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Join us whenever and wherever it works in your Thanksgiving week as Democracy Now! host, bestselling author, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman makes this welcome Seattle return. Occasioning this visit is her newest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier (Haymarket), a collection of astute, perceptive pieces she's written (and delivered) over the past few years. Edited by Denis Moynihan, this book is a telling reminder of how vital Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! are to our country—an independent media voice not beholden to corporate interests. "You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power." – Bill Moyers, from the Foreword. Free admission to the Elliott Bay talk. Amy is also appearing at Town Hall Seattle on Friday, November 27th.

Seattle's Katharine "Kitty" Harmon makes a most welcome return visit to Elliott Bay tonight with a stunning new book of maps of territories both strange and familiar—produced by artists working in paint, salt, old magazines, gloves, found items, and on the artists' own bodies. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press) includes photographs of maps by 350 artists, including Ed Rushka, Julian Schnabel, Maya Lin, Guillermo Kuitca, and Gale Jamieson, and features essays on some of the artists by art historian Gayle Clemans. Kitty Harmon, the author of over a dozen books, was her more recently with You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.