19th Annual Anniversary Celebration Book Buzz

Have Fun — Do Good — Build Community — Learn Something New!
No Catch — Just Come!
The Party is Free — And What a Party It Will Be!

• Refreshments,
• authors,
• prizes,
• ALL DAY 10% of sales donated to Leavenworth schools and the Community Cupboard

In our nineteen years, A Book For All Seasons has grown and changed along with Leavenworth. It's been a long journey but a wonderful journey from our first tiny storefront to today's oak-shaded balcony, book-themed Innsbrucker Inn, exquisite aromas wafting from Starbucks, Pat as Royal Lady, and grandchildren to pop book bubble-wrap as our book-loving staff keep unpacking the novels, thrillers, adventure-writing, and more that you love.

Thank you Leavenworth! Thanks for shopping local, so we can keep giving back to the community.

Enjoy healthful refreshments—and enter for prizes—while visiting with these fabulous authors:

Jonathan Evison

Just out: Jonathan Evison's West of Here—the newest release from the author of Washington State Book Award winner All About Lulu.

From the rugged mudflats of the northwestern frontier, to a rusting strip mall cornucopia, West of Here is a conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future, and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past.

In the mythic town of Point Bonita, 19th-century settlers set out to build a dam, and one hundred years later their descendants want to demolish it to bring back fish runs—but wait, there's more; much, much more. An epic western adventure wrapped in the history of one small town, West of Here is a daring, gorgeously structured and deeply satisfying expedition of a novel.

"Evison does a terrific job at creating a sense of place ... and a massive cast of characters real enough to walk off the page. A big novel about the discovery and rediscovery of nature, starting over, and the sometimes piercing reverberations of history, this is a damn fine book," says Publishers Weekly.

"Chapters that alternate between the 1890s and the present result in a Northwest historical novel with modern counterpoints, like Sometimes a Great Notion meets Citizen Vince... Fans of Jess Walter and Jim Lynch will be thrilled to find another author whose love for the Pacific Northwest and its people shines through with humor and clarity," says Library Journal.

"West of Here deftly connects lives and centuries, pipe dreams and fierce realities ... Every sentence, character and hard-won patch of Pacific Northwestern earth shimmers with kinetic truth," says James Othmer, author of The Futurist

"Intelligent, insightful, poignant, funny, endlessly entertaining and perpetually thought-provoking," says David Liss, author of Whiskey Rebels

For more information, visit http://www.jonathanevison.com.

Buy a SIGNED copy of West of Here - $24.95

Robert Miller

In Deep Stepping Stones, two FBI agents handling unrelated cases in Montana find bits and pieces that seem to pull them together. Are they related? What could connect them? And, most important, where do they lead?

Senior agent Steve Madden combines the perfect mix of tenacity, intuition, and professionalism to solve most investigations, but when two fellow agents disappear without a trace, he and partner Jim Addis find the waters deep, turbulent and the path across unclear.

Robert D. Miller presents a tight tale of intrigue and quick-clipped action with an undercurrent of little-known historical facts of Montana. Against the backdrop of the state's mining towns, where abandoned mines, filled with toxic wastes, destroy anything thrown in them, the deepest secrets can remain hidden forever.

Buy a SIGNED copy of Deep Stepping Stones - $16.95

Morgan Fraser

In Savoring Chelan: Pairing Local Wines with Regional Recipes, Manson native Morgan Fraser pairs Chelan Valley wines with recipes from the valley's chefs, winemakers and winery owners. Savoring Chelan is a compilation of local art, recipes and photography that showcase the Chelan Valley wines, produce and people.

"This book was created to share my love of the Chelan Valley with readers drawn to the area for its beauty, climate, food and wines," Fraser said in the book's foreword. "The chefs, cooks and winemakers who contributed feel the same way I do about the valley: that it is a unique place and experience that should be celebrated as such."

Savoring Chelan: Pairing Local Wines with Regional Recipes features more than 25 local contributors, including art from watercolor artist Kerry Siderius; photography by Richard Uhlhorn; and recipes from local chefs, winery and business owners, including winemakers Ray Sandidge and Shane Collins and Campbell's chef Troy Nesvacil. The book also includes wine pairings from 12 local wineries and vineyards.

Ten percent of the proceeds from each book will be donated to the Lake Chelan Food Bank.

Buy a SIGNED copy of Savoring Chelan: Pairing Local Wines with Regional Recipes - $29.99

William Wadlington

Trident Arising:

Max beheld a nightmare scene closing on his location. The apparition was a school bus with guns bristling from the windows, but that did not elicit fear. What all focused upon were the people chained and roped to the outside of the buses.

Someone had welded small plates around the bottom of the bus and fitted the plates with human shields. The human shield was comprised of all sizes and types of humans. Some of the human shields were screaming; others heads lolled like rag dolls with the rhythm of the bus. This war crime was sure indication that these freedom fighters had taken the path with no reconciliation, no quarter, and no mercy. This was a matter of survival.

The sergeant came out of his haze of disbelief. A tear slowly found the least resistive track down his cheek. The words formed in his mouth and he barked out the order.

Buy a SIGNED copy of Trident Arising - $24.95