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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 4:00 pm
Can't wait for the August 24th release* of Mockingjay (Scholastic), the third and final volume of Suzanne Collins' trilogy? Join us for this bookstore-hosted discussion of the book that started it all, Hunger Games (Scholastic, paperback coming July 6!!!). This should be fun. Please join us.
*-have you reserved your copy here yet?
Start: 6:30 pm
As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our July selection is the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner The City & The City by China Mieville. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Historian David Herlihy presents an illustrated talk this evening, drawn from his new book, The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). This story of Pittsburgh-based long-distance racer Frank Lenz, whose dream of cycling around the world in 1892 ended with his mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey, continues long afterward with attempts to solve the mystery and bring the accused murders to justice. "Fascinating ... Herlihy combines an admirable talent for sleuthing with the narrative skills of a first-rate storyteller." - Library Journal. David Herlihy is also the author of Bicycle: The History (Yale University Press), a long-standing reader and cyclist favorite. His work has also been featured on National Public Radio, and in The New York Times and Boston Globe. Free admission. $5 parking for the Central Library garage is available on a limited basis for those attending. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.
Start: 7:00 pm
A fine Montana writer—living there and writing of there—Kevin Canty has been working back and forth in short stories and novels. The author of A Stranger in the World, Into the Great Wide Open, Nine Below Zero, and Where the Money Went, among other books, he is here with a new novel, Everything (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). "The disaffection from a purposeless life unites the characters in Canty's painstakingly crafted novel of backcountry Montana ... Though the narratives rarely cross, Canty's adept handling of structure and themes makes them all feel like part of the same conversation, and the few points of intersection resonate sharply. An able minimalist, Canty is skillful at evoking the weight of a lifetime's quiet angst in mundane moments. The story offers few moments of grace for its luckless characters, but it's full of life, and the occasional bright spots are hard-won and authentic." - Publishers Weekly.
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