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The Origin of Others (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 9780674976450

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Published: Harvard University Press - September 18th, 2017
The Mountain: Stories (Hardcover)

By Paul Yoon

$25.00

ISBN: 9781501154089

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 15th, 2017
Stay with Me (Hardcover)

By Ayobami Adebayo

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ISBN: 9780451494603

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Published: Knopf Publishing Group - August 22nd, 2017
Come with Me (Hardcover)

By Holly M. McGhee, Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781524739058

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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - September 5th, 2017
The Burning Girl (Hardcover)

By Claire Messud

$25.95

ISBN: 9780393635027

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 29th, 2017
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult (Hardcover)

By Bruce Handy

$26.00

ISBN: 9781451609950

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 15th, 2017

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Zoë Quinn

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Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 7:00pm

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The Elliott Bay Book Company

Video game developer Zoë Quinn is the founder of Crash Override Network, a crisis hotline and advocacy group formed in response to online harassment and abuse that she and others have experienced. After years of working with the biggest names in tech, law, media, and online security, as well as thousands of targets of online abuse, she’s now armed with a wealth of knowledge, which she shares in her new book, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (PublicAffairs). It’s part fierce, funny memoir, part bold manifesto, and part...

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Kurt Timmermeister with Nancy Leson

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Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 7:00pm

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The Elliott Bay Book Company

Kurt Timmermeister wants to eat great food. He says, “And not just any great food, but food grown here, made here, and about this beautiful place on Vashon Island. You might live down the street from my farm, across the country, or across the globe; it doesn’t matter. I want folks to find the food that grows in their yards, that is for sale at their farmers’ markets, and that reflects their life and surroundings. Food is about context and place and time. Farm Food is my way of bringing this experience to you.” In his book, Farm Food Volume One: Fall and Winter (Cookhouse Publishing), he...

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Jessica Bruder

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Friday, October 6, 2017 - 7:00pm

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The Elliott Bay Book Company

Journalist and professor Jessica Bruder may teach at the Columbia School of Journalism but she ventures way out of New York to chronicle the extraordinary story she does in her debut book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century (W.W. Norton). “In the early twentieth century, men used to ride the rails in search of work, sharing camps at night. Today, as Bruder brilliantly reports, we have a new class of nomadic workers who travel in their RVs from one short-term job to another. There’s a lot to cringe at here—from low pay and physically exhausting work to constant...

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Caitlin Doughty

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Friday, October 6, 2017 - 7:30pm

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The Summit

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living,” Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote. Caitlin Doughty has spent her life around the dead. A mortician by trade, Doughty, in From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death travels the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead. She goes to Bolivia to see cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls; to Japan to watch relatives of the deceased use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones’ bones from cremation ashes; to Indonesia to watch a man dress his grandfather’s mummified body. With a keen...

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Blaine Harden

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Saturday, October 7, 2017 - 7:00pm

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The Elliott Bay Book Company

A longtime journalist for The New York Times and Washington Post, whose postings have included have included stints at bureau chief in East Asia, Africa, and Warsaw, Blaine Harden has for some time now been living in Seattle and writing serious, well-received books, most recently a series of books on Korea. Escape from Camp 14 and The Great Leader and The Fighter Pilot are now followed by King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea (Viking). “Many accounts of the Korean War are full of mystery, hinting at horrific crimes and large-scale covert operations. King of Spies...

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Frances Moore Lappé & Adam Eichen

Date:
Saturday, October 7, 2017 - 7:30pm

Location:
Rainier Arts Center

Many Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis in Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It’s not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It’s feeling powerless—in this case, fearing that to stand up for democracy is futile. It’s not, Lappé...

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Still Life with Tornado (Hardcover)

By A. S. King

$17.99

Sarah is an artist with a particular problem: she can't draw. She's terrified that there's no such thing as an original idea, that it's all been done before. So she drops out of school and wanders the streets of Philadelphia, encountering both past and future versions of herself. In the wonderfully empathetic hands of A.S. King, Sarah's existential crisis and journey to overcome past trauma is both moving and encouraging. I wish I could have had a book like this as a teenager; I'm glad I have it now. Still Life with Tornado is perfect for anyone who's ever felt like they're floating but not dreaming.

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A Day with Dogs (Library Binding)

By Dorothaee De Monfreid

$19.99

It's all here! The objects of our lives in the settings where we find them, presented by a lively and animated assortment of dogs. With a nod to her inspiration, Richard Scarry, the author presents enough detail to keep any young child absorbed and delighted for hours on end.

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I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats (Hardcover)

By Francesco Marciuliano

$12.95

Do you have cats? Cats sure are keen They fill your life With pleasantries ... But only if you obey. FUNNY STUFF!

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Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness (Paperback)

By Sasha Martin

$15.95

Life from Scratch is—in short—not your average food memoir. As food writer and blogger Sasha Martin (of Global Table Adventure) embarks on the culinary project of cooking, in 195 weeks, a meal from every country in the world, she and the reader are plunged into an unexpected and wrenching exploration into Martin's difficult past, and her struggle to reconcile and heal from it. Martin combines unflinching and insightful candor with artful and skilled recipes (I recommend trying her Kabeli Palau) to take us on a journey through taste, memory, and the people closest to us.

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Understanding a Photograph (Hardcover)

By John Berger, Geoff Dyer (Editor)

$24.95

Collects John Berger's essays on photography written between 1967 and 2007, with an insightful introductory essay by editor Geoff Dyer. Understanding a Photograph deserves to be read alongside those works on the medium by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag.

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The Writing of Art (Paperback)

By Olivier Berggruen

$16.00

This collection of essays examines the work of a handful of 20th century painters with a just-right mix of brain-tickling theory and gleeful engagement with the self-evident physicality of the works themselves. Intelligent art criticism for real people.

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Homegoing (Paperback)

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Published: Vintage - May 2nd, 2017
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Hardcover)

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Published: Scribner Book Company - August 1st, 2017

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir (Hardcover)

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Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City (Paperback)

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Published: University of Washington Press - February 14th, 2017
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays (Paperback)

By Samantha Irby

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Milk and Honey (Paperback)

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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - October 6th, 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Paperback)

By Matthew Desmond

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ISBN: 9780553447453

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Published: Broadway Books - February 28th, 2017