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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:50:29 -0500

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:51:39 -0500

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REBECCA WALKER at the Northwest African American Museum

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:06:38 -0500

Start: 02/06/2012 - 7:00pm

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GARY GEDDES

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:50:48 -0500

Start: 02/06/2012 - 7:00pm

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:51:48 -0500

Start: 02/07/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/07/2012 - 11:30am

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ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:10 -0500

Start: 02/07/2012 - 6:30pm

End: 02/07/2012 - 6:30pm

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DAVID LONG & THOM JONES in conversation with BRANGIEN DAVIS

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:38:31 -0500

Start: 02/07/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/07/2012 - 7:00pm

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ERIC LIU & NICK HANAUER at Seattle Public Central Library

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:11:15 -0500

Start: 02/07/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/07/2012 - 7:00pm

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Seattle writers, analysts, and civic instigators Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer have followed up on their lively earlier collaboration, The True Patriot, with their newest, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government (Sasquatch). "Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer are progressives who always think outside the box, and that's why everyone should pay attention to them. The Gardens of Democracy shakes up our stale debate over government's role in a dynamic society, and in a thoughtful, creative and inventive way. Everyone will find something to disagree with here, and that's the point: getting us out of our comfort zones is an immensely useful democratic undertaking." – E.J. Dionne, Jr. Free admission. The program will take place on Level 4 (the red floor)—in Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room 1. Seattle Central Public Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & 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.

DAVE ISAY at Town Hall Seattle

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:17:21 -0500

Start: 02/07/2012 - 7:30pm

End: 02/07/2012 - 7:30pm

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PAM HOUSTON

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:20:34 -0500

Start: 02/08/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/08/2012 - 7:00pm

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WAEL GHONIM with D. PARVAZ at Town Hall Seattle

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:25:28 -0500

Start: 02/08/2012 - 7:30pm

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MATT RUFF with PAUL CONSTANT

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:28:49 -0500

Start: 02/09/2012 - 7:00pm

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DIANE FUJINO

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:19 -0500

Start: 02/10/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/10/2012 - 7:00pm

Although historian Diane Fujino's new book on Afro-Asian coalition builder Richard Aoki, A Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance and a Paradoxical Life (University of Minnesota Press) won't be released until April, we couldn't pass up the chance to give people a preview during Dr. Fujino's Seattle visit. Richard Aoki, the only Asian American to serve in a leadership role in the Black Panther Party, was a key figure in Bay Area Afro-Asian unity beginning in the 1960s, as a co-founder of the Asian American Political Alliance, and active in Asian American studies. Diane Fujino, associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is also the author of another book on an iconic Asian American activist, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:51:57 -0500

Start: 02/11/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/11/2012 - 11:30am

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SHIRIN SHERKAT, Psy.D.

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:43:50 -0500

Start: 02/11/2012 - 2:00pm

End: 02/11/2012 - 2:00pm

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BENJAMIN CAWTHRA

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:23:38 -0500

Start: 02/11/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/11/2012 - 7:00pm

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MARTHA BAYNE

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:51:30 -0500

Start: 02/12/2012 - 2:00pm

End: 02/12/2012 - 2:00pm

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ANN SPIERS & RICHARD WIDERKEHR

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:42:55 -0500

Start: 02/13/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/13/2012 - 7:00pm

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:52:06 -0500

Start: 02/14/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/14/2012 - 11:30am

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GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:59:03 -0400

Start: 02/14/2012 - 6:30pm

End: 02/14/2012 - 6:30pm

Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Our February selection is The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis. Every Culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.

In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the earth really is alive, while in Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last rainforest nomads struggle to survive.

Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy—a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination. Re-discovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our times. This book comprises the 2009 Massey Lectures, "The Wayfinders," broadcast in November 2009 as part of CBC Radio's Ideas series.

KATHERINE BOO at Seattle Asian Art Museum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:47:19 -0500

Start: 02/14/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/14/2012 - 7:00pm

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J.A. JANCE at Seattle Public Central Library

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:56:33 -0500

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JAMES D. SCURLOCK

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:53:52 -0500

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PAULA BROADWELL at Town Hall Seattle

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:08:09 -0500

Start: 02/16/2012 - 5:00pm

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NATHAN ENGLANDER

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:59 -0500

Start: 02/16/2012 - 7:00pm

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SHANNA STEVENSON at the Woman's Century Club (Harvard Exit Theatre)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:47:43 -0500

Start: 02/17/2012 - 12:00pm

End: 02/17/2012 - 12:00pm

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HUGO LITERARY SERIES presents "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL" with HEATHER McHUGH, LYDIA YUKNAVITCH, CHAD GOLLER-SOJOURNER & ALEX GUY at Richard Hugo House

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:06:05 -0500

Start: 02/17/2012 - 7:30pm

End: 02/17/2012 - 7:30pm

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CHRIS MURRAY

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:08:52 -0500

Start: 02/18/2012 - 9:30am

End: 02/18/2012 - 9:30am

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:52:18 -0500

Start: 02/18/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/18/2012 - 11:30am

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DANA STABENOW

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:12:40 -0500

Start: 02/18/2012 - 2:00pm

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RICHARD MASON

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:24:14 -0500

Start: 02/20/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/20/2012 - 7:00pm

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:52:25 -0500

Start: 02/21/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/21/2012 - 11:30am

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SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:44:02 -0500

Start: 02/21/2012 - 6:30pm

End: 02/21/2012 - 6:30pm

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JIM YARDLEY with BOB WEISS at Seattle Public Central Library

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:28:32 -0500

Start: 02/21/2012 - 7:00pm

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KRIS SAKNUSSEMM

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:55:10 -0500

Start: 02/21/2012 - 7:00pm

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AMY FRANKLIN-WILLIS

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:05:41 -0500

Start: 02/22/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/22/2012 - 7:00pm

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DAVID WOLMAN

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:49:23 -0500

Start: 02/23/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/23/2012 - 7:00pm

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RACHEL LLOYD - Postponed to a T.B.A. Date!

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:13:37 -0500

Start: 02/24/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/24/2012 - 7:00pm

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MICHIO KAKU at Town Hall Seattle

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:09 -0500

Start: 02/24/2012 - 7:30pm

End: 02/24/2012 - 7:30pm

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ABIDIN KUSNO & LISA HOFFMAN

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:53:38 -0500

Start: 02/25/2012 - 9:30am

End: 02/25/2012 - 9:30am

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:52:38 -0500

Start: 02/25/2012 - 11:30am

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BRAYDEN HIRSCH

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:51:54 -0500

Start: 02/25/2012 - 5:00pm

End: 02/25/2012 - 5:00pm

Vancouver native Brayden Hirsch may be one of the youngest authors we've had to Elliott Bay; still in high school, he's already written and published a chilling collection of stories, Shadow Catalyst (Steward House Publishers). This combination of mystery, suspense, and the paranormal paint the West Coast with a darker reality where things are always as bad as they seem. This afternoon, Brayden will be reading from his collection and talking about the craft of writing. Join us in the children's room to meet this talented young writer!

AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER'S ALLIANCE Group Reading

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:36:45 -0500

Start: 02/25/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/25/2012 - 7:00pm

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STEVE ERICKSON

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:41:28 -0500

Start: 02/27/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/27/2012 - 7:00pm

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:57:10 -0500

Start: 02/28/2012 - 11:30am

End: 02/28/2012 - 11:30am

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STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:32:35 -0500

Start: 02/28/2012 - 6:30pm

End: 02/28/2012 - 6:30pm

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TUPELO HASSMAN

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:43:21 -0500

Start: 02/28/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/28/2012 - 7:00pm

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DAVID C. UNGER at Town Hall Seattle

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:51:08 -0500

Start: 02/28/2012 - 7:30pm

End: 02/28/2012 - 7:30pm

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PEGGIELENE BARTELS at the Northwest African American Museum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:55:22 -0500

Start: 02/29/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/29/2012 - 7:00pm

Co-presented with the NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. Peggielene Bartels was enjoying life well enough as a gainfully employed secretary. Then, one day, her uncle passed away. With most relatives such as this, there might be some form of inheritance—some money, some property, some possessions. Instead, Ms. Bartels was chosen by the elders of her uncle's community—said uncle having been the king of a small town in Ghana—to be his successor. Told by Eleanor Herman and Ms. Bartels in charming narrative fashion, King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village (Doubleday) is the story of how she found herself king of a town of 7,000. It's the kind of story which calls to question—whose lives were more changed, the townspeople or King Peggy. This should be fun. "This is an astonishing and wonderful book about a real-life Mma Ramotswe. It is an utter joy." – Alexander McCall Smith. Free admission. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay Book Company at (206) 624-6600 The Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org) is at 2300 S. Massachusetts Street.

ERIC KLINENBERG at Town Hall Seattle

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:27:05 -0500

Start: 02/29/2012 - 7:30pm

End: 02/29/2012 - 7:30pm

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LILIANA URSU & TESS GALLAGHER

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:26:20 -0500

Start: 03/01/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 03/01/2012 - 7:00pm

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CHILDREN'S STORYTIME wirh Special Guest ALEXANDRA DAY

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:35:27 -0500

Start: 03/03/2012 - 11:30am

End: 03/03/2012 - 11:30am

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