The store will also have a Wish Table, consisting of books needed for the school’s library. If you buy a book from the Wish Table to donate to the school, you will receive a 20% discount on all your purchases.

If you cannot make the Book Fair, you can still help local schools: The bookstore is holding a Shop Local For Schools campaign all this weekend, where 10% of your purchase will be donated to the school of your choice.

So if you like books (especially work by local novelists), and you like schools, you may want to pay Queen Anne Books a visit this weekend, especially on Sunday afternoon for the Book Fair.

This rumor comes with a clear caveat: The cost to land Lackey will be astronomical, likely requiring a long term deal well over $80 million, way out of the range of a Mariners team that’s trying to trim their bloated payroll (thanks, Bill Bavasi!) and needs to upgrade multiple facets of the squad while finding the cash to extend ace pitcher Felix Hernandez, who is due for free agency in a couple of seasons and remains the subject of trade rumors.

The Lackey rumor, meanwhile, is likely little more than the first of a series of blasts of hot air in the offseason’s Hot Stove League of personnel rumors.

The Dynamo Elimination: Sounders season ends in Houston… The Seattle Sounders’ inaugural season came to a rough and disappointing end yesterday in Houston, TX, falling 1-0 in overtime of the 2nd leg of their playoff series with Houston Dynamo.

Just like their previous meetings, Dynamo’s airtight defense sealed off the Sounders’ passing lanes all match long, preventing Sounders FC from the free-flowing possessions and clear shots on goal they had been accustomed to generating en route to a 12-7-11 record and playoff spot.

As regulation drew to a close, it became clear that the Sounders’ best hope was to finish the 30 minute overtime period with a 0-0 tie (as they had in the 1st leg at Qwest Field) and to try and win the game in the crapshoot-like penalty kick shootout.

But fate intervened: A dubious foul call early in the overtime period against the Sounders on what looked like a clean steal of the ball not far from their own goal gave Houston the ball within striking distance of the goal. Dynamo worked the ball into the penalty box before Brian Ching hammered a drive past a frozen Kasey Keller for the kill-shot goal.

The Sounders futilely turned on the aggression to try and rally, but a vicious slide tackle by James Riley earned him a red-card ejection and nailed the coffin shut on the Sounders’ postseason.

The Sounders exceeded expectations in their first season with an exciting free-flowing brand of soccer that contrasted the plodding continental defensive style that is the mind-numbing norm in Major League Soccer. It’s a shame their season had to end with a whimper instead of a bang, against arguably the best offense-killing trap-and-tackle defense in MLS.

Let’s hope MLS, which enjoyed how Sounders FC engineered a sizable, excited new fanbase in Seattle, takes a good look at their officiating and rules this offseason to encourage more of the Sounders’ style of soccer and less of the plodding trap-and-tackle insomnia curing soccer that has held MLS (and its revenue streams) back during this past decade.