december - University Book Store

DECEMBER
2011 | events
Saturday • December 3 • 11am
Special Story T ime featuring
Wendy Wahman, Samantha Vamos,
Carmela D’Amico
and Kevan Atteberry
Thursday • December 1 • 7pm
Brad Craft
Bellevue store
U District Store
Not one! Not two! Not three! On Saturday, December
3, our Bellevue store will be hosting four of our
favorite local kids book authors. It’ll be like a very early
Christmas morning for book-loving little ones. Don’t
miss it.
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory and Other Stories
Reading
Join veteran bookseller Brad Craft for his beloved
retelling of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory.
Brad always chooses a few extra special treats to read
along side as well. Stop in for hot cider, cookies, and
some good, old-fashioned storytelling.
Tuesday • December 6 • 7pm
Matthew Beard & Erik Scott de Bie
The Last Garrison & Shadowbane (WIZARDS OF THE
COAST)
Friday • December 2 • 7pm
Maddox
I Am Better Than Your Kids (SIMON & SCHUSTER)
Humorist and Internet phenomenon Maddox (author
of The Alphabet of Manliness) presents a book of art
criticism. In I Am Better Than Your Kids, though,
Maddox doesn’t spend time reflecting on the classics.
No, instead Maddox looks at—and eviscerates—the
artwork of children. (All in good fun, of course.)
Friday • December 2 • 7:30pm
Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Search
for an Orderly Universe (BASIC)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva represents one
of the most inspiring—and challenging—scientific
breakthroughs in this golden age of physics. Renowned
physicist Frank Close offers an insider’s look at the
40 years of research, breakthrough, and endeavor
surrounding its construction, against a backdrop of
high politics, low behavior and billion-dollar budgets.
Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science
Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series
media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Advance tickets are $5 at www.
brownpapertickets.com or 1.800.838.3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30pm.
On this night, two fantasy authors who have produced
books for Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and
Dragons tie-ins will be in-store to read from their latest
thrilling tales. Erik Scott de Bie is a veteran—author
thus far of four books—and his book Shadowbane is
the second in a Forgotten Realms series. Beard will
be promoting his debut novel, The Last Garrison. We
understand Mr. Beard is mysterious.
Wednesday • December 7 • 11am
Special Story T ime with Santa
Mill Creek
Santa Claus is coming to town—to Mill Creek, that is!
Father Christmas himself will be visiting to spread some
early holiday cheer! Join us for a few lively readings that
are sure to be jolly. You bring the kids; we’ll supply the
activities and refreshments. Call 425.385.3530 for details.
Wednesday • December 7 • 7pm
Bruce Taylor, Cameron Pierce and
Kirsten Alene: An Evening with
Eraserhead Press
Eraserhead Press focuses its publishing efforts on a
strange subculture of indie lit that calls itself Bizarro
Fiction. In the words of one of our December 7
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authors, Cameron Pierce, it’s the books
equivalent of, “…the cult section at the
video store…sometimes surreal, sometimes
avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes
bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic,
and almost always completely out there.”
Pique your interest? Check out this event
with three of the movements prolific
practioners.
Thursday • December 8
7pm
way around? Local activists John de Graaf
and David Batker, authors of What’s the
Economy For, Anyway? (based on the film of
the same name), tackle 13 economic issues,
challenging us to consider the point of our
economy and setting forth a simple goal for
any economic system: the greatest good for
the greatest number over the longest run.
Global Poverty, who will address a new
approach to evaluating effectiveness of
different poverty-alleviation programs
around the globe. Whether analyzing
microfinance programs in India or smallbusiness development programs in Ghana,
Dr. Karlan will discuss why behavioral
economics and making small changes in
banking practices, health care, and other
programs can help improve the lives of the
poor. For admission information please visit www.world-
Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with
University Book Store. Series media sponsorship provided
by PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company
Charitable Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation.
Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or
1.800.838.3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30pm.
affairs.org.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Queen of America (LITTLE, BROWN)
In this novel, a healer named Teresita
Urrea flees to Arizona, only to find herself
as the “spiritual leader of the Mexican
Revolution,” quite without wanting to be.
This leads to a funny and heartbreaking
trip through turn-of-the-century America,
where she meets immigrants and tycoons,
European royalty and Cuban poets—all as
she attempts to find her role in the modern
world.
Thursday • December 8
7pm
Mary Daheim
The Alpine Winter: An Emma Lord Mystery
(BALLANTINE)
Mill Creek
Emma Lord—star of Mary Daheim’s longrunning, reader-pleasing, Alpine-bound
Emma Lord mysteries—in her capacity
as editor and publisher of The Alpine
Advocate finds herself in the middle of a
holiday mystery. A corpse has been found
in a Mount Sawyer cave, and they might
have something to do with a set of bones
discovered downstream on the Skykomish
river. And to top it off, how will she tell her
family about her affair with the local sheriff ?
Thursday • December 8
7pm
Monday • December 12
7:30pm
Deanna Duke
The Non-Toxic Avenger (NEW SOCIETY)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
Holiday
Advice 5
Most of us turn a blind eye to the startling
array of chemicals lurking in our lives,
hoping that the government ensures the
safety of what we wear, use, and ingest. But
not Deanna Duke. The Seattle author of the
blog The Crunchy Chicken has dramatically
reduced her family’s chemical exposure,
using body-burden testing to gauge the level
of toxins in her body; now she uncovers
how insidious and invasive environmental
toxins are, as well as their implications for
your health, and what you can do about
it. Presented by Town Hall’s Future of Health Lecture
Actually, this holiday season, the best giftgiving advice is yours for free. Stop by our
Bellevue or U District stores in December
and our crack team of booksellers will lend
you their expert gift guidance. Special guest
booksellers include book review editor for
Shelf Awareness, Marilyn Dahl; rock star
librarian Nancy Pearl; books editor for
The Stranger, Paul Constant; books editor
for The Seattle Times, Mary Ann Gwinn
and publisher representatives from Random
House, Little, Brown, and Oxford.
Series with University Book Store. Series sponsored by
Bastyr University and PCC Natural Markets. Series
media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets are $5 at
Brown Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, or at the door
beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating.
The Bookseller is in:
Bellevue store:
Thursday, December 1, Noon – 2pm & 4pm – 6pm
Saturday, December 10, Noon – 5pm
U District store:
Tuesday • December 13
7:30pm
Thursday, December 15, noon–4pm
Saturday, December 17, 11am–4pm
John de Graaf and David
Batker
What’s the Economy For, Anyway? Why
It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth
and Start Pursuing Happiness
World Affairs Council
presents Dean Karlan
(BLOOMSBURY)
UW PACCAR Hall
The World Affairs Council and the Yale
Association of Western Washington present
Dr. Dean Karlan, President & Founder of
Innovations for Poverty Action, Assistant
Professor of Economics at Yale University,
and Author of More Than Good Intentions:
How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
(Enter on Seneca)
Here’s the question no one
has ever bothered to ask
about the economy: How
can we make it work for
us, instead of the other
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