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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) |
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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.
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of Tree Top: Creating a Fruit Revolution - $29.95
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Sat, Mar 12
10:00 - 2:30 PM
Kristall's Restaurant |
Writer's Workshop: "Self-publishing Without Tears," with Ron Lovell (Workshop) |
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$28.00 includes full lunch and a copy of Ron's newest release: Murder in E-Flat Major
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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.
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Click here to reserve your seat NOW: $28.00 includes full lunch and a copy of Ron's newest release
Buy a SIGNED copy of Murder in E-Flat Major - $15.00
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Sat, Mar 19
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Bookstore
Free |
19th Annual Anniversary Celebration (Party) |
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Sat, Mar 19
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
Free |
Four Author Book Buzz (Book Buzz) |
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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
Click here to learn more...
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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.
Buy a SIGNED copy of West of Here - $24.95
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Robert Miller, author of Deep Stepping Stones: a tight tale of intrigue and quick-clipped action among Montana's abandoned mines and mining towns.
Buy a SIGNED copy of Deep Stepping Stones - $16.95
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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.
Buy a SIGNED copy of Savoring Chelan: Pairing Local Wines with Regional Recipes - $29.99
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William Wadlington, former Cascade high school principal and author of Trident Arising: a riveting tale of soldiers, civilians, and survival.
Buy a SIGNED copy of Trident Arising - $24.95
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Fri, Mar 25
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Barn Beach Reserve
Free |
Crossing The Gates of Alaska with adventure-traveler Dave Metz (Presentation) |
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Sat, Mar 26
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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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.
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of Crossing The Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles Off The Map - $15.95
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Fri, Apr 1
Free |
Kenn Nesbitt visits Osborn Elementary and Icicle Middle School. (School Visit)
Thanks to a collaboration by Friends of The Library and A Book For All Seasons. Check with your school for details! |
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Sat, Apr 2
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Kenn signs his fabulous books including More Bears! and The Aliens Have Landed At Our School. (Book-signing) |
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 KENN NESBITT is possibly the funniest and most sought-after children's poet writing today. He's the author of several collections of LOL poetry for kids, including My Hippo Has the Hiccups, Revenge of the Lunch Ladies, and The Aliens Have Landed at Our School! Because Kenn loves to get kids writing their own wacky poetry, he travels the country, visiting over 70 schools each year. Kenn's website, Poetry4Kids, is the most popular children's poetry website in the world.
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of More Bears - $12.99
Buy a SIGNED copy of The Aliens Have Landed at Our School! - $9.95
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Fri, Apr 8
7:00 - 9:00 PM
The Sleeping Lady
Adults $25, Seniors and Students $15 |
Shrink Your Carbon Footprint and Your Waistline:
Mark Bittman explains why Food Matters, and makes Conscious Eating easy. (Presentation) |
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 Mark Bittman believes it's simple to eat well, and he's here to show you how, with a rational approach that not only improves health but also helps the environment.
In terms of energy consumption, serving a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home. Demystifying buzzwords, Bittman offers straightforward, budget-conscious advice that will help you make small changes that will shrink your carbon footprint — and your waistline.
Flexible, simple, and non-doctrinaire, the plan is based on hard science but gives you plenty of leeway to tailor food choices to your lifestyle and schedule. Mark Bittman is the author of Food Matters, The Food Matters Cook Book, How to Cook Everything, and other cookbooks, and of a weekly New York Times column. Bittman has hosted public television series, has appeared in countless newspapers and magazines, and is a regular on the Today show.
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes - $15.00
Buy a SIGNED copy of The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living - $35.00
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Fri, Apr 8
7:00 - 8:00 PM
Leavenworth Library
Free |
TGIF: Gregg Olsen gets Closer Than Blood (Presentation) |
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Sat, Apr 9
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Gregg Olsen signs his latest thriller Closer Than Blood and his true crime A Twisted Faith (Book-signing) |
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 "You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen." — Allison Brennan
Closer Than Blood: The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death—is as close as the face in the mirror...
Twisted Faith: a Bremerton, WA house went up in flames. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only the charred remains of shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. What investigators failed to note was that Dawn's lungs didn't contain smoke; she was dead before the fire began. So begins this true crime story that's unlike any other...
"Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." — Lee Child
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of Closer Than Blood - $7.99
Buy a SIGNED copy of A Twisted Faith - $7.99
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Fri, Apr 15
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Barn Beach Reserve
Free |
Healthy and Easy Food Preparation — from your garden to your table: A Hands-On Demonstration with Nicole Kellar Munoz (Presentation) |
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Sat, Apr 16
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Nicole Kellar Munoz signs Eat Right for Life and Quick Fix Healthy Mix (Book-signing) |
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 Get hands-on with Nicole Kellar Munoz Friday evening as she demonstrates preparing quick and healthy fun foods — straight from your garden to your table. Nicole specializes in the health applications of natural foods, and turning simple ingredients into a healthy new you.
Eat Right for Life: Start building your "kitchen pharmacy." Use ordinary natural foods to prevent disease and promote excellent health and clear, radiant skin.
Quick Fix Healthy Mix: Stop paying for foods loaded with toxins, unhealthy fats and sugars, brand name advertising, expensive eco-unfriendly wasteful packaging and expensive store mark-ups. Nicole demonstrates how to make your own high quality mixes and ready-to-go products at home for a fraction of the cost — it's easy!
Click here to learn more...
Buy a SIGNED copy of Eat Right for Life: How Healthy Foods Can Keep You Living Longer, Stronger and Disease-Free - $22.99
Buy a SIGNED copy of Quick-Fix Healthy Mix: 225 healthy and affordable mix recipes to stock your kitchen - $19.99
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Fri, Apr 15
Free |
Suzanne Selfors presentation to students at Icicle Middle School. Check with your school for details! (School Visit) |
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Sat, Apr 16
10:00 - 2:30 PM
Kristall's Restaurant |
Writer's Workshop: "Writing the Young Adult Novel," with Suzanne Selfors (Workshop) |
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$28.00 includes full lunch and a copy of Suzanne's newest release: Mad Love
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 Writing the Young Adult Novel
Teenagers are reading! Go into any bookstore and you'll notice that the young adult section has doubled in size. And there's a huge variety of styles and subjects — it's not only about vampires. But while the stories vary from contemporary mysteries, to dystopian thrillers, to paranormal romances, at the heart of each and every teen novel is the coming-of-age theme.
Join Suzanne for discussion and writing tips over lunch. Suzanne demystifies the process, shares her successes and insights, and offers her support: there's room for all of us in the Young Adult market!
Click here to learn more...
Click here to reserve your seat NOW: $28.00 includes full lunch and a copy of Suzanne's newest release: Mad Love
Buy a SIGNED copy of Mad Love - $16.99
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ABFAS February Top 10 Best-Sellers...
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Number One Best-selling Author Appears at A Book For All Seasons
What could be hotter than a chance to meet and talk to the author currently at NUMBER ONE ON THE BEST-SELLER list! The current #1 Hardcover Novel is West of Here: a sweeping wilderness of a novel from award-winner Jonathan Evison.
Like all of our book-signings and book buzzes, this opportunity is absolutely free. Don't be shy — authors love to talk about their books! Learn more about Jonathan's entertaining and thought-provoking epic bestseller, and about all the other fun perks at our Anniversary Party, by clicking here.
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 Discover New Music
A Book For All Seasons is delighted to partner with NPR in helping you discover new musical frontiers. NPR's "Discover Songs" project offers six new albums every six weeks.
The current selections include cutting-edge indie-pop, world, old-timey, rock, and country, from Gregg Allman's first solo album in fourteen years to the Decembrists latest number one hit — perfect for you or someone you love. But don't snooze — before you know it the next set of exciting selections will be here!
 Abigail Washburn
Profiled in Newsweek for creating a "gorgeous, joyful new sound," songwriter and clawhammer banjo player Abigail Washburn takes her bold and expansive musical vision to new heights on her third recording, City of Refuge. Raw yet ethereal, City of Refuge is a sublime marriage of old-time and indie-pop, Americana and Asian influences. "A daring, definitive talent," says Wall Street Journal. "Engrossing ... a modern classic," says the Boston Globe.
 Buy City of Refuge: Audio CD by Abigail Washburn - $14.98
 Bright Eyes
NPR calls The People's Key by Bright Eyes: "experimental and conceptual... opening with a strange but fascinating commentary on the expanding universe, time travel, UFOs and the origins of life... The People's Key is Bright Eyes' most infectious record to date, with captivating melodies and rhythms... full of the finest frequencies you'll likely hear this year." The band's seventh studio album, The People's Key is assured, accomplished, and bursting with charisma.
 Buy The People's Key: Audio CD by Bright Eyes - $14.98
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Tradition — Plus Innovation! — To Fill More Empty Bowls
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Empty Bowl by Artist Lori Aylesworth.
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Wed, Mar 9, 8:00 - 9:00 AM
and Thurs, Mar 10 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Phone KOHO Radio, 509-548-3474
Over the years, Empty Bowls has become an intimate part of the fabric of our Leavenworth community. Time-honored Empty Bowls traditions continue this year ...
PLUS, BRAND-NEW FOR 2011:
four special sponsored artist's bowls will help raise additional community pledges. A Book For All Seasons is delighted to be one of 2011's special sponsors. But these four special bowls need your help too — so please add your support — drop a little something into these empty bowls by calling KOHO March 9th or 10th with your pledge.
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Empty Bowl by Artist Lori Aylesworth.
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It feels good to feed a hungry child. Let's fill all the empty bowls in Leavenworth. Call into KOHO's live on-the-air pledge drive. Your entire donation will go to Community Cupboard to help feed the hungry all year long.
Why sponsored bowls? For more participation — more opportunities to get involved — more fun!
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 What If
HAVING FUN
and DOING GOOD
were the same thing?
Come to our party and find out!
Enjoy our Anniversary Party March 19 —
meet your neighbors,
build community,
enjoy healthful refreshments,
chat with best-selling northwest authors —
and know that 10% of all sales all day long go straight to Leavenworth schools and the Community Cupboard.
Buying local gives back!
Thank you, Leavenworth! You're the reason for our nineteen wonderful years and counting.
Click here to learn more...
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What's New? What's Hot Off The Press? What's Just Been Released in 2010?
Fiction |
Non-Fiction |
Young Adult |
Early Grades & Picture Books |
Fiction
 Up from the Blue by Susan Henderson $13.99
Tillie Harris's life is in disarray—her husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the telephone isn't even connected yet. Though she's not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to reach out to her estranged father for help, a choice that means facing the painful memories she's been running from since she was a little girl.
Henderson's fascinating novel fearlessly examines the complexities of depression, romantic and filial love, and motherhood. Beautiful, funny, sad, and complicated. An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: the year her mother disappeared.
Buy Up from the Blue by Susan Henderson - $13.99
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Non-Fiction
 At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By Bill Bryson $28.95
"Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up."
Bill Bryson formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, ends up in our house, in the paint and pipes, pillows and furniture.
Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.
From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.
Buy At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson - $28.95
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Young Adult
 This Isn't What It Looks Like (Secret Series #4) by Pseudonymous Bosch $16.99 Recommended for ages 8-12
The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure.
Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues and secrets—piecing together her family's history as she fights her way back to the present world.
Meanwhile, back home, Cass is at the hospital in a deep coma. Max-Ernest knows she ate Time Travel Chocolate—and he's determined to find a cure. Can our expert hypochondriac diagnose Cass's condition before it's too late? And will he have what it takes to save the survivalist?
The Pseudonymous Bosch series, which begins with The Name of this Book is Secret, is equal parts supernatural whodunit, suspense-filled adventure and evocative coming-of-age tale. When an unlikely pair of 11-year-old outsiders—survivalist Cassandra and aspiring stand-up comedian Max-Ernest—team up to solve a mystery, they unwittingly cross paths with the villainous Dr. L and his ageless accomplice, Ms. Mauvais. Full of Lemony Snickett-like humor, and loaded with brainteasers—anagrams, coded messages, and palindromes—Bosch's deliberately eccentric offering is likely to acquire a cult following.
Buy This Isn't What It Looks Like (Secret Series #4) by Pseudonymous Bosch - $16.99
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Early Grades and Picture Books
 My Daddy Is a Pretzel: Yoga for Parents and Kids By Baron Baptiste, Sophie Fatus (Illustrator) $16.99
Sitting in a circle, children reveal their parents' jobs, all of which are then related to a yoga pose: "Anna says her step-dad's a pilot. Sometimes my daddy's an airplane." Scenes of parent and child on the job alternate with spreads that give step-by-step instructions for the correlating poses (nine in all).
Each revelation of a new yoga asana (pose) that Dad can do is followed by simple, straightforward instructions for attaining that pose. Most are well-known hatha yoga poses. Fatus's bright watercolors teem with relevant details. "Loving humor ... infuses the bright illustrations," says Childrens Literature.
Buy My Daddy Is a Pretzel: Yoga for Parents and Kids by Baron Baptiste - $16.99
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