12:00 PM – Jamie Freveletti: Running from the Devil
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Columbian guerrillas, cosmetics, and “covert personal mission”s.
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6:30 PM – Janna Cawrse Esarey: The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife
SPL Ballard Branch
“the humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat–only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.” –Secret Garden Bookshop
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7:00 PM – Larry Korn: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoaka
UW Bookstore U District
“[o]ne of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture.” –Michael Pollan
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7:30 PM – Richard Bernstein: The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“‘Is the notion of the East as a zone of special erotic possibilities purely a matter of Western fantasy and wishful thinking …?’ This question is at the center of Bernstein’s wide-ranging, critically astute history of the complicated relationship between Western male sexuality and the East. The book opens in 2006 in Shanghai and concludes in contemporary Bangkok; in between, we are led through a sweeping yet focused, male-centered history of male sexuality, spanning a broadly defined East and West, from antiquity to the 21st century … Former New York Times correspondent Bernstein writes lucidly and with verve. This probing, absorbing and eclectic study critically challenges morally- and politically-correct interpretations of the western sexual exploitation of the East.” – Publishers Weekly
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7:30 PM – Robert H. Frank: The Economic Naturalist’s Guide to Washington: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
The behavioral economist explains how our decisions impact our wallets and happiness. Presented in conjunction with Elliott Bay Books.
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