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Thursday • July 21 • 7pm
Mary Morgan
Tuesday • July 26 • 7pm
Vicki Constantine Croke
Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy
Treadwell Story (FALCON)
The Sound of Her Name
The Lady and the Panda
Timothy Treadwell spent the final
years as an advocate for grizzly bears,
becoming a minor celebrity on the
way. He was an ursine autodidact, had
no background in biology or natural
science, only an abiding interest in the
animals he spoke for publicly. But, he
took risks to get close-up with grizzlies,
and in 2003, he and his girlfriend
(Amy Huguenard) were attacked and
killed. Mike Lapinski explores the life
of Treadwell, from alcoholic loser to
voice of wildlife conservation.
A young man, recently drafted for the
war in Vietnam, overhears his father
discussing a Welsh woman he would’ve
married, had it not been for World
War II. Tim, choosing to go to Europe
instead of Vietnam, seeks her out,
and becomes involved in her and her
husband’s life. Mary Morgan is a writer
living in Seattle, and has previously
published short fiction and novels.
Tuesday
July 19 • 7:30pm
Gordon Van Gelder
Science Fiction Museum, JBL Theater
325 5th Avenue N, Seattle
Gordon Van Gelder is the editor and
publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction. Prior to that, he worked
for a dozen years at St. Martin’s Press,
where he edited, among others, Kate
Wilhelm, Christopher Priest, Howard
Waldrop, and William Browning
Spencer. Widely respected for his
intelligence and his understanding of
the business of publishing, he is a 1987
graduate of Clarion West. Co-sponsored
by Clarion West. Tickets are $4, $3 for
seniors and students, and available at the
door or the U District University Book Store.
Tuesday • July 19 • 7pm
Bakari Kitwana
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop:
Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the
New Reality of Race in America
(BASIC CIVITAS BOOKS)
Former Executive Editor at The
Source magazine, Bakari Kitwana asks
questions about the popularity of hip
hop music, and tries to provide some
answers. Does hip hop belong to a
race? Can music ever? Is hip hop’s
popularity with white audiences an
indication that the dream Martin
Luther King, Jr. is coming true? And,
whatever happened to the Prime
Minister Pete Nice from 3rd Bass? Does
he need us to send him some money?
(THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS)
Monday • July 25 • 7pm
Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
(VIKING)
Noted author of the Thursday Next
series of literary detective fantasies,
Jasper Fforde, begins a brand new
franchise with The Big Over Easy.
Nursery rhyme characters have taken
up residence in Berkshire, and it’s up
to Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and
Sergeant Mary Mary to keep nursery
crime in check. Their first assignment?
Find out why Humpty Dumpty really
had a great fall. It’s a story sure to keep
you on the edge of your tuffets!
Tuesday
July 26 • 7:30pm
Michael Swanwick
Science Fiction Museum, JBL Theater
325 5th Avenue N, Seattle
Michael Swansick, author of eight
fine novels, is a master of the short
story as well, and the prolific author
of hundreds of short-shorts, including
his upcoming collection, The Periodic
Table of Science Fiction. He won a Nebula
Award for Stations of the Tide, and
his short stories have been awarded
three Hugos, the Theodore Sturgeon
Memorial Award, and the World
Fantasy Award. Co-sponsored by Clarion
West. Tickets are $4, $3 for seniors and
students, and available at the door or the U
District University Book Store.
(RANDOM HOUSE)
The husband of Manhattan bohemian
socialite and dress designer Ruth
Harkness died in China trying to
find the elusive giant panda. She
responded by deciding to complete
his investigation by making the trek to
Tibet. And defying the expectations of
her time (the 1930s), she reappeared
with a baby panda after months in the
toughest terrain China had to offer.
Harkness, “part Myrna Loy, part Jane
Gooddall,” emerges as one of the
great adventuring women of the 20th
Century in this biography by journalist
Vicki Constantine Croke.
Wednesday • July 27 • 7pm
J.A. Jance
Long Time Gone (WILLIAM MORROW)
It’s another mystery for Seattle cop
Jonas Piedmont Beaumont, a twentyyear veteran of the imagination of
J.A. Jance. This time, hypnotherapy
has unearthed memories of a murder
in a middle-aged nun, and Beau is
asked to lead the investigation. But the
conspirators in this 50-year-old crime
would rather it stay buried, and they
are willing to go to great lengths to
keep it unsolved.
Author Events
Monday • July 18 • 7pm
Mike Lapinski
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Costume Party
Friday • July 15 • 11pm
Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince
July
To celebrate the arrival of the
newest book in the Harry Potter
series by J.K. Rolling, we’re
throwing a costume party. Dress
up as your favorite character from
the book, and join us on July 15 as
we open at 11pm and count down
2005
Particularly Pleasing Periodicals
University Book
Store has quite an
eclectic selection
of magazines—
something for
pretty much
everyone. Here
are a few of our
current favorites:
Top 10 things to do before the release of
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
By the members of Harry and the Potters
The Believer
The house organ of
the McSweeney’s literary
empire, The Believer publishes
essays on books, film, and pretty
much anything that intrigues
the impressives collection of
contemporary writers who
contribute
to it.
Introducing Harry and the Potters’
10. Make sure you know all the minor characters names
Make: technology on our time.
Techie publishers O’Reilly put out this
quarterly magazine of homebrewed
electronics and DIY machines. Ever wanted to
learn to make your own robot? Turn an Atari
2600 into a PC? This is your magazine.
and their approximate personalities. Euan Abercrombie and
Mandy Brocklehurst will have HUGE parts in the Half-Blood
Prince.
I’m sure the next time you try
Wingardium Leviosa it will work. Seriously!
4. Make your own Philosopher’s Stone.
If you are able to
turn everything to gold, you’ll have enough money to pay J.K.
Rowling to personally read the Half-Blood Prince to you each
night before bed.
3. Get your costume ready.
Remember, Hufflepuff is lame.
If you are a Hufflepuff, don’t bother getting dressed up.
9. What?
You’ve only read the Sorcerer’s Stone 43
times? What if you missed something? You should
probably read it again just to be sure!
8. Transfigure yourself into a cookie and then
7. Start a Quidditch team!
Bullfight Two
This is the second issue of Bullfight literary
journal from Walnut Creek, California,
and features stories by young writers like
Paul A. Toth, Stephen Ausherman and
Jensen Whelan.
A music magazine with an outthere attitude, The Wire features
reviews and interviews with
artists you’ll likely never see on
MTV or hear on the radio. Are
you a brave listener?
They won’t be staying up late in
Tacoma, but they’ll open at 8am
for a Harry Potter Continental
Breakfast on Saturday, July 16—
Books, beverages and pastries.
5. Practice your spells!
sneak into the cookie jar and eat all the other
cookies. Whoa! That’s crazy! Did I just blow
your mind or what?
The Wire:
Adventures in
Modern Music
to midnight—when we will begin
selling the book! Parties will be
held at our U District, Bellevue and
Mill Creek stores, and will feature
Harry Potter games, crafts, and fun.
Practice down at
the local park. Ignore all those funny looks
from people passing by. They are jealous.
They wish they could fly.
6. Begin stockpiling wizardly food supplies.
Make sure you have a stash of Every Flavour
Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Ice Mice, and
Fizzing Whizbees when you sit down to read.
Also, be sure to have a barf bag on hand.
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2. Spend plenty of time speculating about the
identity of the Half-Blood Prince. You and your
friends are very smart. I’m sure you’ll be able
to figure it out!
1. Dance to the wizard rock of Harry
and the Potters! Nothing will get you
more psyched up for reading than
listening to some rock music about books!
Remember, it’s never too loud to read!
Harry and the Potters are a wizard rock
band. Through the magic of time-travel,
Harry from Year 4 and Harry from Year 7
have joined forces to rock the muggle world.
CDs and more info can be obtained from
www.eskimolabs.com/hp. The Potters will
be rocking Seattle sometime in late July!
1.800.335.READ
July
1
• Dan Simmons
U District, 7pm
EVENTS-AT-A-GLANCE
• Story Time
U District, 11am
Mill Creek, 11am
Bellevue, 2pm
All events take place at our U District store, except as noted
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4
5
• L. Timmel
DuChamp
Science Fiction
Museum,
JBL Theater
7:30pm
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7
• Leslie Berlin
U District, 7pm
• Carol Guess
U District, 7pm
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U District, 11am
Mill Creek, 11am
Bellevue, 2pm
• Story Time
Mill Creek, 11am
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• Michael Chorost
U District, 7pm
• David Neiwert
U District, 7pm
• Kevin Smokler
U District, 7pm
• Jeff Angus
U District, 7pm
• Harry Potter
and the HalfBlood Prince
Release Party
U District, 11pm
• Connie Willis
Science Fiction
Museum,
JBL Theater
7:30pm
U District, 11am
Mill Creek, 11am
Bellevue, 2pm
Mill Creek, 11am
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• Mike Lapinski
U District, 7pm
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• Gordon Van
Gelder
Science Fiction
Museum,
JBL Theater
7:30pm
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• Jasper Fforde
U District, 7pm
• Michael
Swanwick
Science Fiction
Museum,
JBL Theater
7:30pm
• Vicki
Constantine
Croke
U District, 7pm
Olympos (HARPERCOLLINS)
Returning to the grand cosmos he
originated in Ilium, Dan Simmons once
again brings us the Trojan War reborn
at the hands of the Post-Humans, now
gone completely astray as the warring
humans have joined forces with their
Moravec allies to battle the Gods.
Meanwhile, we also follow the journey
of the few remaining true humans on
Earth as they struggle to uncover the
truth behind the forces battling over
their planet. Full of literary allusion,
rich characters and powerful settings,
Olympos is a paean to the power of the
human spirit.
Tuesday
July 5 • 7:30pm
L. Timmel DuChamp
Wednesday • July 6 • 7pm
Leslie Berlin
Science Fiction Museum, JBL Theater
325 5th Avenue N, Seattle
L. Timmel Duchamp’s passionate and
complex stories have been nominated
for the Sturgeon, Homer, and Nebula
awards, and have been short-listed
three times for the Tiptree, Jr. award.
Her deeply intelligent and perceptive
critical essays apply committed feminist
analysis as a tool for understanding
both fiction and life, and reveal her
remarkable understanding of how
stories work. Co-sponsored by Clarion
West. Tickets are $4, $3 for seniors and
students, and available at the door or the U
District University Book Store.
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert
Noyce and the Invention of Silicon
Valley (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)
In Silicon Valley, there was no
one quite like Robert Noyce. He
was an inventor, a risk taker, an
entrepreneur—a colorful and
engaging character in American
business. Leslie Berlin interviews
dozens of his associates and friends
to write a biography of the man, who
passed away in 1990.
Tuesday • July 12 • 7pm
David Neiwert
Wednesday • July 13 • 7pm
Kevin Smokler
Femme’s Dictionary (CALYX INC.)
Strawberry Days: How Internment
Destroyed a Japanese American
Community (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN)
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly
Times (BASIC BOOKS)
Carol Guess is the author of two novels
and a memoir. Her poetry is published
in Poetry Northwest, The Harvard Gay and
Lesbian Review, and Bakunin, among
others. Her novel Switch was a finalist
for the ALA GLBT Award. She teaches
at Western Washington University and
lives in Seattle. Femme’s Dictionary is a
collection of poems focusing on the
lives of women struggling to put words
to the unspeakable.
Monday • July 11 • 7pm
Michael Chorost
Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer
Made Me More Human
(HOUGHTON MIFFLIN)
Michael Chorost’s limited ability to
hear disappeared completely in 2001,
but a cochlear implant gave it back.
Or, as he says for the sake of accuracy,
replaced it with something new. This
memoir/meditation on how machine
technology can be swapped out for
our failing organic bits is provocative,
funny and should give readers a new
way to think about the human body.
At one time, Bellevue was a farming
community renowned for its
strawberries. It was also one of the
few places Japanese immigrants were
able to make a home and a life for
themselves. But that changed with
the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the
beginning of World War II and the
internment of American citizens of
Japanese origins. And the injustices
continued, as the farmers returned to
find they were unable to reclaim the
land they left behind.
Tuesday
July 12 • 7:30pm
Connie Willis
Science Fiction Museum, JBL Theater
325 5th Avenue N, Seattle
Connie Willis, celebrated for her
wit and comic timing, also uses her
fiction to examine larger questions:
the nature of God, the persistence
of suffering and loss, and the role of
love and redemption. In Willis’s work,
screwball comedy is the handmaiden
of tragedy. She has won a wall of
awards: eight Hugos and six Nebulas.
Co-sponsored by Clarion West. Tickets
are $4, $3 for seniors and students, and
available at the door or the U District
University Book Store.
Who’s sounding the death knell of
reading? Not us. And not writer Kevin
Smokler, who edited this collection of
essays from some of the young lions
of American letters—like Tom Bissell,
Nell Freudenberger, Tracy Chevalier,
Glen David Gold, and Nicola Griffith.
They offer optimistic outlooks on their
chosen careers, and insist on a bright
future for the written word in our age.
Thursday • July 14 • 7pm
Jeff Angus
Management by Baseball
(PUBLISHING TWENTY/TWENTY)
Sure, you think you’ve tried everything
to get your employees motivated, but
have you tried threatening them with
laps? We didn’t think so. Jeff Angus
searches through the techniques of
the great managers of Major League
Baseball to find advice to businesspeople looking for a better way to
manage—or a good middle reliever.
Friday • July 15 • 11pm
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince Costume Party
We understand this is an eagerly
awaited new book about a young
wizard. We are unfamiliar with the
series.
U District, 11am
Mill Creek, 11am
Bellevue, 2pm
Mill Creek, 11am
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Friday • July 1 • 7pm
Dan Simmons
Thursday • July 7 • 7pm
Carol Guess
• Story Time
• Story Time
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• Mary Morgan
U District, 7pm
• Bakari Kitwana
U District, 7pm
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• Story Time
• Story Time
Author Events
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• Story Time
10
July
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• J.A. Jance
U District, 7pm
Admission cost.
See event listing for details .
• Story Time
• Story Time
Mill Creek, 11am
U District, 11am
Mill Creek, 11am
Bellevue, 2pm
Nick’s Book Club
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