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Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over (Hardcover)

By Alison Roman

$32.50

ISBN: 9780451497017

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Published: Clarkson Potter - October 22nd, 2019
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Paperback)

By Bernardine Evaristo

$17.00

ISBN: 9780802156983

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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat - November 5th, 2019
Nothing to See Here (Hardcover)

By Kevin Wilson

$26.99

ISBN: 9780062913463

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Published: Ecco - October 29th, 2019
Who Put This Song On? (Hardcover)

By Morgan Parker

$18.99

ISBN: 9780525707516

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Published: Delacorte Press - September 24th, 2019
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk (Paperback)

By Jon Krakauer

$15.00

ISBN: 9781984897695

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Published: Anchor - October 29th, 2019
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Saeed Jones

$26.00

ISBN: 9781501132735

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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2019

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Chana Porter with Rebecca Brown

Date:
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

In novelist Chana Porter’s novel, The Seep (Soho), a fifty-year-old trans woman’s life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle--but nonetheless world-changing--invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's utopian influence--until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. A strange new elegy of love...

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Jenny Offill

Date:
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

Watch out: Jenny Offill’s new novel, Weather (Knopf), comes in a ‘package’ that is small physically, but that packs a huge wallop. The author of Last Things, While You Were Napping, and Dept. of Speculation has done it this time. “Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill’s third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis, including liberals fearing climate apocalypse and conservatives fearing the demise of ‘American values.’ As she attempts to save everyone, our protagonist is driven to her limits...

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Mimi Lok with Joyce Chen

Date:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

San Francisco-based Chinese writer Mimi Lok, whose work in the Bay Area has included serving as co-founder, Executive Director, and editor of the award-winning Voice of Witness, is here with a brilliant first book of stories, Last of Her Name (Kaya). “A mesmerizing and deeply felt debut that affirms all that is great about short fiction. ‘The Woman In the Closet’ has to be considered a new classic. Lok’s collection brings startling intimacy to her characters, all of them struggling with dislocation and belonging within the Chinese diaspora. I can’t think of a collection that better speaks...

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John Sayles

Date:
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

We are pleased and honored to welcome back John Sayles, writer and filmmaker extraordinaire, an artist committed to doing work independent in spirit and in the spirit of solidarity with larger community and social purpose. He is here with a long-awaited new novel, Yellow Earth (Haymarket). “Densely textured, overtly political fifth novel, the acclaimed director and screenwriter recounts what happens when shale oil is discovered beneath an Indian reservation in the North Dakota badlands and crowds of outsiders descend.” —New York Times. “Without falling prey to false ‘both sides’...

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African American Writers Alliance Group Reading

Date:
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

For going on thirty years now, we have helped host this annual group reading program - wherever Elliott Bay has been - with Seattle’s utterly vital Northwest African American Writers Alliance. These group readings always feature a dynamic, wide variety of genres, voices, experiences, approaches - and much spirit and enthusiasm. For more on the NW African American Writers Alliance, tonight’s reading, and other NWAAWA activities over the year, please contact Living Legend honoree Georgia McDade (206.722.0964).

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Sharyn Skeeter with Donna Miscolta

Date:
Monday, March 2, 2020 - 7:00pm

Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company

In novelist Sharyn Skeeter’s book, Dancing with Langston (Green Place Books), Carrie, a business manager who always wanted to be a dancer, has two commitments. She made a promise to her late father to move Cousin Ella, a former Paris café dancer, from her condemned Harlem apartment to a safe place. She’s also committed to catch a flight to Seattle with her husband for his new job. But Cousin Ella resists leaving the apartment where she’s had salons with Langston Hughes. She also has a mysterious gift that she wants Carrie to earn. If she does, a revelation about Carrie’s father and his cousin...

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Staff Picks

Ghosts of Seattle Past (Paperback)

By Jaimee Garbacik, Joshua Powell (Illustrator)

$19.95

This is a rad anthology based on the website of the same name, a vibrant collection of submissions by Seattleites past and present about the places, things, and vibes that defined them and the city outside of the mainstream, which are slowly vanishing. Told perfectly in a DIY/zine style with nostalgic and poignant text, drawings, photos, and cartoons, it details the physical, emotional, and spiritual institutions that have represented much of the soul of weird Seattle over the past several decades. This anthology pays tribute to and preserves the eccentric, funky, and ever-resistant spirit of Seattle. -Booknotes Spring 2017

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I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats (Gifts for Cat Lovers, Funny Cat Books for Cat Lovers) (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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The Mad Farmer Poems (Paperback)

By Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan (Introduction by)

$14.95

This is the collection I keep close at all times and the one I'm most likely to hand to a friend in pain. It gives me perspective, grounds me, reminds me that there's love and light in a world that exhausts.

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Asterios Polyp (Pantheon Graphic Library) (Hardcover)

By David Mazzucchelli

$45.00

Witness two (three?) small beings caught in a vast cosmic mechanism. Fate! Longing! What does it mean to be whole? Who can complete us? Mazzuchelli's words and pictures are precise, sophisticated, and intentional in every detail. A masterpiece.

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T.C. Boyle Stories (Paperback)

By T.C. Boyle

$25.00

I had never been a short story reader before picking up TC Boyle, but this collection made me a convert and led me to discover all that the genre has to offer. Boyle creates a fascinating portrait of modern day Southern California, and his stories offer center around challenging (read: unlikable) characters doing inexplicable things, with strange motives and desires. "The Lie," a story about a snowballing tall-tale that grows wildly out of hand, is one of the most entertaining pieces of fiction I've ever read. Highly recommended.

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The Ambassadors (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

By Henry James, Colm Toibin (Introduction by)

$11.00

I agree with James that this is his best novel and, for me, his most pleasurable. For the reader who enjoys immersing himself in a quiet world of nuance and the half- and mis-understood actions and motivations that make of us constant mysteries to one another, here's the perfect venue. And make no mistake—beneath the quiet surface run currents of rage, humor, and passion, heartbreak and pathos. Here's a book entertaining and of fabulous depths.

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A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translated by), Amanda Hopkinson (Translated by)

$28.00

ISBN: 9781984820150

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Published: Ballantine Books - January 21st, 2020
The Overstory: A Novel (Paperback)

By Richard Powers

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ISBN: 9780393356687

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 2nd, 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Ocean Vuong

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ISBN: 9780525562023

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Published: Penguin Press - June 4th, 2019
The Lines That Make Us: Stories from Nathan's Bus (Paperback)

By Nathan Vass

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ISBN: 9781732764101

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Published: Tome Press - November 1st, 2018
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Paperback)

By Bernardine Evaristo

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ISBN: 9780802156983

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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat - November 5th, 2019

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America (Hardcover)

By Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig

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ISBN: 9781984877499

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Published: Penguin Press - January 21st, 2020
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By E. J. Koh

$22.95

ISBN: 9781947793385

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Published: Tin House Books - January 7th, 2020
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms (Paperback)

By Matthias Roberts, Tina Schermer Sellers (Foreword by)

$16.99

ISBN: 9781506455662

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Published: Fortress Press - January 7th, 2020
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Paperback)

By Bessel van der Kolk

$19.00

ISBN: 9780143127741

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Published: Penguin Books - September 8th, 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)

By Jia Tolentino

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525510543

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Published: Random House - August 6th, 2019