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Earth Day is April 22nd!

If you know the folks at A Book for All Seasons, you probably know that we all try to be pretty earth-friendly. We make an effort to make conscious decisions knowing that they make long-lasting effects on the earth and that includes recycling when and what we can.

Just recently, we've gone one step farther in our recycling efforts. We are now separating all recyclable items from our trash. Additional bins have been obtained and trash goes in one dumpster, recyclable items in the next and cardboard is separated from that. The Waste Management recycling program that we are using offers Single-Stream recycling, which means that no sorting is required; all recycling goes into one bin to be carried away. Sorting is done at their facility by a mechanized process.

Though this is the recycling program that we have chosen, this is only one way to recycle, there are plenty of other options around the area. The key is to find the one that works for you!

Leavenworth Recycles is a volunteer-run 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to expanding recycling options in Leavenworth and the Upper Wenatchee Valley in Central Washington. They have recycling centers in Leavenworth, Dryden and Cashmere.

There are several in the Wenatchee area - here's a couple:
Collins Recycling - 1631 S. Wenatchee
Central WA. Recycling - 1105 Hawley St. E.
and keep in mind that Schucks will recycle your used motor oil.

Replacing that old TV or laptop? Don't pitch the old one - recycle it! Take it to Goodwill, give it to a friend, or find a non-profit in need! There are dozens of ways to reduce and reuse, just look around!

Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 7:00 - 9:00pm, the North Central Regional Library (NCRL) presents Sherman Alexie at the Riverside Playhouse in Wenatchee.

Sherman Alexie won the 2007 National Book Award for young people's literature for his book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," a chronicle of the adolescence of a contemporary Native American boy.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Wenatchee Public Library.

The Riverside Playhouse is located at 233B North Wenatchee Ave (behind Quality Rentals and Abbey Carpets).

A Book for All Seasons will be there too and if you can't make it, feel free to give us a call at 509-548-1451 or click the link below and we can get a book signed for you at the event!

Place a SIGNED copy of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian lovingly in your cart for $16.99

Brian Bell, Master Birder, President of the Washington Ornithological Society, and Author of Birds of Washington State will be speaking to those attending a weekend-long conference this month at the Sleeping Lady Retreat, sponsored by the folks at Audubon Washington.

If a collective sigh of disappointment was just heard from all of those who love birds but know that a weekend commitment isn't in the cards, A Book for All Seasons already has the solution. ABFAS will be a source for SIGNED copies of Birds of Washington State.

Stop by, give us a call at 509-548-1451 or click here to send us an email and we can get a copy of Brian Bell's great book on the Birds of Washington State signed for you or grab one for a gift for your favorite bird fan! (You can click on the link below as well, but if you'd like the book personalized in a particular way be sure to let us know!)



We also thought that you might be interested to know that the folks over at Audubon and Brian Bell have also suggested a couple of books, specific to this region that you might also enjoy:

Northwest Arid Lands: An Introduction to the Columbia Basin Shrub-Steppe by Georgane O'Connor and Karen Wieda
and
Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary by Ronald Taylor

These books are also available at A Book for All Seasons!

Place a SIGNED copy of Birds of Washington State lovingly in your cart for $21.95

• 10% of the profits of Positively green card sales go to non-profit organizations that are actively helping the planet.
  
• The back of each card features a simple tip on how we can all leave a lighter environmental footprint through our everyday actions.
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• The cards are printed using non-hazardous soy-based inks rather than petroleum-based inks.
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• The paper and envelopes are made with 100% post-consumer recycled paper and chlorine-free processing. The paper is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, an organization that ecologically and responsibily manages worldwide forests for sustainability, biodiversity and productivity.
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• Their local printer purchases wind-powered electricity for production.
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• Cards are shipped with minimal packaging for displays and are bound by a thin strip of recycled paper for reorders.
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• Their custom-designed display shelves are made from recycled scrap metal that is powder coated, the most eco-friendly way to "paint".
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The Senator's Wife is one of those books read nearly nonstop. The characters become like family and what happens to them keeps the reader on seat's edge. As with all books by Susan Miller, I can't pass judgment on any of the characters, but I find some of their choices disturbing. Always, I ask myself what I would do in their place. This is the strength of her writing. We are asked to put ourselves into the story in a very personal way.

Toss The Senator's Wife lovingly into your cart for $24.95

Where the Sidewalk Ends

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

Toss Where the Sidewalk Ends lovingly into your cart for $18.99

I couldn't resist telling you about just one more... Available again after three decades, Shel Silerstein's first poetry collection has been re-released, filled with full color illustrations, imaginative creatures, and verse that will keep you smiling.
Prepare to be tickled and teased as the Flustering Phant, the Wild Gazite, the Pointy-Peaked Pavarius, the Gritchen, and yes... the Glump, all await you in Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies by Shel Silverstein

Toss a copy of Don't Bump the Glump! lovingly into your cart for $17.99

A great book to start your adventure down the cheese making path. Begin by reading about the history of cheese. Move on through the sections for ingredients, equipment, and techniques that are thorough and informative giving you confidence to try your first cheese recipe.

Place a copy of Home Cheese Making lovingly into your cart for $16.95!

if everything happens that can't be done
by E.E. Cummings ("The Rule-Breaker")

if everything happens that can't be done
(and anything's righter
than books
could plan)
the stupidest teacher will almost guess
(with a run
skip
around we go yes)
there's nothing as something as one

one hasn't a why or because or although
(and buds know better
than books
don't grow)
one's anything old being everything new
(with a what
which
around we come who)
one's everyanything so

so world is a leaf so tree is a bough
(and birds sing sweeter
than books
tell how)
so here is away and so your is a my
(with a down
up
around again fly)
forever was never till now

now i love you and you love me
(and books are shuter
than books
can be)
and deep in the high that does nothing but fall
(with a shout
each
around we go all)
there's somebody calling who's we

we're anything brighter than even the sun
(we're everything greater
than books
might mean)
we're everyanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we're alive)
we're wonderful one times one

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- E. E. Cummings

Excerpt from The Poet's Corner - The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family, Compiled by John Lithgow. This book comes with a bonus MP3 CD featuring readings by John Lithgow and many other familiar voices.
This collection includes a wide variety of carefully selected poems, including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas and dozens of other favorites.

Toss a bit of poetry lovingly into your cart! The Poets' Corner is $24.99!

The Green Book - The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet - One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen

Appliances -
Unplug your appliances, where possible, when you leave home. Residential consumers in the United States spend more than $5 billion annually on standby power alone - about 5 percent of all electricity consumed in the country.
Bread - Sliced -
If you buy sliced bread from the bread aisle, try to find loaves that are packaged in only a single wrapper. Double-wrapped loaves contain at least 20 percent more plastic packaging - per gram of bread. The waste generated by this additional wrapper across all households in the United States and Canada would weigh nearly sixty thousand pounds - or the total weight of all the food you will ever eat in your lifetime.
Deodorant -
When you buy deodorant, try to avoid antiperspirants, which use aluminum salts to seal up your pores. In addition to being a potential health toxin aluminum takes a tremendous amount of energy to mine. If you buy one stick of aluminum-free deodorant, the energy saved could power your laptop for thirty minutes. If 5 percent of adults switched from antiperspirants for good, the value of the annual energy savings could buy 250 new computers for U. S. Classrooms every year.
Trees -
You could save over 20 percent on your air-conditioning bill per year by planting two twenty-five-foot shade trees on the west and one on the east side of your home. If shade trees were planted around just 25 percent of dwellings with air-conditioning, the energy savings would be enough to shut down three coal-fired power plants.

Excerpts from The Green Book - The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet - One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen

With Earth Day around the corner, learn how to make a difference! Inside this book you'll find hundreds of small choices that you can make to have a big impact on the health of our planet.

Toss The Green Book lovingly into your cart today for only $12.95!

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. In very practical terms, Tolle leads readers into this new consciousness to learn to live and breathe freely with this highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now.
In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived in the now. In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

Toss lovingly into cart - $14.00

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you - and knows what has the power to hurt you... and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget... one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

Toss lovingly into your cart - $23.95

One Last Scream by Kevin O'Brien

Amelia Farady suffers from blackouts and she has the feeling she is personally involved in a series of deaths. Eleven years have passed since 12 women vanished without a trace. Now, as new murders occur, Amelia continues to suffer from blackouts, leaving her to wonder if she's a cold-blooded killer or a pawn in a deadly game.
We have SIGNED copies of One Last Scream still available!

Toss a SIGNED copy lovingly into cart - $7.99

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

When Elizabeth Gilbert was around thirty, 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, Gilbert took a radical step. 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, with four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. 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 a copy lovingly into cart for $15.00

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

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us. In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families - and regions - historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.

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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist

In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men worked to rescue the trains, but just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred - a colossal avalanche tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a never-before-documented tragedy.

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now."

Much more than simple principles and platitudes, The Power of Now takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart - $14.00

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife - between desire and danger.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart $10.99

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known, but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.

Toss a copy lovingly into cart - $14.95

COMING FROM THE WEST:

A LINK to LEAVENWORTH ON-LINE

There's always something going on in Leavenworth! Festivals, shopping, concerts, outdoor activities, hiking, skiing, tubing, sleigh rides... An endless number of possibilites!

Click here to see what's happening in Leavenworth!

A LINK TO MOUNTAIN PASS & WEATHER REPORTS

Washington's mountain passes are beautiful to behold, but when your plans include traveling through them during inclement weather it's best to check the pass reports before before setting out!
So click on the link below, be safe, and enjoy the drive!

Pass & Weather