Fri, Feb 4 7:00 - 8:00 PM Leavenworth Library Free
TGIF: James Rubart shares his Book of Days (Presentation)
Sat, Feb 5 1:00 - 3:00 PM Bookstore Free
Christian thriller Book of Days signed by author James Rubart (Book-signing)
A faith-based page turner: equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama. Cameron has lived through the pain of watching a loved one lose the past, memory by memory. Now the same thing is happening to Cameron, though he is only in his thirties. To save his mind, and his memories of the woman he loves, Cameron must be the one to find God's book of days, despite dark secrets, disguised enemies, and other seekers who will stop at nothing to get there first.
Fri, Feb 11 7:00 - 8:00 PM Leavenworth Library Free
TGIF: Life Through the Rearview Mirror by Ed Lincoln (Presentation)
Sat, Feb 12 1:00 - 3:00 PM Bookstore Free
Ed Lincoln — Mr. Pink Toe Truck — signs Life Through The Rearview Mirror (Book-signing)
Seattle entrepreneur Ed Lincoln, best known for the Pink Toe Truck, has peddled everything from frogs to Christmas trees to Fun Meters. Ed's first sales job, age six, was peddling homemade Christmas wreathes door to door from his little red wagon. "I learned not to be disappointed by an unopened door," Ed says, "and instead, to move on and keep knocking." A lover of cars, risks, and humor, Ed has recorded the heartwarming and hilarious memories of an "average Joe's" extraordinary life.
Fri, Feb 25 7:00 - 9:00 PM Barn Beach Reserve Free
Awakening Presence, Power, and Passion: guidelines for being human during these magnificent and evolutionary times (Presentation)
Sat, Feb 26 1:00 - 3:00 PM Bookstore Free
Healing Self, Healing Earth Book-signing by Roy Holman (Book-signing)
Roy Holman, author of Healing Self, Healing Earth: Awakening Presence, Power, and Passion demonstrates preparing for the Earth changes ahead, and helping humanity move into a new realm in 2012 and beyond. Roy offers essential guidelines for being human during these magnificent and evolutionary times on planet Earth. Roy's international YogaMundo Peace Project is karma yoga, the Yoga of Action — getting off the yoga mat and taking action to heal our world. Healing Self, Healing Earth presents tips for breathing, meditation, focusing, grounding, yoga, caring for the body, balancing and integrating emotions, forgiveness, taking responsibility, integrating Native wisdom, and much more.
Fri, Mar 4 7:00 - 8:00 PM Leavenworth Library Free
TGIF: A hundred-percent-fruit revolution: learn how, what and why from author David Stratton (Presentation)
Sat, Mar 5 1:00 - 3:00 PM Bookstore Free
Author David Stratton signs Tree Top: Creating a Fruit Revolution (Book-signing)
Sixty years ago, enormous mounds of rotting apples dwarfed massive dump trucks unloading them in city dumps, or into the Columbia or its coulees — millions of dollars worth of cull apples, perfectly sound but rejected due to shape or size. Tree Top: Creating a Fruit Revolution describes the visionary man and the growers' cooperative that turned waste into gold, revolutionized the industry, and continues to evolve today.
Sat, Mar 12 10:00 - 2:30 PM Kristall's Restaurant $28.00 includes full lunch and a copy of Ron's newest release
Writer's Workshop: "Self-publishing Without Tears," with Ron Lovell (Workshop)
Sat, Mar 12 3:00 - 5:00 PM Bookstore Free
Ron Lovell signs Murder in E-Flat Major (Book-signing)
Writer's Workshop: Self-publishing Without Tears: Author Ron Lovell presents a guide to publishing and marketing your book, from manuscript to finished product. Topics include editing, page design, cover design, ISBN registration, copyright registration, dealing with distributors and bookstores, and setting up signings and other promotional events. Lovell, creator of the Thomas Martindale mystery series, has a long career in writing and in teaching writing, including as a journalist, journalism professor, and creator of five books on writing.
Book-signing: Ron will share his latest Martindale mystery, Murder in E-flat Major, where the world of classical music, incriminating fingerprints, and a federal justice system gone wrong ensnare Thomas Martindale in one of the most difficult situations of his professional life. "I have heard that death can come in many different ways," Martindale's friend says, "but never by cello."
Workshop registrants -- enjoy a special room rate at our book-themed Innsbrucker Inn above the bookstore. Workshop attendees can stay with us the night before the workshop for the special rate of $79.00 for a standard room or $95.00 for a suite. (Prices are for single or double occupancy, and do not include tax.) Call (509) 548-5401 or email info@innsbruckerinn.com to reserve a room at your special price, or click here to preview our delightfully bookish rooms.
Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here: a novel that explodes across the page one hundred years of Washington's history, wilderness, modernity, and re-discovery of nature.
Morgan Fraser, author of Savoring Chelan: Pairing Local Wines with Regional Recipes: a compilation of local art, recipes and photography showcasing the Chelan Valley wines, produce and people.
Fri, Mar 25 7:00 - 9:00 PM Barn Beach Reserve Free
Crossing The Gates of Alaska with adventure-traveler Dave Metz (Presentation)
Sat, Mar 26 1:00 - 3:00 PM Bookstore Free
Dave Metz signs Crossing The Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles Off The Map (Book-signing)
Seasoned wilderness survivalist Dave Metz and his two beloved Airedale terriers undertake one of the most remote and grueling wilderness journeys in Crossing The Gates of Alaska. Metz's unprecedented 600-mile trek, skiing up frozen rivers, enduring bitter nights at twenty below zero, and staggering across vast reaches of barren tundra and scrub woodlands, is a death-defying, breathtaking, and passionate journey through the Arctic outback, through the remotest regions of the untamed North. "An intense treat for armchair adventurers and renegade backpackers," says Kirkus Reviews.
Dear ABFAS: E-readers? I love holding a real book from ABFAS in my hands, but my friends keep telling me about their e-readers. What should I do?
Signed, Bewildered Book-Lover.
Dear Bewildered Book-Lover:
Why not do it all — while continuing to shop local! An Independent Book-sellers e-reader will be released THIS MONTH and ABFAS is excited to be part of it.
An "indie" e-reader, Copia: widely compatible, ultra-social, with hundreds of thousands of titles at your fingertips.
Copia: Join the conversation inside every book.
Copia, the independent book-seller's e-reader, is the only social platform that allows you to discuss your books while you read. Write notes, highlight text and bookmark important pages, your friends can follow along and respond back. eBooks become weBooks.
Shop one of the biggest eBook catalogs.
Welcome to the next-generation bookstore. Shop new releases, bestsellers and old favorites. Instantly download hundreds of thousands of titles. Our e-reader is widely compatible — you'll still be swapping books with your friends!
Read the way that suits you best.
There are many convenient ways to stay connected with Copia, including the FREE Desktop Reader (Mac or PC) and Copia for the iPad. But you don't have to choose just one. Your online account, apps and devices will sync automatically. So you'll always be up to date, no matter how you're connected.
The Best of the North West
The Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Top Picks for 2011 have now been announced!
Brady Udall's new novel of a family at a crossroads...
Marlantes' riveting narrative of the complexities of combat...
Doerr's short stories revealing global commonalities of the human spirit...
a fresh new-comer, Lawrence's River House...
and for the one and only Nancy Pearl, a lifetime achievement award!
Another wonderful year has passed with so much to celebrate!
Owner Pat is celebrating her birthday hobbit-style: by giving gifts to others. She's pleased to offer everyone in the community 10% off of all purchases all day long on Pat’s birthday, February 10th.
Pat is also birthday-gifting sponsorship of an Empty Artist's Bowl. A Book For All Seasons has sponsored Lori Aylesworth's exquisite bowl, and invites each of you to make your own contribution — any amount helps. Pledge with us this March, during the live on-air KOHO pledge drive, and help A Book For All Seasons help Community Cupboard. Let's fill the empty bowls of the hungry all year long.
Empty Bowl by Artist Lori Aylesworth.
Look for more details, and special bookstore discounts for pledge-drive participants, to be announced soon — in our March newsletter!
Buying Local Gives Back
Thank you Leavenworth for supporting us in serving you — it's been a wonderful nineteen years and counting. Remember that 10% of all purchases during our anniversary party March 19th go directly back to our community: to our Leavenworth schools and Community Cupboard.
When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius. Marlowe's journey leads him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Ranging from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love, THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
"The many ardent admirers of The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova's first novel, will be happy to learn that her second book offers plenty of the same pleasures. Like The Historian, the new novel, The Swan Thieves ranges across a variety of richly described international locales, both antique and modern... And although the two novels' subjects are worlds apart, there is a shared romantic premise, in which the past is forever imposing itself onto the present, the dead onto the living." — The Washington Post
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home By David Philipps $25.00
When the 506th Infantry Regiment—known since World War II as the Band of Brothers—returned to Colorado Springs after their first tour in Iraq, a series of brutal crimes swept through the city. The Band of Brothers had been deployed to the most violent places in Iraq, and some of the soldiers were suffering from what they had seen and done in combat. Without much time to recover, they were sent back to the front lines. After their second tour of duty, the battalion was renamed the Lethal Warriors, and, true to their name, the soldiers once again brought the violence home.
Lethal Warriors brings to life the chilling true stories of these veterans—from their enlistment and multiple tours of duty to their struggles with PTSD and their failure to reintegrate in society. With piercing insight and employing his relentless investigative skills, journalist David Philipps shines a light not only to this particular unit, but also to the painful reality of PTSD as it rages throughout the country.
By exploring the evolving the science and the stigma of war trauma throughout history—from "shell shock" to "battle fatigue" to "combat stress injuries"—Philipps shows that this problem has always existed and that, as the nature of warfare changes, it is only getting worse. In highlighting the inspiring stories of the resilient men and women in the armed forces who have the courage to confront the issue and offer a potential lifeline to the soldiers, Lethal Warriors challenges us to deal openly, honestly, and intelligently with the true costs of war.
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 (Dear America Series) by Kirby Larson $12.99
Praise For The "Dear America" Series:
"The Dear America diaries represent the best of historical fiction for any age." — Chicago Tribune
"an imaginative, solid entre into American history." — Publishers Weekly
"Engaging, accessible historical fiction." — School Library Journal
"An impressive series. . . . A wonderful asset" — Children's Book Review Service
Newberry-award-winning Kirby Larson brings the Dear America series close to home: Bainbridge Island, with a World War II story based on actual events. The story is seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old anglo girl, Piper Davis. After Pearl Harbor is bombed, Piper is torn between fury at the Japanese attack, anxiety for her brothers fighting overseas, and indignation at the treatment of her Japanese-American neighbors — while also struggling with the changes of wartime, the difficulties of living up to the expectations of her father — a preacher — and the ordinary anxieties of a thirteen-year-old girl. When Piper's father decides to relocate the family near a Japanese internment camp in Idaho so he can be with his congregation, Piper's journey has just begun. Based on a true story, this heartwarming, beautifully depicted tale emphasizes the difference one person came make, regardless of the choices others are making around them.
The Three Little Pigs with a twist! In the tradition of her bestseller The Three Snow Bears, Jan Brett finds inspiration for her version of a familiar story in Namibia, where red rock mountains and vivid blue skies are home to appealing little dassies, nattily dressed lizards, and hungry eagles.
Mimbi, Pimbi and Timbi hope to find "a place cooler, a place less crowded, a place safe from eagles!" to build their new homes. The handsomely dressed Agama Man watches from the borders as the eagle flies down to flap and clap until he blows a house down. But in a deliciously funny twist, that pesky eagle gets a fine comeuppance!
Bold African patterns and prints fill the stunning borders, but it is the dassies in their bright, colorful dresses and hats that steal the show in this irresistible tale, perfect for reading aloud.
"This tale will captivate children and introduce a setting and animals unfamiliar to most of them." — School Library Journal
"lively storytelling. .. [Brett] dresses her dassies in the vibrantly patterned traditional dresses and turbans of the Herero people of Namibia... buoyant and original" — Publishers Weekly
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