Category : General      From : 12:00pm   To : 1:30pm

Join Cliff Mass, author of THE WEATHER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, at Elliott Bay Book Company on December 2 at noon.

The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the strongest non-tropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to rain forest in a matter of miles. Local weather features dominate the meteorological landscape, from the Puget Sound convergence zone and wind surges along the Washington Coast, to gap winds through the Columbia Gorge and the "Banana Belt" of southern Oregon. This book is the first comprehensive and authoritat ...

Category : General      From : 4:00pm   To : 5:30pm

Join Monika Zagar, author of KNUT HAMSUN, on December 2 at 4 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore.

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during the Second World War. In 1943, Hamsun sent his Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a token of his admiration and authored a reverential obituary for Hitler in May 1945. For decades, scholars have wrestled with the dichotomy between Hamsun's merits as a writer and his infamous ties to Nazism.

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Category : General      From : 7:00pm   To : 8:00pm

Join Canyon Sam, author of SKY TRAIN, at Books Inc in Berkeley, CA, on December 3 at 7 p.m.

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.

As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the chan ...

Category : General      From : 7:00pm   To : 8:30pm

Join David Biespiel, author of THE BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN, at Rilassi Coffee House and Tea, Portland, OR, on December 3 at 7 p.m.

David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. The Book of Men and Women is his second collection in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, and as always he is the master of the long line, his words strung across its reach as tightly as beads. But new poems in this book explore the intimacies of the shorter line as well and display Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional range.

The Book of Men and Women ...

Category : General      From : 3:00pm   To : 4:00pm

Join Canyon Sam, author of SKY TRAIN, at Tibet Day in San Francisco, on December 5 at 3 p.m.

Located at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Tibet Day charges $10 admission.

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.

As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face ...

Category : General      From : 2:00pm   To : 4:00pm

Join Tony Angell, author of PUGET SOUND THROUGH AN ARTIST'S EYE, at Foster/White Gallery in Pioneer Square on December 5 at 2 p.m.

Puget Sound's rich abundance of life - from mammals to avian - can be attributed to the fact that the region is far more than just a body of water. Edged by an extraordinary range of habitats, this region is visited and occupied year-round by species that are finely tuned to exploit the resources here that are necessary for their survival. Birds are among the most obvious occupants of these communities, and witnessing their dynamic lives has been a source of inspiration for artist and naturalist Ton ...

Category : General      From : 7:00pm   To : 8:00pm

Join Charles LeWarne, author of THE LOVE ISRAEL FAMILY, at Edmonds Bookshop on December 8 at 7 p.m.

In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they too adopted the Israel surname, along with biblical or virtuous first names such as Honesty, Courage, and Strength. The burgeoning Love Israel Family lived a communal lifestyle centered on meditation and the philosophy that all persons were one and ...

Category : General      From : 7:00pm   To : 8:30pm

Join Alvin Ziontz, author of A LAWYER IN INDIAN COUNTRY, at University Book Store on December 9 at 7 p.m.

See Alvin Ziontz's blog: http://lawyerinindiancountry.blogspot.com/

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases ...

Category : General      From : 7:00pm   To : 8:30pm

Join Lorraine McConaghy, author of WARSHIP UNDER SAIL, on December 11 at 7 p.m. at Park Place Books, Kirkland.

Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until 1859, the eve of the Civil War. Historian Lorraine McConaghy presents the ship, its officers, and its crew in a vigorous, keenly rendered case study that illuminates the forces shaping America's antebellum navy and foreign policy in the Pacific, from Va ...

Category : General      From : 2:00pm   To : 3:30pm

Join Nicolette Bromberg, Paula Becker, Alan Stein, and Joan Hockaday, at Elliott Bay Books for an Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Festival on December 13 at 2 p.m.

Nicolette Bromberg has chosen the best and most representative of official photographer Frank Nowell's collection for use in PICTURING THE ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. Her essay illuminates both the man and the fair, providing perspective to a history of the West that connects us to a world-expanding event a hundred years ago, and also contains Nowell's photographs of Alaska during the gold rush, relating how an Alaskan photographer became the official A-Y-P phot ...