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Dec 12, 2009 0

Lake Forest Park, WA – 12/12/09 – Third Place Books – Greg Bear

Who	Greg Bear
When	Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:30pm - All Ages
Where	Third Place Books (map) 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA, USA 98155 Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by. We invite you to make Third Place Books your third place.
Other Info	In Seattle sci-fi veteran Greg Bear’s near-future thriller, America is on the verge of financial collapse. FBI agent Rebecca Rose, from Bear’s Quantico, leads the defense against evil in this complex, gripping novel.

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Dec 8, 2009 0

Lake Forest Park, WA – 12/08/09 – Third Place Books – Cherie Priest

Who	Cherie Priest
When	Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	Third Place Books (map) 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA, USA 98155 Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by. We invite you to make Third Place Books your third place.
Other Info	In this local author’s steampunk novel, 1880’s Seattle is a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and armed refugees, following a bizarre accident that left the city mired in blight gas.

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Nov 18, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 11/18/09 – University Book Store – U District – Brandon Sanderson

Who	Brandon Sanderson
When	Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	University Book Store - U District (map) 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA, USA 98105 The University Book Store is the largest bookstore in Washington state. It is one of few college bookstores organized as an independent, tax paying corporation with direct student involvement in management oversight. It feature an expansive Art/Architecture Department in their general bookstore with strong emphasis on graphic design, high quality art/photography monographs, contemporary architecture and esoteric gift ideas.
Other Info	The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Storm as the first of three novels that will make up A Memory of Light. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era. In this epic novel, Robert Jordan’s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself. Egwene al’Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

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Nov 12, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 11/12/09 – University Book Store – U District – Greg Bear

Who	Greg Bear
When	Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	University Book Store - U District (map) 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA, USA 98105 The University Book Store is the largest bookstore in Washington state. It is one of few college bookstores organized as an independent, tax paying corporation with direct student involvement in management oversight. It feature an expansive Art/Architecture Department in their general bookstore with strong emphasis on graphic design, high quality art/photography monographs, contemporary architecture and esoteric gift ideas.
Other Info	In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story—training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has another plan in mind—the destruction of the federal system and constitutional law. Three FBI agents are all that stands between Talos’s CEO Axel Price and the subversion of our nation. Fouad Al-Husam is working undercover in Lion City, Texas, on the Talos Campus—but he may have just overplayed his hand. Agent William Griffin will engage in a desperate diversion to try to rescue Al-Husam, and the top-secret information he literally carries in his blood. Rebecca Rose is called into action to partner with an unlikely hero: Nathan Trace, one of a team of four who created and programmed the thinking machines that are about to help Axel Price in his plans for domination. Trace and his colleagues were caught up in a violent incident in the Middle East several years ago, and experienced Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. All of them were forcibly enrolled in a treatment program sponsored by Talos Corporation, code-named Mariposa—which supposedly cured their PTSD. But now they are beginning to notice unexpected side effects. The Mariposa subjects are being liberated from nearly all human emotions and concerns—and all mental limits—to become brilliant sociopaths. They are out of control and they must die.

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Aug 18, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 08/18/09

Who	Book Group: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
When	Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:30pm - All Ages
Where	Elliott Bay Book Company (map) 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle, WA, USA 98122 The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says, "Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
Other Info	As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our book selection this month is The Road to Mars by Eric Idle. Like all comedians, Muscroft and Ashby (think Crosby and Hope) are looking for work. They get a job on the intergalactic cruise ship The Princess Di, but then for some reason their act is canceled. Not only that, all their gigs along the interplanetary vaudeville circuit known as "The Road to Mars" have been canceled. And no one can tell them exactly why, not even Carlton, their 4.5 Bowie Artificial Intelligence Robot whose main pursuit is deciphering the essence of comedy. Throw into this futuristic fray an ultra-diva named Brenda Woolley, an explosive terrorist plot, and a narrator who is a micropaleontolgist (one who studies the evolutionary implications of the last ten minutes) and who understands that "T.S. Eliot would be toilets backwards." and you have a science fiction novel at once suspenseful, hilarious, and completely unique. The Kirkus Reviews said, "Delightful ... Should entertain everybody bar the terminally unamused."

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