneliness and the curveballs of life—featuring black and white illustrations throughout!
Please note: free registration is at capacity for this event! Please arrive early to ensure your seat. |
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