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Wednesday • March 21 • 7pm
ParentMap presents Wendy Sue Swanson
“Health, Happiness and Family Balance”
Meydenbauer Center
In today’s fast-paced world, many of us struggle to find a balance between our
professional and family lives. Respected local pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson
knows these difficulties as a working mother herself and joins ParentMap to discuss
striking a balance between what sometimes feel like competing worlds. She will
be discussing pediatric health, juggling work and being a parent, and deciphering
medical terminology as a parent—not just as a doctor. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25
at the door. Admission information at parentmap.com/lectures.
Wednesday • March 21 • 7:30pm
David George Haskell
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Viking)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
Sometimes narrowing one’s focus can help to tell a wide and expansive story. Take
biologist David Haskell’s The Forest Unseen. In the book, Haskell examines a single
square meter of old-growth forest in Tennessee and uses it to discuss the entire
natural world. He visits the spot every day for a year and watches the animals, the
plants, and the seasons to bring the forest to vivid life. Tickets are $5 at Brown Paper
Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive
priority seating.
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Friday • March 2 • 5pm – 7pm
Tech Gaming Event: Xbox Kinect Dance Central 2
Competition
What better way to start a Friday night than a little dancing?
Grab your dancing shoes, bring your friends, and join our
Tech Center staff for an Xbox Kinect dance competition in our
events area.
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Saturday • March 3 • 11am
Karen Henry Clark
Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale (KNOPF BOOKS FOR
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Thursday • March 22 • 7pm
Kent Hartman
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret
(Thomas Dunne)
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, there was no group of studio musicians as talented as
the Wrecking Crew, a group who found themselves playing behind everyone
from the Monkees to Simon & Garfunkel. Gathering together interviews
with the men behind the hits we all know and love, this book introduces
readers to West Coast pop music’s secret weapon, and tells some of their
behind-the-scenes stories.
Friday • March 23 • 7pm
Fantastic Fiction: Mark Teppo
Author of the esoterically minded urban fantasy novels Lightbreaker and
Heartland, Mark Teppo is currently the Chief Creative Officer for the
company that is responsible for the massive interactive fiction project The
Mongoliad. The third book in his Codex of Souls series, Angel Tongue, is
forthcoming.
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Thursday • March 1 • 6:30pm
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AU—a quarterly journal from the University of Washington that is dedicated to
fantasy, science fiction, and magic realism—will celebrate their fifth issue with a
reading at University Book Store. The theme for the issue is INVENTION.
Novels to
to Read
Read on
on
Novels
1The Third Policeman by Flann
O’Brien 2Portrait of the Artists
as a Young Man by James Joyce
3The Last September by
Elizabeth Bowen 4The Butcher
Boy by Patrick McCabe 5 The
Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
Friday • March 23 • 7:30pm
Akash Kapur
India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India (Riverhead)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Ave. Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Through an array of fascinating real-life characters, Akash Kapur tells
the sweeping story of India’s great leap toward modernity. From a cowbroker to a call-center employee to a feudal landowner and others, the
subjects of the stories in his new book India Becoming illuminate some
of the biggest themes of our age—rapid economic development, social
inequality, environmental depredation, the rise of emerging markets, and
the rebalancing of the global order. Says Philip Gourevitch: “His voice is as
sure and as intimate as his subject is chaotic and immense.” Presented by the
Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. Series media sponsorship
provided by PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company, the RealNetworks
Foundation, and the True/Brown Foundation. Tickets are $5 at Brown Paper Tickets
or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive
priority seating.
Monday • March 26 • 7:30pm
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (HARPERCOLLINS)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on
Seneca)
Through the story of unlikely entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi, former ABC
News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon offers an intimate look at the lives
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Thursday • March 1 • 7pm
ParentMap presents Ashley Merryman
NurtureShock: New Twists That Shape Children’s Success
Washington Cathedral, Redmond
In this lecture, author Ashley Merryman will draw from her best-selling book
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (featured on Good Morning America,
All Things Considered, and in Newsweek) to discuss how traditional parenting
methods reinscribed in society and by other ‘experts’ might in reality impede
children’s mental development. Confronting the imbalance between ‘good
intentions’ and ‘good ideas’, Merryman believes there are hidden “thrive
factors” that can be identified in order to more effectively help children
develop. By combining scientific research, as well as psychological and social,
Merryman advances a revolutionary way of looking at the steps parents and
society take into bringing up the best children possible, but also identifies what
needs to be re-evaluated in order for kids to really flourish. Tickets ar $20 in
advance and $25 at the door. Admission information through parentmap.com/lectures.
Thursday • March 1 • 7:30pm
of women in Afghanistan. After the Taliban seized control of Kabul, Sidiqi
was banned from school and confined to her home. She picked up a needle
and thread, created a thriving business, and mobilized her community.
Afghan women like Sidiqi, Lemmon writes, are not victims. They are the
glue that holds families together, the backbone and heart of their nation.
Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. Series
media sponsorship provided by PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company, the
RealNetworks Foundation, and the True/Brown Foundation. Tickets are $5 at Brown
Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall
members receive priority seating.
Thursday • March 29 • 6:30pm
Particles on the Wall: Kathleen Flenniken
UW Odegaard Library, Room 220
On this night, poet Kathleen Flenniken, Washington state’s Poet Laureate
2012 – 2014, will read for the final night of the Particles on the Wall
exhibition. Particles on the Wall (POTW) is an interdisciplinary exhibit
exploring elements of the nuclear age, science, Hanford history, their
thread through our lives and their bearing on the Columbia River and
natural world. The exhibit interweaves visual art, poems, and science with
history and memorabilia to address issues of radioactive contamination,
nuclear weapons and technology in Washington State, and their roles in
southeastern Washington’s desert landscape as well as impacts on local and
global communities.
UW Science Now presents
Andrea Watts: “English Holly – Welcomed Guest or Escape Artist?”
&
Katrina Claw: “Mission Impossible: A Sperm’s Perilous Journey to
the Center of the Egg”
Town Hall Seattle. Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Two graduate candidates from the UW give talks on their brand-new research.
First, Andrea Watts, of the UW School of Forest Resources, presents new
research that helps predict conditions for English Holly—a species regional
forest managers consider invasive, but which has a more complicated pedigree.
Next, Katrina Claw gives an overview of sperm-egg interaction and evolution
focused on a sperm’s arduous journey around barriers put up by the egg. How
has this process remained constant across a huge variety of species? Presented by
Engage: The Science Speaker Series as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with the University of
Washington, Pacific Science Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft.
Series media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Advance tickets are $5 at Brown Paper Tickets
or 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm.
This picture book is a fanciful tale about adoption. In it, a baby
in China, whose parents are unable to care for her, is placed in a
basket and set adrift on a river on a journey to find new parents.
Helped along by friendly animals and a benevolent moon, the
child floats to her new home in a series of lush watercolors and
poetic lines.
Sunday • March 4 • 7:30pm
Yoram Bauman
Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume II:
Macroeconomics (FSG)
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
(Enter on Seneca)
If you think there’s something, um, funny going on with the
economy these days, you want to attend this. UW environmental
economist Yoram Bauman, “the world’s first and only stand-up
economist,” humorously explained microeconomics in his first
book. Now the follow-up, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Vol.
2: Macroeconomics, illuminates the factors that affect the economy
of an entire country: unemployment, inflation, debt, how
economies grow and why they collapse, the labor market, and
the GDP—all those terms you’ve heard in the news and wished
you’d understood. In keeping with the theme, Seattle comedian
Peter Greyy opens by roasting both the author and the idea of
a cartoon book about economics. Presented by the Town Hall Center
for Civic Life with University Book Store. Series media sponsorship provided
by PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company, the RealNetworks
Foundation, and the True/Brown Foundation. Tickets are $5 at Brown
Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm.
Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Monday • March 5 • 6pm
John Howie
Passion & Palate: Recipes for a Generous Table (SHIN SHIN
CHEZ)
Bellevue store
John Howie’s journey through the Northwest restaurant industry
began when he became a busboy at the Refectory in Bellevue at
age 15. His new book combines stories of his time with recipes
from his popular restaurants Seastar, Sport, Adriatic Grill, and
John Howie Steak, and shows him to be a generous, thoughtful
man dedicated to food, family, and the people he feeds.
Monday • March 5 • 7:30pm
George Dyson
Turing’s Cathedral (RANDOM HOUSE)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
(Enter on Eighth Avenue)
In the 1940s and ’50s, a group of eccentric geniuses gathered at
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the Institute for Advanced Study to work on the theoretical universal
machine, an idea put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. They
worked in isolation, but because they relied on government funding,
the government wanted results: The computer the group built led
directly to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson, a gifted and popular
lecturer, shows how the crucial advancements that dominated 20thcentury technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory,
where the digital universe as we know it was born. Presented as part of
Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.
Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets
are $5 at Brown Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Tuesday • March 6 • 7pm
Melanie Rawn
Touchstone (TOR)
In this first book in a new fantasy series by the author of the bestselling
Dragon Prince series, readers are introduced to Cayden Silversun.
He’s the son of aristocracy, but instead of going to the Royal Court,
Silversun dreams of spending his life where he is truly happy, in the
theater. He’s part Merlin, part Shakespeare, and
part John Lennon, and a charming new protagonist
for lovers of high fantasy.
7pm
ParentMap presents Anthony Wolf
Aliens on Planet Teen and Tween
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf (SIMON & SCHUSTER)
Due to anticipated attendance, there will be no posed photos.
Photos from line are fine.
Signing guidelines are subject to change.
New York Times bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult
reads from her newest novel, Lone Wolf—a taut,
engrossing family drama exploring ethical
dilemmas. 24-year-old Edward Warren has been
living in Thailand but must return home when his
father and sister, Cara, are both in an accident.
With their father in a coma and little chance of
him ever recovering, Edward and Clara struggle
with whether to terminate life support. This event is
free and open to the public but signing guidelines apply.
Jodi Picoult Signing Guidelines
Jodi is happy to personalize your copies of Lone Wolf.
Friday • March 16 • 7:30pm
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents
Alain de Botton
UW Campus, Meany Hall for the
Performing Arts
Philosopher and essayist Alain de Botton
wants us to consider truth, beauty,
happiness, wisdom—the meaning of our
daily lives. His new book is Religion for
Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of
Religion, a deeply provocative and useful
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Thursday • March 8 • 7:30pm
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents Amanda
Hesser
Reading & Book Signing
Benaroya Hall’s S. Mark Taper Foundation
Auditorium
200 University Street, Seattle
Readers were introduced to Amanda Hesser when her
articles “Cooking for Mr. Latte,” which combined the
story of her courtship with husband-to-be Tad Friend
and recipes, appeared in the New York Times Magazine.
As the Times’ food reporter, she wrote, and ate for,
Brian Christian
The Most Human Human:
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About
What It Means to be Alive (VINTAGE)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Known for his sometimes-funny, always-nonjudgmental
ability to describe what actually goes on in real people’s
homes with real children, Anthony Wolf is the author
of five books on parenting, including Get Out of My Life,
but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? Wolf
discusses the book, widely regarded as one of the best
for parents of teenagers, with an original perspective
and practical and helpful advice. Presented by ParentMap.
Advance tickets are $20 at www.parentmap.com/lectures or
She will sign one additional book from home.
Seattle Public Library, Central Branch
1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle
Wednesday • March 7 6pm
Tuesday • March 6
Thursday • March 8 • 7pm
$25 at the door. Admission information through parentmap.com/
lectures.
Through his participation in the 2009 Turing
Test, Brian Christian examines how computers are
reshaping our idea of what it means to be human.
As a contestant in the annual artificial-intelligencevs.-human battle, the poet, science writer, and
former Seattleite, hoped to be deemed “more
human” than a computer. In the end, he discovered
philosophical, biological, and moral issues raised
by the Turing Test, and wonders: If computers
over 800 stories; as food editor at the Times Magazine,
she compiled her essay collection Eat, Memory. Hesser
is the co-founder and CEO of the groundbreaking
site, food52.com. Her Essential New York Times Cookbook,
which was five years in the making and both a
bestseller and winner of a James Beard Award, now
resides on the shelves of great cooks everywhere. For
more information, including tickets, please visit lectures.org
Friday • March 9 • 2pm – 3pm
Sol Republic presents: Steve Aoki
Signing only
Meet legendary DJ Steve Aoki on his Dead Meat
tour. Steve Aoki is the man behind some of the
craziest parties and hottest artists on earth! Join us
for your chance to meet this music icon and get
your Aoki’s new album Wonderland or a pair of Sol
Republic headphones autographed in person. The
first 500 people in line will get a FREE limited edition
Steve Aoki poster (designed by Hydro74).
(FEIWEL & FRIENDS)
Mill Creek store
Teens looking for the next Hunger Games
Event is free of charge
but requires a ticket.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore—”writer, editor, activist, and
troublemaker”—has edited a book of essays sure to start a
conversation. The writers within question whether or not gay culture
has become obsessed with consumerism and “straight-acting”
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On this night, we host two authors of the genre
that has come to be called “urban fantasy.”
Patricia Briggs’s book Fair Game is about a pair
of werewolves in a world that has learned of the
existence of lycanthropy. Charles and Anna—and
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
(Enter on Seneca)
Language translation has challenged computers for
years; Katie Kuksenok explores how computers can
ask people for help to do it better, in a companion
talk to Brian Christian’s talk immediately
preceding. Even as advances in language-processing
technologies enable us to effectively navigate the
growing sea of online information, computers
continue to struggle with accurate automatic
translation as more people from around the world
contribute online content in different languages.
Kuksenok is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science
and Engineering at the UW who is building novel
systems to improve the quality—and the user
experience—of language-processing technologies.
Presented by Engage: The Science Speaker Series as part of
Seattle Science Lectures, with the University of Washington,
Pacific Science Center and University Book Store. Series
sponsored by Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided
by KPLU. Advance tickets are $5 at Brown Paper Tickets
or 1.800.838.3006 and at the door beginning at 7:30pm.
Double feature! Ticket also gains admission to the Brian
Christian event at 6 pm.
finest practitioners of the art of drawing the place where
you live or the place where you are. This book collects
some of the best examples of that kind of work, and
gives readers the long historical tradition of the practice.
Thursday • March 15 • 7pm
Hannah Pittard
The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel
(HARPERCOLLINS)
In a sly and masterful debut reminiscent of Jeffrey
Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides, Hannah Pittard introduces
readers to the neighborhood boys obsessed with the
disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl named Nora
Lindell. As the book progresses, the boys do, but their
lives remain haunted by the girl who never resurfaced,
and they never truly get over her.
Gabriel Campanario founded the nonprofit organization
Urban Sketchers (urbansketchers.org) to promote the
value of location drawing and to showcase some of the
UW Campus, Allen Auditorium
NICK’S BOOK CLUB, U District
Admission cost. See
event listing for details.
(WILLIAM MORROW)
Gabriel Campanario
The Art of Urban Sketching Drawing On Location
Around The World (QUARRY BOOKS)
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to
Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK PRESS)
EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT OUR U DISTRICT STORE, LOCATED AT 4326 UNIVERSITY WAY NE, EXCEPT AS NOTED.
Wednesday • March 7 8pm
Patricia Briggs & Kim Harrison
Fair Game (BERKELEY) & A Perfect Blood
Monday • March 12 • 7pm
Monday • March 19 • 6pm
& Cinder: Book One the Lunar Chronicles
UW Science Now: Katie Kuksenok
Helping Computers Find Meaning They Lost in
Translation
After a divorce, science writer Kayt Sukel decided she
would allow herself to become a guinea pig in some lab
experiments on how the brain deals with love. Wonder
what it is in the brain that makes you love someone? Why
good girls seem more attracted to bad boys? How close
love is to hate? Chapter by chapter, Sukel delves into
love’s most persistent ponderables.
saturday • March 17 • 11am
Young Readers)
Wednesday • March 7 • 7pm
Kayt Sukel
Dirty Minds (SIMON & SCHUSTER)
or Twilight should stop by our Mill Creek store to meet two
authors with two new and exciting books. Lissa Price’s Starters
takes place in a future world where young people can allow their
bodies to be possessed by the minds of older people in exchange for
money. One girl finds out that her renter, though, plans to use her
to commit murder and she must fight against it. Marissa Meyer’s
book Cinder is the first in a series about a future Beijing where
humans and androids coexist. It’s a retelling of the Cinderella story
where a cyborg mechanic’s life becomes entwined with the life of a
handsome prince.
and Marissa Meyer
Starters (Delacorte Books for
their pack—are sent by the FBI to Boston to use
their unique abilities to locate a serial killer, where
they discover that the killer is hunting people just
like themselves. Kim Harrison’s latest is the 10th
in her Hollows series, and in it Rachel Morgan—
former witch turned day-walking demon—must
hunt a hate group intent on creating a demon
servant of their own.
Friday • March 9 • 7pm
the wisdom and power of religion—without
having to “believe” in any of it. The sterile
debate between fundamentalist believers
and non-believers is finally moved on by de
Botton’s new book, which boldly argues that
the supernatural claims of religion are of
course entirely false—and yet those religions
still have some very important things to
teach the secular world. For more information,
including tickets, please visit lectures.org.
Teen Book Brunch with Lissa Price
can reason, what does that mean for the special
place we reserve for humanity? Presented as part of
Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and
University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series
media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets are $5 at
Brown Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door
beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating. Double feature! Ticket also gains admission to the
Katie Kuksenok event at 8 pm.
assimilation and given up its subversive roots.
Tuesday • March 20 • 7pm
Ellen Ullman
By Blood (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX)
A powerful and critically acclaimed novelist returns
with an atmospheric new book about San Francisco
in the ‘70s. In it, a disgraced professor with a thinwalled office becomes obsessed with the personal
story of a women in therapy next door. An adoptee,
she is searching for her birth mother, but the
professor is able to track down more information
than she is, and finds ways to help her secretly.
Tuesday • March 20 7:30pm
Daniel Halperin & Craig Timberg
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS
Epidemic and How the World Can Finally
Overcome It (PENGUIN PRESS)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
human hands unleashed the AIDS pandemic and
can, therefore, contain it—if we learn from the past.
From HIV’s origins in colonial Africa to the current
“misdirected” war on AIDS, researcher Halperin
and Washington Post reporter Timberg overturn
conventional wisdom as they recount how Western
colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS
epidemic and then fanned its rise. Presented as part
of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and
University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series
media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets are $5 at
Brown Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the door
beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating.
Wednesday • March 21 6pm
UW Science Now presents
Karl Lang: “How to Build a Mountain
Range”
&
Kelly Huang: “Your Favorite Riverside
Landscape and Why it Matters to Scientists”
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Two graduate candidates from the UW give talks on
their brand-new research. First, Karl Lang—from the
UW’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences—takes
a look at the complicated life of a mountain range and
the processes building them up and wearing them down.
Next, Kelly Huang—from the UW’s School of Forest
Resources—examines the issue of eroding riverbeds
and how local volunteer stewards might be the best way
to preserve them in King County and other regions.
Presented by Engage: The Science Speaker Series as part of Seattle
Science Lectures, with the University of Washington, Pacific
Science Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored by
Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets
are $5 at Brown Paper Tickets or 1.800.838.3006, and at the
door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating.
Daniel Halperin and Craig Timberg reveal how
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