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Did You Know?
If you're getting this newsletter, you already know that A Book for All Seasons feels like much more than just a bookstore. It's a place to revisit and explore because we have so many little nooks and corners, filled with every subject, lots of new and classic titles, more fun gifts than you can shake a stick at, and we're constantly changing! New items come in each week and even the staff can't keep away!
We're also Leavenworth's Literary Event Central - Author signings, Writing Workshops, and let's not forget about Book Camp this summer! But here's an event that you might not have known about... Did You Know that January the 18th is Winnie the Pooh Day? On that day in 1882, A. A. Milne was born and in 1926, Pooh and his world of unforgettable friends were introduced to the world.

Introduce Pooh to someone this year or re-introduce Pooh to yourself. Winnie the Pooh has endured for over eighty years for a very simple reason... He makes us smile.

We have a beautiful color edition of Pooh stories, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Color Edition with Ernest H. Shepard's hand-painted illustrations. Any child would treasure this volume as they meet Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, and all of the others as they party and adventure throughout the Hundred Acre Wood.

And don't forget, Winnie the Pooh is not just for the young! We also have the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff! While Eeyore frets and Piglet hesitates and Rabbit calculates and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is. And that's the clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists. A wonderful way to step into Eastern philosophy.

Place a copy of The Tao of Pooh lovingly in your cart for $13.00

What's Your Organizing Style?
Year after year, how many of us have promised ourselves that this is the year that we will get more organized!
Well, get ready because this is your year.
And we're even making it fun and easy!

On January 12th, from 11:30 am - 2:00 pm,

In honor of National "Get Organized Month"
A Book for All Seasons will team up with April Welch,
a Certified Professional Organizer (NAPO) to bring an event that will make your New Year's Resolution a reality.

We'll start off with lunch, which is included and then we'll get into the real crux of the matter: Finding Your Organizing Style. April's companion on this day of organizational immersion will be the book Organizing for Your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone (You'll receive your own copy of this book to take with you!)
This book starts with a "Brain Style Quiz" that will determine which of the four parts of the brain that you rely on the most to process information and which organizing style complements your brain function. Once you learn your individual style, April will share techniques designed just for you that will help you put your world into order and then have it stay that way!

Let your natural inclinations guide you toward gaining control of your environment and learn to live life on your own terms to help you tame your desk, unclutter your closet, manage your time, and save your sanity.

The event will be held at Kristall's Restaurant in Leavenworth
the cost will be $24.00 and reservations are needed in advance.

You can stop in at A Book for All Seasons to sign up in person.
You can call us a 509-548-1451 to reserve your spot.
Or you can sign up direct from this page by clicking the link below.
You can also email us with any questions about the event at info@abookforallseasons.com

Sign Me Up! I'd Like to Reserve a Spot in the Finding Your Organizing Style Lunch and Workshop Q & A for $24.00

If you can't attend April's Workshop or perhaps you'd like an additional copy of Organizing for Your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone, just click below! April has also recommended three books for additional reading.

Buried in Treasures - Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding by David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee

Its about Time: The 6 Styles of Procrastination and How to Overcome Them by Linda Sapadin

Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD by Daniel G. Amen M.D.

Click on the links below for your copy of any of these books and start finding your way back to organization and your peace of mind!

Toss a copy of Organizing for Your Brain Type lovingly into your cart for only $13.95

Place a copy of Buried in Treasures - Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding lovingly in your cart for $16.95

Toss a copy of Its about Time: The 6 Styles of Procrastination and How to Overcome Them lovingly into your cart for $10.00!

Place a copy of Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD lovingly into your cart! for$15.95

April Welch - Certified Professional Organizer
Member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, NAPO
Certificate of Study in Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD
Ambassador Founding Committee Chair, National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD
Continuing Education Instructor - Wenatchee Valley College
Founder - Simply Organized
Founder - Luxuries of Home
Recipient of Super Mom Makeover, Momference 2007

Click this link to visit April on the web!

Have you ever thought about changing the world?
Who would you help first? Would you start locally or would your focus be global?
Would you aid animals in need? Perhaps the less fortunate or the sick? Is the environment a cause that you can rally behind?

On Saturday, January 19th between the hours of 1:00-3:00 pm,
we welcome author,
Justina Chen Headley
as she signs copies of her new book Girl Overboard
and she'll also be talking about the Go Overboard Challenge Grant for youth-led ideas that challenge the world!

Justina, in partnership with Burton Snowboards and Youth Venture are co-sponsoring the Grant and are looking for ideas.
Commit to a cause that you're already passionate about and win a Grant to put your plan into action!

• Form a team of two or more persons and fill out an action plan.
• Propose a new sustainable organization (venture) to address a problem you have identified in your school, neighborhood, community, the world!

The best ideas will win one of the many Go Overboard Challenge Grants of up to $1,000 each.
So get ready to change the world with your plans!
Find all the rules, prizes, deadlines, judging criteria, and application form for the Grant on http://www.burton.com/gooverboardgrant or just come and chat with Justina on the 19th!

In addition, Justina has joined forces with Olympic Gold medalist Hannah Teter on this tour and they are spreading the word about living loud and giving big! Justina Chen Headley will donate $1.00 for every copy of Girl Overboard sold on the Positive Turn Girl Overboard Tour (up to $1500.00 in total) to Burton Snowboard's Chill Foundation, which is a nonprofit, learn to ride board sports program for at risk kids.

About Girl Overboard: Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is a billionaire, and she has everything any kid could possibly desire. However, as Syrah reveals in her manga journal, most of what glitters in her life is fool's gold.
A powerful, inspiring story about a girl as she comes to recognize her own strength.
About Justina Chen Headley: A Stanford honors graduate and co-founder of http://www.readergirlz.com, an online book community, Girl Overboard is Justina's second novel. Her first novel, Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies) won the 2007 Asian Pacific American Library Association Award for Youth Literature. She has worked for Microsoft, lived in Australia and currently she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and family.
You can visit Justina on the web at: http://www.justinachenheadley.com

Place a copy of Girl Overboard lovingly into your cart! for $16.99

The Topic for Part I of our Writer's Workshop Series - General Fiction!

withAshna Graves
Author of Death Pans Out

Ashna will talk about writing general fiction and the basic skills, tools and tricks to writing fiction. She'll also talk about how to get your book published and how to work with publishers.

Feel free to bring along your own work-in-progress.

January 26th - 10:00am - 2:30pm
Kristall's Restaurant in Leavenworth

You can stop in at A Book for All Seasons to sign up in person.
You can call us a 509-548-1451 to reserve your spot.
Or you can sign up direct from this page by clicking the link below.
You can also email us with any questions about the event at info@abookforallseasons.com

Death Pans Out There are characters of wonderful depth and idiosyncrasy in Ashna Graves's mystery. A free-thinking sheriff, a quirky old artifact hunter, an itinerant priest and medieval scholar and some unforthcoming family members around whom the story spins-and there is an artfully delineated place: an abandoned gold-mining area in the sagebrush desert of eastern Oregon. Skillfully meld the two, as this author does, and you have an unbeatable combination. Kirkus said the book is filled with "engaging characters, evocative descriptions of a little-known area and is a masterful mystery . . . [and] a riveting page-turner." Kirkus Reviews (March 2007) One of twelve "Hot New Releases of 2007"

MysteriousReviews.com, a major internet mystery website recently chose Death Pans Out as one of the top seven mysteries of 2007. An excerpt of their review: "The mystery is terrific and the characters are colorful and well drawn. But the real appeal of Death Pans Out is in the way Graves captures the imagination of the reader..."

Ashna Graves is the pseudonym of Wendy Madar, co-author of the biography Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston. She lives in Oregon, where her mysteries are set.
Click here to Reserve a spot in Part I of the Writer's Workshop Series with the book on January 26th for $25.00

Can't Make the Workshop, but would still like to check out this great mystery?

Or maybe you just want an extra copy?
Just click on the link below!

You can also catch Ashna Graves at a booksigning here at A Book for All Seasons from 3:00-5:00 pm

Click here to place a copy of Death Pans Out into your cart for $14.95!

And While We're On The Subject - Just a Heads-up!
Keep an eye out on our newsletters and mark your calendar now.

Part II of our Writer's Workshop Series is scheduled for February 23rd and our featured speaker will be Ron Lovell, author of Descent into Madness. Ron will discuss the ins and outs of good mystery writing.

Part III of our Writer's Workshop Series is scheduled for March 15th and our featured speaker will be Kevin O'Brien, author of One Last Scream. Many publishers are now asking writers to produce thrillers. Kevin O'Brien will talk about writing thrillers and how it differs from writing mysteries. He'll also look at how to turn a mystery into a thriller.

Sign-ups can be taken at anytime, but for now, stop in for additional information or email us at info@abookforallseasons.com

Each Tuesday, from 11:45 a.m. until 12:15 p.m.,
Steven Sharpe delights one and all with his wonderfully, unique way with the little ones, choosing and telling stories that bring wonder and laughter and occasionally even singing a song or two!
From SkippyJon Jones to the Pigeon that wants to drive a bus, Stephen will bring your child to fits of giggledom.
So join the fun (or give yourself a breather and wander around the store for awhile while your child enjoys the stories!) and make Tuesdays at the Bookstore your destination for fun!

And as always... don't forget to tell a friend!

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Book Darts are sold in small packages of 18 for $3.95
a Tin of 75 Bookdarts is available for $8.99
or you can get a Tin of 50 Book Darts (also available by clicking below!) for $7.50.

A tool, a memory aid, or just the coolest little reader's gadget on the block - Book Darts are for everybody!

BOOK REVIEWS

Rainier Wells Reviews:
The Dangerous Book for Dogs A Parody by Rex and Sparky

A "Tongue in Snout" manual for dogs - by dogs, this is everything you ever wanted to know about being a dog, but were afraid to ask. From how to escape humiliating costumes, how to pick a pill out of peanut butter, making toys out of household items, and cats, squirrels and shoes have their own chapters.
A fast, light-hearted, fun read. This may have been written by dogs - for dogs, but their people will find it both entertaining and insightful as well.

Rex and Sparky wrote this parody without authorization (because they are dogs and they do what they want). They wrote this with the assistance of Joe Garden, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, Anita Serwacki, and Scott Sherman. Illustrations by Emily Flake.

Toss The Dangerous Book for Dogs into your cart for $15.95

Children's Book Review: Harold and The Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

It is the rare person who isn't familiar with a sweet, little crayon wielding boy named Harold.
Harold was created in 1955 and this clever little book has been enchanting children ever since. With a purple crayon and a standard-issue child's imagination, Harold draws his way from page to page and from adventure to adventure.

You could say that the book stimulates creativity and artistic expression in children and that it encourages play and imagination. Then again, simply drawn and incredibly charming, you could just say that Harold and His Purple Crayon is utterly engaging and loads of fun from the first page to the last.

Toss Harold and His Purple Crayon - The 50th Anniversary Edition lovingly into your cart for $6.99

A Staff Bow (As In Curtsy)

Wooden beams, sumptuous tile, original artwork by local artist Amanda Gibb, and a hand-carved wooden tasting bar
are but a few of the indulgent and enticing features of the newest tasting room in Leavenworth.
As all of the finishing touches are being added at the Front Street site, the excitement is palpable for what is being called
Leavenworth's most beautiful tasting room.

Eagle Creek Winery is pleased to present
d'Vinery

d'Vinery may be Leavenworth's newest tasting room, but Eagle Creek Winery is proud to be one of Leavenworth's oldest Wineries and Owner/Vintner, Ed Rutledge is the man behind the label. Those who already know his wines recognize Ed as an artisan, but you'll have a chance to see even more of his craftsmanship after a visit to d'Vinery. Ed handcrafted of the woodworking throughout the tasting room, as well as the hand-carved tasting bar - truly a man of many talents!

Working with Ed in the tasting room will be two people who will be familiar to many of you from A Book for All Seasons:The ever smiling and good-natured husband and wife team, Astrid Fischer and Nat Sharpe. Knowledgeable about wines and amiable to boot, Nat and Astrid are sure to make d'Vinery an enjoyable destination for locals and tourists alike to find the right wine for the right dinner or occasion.

Eagle Creek is a small Boutique Winery, taking pride in making only a few thousand bottles annually. Paying the maximum attention to each and every bottle of wine ultimately produces only the very best premium finished wines.
All of the wines sampled at d'Vinery are from grapes grown from the rich Columbia Valley Region.

There will be several wines only available at d'Vinery. One to watch for is the Raspberry Riesling - available in an imported, Italian gift bottle, and is currently the Eagle Creek Winery's most popular seller. (Available while supplies last.)

d'Vinery's new location is at 617-A Front Street, across from Gustav's. They'll be opening soon so keep an eye out for opening day and then stop in to say hello, a hearty Congratulations, and pick up a bottle of wine for the evening!
And then, Ed, Nat and Astrid... Take a Bow... You've worked mighty hard!

d'Vinery : Phone: 509-548-7059
Address: 617-A Front Street Leavenworth, WA

Visit the d'Vinery website Here!

A Store WOW!

Last Month, we notified you about an anonymous donor who offered to donate $10.00 to the Central Asia Institute for each copy of Three Cups of Tea sold at our store during the month of December.
We've always known that we have the greatest customers around and here's just another reason why. This month, we are pleased to announce that thanks to all of you who rose to the challenge, 55 copies of Three Cups of Tea were sold during December and our generous donor has informed us that a donation has been made to the Central Asia Institute (CAI) in the amount of $550.00.

As a reminder, the Central Asia Institute (CAI) is an IRS registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to support and promote education and literacy, especially for girls in remote mountain regions of Central Asia. CAI is also committed to advocate and fulfill the UN mandate to achieve universal literacy by the year 2015.

To our donor - We are grateful to you for bringing this undertaking of kindness and awareness to our door.

If you purchased Three Cups of Tea as a gift or for yourself this Holiday Season - Thank you. Awareness, knowledge, and responsiveness are words that promote change in this world of ours. Pass it along!

If you haven't read Three Cups of Tea yet, consider picking up a copy. An uplifting story of a remarkable humanitarian in the Taliban's backyard, this is a story worth reading just as the CAI, is worth supporting.

"Here (in Pakistan and Afghanistan), we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die."
- Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time, Winner of the Kiriyama Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, written by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

In 1993, mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.

Read more about Three Cups of Tea and the Central Asia Institute:
http://www.threecupsoftea.com
http://www.ikat.org

Place a copy of Three Cups of Tea Lovingly into your Cart for $15.00

Food, Glorious Food!
Reviews from the Cookbook Nook!

Lisa Wells Reviews 1,001 Delicious Soups & Stews - From Elegant Classics to Hearty One-Pot Meals Edited by Sue Spitler with Linda Yoakam M.S., R.D.

This time of year is prime time for hearty soups and stews and I adore pouring through cookbooks trying new recipes. A cookbook with 1,001 recipes is simply a book going straight for my heart. There are so many yummy recipes in this cookbook waiting for me to try and my husband and I have already enjoyed several.
My favorite so far would have to be the Bean and Barley Soup with Kale on page 55. Though it's listed under "First-Course Soups", a nice big batch with a salad and a crusty loaf of bread made for a wonderful dinner.

I'm notorious for making substitutions. I always use a recipe as a basic guideline and then I throw in all of my own creative touches (or whatever I happen to have in the cupboard), but for the sake of this review, I tried to stick as close to the recipe as much as possible (give or take a veggie here or there) and it was not only delicious that night, but we couldn't wait to have it for leftovers the next day! One other thing to note: A quick-cooking soup with primarily fresh ingredients, it is also a soup you can whip up quickly for your family and still feel good about what you're eating!

The back cover says that this is an updated version of a perennial favorite, but with all of the soups, chowders, chilis, stews, and even breads and accompaniments, I just know that this cookbook ismy new favorite. Each time I'm in that "what should we have for dinner" mode, I now find myself grabbing for it first.

Toss 1,001 Delicious Soups & Stews lovingly into your cart for $19.95! (Two cents per recipe! Yum!)

A Verse From a Poetic Mind

Hop Fields in Winter
by Floyd Skloot

By midsummer, twining hop vines will hide
these wires in a mob of bracts and flowers
that seem to mass in a matter of hours,
filling the dense air with a scent of pine.
But now, strung like harps, the fields sing in winds
raging downvalley. We watch as they pass
over the skin of the swollen river
and leave the impression that nothing lasts.

Brackish water ripples over the banks.
Wind tears into a stand of second growth
oak. In a moment, snow begins, thick flakes
in their smooth quadrille reminding us both
of cherry blossoms in late April let
loose in one great squall. I believe you are
thinking of spring planting as you look west
where the road bends and see the Coast Range clear.

We can feel the air warming. Where the storm
has been, morning light drenches the snowpack
before creeping toward us, nudging the dark
away. The wires wink, shiver, but hold firm.

From Deer Drink the Moon - Poems of Oregon page 74.
Edited by Liz Nakazawa

In Deer Drink the Moon Liz Nakazawa brings together thirty-three poets to create a masterpiece of poetry about the state of Oregon. Organized thematically into seven of the state's ecoregions, this collection takes the reader on a statewide tour through poetry; beginning at the Pacific Ocean, traveling through the Willamette Valley and ending in the high deserts of Eastern Oregon.

Toss a bit of poetry lovingly into your cart for $19.95!

A Nature Passage

The Wild Trees - A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston

HE LOOKED DOWN. MISTAKE. He was ninety feet up. The fear of heights came over him in a sickening wave, worse than before. What am I doing here? He thought. I'm going to die. He began to climb upward along the surface of the bark, Spider-Man style, jamming his hands and feet into cracks in the bark. This climbing tactic is known to rock climbers as crack jamming or crack climbing. To perform a crack-climbing move, you jam a hand or a foot into a crack, get it stuck there, and then put your weight on the stuck part of your body and lunge upward with one hand, jamming it into a crack that's higher up.
With a series of crack-climbing moves, Steve climbed up the twelve feet of sheer redwood bark. He managed to get to the next branch, and he grabbed it, swung himself up onto that branch, and stood on it. He was somewhere in the lower tiers of Nameless, in the patchy zone of epicormic branches, where sprays of epi branches grow like fuzz on a redwood's trunk. He badgered Marwood telling him it was easy dude, and that he should have no problem getting up twelve feet of bare bark.
They both ended up standing on a big branch, at around 120 feet above the ground. They had arrived at the base of the crown of Nameless.

IN ITS FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE, A COAST REDWOOD CAN GROW from a seed into a tree that's fifty feet tall. In its next thousand years, it grows faster, adding mass at an accelerating rate. A redwood can go from a seed to a big tree in about six hundred years. Around age eight hundred, which is the end of its youth, it may reach its maximum height - it's thirty-something-story height. Redwoods are extremely shade-tolerant. They can survive in dark places, at the bottom of a forest, in the deep shade of their elders, where few other trees would survive. A small redwood living in deep shade hardly grows at all, but it doesn't die; it goes into a kind of suspended animation. If it is hit by light, it grows with relentless speed.

Toss The Wild Trees lovingly into your cart today for only $25.95!

#1 December Bestseller

Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy are back! And this time, they're in Leavenworth, WA! These three irresistible angels love their assignments on Earth. They especially love helping people who send prayer requests to Heaven (even though the Archangel Gabriel, their boss, knows they're going to break his rules)! This Christmas, Mercy is assigned to bring peace of mind to an elderly man - who discovers an unexpected answer to his prayer. Goodness is sent to oversee the love life of a young woman afraid to risk commitment a second time. And Shirley has the task of granting a little boy's fondest Christmas wish. Shirley, Goodness and Mercy go wherever they're needed. These three charming angels often find themselves in trouble, but somehow things always work out for the best - especially at Christmas.

Toss a copy of lovingly into your cart - $16.95

#2 December Bestseller

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time - Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. The powerful and profoundly moving story of how one man really is changing the world - one school at a time.

Toss lovingly into cart - $15.00

#3 December Bestseller

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want - a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world - all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way - unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.

Toss lovingly into cart - $15.00

#4 December Bestseller

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore and Illustrated by Richard Jesse Watson

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
These familiar words have never before been illustrated with such style. Magnificent paintings by American artist Richard Jesse Watson infuse traditional images with pizzazz and flair. From cozy interiors to snowy landscapes, each scene is packed with the details of Christmas. Watch for the remarkable cast of elves who populate these pages. Best of all, see Santa Claus himself as you've never seen him before, complete with an exclusive interview. Spilling over with all the joy and generosity of the season, here is an edition of Clement C. Moore's classic Christmas poem that is perfect for families of today. (Natives of the Pacific Northwest might even recognize a Port Townsend landmark or two!) Ho! Ho! Ho!

Toss lovingly into cart - $16.99

#5 December Bestseller

Porn for Women by The Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative

Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just so, delicious dinners await, and flatulence is just not that funny. Give the fairer sex what they really want beautiful PG photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions, accompanied by steamy captions: I love a clean house or As long as I have two legs to walk on, you'll never take out the trash. Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more.
Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

Toss lovingly into cart - $12.95

#6 December Bestseller

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Ken Follet's historical masterpiece, The Pillars of the Earth is a spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England.
This is the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known. This is also the story of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul and of the beautiful, elusive, Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame. A struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart $7.99

#7 December Bestseller

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).

Toss lovingly into cart - $14.95

#8 December Bestseller

The Methow Valley: Between Home and Heaven by Laura Hurwitz
Photographs by Amanda Lumry and Loren Wengerd

Washington's remote Methow Valley is a wild and extravagantly beautiful place that cradles an amazing diversity of wildlife, topography and people. Residents refer to this land of sparkling rivers, rugged mountains and dramatic seasons as home, while visitors, who flock to the area's unparalleled hiking, skiing, camping and biking, call it heaven. Professional, stunning photography and fluid, informative text highlight this gorgeous photo essay. For the discriminating adventurer and nature lover in everyone.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart - $19.95

#9 December Bestseller

Kerplunk!: Stories by Patrick F. McManus

Patrick F. McManus's gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country life worthy of Mark Twain.
Traveling the highways and byways of the Pacific Northwest, the delightful backcountry characters of Kerplunk! understand how a life of hunting and fishing - and its inherent potential for misadventure - can resonate with larger meaning. McManus's characters know exactly why it costs $500 to make a fly lure that retails for $2; why installing a boat trailer hookup can lead to divorce; and, most important, why you should always listen for the sound of your fishing line hitting the water - because in life as it is in fishing, you don't know you're in the water until you hear the kerplunk!
These wry, curmudgeonly tales appeal to real outdoorsmen and the armchair variety alike. Often nostalgic, occasionally philosophical, and always funny, the stories in Kerplunk! reaffirm Patrick F. McManus's reputation as an American classic.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart for $24.00

#10 December Bestseller

Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems by Cesar Millan

In this definitive and accessible guide, Millan, star of National Geographic Channels hit show "The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan," reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life. There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan, star of National Geographic Channel's hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life.
I rehabilitate dogs. I train people. --Cesar Millan

Toss lovingly into cart - $13.95

Every Christmas plays out the same way. I have good intentions of getting the gifts purchased, wrapped and shipped before the deadline for ground delivery and every Christmas finds me frazzled beyond belief when that deadline for Christmas delivery comes and goes and my shopping isn't completed and this year, not even started.

In January I promise that I will not go through this exercise in futility again but I always end up in the same sad situation. I have to admit though; this is the first year I decided to forego the exorbitant shipping expense of three-day delivery in order to have the packages delivered and under the tree for Christmas morning. I just couldn't do it; thus my trip back east.

A customer overheard me talking about my shopping woes and looked at me wonderingly. "Doesn't your family like to read?", she asked. "Of course they do," I admitted and knowing where she was going with her question I added, "But I feel guilty giving them books all the time." As I said this I realized that I was making this way too difficult; she was right.

As Marie Antoinette is purported to have said, "Let them read books!"

Want to start the new year reading about Marie Antoinette? We've selected two titles; one is historical fiction, one is non-fiction and both are national bestsellers.
Pick up either of these titles at a 15% discount this month when you mention that you saw them in our newsletter!

Place Abundance - A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund lovingly into your cart for $22.00!

Place Marie Antoinette - The Journey by Antonia Fraser lovingly into your cart for $19.95!

From North Seattle: take I-5 to Hwy 2 in Everett heading east for Wenatchee, then see map.
From South Seattle:take I-90 to Hwy 97 in Cle Elum to Hwy 2, then head west, briefly

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