Each month\, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our March selection is The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury. A many-layered story of Little Gandhi\, or Abd al-Karim\, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street\, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. Ingeniously embedding stories within stories\, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city\, Beirut\, in the grip of civil war. Laila Lalami in the Los Angeles Times says\, "\;Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler\, and Istanbul\, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott SUMMARY:LINDA CHALKER-SCOTT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson SUMMARY:GABRIEL THOMPSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews SUMMARY:SIDNEY S. ANDREWS DESCRIPTION:Pioneer Square's Boren Block One\, once home to the Seattle Hotel\, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous \\"Sinking Ship\\" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city\, a movement that would\, within a decade\, help save both the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square from a similar fate. Sidney S. Andrews\, author of Boren's Block One\: A Sinking Ship (Create Space)\, speaks tonight about the block's history\, which includes stories from Seattle's earliest days—\;totem pole thefts\, Japanese American hoteliers\, the ill-fated (recent) monorail\, and more. We can't think of a better time to reminisce about Pioneer Square's past and contemplate its future.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff SUMMARY:DAVID SHEFF & NIC SHEFF at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Presented by the RECOVERY CAFÉ\;. Author/journalist David Sheff and his son Nic make this Seattle return to discuss Beautiful Boy\: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Mariner)\, David Sheff's much-praised family memoir. \\"A brilliant\, harrowing\, heartbreaking\, fascinating story\, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.\\" - Anne Lamott. \\"When one of us tells the truth\, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others. That's ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about.\\" - Mary Pipher. Advance tickets ($10/free students) are available through www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information\, please see www.recoverycafe.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields SUMMARY:DAVID SHIELDS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings SUMMARY:ARIEL MEADOWS STALLINGS DESCRIPTION:Thinking of planning a \\"Demolition Derby\\" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters\, nonconformists\, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book\, The Offbeat Bride\: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in a second edition from Seal Press). \\"Finally\, a wedding guide that won't make you puke. Whatever your idea of nontraditional may be\, The Offbeat Bride is here to tell you that it's all gonna be okay.\\" - Wendy McClure\, Bust Magazine.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy SUMMARY:WILLIAM L. MARCY DESCRIPTION:William L. Marcy\, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University\, makes the case that the U.S. has\, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "\;War on Drugs\,"\; played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He talks tonight about this and more\, as chronicled in his book\, The Politics of Cocaine\: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "\;Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures\, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption\, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents."\; - Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shafak URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shafak SUMMARY:ELIF SHAFAK DESCRIPTION:Three years after circumstances in Istanbul\, in largest part\, dictated cancellation of a planned Seattle visit for her novel\, The Bastard of Istanbul\, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak makes this long-awaited first visit here\, this for her newest novel\, The Forty Rules of Love (Viking). The author of ten novels in her homeland\, and now five in English\, Elif Shafak (or Safak) in The Forty Rules of Love weaves together two narratives\, set hundreds of years apart\, linking an unhappy\, contemporary U.S. housewife and the great Sufi mystic and poet Jelaluddin Rumi\, and his dervish mentor\, Shams of Tabriz. \\"In The Forty Rules of Love\, Elif Shafak has woven a wonderful tale of spiritual longing\, brilliantly exploring the universal desire for intimacy—\;with another human being\, as well as with the divine. It is provocative in the best sense of that term\, a rare novel that succeeds in illuminating the mystical aspects of daily existence\, a novel of intelligence as well as heart\, with wisdom that infuses every page.\\" - Roland Merullo. With thanks to our friends and neighbors at CAFÉ\; PALOMA (93 Yesler Way\, www.cafepaloma.com) for their assistance. A special post-reading gathering for Café\; Paloma is in the works.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/kupchan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/kupchan SUMMARY:CHARLES A. KUPCHAN at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A National Security Council member during the Clinton administration who is now a professor of international relations at Georgetown\, Charles Kupchan visits Town Hall with his new book\, How Enemies Become Friends\: The Sources of Stable Peace (Princeton University Press).\\"This is a work of admirable breadth and unusual interest. Combining an engaging theoretical framework with an extraordinarily diverse set of case studies\, Kupchan has produced a lucid work that should be valued by both the academic and policymaking worlds in sorting out the relationships among classic diplomacy\, democracy\, and peace.\\" - Anthony Lake. Charles Kupchan is also the author of The End of the American Era. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6\:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (entry on Seneca). For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255\, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/cibookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T150000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/daschle URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/daschle SUMMARY:Senator THOMAS A. DASCHLE at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel DESCRIPTION:Breakfast with Champions presented by the KING COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION. The Tenth Annual Breakfast with Champions\, a fundraising occasion sponsored by the King County Bar Association that benefits several good causes\, brings former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle to Seattle as the keynote speaker. He is expected to speak on the current health-care proposals and where they stand. His most recent book is Critical\: What to Do About the Health-Care Crisis (Thomas Dunne Books). Timely\, yes. Tickets are $50 ($500 for a table of ten)\, and available through www.kcbf.org. For more information\, please call (206) 267-7007. The Seattle Sheraton is at 1400 Sixth Avenue.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mason URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mason SUMMARY:ZACHARY MASON DESCRIPTION:Few debuts have arrived on the scene with the lightness and gravity\, and that harken to the original\, in its fullest sense\, as Zachary Mason's luminous novel\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar\, Straus &\; Giroux). Yes\, that Odyssey. This is one of the rare cases where one of the enduring works is taken on\, with the result that the new work itself becomes adorned with the essence of timelessness.\\"Spellbinding. In his versions of these ancient myths\, Mason twists and jinks\, renegotiating the journey to Ithaca with all the guile and trickery of Odysseus himself. Rarely is it so reassuring to be in the hands of such an unreliable narrator.\\" - Simon Armitage. \\"A subtle\, inventive\, and moving meditation on what Louis MacNeice calls 'the drunkenness of things being various.'\\" - John Banville.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/finneyfrock URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/finneyfrock SUMMARY:KAREN FINNEYFROCK DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet\, novelist\, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a \\"Legend\\" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems\, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners\, naming her \\"Queen of the Spoken Word.\\" She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/ballet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/ballet SUMMARY:Conversations with PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents 3 BY DOVE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/pine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/pine SUMMARY:RED PINE at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:Presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS. The Gardner Center hosts what should be a delightful program as noted translator and author (as Bill Porter) Red Pine discusses the recently released new edition of his translation of Lao-Tzu's Taoteching (Copper Canyon Press). This translation features not only Lao-Tzu's timeless poetic text\, but translations of selected Chinese commentaries over the past 2\,000 years. \\"With its clarity and scholarly range\, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Some other recent Red Pine translations include\: In Such Hard Times\: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu\, The Platform Sutra\, The Heart Sutra\, The Diamond Sutra\, Poems of the Masters\: China's Classical Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse\, and The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. There are also Bill Porter's books\: Zen Baggage\: A Pilgrimage to China and Road to Heaven\: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Free entry\, with Seattle Art Museum admission. Advance reservations suggested. Please see www.seattleartmuseum.org for more information. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/lee URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/lee SUMMARY:CHANG-RAE LEE at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee\, who has read with Elliott Bay for each of his three highly acclaimed novels\, makes this welcome Seattle return for his much-anticipated new novel\, The Surrendered (Riverhead). Good as Native Speaker (winner of the PEN-Hemingway Award)\, A Gesture Life\, and Aloft\, his earlier novels were\, The Surrendered signals a major leap\, in every way. \\"The odyssey of a Korean War refugee becomes first the subject of\, then a haunting overture ... In its ineffably quiet way\, there really is something Tolstoyan in this searching fiction's determination to understand the characters specifically as members of families and products of other people's influences ... A major achievement\, likely to be remembered as one of the year's best books.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. \\"Lee's masterful fourth novel bursts with drama and human anguish as it documents the ravages and indelible effects of war ... traumas reverberate throughout the characters' lives\, determining the destructive relationship that develops ... as the plot rushes forward and back in time\, encompassing graphic scenes of suffering\, carnage\, and emotional wreckage. Powerful\, deeply felt\, compulsively readable and imbued with moral gravity\, the novel does not peter out into easy redemption. It's a harrowing tale\: bleak\, haunting\, often heartbreaking—\;and not to be missed.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come\, first serve basis. Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending the program. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information on tonight\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636\, or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sfbookclub SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/conover URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/conover SUMMARY:TED CONOVER DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, The Routes of Man\: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (Knopf)\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover takes routes in use in the world today—\;and masterfully tells a big story of how we are connected—\;and separated—\;by the roads and routes we make to travel on\, to transport goods\, to make escapes\, and also to control. Peru\, the West Bank\, the Himalayas\, Nigeria\, east Africa\, and China\: all figure vividly in this arresting\, provocative book by the author of Newjack\, Coyoytes\, and Rolling Nowhere. \\"Ted Conover's exploration of six far-flung roads—\;from a truck route over the Andes to an ambulance crew's rounds in Lagos\, Nigeria—\;will prove a delight\, while at the same time serving to remind that in many places of the world the act of getting around is an art marked by pride\, lust\, corruption\, and bloodshed.\\" - Erik Larson. \\"Ted Conover is one of the great writers of my generation\, and this may be his finest book. Fearless and compassionate\, with echoes of Conrad and Kerouac\, it explores how the road\, once a symbol of limitless possibility\, has become a path to annihilation.\\" - Eric Schlosser.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/trussoni URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/trussoni SUMMARY:DANIELLE TRUSSONI DESCRIPTION:Danielle Trussoni received good attention for her 2006 memoir\, Falling Through the Earth\, including citation by the New York Times for being one of the ten best books of the year. She goes a whole other direction for her first novel\, the radiantly absorbing Angelology (Viking). \\"A covert age-old war between angels and humans serves as the backdrop for Trussoni's gripping tale of supernatural thrills and divine destinies ... Trussoni anchors this fanciful dark fantasy to a solid foundation built from Catholic church history\, biblical exegesis\, and apocryphal texts. Suspenseful intrigues and apocalyptic battle scenes give this complexly plotted tale a vigor and vitality all the more exciting for its intelligence.\\" - Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/garlin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/garlin SUMMARY:JEFF GARLIN at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Most known as the co-star and executive producer for the longtime HBO hit\, Curb Your Enthusiasm\, Jeff Garlin has also made the rounds as a stand-up comedian (a Second City alum\, so it might be second nature)\, and as a film director (I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With). His book debut\, My Footprint\: Carrying the Weight of the World (Simon and Schuster)\, is both a laughing matter—\;and not. It is an account of his working to lighten both his carbon footprint—\;and the weight of his very own footprint. Less consumption—\;the attempts—\;are in there somewhere. It is good\, it is edifying\, and some points are made. This should be fun. $5 tickets are available at Elliott Bay or via www.brownpapertickets.com (and 1-800-838-3006) beginning February 24th. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/malae URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/malae SUMMARY:PETER NATHANIEL MALAE at Rainier Beach Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A young writer whose work has been selected for both the Best American Essays and the Best American Mysteries series\, and has written a praised book of stories (Teach the Free Man)\, Peter Nathaniel Malae visits with a powerful debut novel\, What We Are (Grove Press). \\"The voice is gold ... A high energy rant by a half-Samoan/half-white drifter trying to survive in a world bent on marginalizing seekers of truth and integrity ... [What We Are] bears a message that in the face of the madness of the modern world\, the most important thing is to know yourself and to hold onto that at whatever cost.\\" - Publishers Weekly. \\"Malae possesses a prodigious command of the masculine American idiom and its ironies. Paul—\;the unforgettable protagonist of What We Are—\;is that rarest of literary creatures these days\: a hard-living\, oft-brawling\, culture-straddling\, foul-mouthed juggernaut\, one who's as liable to throw a punch as he is to break your heart.\\" - Rattawut Lapcharoensap\, joined in early praise by Sherman Alexie and Russell Banks. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. The Rainier Beach Branch of the Seattle Public Library is at 9125 Rainier Avenue S. For more information on this evening\, please call (206) 386-1906 or Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/hugo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/hugo SUMMARY:HUGO LITERARY SERIES presents \\"LAWS OF ATTRACTION\\" at Kane Hall DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/picoult URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/picoult SUMMARY:JODI PICOULT at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A teenage with Aspergers is wrongly accused of the murder of his tutor in popular novelist Jodi Picoult's newest (18th!) book\, House Rules (Atria). These bestselling novels\, which pair compelling and timely stories with thoughtful\, sympathetic characters\, are favorites of many book groups—\;locally and around the country. \\"Picoult is at her razor-sharp best with House Rules. It's both a tender look at the depths of a mother's love and a searing examination of how we treat those who are different\, and whether we expect them to play by the same rules.\\" - BookPage. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. The Microsoft Auditorium at the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636\, or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react SUMMARY:REACT THEATRE presents 'NIGHT\, MOTHER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/perkinsvaldez URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/perkinsvaldez SUMMARY:DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ at Douglass-Truth Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS &\; IDEAS and THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Dolen Perkins-Valdez' historically-set debut novel\, Wench (Harper Amistad) is one of those books we've most wanted to share with readers this season. The chronicle of four slave women who are also their masters' mistresses\, Wench is set in a popular Ohio resort where slaveholders (and mistresses) gather during the summer. Witness to the growing abolition movement with this Free State\, these women must each decide whether to run or stay. Dolen Perkins-Valdez\, who is bicoastally based in both Seattle and the Washington known as D.C.\, based this novel on research into the period and the actual Xenia\, Ohio resort where this story is set. \\"Heart-wrenching\, intriguing\, original\, and suspenseful\, this novel showcases Perkins-Valdez' ability to bring the unfortunate past to life.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Free admission. The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library is at 2300 East Yesler. For more information on this evening\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, or see www.cdforum.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/nesbo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/nesbo SUMMARY:JO NESBO at Leif Erikson Hall DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/braden URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/braden SUMMARY:ALLEN BRADEN\, KEVIN MILLER & DEREK SHEFFIELD Group Reading DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100325T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100325T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sundaresan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sundaresan SUMMARY:INDU SUNDARESAN DESCRIPTION:A writer whose work is popular in her home country of India\, Indu Sundaresan has been doing that writing here in the Seattle area—\;and winning readers in the U.S. (and elsewhere)\, as well. She follows her recent book of present-day stories\, In the Convent of Little Flowers\, with a return to historically-set\, Mughal-era novels that she is first known for. The Twentieth Wife\, The Feast of Roses\, and The Splendor of Silence\, are now joined by her newest\, Shadow Princess (Atria). \\"Sundaresan returns to 17th-century India in this romantic fictionalization of the life of Jahanara\, the oldest child of the empress Mumtaz Mahal\, Shah Jahan's cherished wife ... Simdaresan has a scholar's fascination with the period ...\\" - Publishers Weekly. Mumtaz Mahal was immortalized\, in death\, by the building of the Taj Mahal. This novel becomes the imagined story of the life of a princess who in history did play a part in governance\, albeit with much intrigue and mystery. All the richer\, hence\, for the place of fiction—\;and this winning\, wonderful new novel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/spragg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/spragg SUMMARY:MARK SPRAGG & LAURA BELL DESCRIPTION:Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg\, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir\, Where Rivers Change Directions\, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life\, is here tonight with a new novel\, Bone Fire (Knopf). A murder in a Wyoming town methlab sets certain things in motion\, the unfolding of mysteries of a larger dimension. \\"A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work ... Not one word is out of place\, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable ... This 'bone fire' is in fact the burning we call life\, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings.\\" - Henry Bankhead\, Library Journal. From Cody\, Wyoming\, comes Laura Bell with a remarkable nonfiction debut\, Claiming Ground\: A Memoir (Knopf). \\"First\, it is the language you notice\: phrases\, whole passages composed with the musical authority of psalms. Then it is the evocation of place\, Wyoming rising from these pages as actual as a wild perfume. But\, start to finish\, it is her honesty that keeps you up in the night\, wondering at the frailty of what it means to be human and glad and brave and\, at times\, broken.\\" - Mark Spragg.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T032142Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/moby URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/moby SUMMARY:MOBY & MIYUN PARK at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR