ABFAS Top 10 February Best-Sellers...

PNBA 2009 Book Awards

Have you read this year's top books? Which six NW authors were selected to receive the PNBA 2009 book awards? Click here to learn more! What is PNBA? The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit trade association promoting literacy, free speech and independent bookselling. PNBA has more than 240 independent bookstore members in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, all with distinct personalities and communities of readers. In addition to supporting authors and independent booksellers, PNBA supports the civil rights of readers by working to reverse sections of the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and supporting the "Freedom to Read Protection Act."

Buy The Art of Racing in the Rain - $23.95
Buy Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957 - $75.00
Buy Selected Poems: 1970-2005 - $17.95
Buy American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon - $24.95
Buy Carl's Summer Vacation - $12.95
Buy Guernica - $26.00

Pass the Dreary Times with Audiobooks

Dreading that long, icy, winter drive with the top 40 fuzzing in and out? Why not float across the pass on the airwaves of a good book? Of course we carry audio books:

Buy Audiobook $39.95	Buy Audiobook $29.95	Buy Audiobook $34.98

Together We Worked for Global Literacy.

ABFAS readers partnered with a generous donor to support the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting education and literacy in remote, mountainous regions of Central Asia. The twenty-five copies of Three Cups of Tea you purchased from A Book For All Seasons in December raised $125 for the Central Asia Institute. Namaste! Buy Three Cups of Tea - $15.00

Birthday Bonanza February 10!

Celebrate Pat's 65th Birthday with a Super Discount. Pat's birthday wish is to give back to you with deep appreciation of your years of support. On February 10, receive a $6.50 discount on any purchase of $25 or more. And please join us in saying, "Happy Birthday, Pat!"

March 14 Anniversary Party

Mark your calendar for March 14th, when A Book For All Seasons turns seventeen (almost old enough to vote.)

Here's a party you won't want to miss!
Check next month's newsletter for details.
Plan to meet authors, win prizes, support community, see friends and have fun!
10% of March 14 proceeds will go to charity!

Jackie's February Picks

Six Spices: A simple concept of Indian Cooking by Neeta Saluja $24.95

Wow! Even when I only have five minutes and a package of frozen corn, "Spicy Corn Kernels" ("Chounki Makka") shows me how to turn the same-old-same-old into something new and exciting. "Green beans with coconut" is another recipe that quickly turns routine refrigerator contents into the exotic. When I have more time and energy, I can indulge in the slow, sweet scents of "lamb curry with cashews and poppy seeds." Fellow-lovers of savory peanut sauces will delight in "curried zucchini in peanut sauce." And those wonderful yogurt drinks, mango or rose-cardamom, they turn out to be much easier than pie!

A delight to both vegetarian and omnivore, Six Spices is cleanly laid out and beautifully illustrated, with a wide repertoire of recipes and ingredients. Packed with savory main dishes and a variety of curries. And you'll find salads, desserts, chutneys and traditional breads here as well.

Buy Six Spices - $24.95

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. $15.95

Rudolf Virchow wrote: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale," and also "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them."

Paul Farmer read these words, and decided to live them. He went to Haiti, where practicing medicine was for him, as simply surviving was for most of his patients, an act of faith, a political tight-rope, and a daily re-iteration of his core human values. If you are looking for adventure and inspiration, if you care about the global village, if you liked Three Cups of Tea - this might be the book for you!

"Mountains Beyond Mountains will move you, [and] restore your faith in the ability of one person to make a difference in these increasingly maddening, dispiriting times." — John Wilkens, The San Diego Union-Tribune

"One of the most provocative, brilliant, funny, unsettling, endlessly energetic, irksome and charming characters ever to spring to life on the page. He wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it." — Author Jonathan Harr.

Buy Mountains Beyond Mountains - $15.95

Pat's Corner

January was a flurry, if not of snow. The excitement leading up to Inauguration Day seemed to temper the national angst about the economy as we all watched history in the making. The anomaly of our weather here in Leavenworth left most of us scratching our heads; fog, here?; day after foggy day of fog? But, today, it is as if we have turned a corner as we scurry into February; friendly Mr. Groundhog is allowing us six more glorious weeks of winter and people are moving on from the changing of the guard, the lagging economy and getting back to carrying on business as "unusual".

Hours at the bookstore have been fine-tuned, and in an effort to reduce our inventory we have been hard at work selectively removing random or unnecessary chapters from our books. I even tried to apply a template of frugality in the writing of my column by removing all the vowels; but after the first sentence, Jnry ws flrry, f nt f snw the futility of such alphabetical scrimping was more than apparent.

With all this energy and for-thought devoted to our budgetary concerns, we thought we would be ready to slide right into summer. And it's when we started thinking about summer that a grave and ominous reality hit us up the side of the head. Despite all our abacus bead sliding antics and gnarling and gnashing of teeth, we are going to have to take a hiatus from our stupendous and fantastical book camp friends for the summer of 2009. Yikes that means no book camp dwellers in our balcony tree-house this summer! We are really going to miss you.

That being said, we are all already huddling in bookstore cubbies and corners coming up with some alternative amazing kid activities for vacation time. So keep watching our newsletter, visiting us in our digs and supporting this little independent bookstore with its amazing circle of friends.

Don't forget to come in on February 10th and enjoy spending $6.50 less on your purchase of $25 or more in celebration of yours truly's birthday.