9:30 AM – Mariel Hemingway: Mariel’s Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life
U-District Farmers Market
Brilliant idea! Stock up on fresh, local groceries and take home a signed copy of Ms. Hemingway’s book.[LINK]

1:00 PM – Matt Amster Burton, Molly Wizenberg, Shauna Ahern and Lara Ferroni: Reading
Barnes & Noble
University Village
Orangette blogger and author of (the very entertaining) A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg, joins some other people at B&N U-Village.
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2:00 PM – Nikki McClure: All in a Day
SPL Ballard Branch
“This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers–the opportunities and chances that won’t ever come again–and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant’s poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure’s stunning, meticulously crafted cut-paper art, makes this picture book not only timeless but appealing to all ages, from one to one hundred.” –Secret Garden Books
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3:00 PM – Kaya McLaren: On the Divinity of Second Chances
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The author reads from her second novel. Also, on this day in history: David Bowie married Iman (1992); 3 giant turtles were found in a Bronx sewage plant (1988); the body of Nazi war criminal, Dr. Josef Megele, was found and exhumed (1985); Israel invaded Lebanon (1982); Maya Yang Lin won the Vietnam War Memorial design competition (1981); the Washington Post reported that the US had developed the neutron bomb (1977); I was born (1973); the last “Ed Sullivan Show” aired and John Lennon & Yoko Ono appeared at the Fillmore East (1971); Israel occupied Gaza (1967); “Eric the Viking” comic strip premiered (1946); D-Day: the AEF landed in Normandy (1944); Japanese forces retreated, ending the Battle of Midway (1942); SEC established (1934); the first drive-in movie theatre opened in Camden, NJ (1933); voters in E. Cleveland approved women’s suffrage (1916); Seattle’s “Great Fire” destroyed 25 blocks of downtown (1889).
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4:00 PM – Poets West: Open Mic
SPL Greenlake Branch
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7:00 PM – Voices Rising: Pride Celebration
Richard Hugo House Theater
“Celebrate Pride at this evening of spoken word, hip hop, dance and drag performances featuring Mami Watu, Emiko Sugiyama, THEE Satisfaction and Storme Webber, among others.” –RHH
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7:30 PM – Barbara Olins Alpert: The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of Neuroscience
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The author attempts to interpret Ice Age cave art using recent discoveries and information from psychology and neuroscience. I am very sceptical of this sort of thing, in general, but I plan to read the book.
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