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6:00pm Lake Forest Park [SOLD OUT] MEET-AND-GREET: Tika the Iggy and Thomas ShapiroNovember 1, 2023 - 6:00pm Lake Forest Park Fashionista, poet, cucumber enthusiast, human rights advocate—and she still gets 20 hours of sleep per day
7:00pm Ravenna Kristen McGuiness with Emily Lynn Paulson — 'Live Through This'November 1, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A modern suburban western set at the edge of 2016, Live Through This is at once a family drama and political saga about a woman who is forced to face her complicated grief in order to avenge her husband's death and her own life. |
7:00pm Ravenna Kelly Sather presents 'Small in Real Life'November 2, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State.
Third Place Books welcomes Kelly Sather to our Ravenna store! Sather will be discussing her debut story collection, Small in Real Life. This event is free and open to the public. 7:00pm Seward Park Molly McGhee with Samantha Allen — 'Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: A Novel'November 2, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park "Molly McGhee's luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder. Precision, humor, heart, this is a stunner." —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All Stars
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6:00pm Off-site Partnered Event with AIRE: Asian Counseling and Referral Service -- When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology - Book Launch and ReadingNovember 3, 2023 - 6:00pm Off-site When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology — Book Launch and Reading7:00pm Ravenna E. Lily Yu with Beth Jusino — 'Jewel Box: Stories'November 3, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. Lily Yu.
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2:00pm Seward Park Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen — 'How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?'November 5, 2023 - 2:00pm Seward Park Join the wonderful, magical, amazing children's book duo for an afternoon of pondering how Santa goes about his gig.
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7:00pm Ravenna Alexandra Teague with Katie Lee Ellison — 'Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir'November 6, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna At the intersection of memoir and cultural criticism, these beautifully written vignettes explore the invention of identity based on history, geography, and fantasy.
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6:00pm Seward Park Joanna Ho presents 'On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei's Art Is Changing the Tide (illustrated by Catia Chen)'November 7, 2023 - 6:00pm Seward Park From New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, and critically acclaimed illustrator, Cátia Chien comes a moving, powerful picture book about the life and work of activist and artist, Ai Weiwei.
7:00pm Lake Forest Park Naomi Alderman with Kira Jane Buxton — 'The Future'November 7, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park In The Future, a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.7:30pm Partner Event Town Hall Seattle: Sheila Johnson — 'Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph'November 7, 2023 - 7:30pm Partner Event An event in partnership with Town Hall Seattle
7:30pm Virtual Event KCLS Livestream: Author Voices with Uzma JalaluddinNovember 7, 2023 - 7:30pm Virtual Event Join King County Library for their virtual Author Voices series.
Join a discussion with critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist, playwright and teacher, Uzma Jalaluddin, for her new novel, Much Ado About Nada. Sponsored by the King County Library System Foundation and part of the Author Voices series. 7:30pm Partner Event Town Hall Seattle: Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio with Oriona Spaulding — 'Diversity Dividend'November 7, 2023 - 7:30pm Partner Event An event in partnership with Town Hall Seattle
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Jonathan Evison with Robert Sindelar — 'Again and Again: A Novel'November 8, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park From one of the great, most creative novelists working today comes Again and Again, a compact ode to love found, lost, and yearned for.
7:00pm Ravenna Martin Douglas with Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes — 'Black Punk Now'November 8, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks—featuring both new voices and those from the not-so-recent past.
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7:00pm Seward Park African-American Writers' Alliance Poetry ReadingNovember 9, 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 Lake Forest Park [SOLD OUT] Ali Hazelwood and friends! — 'Check and Mate'November 10, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Please note: This event is now sold out. Sign up for our email newsletter to learn if additional tickets become available. In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. |
7:00pm Ravenna Susan Ito with Angela Tucker — 'I Would Meet You Anywhere'November 11, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A memoir of one Japanese American adoptee's experiences with her birth mother, love, family, and identity
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6:30pm Ravenna Magic Monday at RavennaNovember 13, 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 ClubNovember 13, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event Register nowfor this virtual event Sign up here!7:00pm Lake Forest Park Phillip Margolin present 'Betrayal: A Robin Lockwood Novel'November 13, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects where success might cost her own life.
Third Place Books welcomes back mystery writer Phillip Margolin to our Lake Forest Park store! Margolin will be presenting the newest and seventh book in his Robin Lockwood series, Betrayal. This event is free and open to the public. 7:00pm Seward Park Alissa Schwartz presents 'Organizational Performance Art: Holding Space for Joy and Possibility'November 13, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Organizational Performance Art is a holding space art.
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7:00pm Seward Park Reid Saaris presents 'The Kid Across the Hall: The Fight for Opportunity in Our Schools'November 14, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Informed by extensive new data on educational opportunity in America, The Kid Across the Hall is a powerful story of learning and unlearning; of leading and learning to follow.
7:00pm Ravenna [POSTPONED UNTIL 1/16] Bettina Judd presents 'Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought'November 14, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna PLEASE NOTE: Due to a scheduling conflict, this event has been postponed until January 16th, 2024. Please see our new web listing here. We apologize for any inconvenience.--- A University Press Week event! 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Ed Park presents 'Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel'November 14, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Teresa H. Janssen with Beth Ann Mathews — 'The Ways of Water'November 15, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Set in the early twentieth-century Southwest, where water means everything, The Ways of Water is a poignant and heart-warming testament to the meaning of family and the strength of the human spirit.7:00pm Ravenna Barbara Sjoholm presents 'The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi'November 15, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna An exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of the Nordic countries' northernmost landscapes—now back in print with a new afterword by the author
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7:00pm Seward Park Peter D. Baker presents 'Haunted Echoes & Southern Nights'November 16, 2023 - 7:00pm Seward Park Join Peter for a discussion of the second book in his The Sanguine Lullabies series!
Third Place Books welcomes Peter D. Baker to our Seward Park store! Baker will be discussing new book, Haunted Echoes & Southern Nights, the companion to his novel Rain City Gothic. This event is free and open to the public. 7:00pm Lake Forest Park Martha Wells presents 'System Collapse'November 16, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park The newest book in the bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards
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7:00pm Ravenna Christina Henry with Sadie Hartmann — 'Good Girls Don't Die'November 17, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A sharp-edged, supremely twisty thriller about three women who find themselves trapped inside stories they know aren’t their own, from the author of Alice and Near the Bone.
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7:00pm Ravenna Olena Stiazhkina with translator Dominique Hoffman — 'Cecil the Lion Had to Die' and 'Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary'November 18, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna Join us at Ravenna for an evening with Ukrainian writer and historian Olena Stiazhinka and translator Dominique Hoffman!
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5:00pm Lake Forest Park Storytime with Alice K. Boatwright — 'Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving'November 20, 2023 - 5:00pm Lake Forest Park Join us for a special Thanksgiving storytime with Alice Boatwright!
6:00pm Lake Forest Park [CANCELED] Shannon Messenger presents 'Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1'November 20, 2023 - 6:00pm Lake Forest Park Please note (10/27/23): We regret to announce this in-person event has been canceled with no plans to reschedule. All tickets will be refunded automatically. If you'd still like to purchase a copy of Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1, please order here through our website! All pre-orders will receive a Keeper vinyl sticker, a bookplate signed by Shannon, and an exclusive art print for partnering indie bookstores!
--- 7:00pm Ravenna E. J. Koh with Arlene Kim — 'The Liberators'November 20, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna "A piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won't know what hit you until the final, perfect image."—Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams
7:30pm Partner Event Town Hall Seattle: Alva Noë — 'The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are'November 20, 2023 - 7:30pm Partner Event An event in partnership with Town Hall Seattle
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7:00pm Virtual Event In Translation (with Booze & Lasers) Book ClubNovember 21, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event Register nowfor this virtual event Sign up here!7:00pm Lake Forest Park Erica Miner presents 'Prelude to Murder'November 21, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park In Julia's next adventure in Santa Fe, readers will enjoy a tasting flight of opera, a hint of the paranormal, and the promise of romance.
7:00pm Virtual Event Booze & Lasers (with In Translation) Book ClubNovember 21, 2023 - 7:00pm Virtual Event NOTICE: Booze & Lasers Book Club will meet on the third Tuesday of November (the 21st) for a joint meeting with In Translation Book Club!7:00pm Ravenna Michael Keen presents 'Notes From the Trauma Party'November 21, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna "One of the strangest, most powerful books I’ve read in a long time. Notes from the Trauma Party is riveting, terrifying and hope-giving at once." —George Saunders
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6:30pm Lake Forest Park Local Author Open MicNovember 22, 2023 - 6:30pm Lake Forest Park Calling all local writers and poets!
Local writers of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction are welcome to present their work. Both those who are published, and those who are yet to be published, are encouraged to participate. What you need to know: |
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Lee Goldberg with Robert Dugoni — 'Calico'November 27, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller—with a mind-blowing twist.
Third Place Books welcomes mystery writer Lee Goldberg to our Lake Forest Park store! Goldberg will be discussing his new thriller, Calico. He will be joined in conversation by mystery writer Robert Dugoni. This event is free and open to the public. 7:30pm Partner Event Town Hall Seattle: Britney Daniels — 'Journal of a Black Queer Nurse'November 27, 2023 - 7:30pm Partner Event An event in partnership with Town Hall Seattle
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden — 'Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies'November 28, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park The first of its kind—a book co-authored by an adoptee, birth parent, and adoptive parent and informed by qualitative interviews of 50 others
7:30pm Partner Event Town Hall Seattle: Richard O. Prum — 'Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference'November 28, 2023 - 7:30pm Partner Event An event in partnership with Town Hall Seattle
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7:00pm Ravenna Matthew Algeo presents 'When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art'November 29, 2023 - 7:00pm Ravenna A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics.
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7:00pm Lake Forest Park Whitney Hanson presents 'Harmony'November 30, 2023 - 7:00pm Lake Forest Park From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of love, loss, grief, and healing
Third Place Books welcomes poet Whitney Hanson to our Lake Forest Park store! Hanson will be discussing her new collection, Harmony, chronicling the loss of a loved one, tracing the progression of grief and healing through the lens of music. This event is free and open to the public. |
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