Presented by the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. One of the great highlights in a memorable, eventful year of author appearances here comes in the very last week we present authors, before taking a 'break' and then resuming in the new year. Greg Mortenson has inspired readers and listeners everywhere in the world with the story he told in his moving first book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time. As much as that book has inspired, even more has been the work that Greg Mortenson and others have done in its name—continuing to build schools in rural, remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, fostering the education of girls in particular. These newer, ongoing stories are chronicled in Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Viking). "A heartening follow-up to the bestselling Three Cups of Tea ... Inspiring evidence of the tsunami effects of a committed humanitarian." - Kirkus Reviews. "A lone Montanan staying at the cheapest guest houses has done more to advance U.S. interests in the [Pakistan] region than the entire military and foreign policy apparatus of the Bush administration." - Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times. Greg Mortenson is co-founder of the Central Asia Institute (www.ikat.org) and Pennies for Peace (www.penniesforpeace.org). Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis, limited to the first 2,000. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. Please see The Seattle Public Library website (www.spl.org) for up-to-date information. Royal Brougham Pavilion is at 3414 Third Avenue West - 3rd and Nickerson. Please note: due to time and health (the author's) considerations, Greg Mortenson will ONLY be able to sign copies of Stones into Schools. We're sorry his other books or other items cannot be signed. This is at his publisher's request. Our thanks and appreciation in advance for your understanding and cooperation.