Tuesday • February 9 • 11am
Story Time with Lauren & Caitlin (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Lauren & Caitlin for fun and inspiring stories every Tuesday morning. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Tuesday • February 9 • 5:30pm
Bellevue Books Reading Group
Bellevue store
Join us to discuss an alternating selection of fiction and non-fiction titles, including classic and modern literature, history and contemporary culture, philosophy, biography, and just about everything in between.

Tuesday • February 9 • 6:30pm - SOLD OUT!
Danz Lecture Series presents: Geoffrey Canada
"Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Poor Children Succeed"
UW Kane Hall, Room 130

Tuesday • February 9 • 7:30pm
Garry Wills
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (PENGUIN PRESS)
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue
The power of the atomic bomb resonates far beyond megatons, says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Garry Wills: Its very existence has transformed our nation by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state. Wills, author of Bomb Power, says the Manhattan Project was a triumph of official secrecy and military discipline—perhaps expected in wartime, but then growing into the covert operations and overt authority that have defined American government in the nuclear era. According to Wills, this signals a radical break from the division of powers established by our founding fathers, enfeebling Congress and the courts as it threatens our Constitution. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. Series supported by the Otto Haas Charitable Trust. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store.Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Wednesday • February 10 • • 6pm
Bloody Mary's Mystery Book Group
The Serpents Daughter: A Jade Del Cameron Mystery (OBSIDIAN) by Suzanne Arruda
Bellevue store
Join Bloody Mary on the second Wednesday of each month for a discussion of the mystery genre's gems.

Wednesday • February 10 • 7:30pm
Chris Farrell
New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better (BLOOMSBURY)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
If "green" is the new black, and frugality is cooler than credit, then there's nothing more financially fashionable these days than sustainable affordability. Chris Farrell, personal finance expert for Public Radio International’s Marketplace Money presents a new paradigm of smart, sustainable, and ultimately more fulfilling ways to approach our personal finances. Presented by Town Hall's Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store. Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust and RealNetworks Foundation. Series media sponsorship provided by Publicola. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Wednesday • February 10 • 7:30pm
University Book Store and Seattle Arts and Lectures present: Dr. Abraham Verghese
Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, Seattle
Dr. Abraham Verghese was drawn to medicine through fiction. His instructors at the Madras Medical College in India reinforced the connection, teaching that each patient tells a story. When a person is sick she will give her doctor pieces of information about how she feels; a bit like reciting one paragraph of a novel. After medical school in India, Verghese traveled to the United States for a residency, spending three years in Johnson City, Tennessee. It was there that he witnessed the first signs of AIDS, and the physical, emotional, and societal impact the disease's spread had on his community. In 1991, he earned his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers Workshop and also published "Lilacs," a story about AIDS, in The New Yorker. This led to his first book, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story (1994), about arrival of the AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee. Underwritten by University Book Store. Sponsorship by Swedish Medical Center. Tickets at http://www.lectures.org/verghese.html.

Thursday • February 11 • 11am
Story Time with Mary (Ages 3 to 7)
Bellevue store, Kids Books
Join Mary for a lively hour of stories and art. Animated readings will entertain your children and help them form positive reading habits. Painting and drawing will stimulate their creative minds. Juice and cookies to follow. Call 425.462.4500 for details.

Thursday • February 11 • 11am
Story Time with Jessica (Ages 3 to 7)
Mill Creek store, Kids Books
Join us for lively readings of the best in new and classic children's books. You bring the kids; we'll supply the activities and refreshments. Call 425.385.3530 for details.

Thursday • February 11 • 7pm
Read Dating
U District store
Read Dating is a place where single readers can get together to meet the bookworm of their dreasm. It's a combination speed dating and book club format, where you get a short amount of time to discuss books (and anything else that comes up) with a partner before you move on to the next. On February 11, we will be hosting an event for straight singles between the ages of 21 – 30, with a focus on the UW community. (Grad students, we're looking in your direction!)

Friday • February 12 • 7pm - VENUE CHANGE
Fantastic Fiction Salon with Walter Jon Williams
U District store
Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times best-selling author and Nebula Award Winner who has been nominated for over twenty major awards in the field of fantastic fiction. He has also worked in the gaming field, and scripted the dialog for the Electronic Arts mega-hit Spore. His latest works include the far-future epic Implied Spaces and the near-future thriller This Is Not a Game, set in the world of Alternate Reality Gaming.

Saturday • February 13 • 11am
Story Time with Anna and Kitri (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Anna or Kitri for fun and inspiring stories every Saturday morning and enjoy juice and cookies, too. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Saturday • February 13 • 2pm
Victorian Valentine’s Day Tea with Megan Chance, Anthea Lawson, Deborah Schneider
Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue
The Bellevue Regional Library will host local authors who delight in creating romantic stories set in the Victorian era at a St. Valentine's Day Victorian Tea. Music, refreshments and a book signing will follow the program.

Saturday • February 13 • 7pm
Jamie Iredell & Blake Butler
Prose. Poem. A Novel. (ORANGE ALERT PRESS) & Scorch Atlas (FEATHERPROOF)
Reading & Book Signing
Neptune Coffee, 8415 Greenwood Avenue North, Seattle
Blake Butler and Jamie Iredell are two young writers with books from small presses embarking on a DIY book tour. They join us to talk about, in Jamie's case, a vignette-laden three act book about a life in flux. And in Butler's case, a collection of stories that mangles and burns down language in service of the mangled and burned landscapes of the American south from Butler's imagination.

Tuesday • February 16 • 11am
Story Time with Lauren & Caitlin (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Lauren & Caitlin for fun and inspiring stories every Tuesday morning. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Tuesday • February 16 • 7pm
Author's Hour with Terry Tazzioli
Joann Green Byrd: Calamity: The Heppner Flood of 1903 (UW PRESS)
Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue

Wednesday • February 17 • 7pm
Yoram Bauman, Ph.D.
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume 1: Microeconomics (FS&G)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Of humorist and PhD Bauman's book, Nobel Laureate in Economics Eric Maskin says: "Hilarity and economics are not often found together, but this book has a lot of both. It also does a great job of explaining important economic concepts simply, accurately, and entertainingly—quite a feat." We don't know about you, but we're sold!

Thursday • February 18 • 11am
Story Time with Mary (Ages 3 to 7)
Bellevue store, Kids Books
Join Mary for a lively hour of stories and art. Animated readings will entertain your children and help them form positive reading habits. Painting and drawing will stimulate their creative minds. Juice and cookies to follow. Call 425.462.4500 for details.

Thursday • February 18 • 11am
Story Time with Jessica (Ages 3 to 7)
Mill Creek store, Kids Books
Join us for lively readings of the best in new and classic children's books. You bring the kids; we'll supply the activities and refreshments. Call 425.385.3530 for details.

Thursday • February 18 • 6pm
Queen Mary's Travel Book Group
Bellevue store
Recount adventure, exploration, and conquest with Queen Mary as your guide on the third Thursday of each month.

Thursday • February 18 • 7pm
Marisa Meltzer
Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (FSG)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
The Riot Grrrl movement in '90s music inspired young women to pick up a guitar, start their own photocopied magazine, and become politically active. It started a new movement in feminism—one that embraced and deconstructed notions of femininity. And then it went mainstream, and "girl power" went from underground bands like Bikini Kill to huge pop groups like The Spice Girls. Marisa Meltzer's new book tells the story of the "girl power" revolution through interviews with some of its key players.

Thursday • February 18 • 7pm
Thomas Mullen
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (RANDOM HOUSE)
Reading & Book Signing
Mill Creek store
Two Depression-era bank robbers—and brothers—use the wild rumors about their larger-than-life exploits to stay alive. Heroes to some, villains to others, the Fireson brothers and their gang negotiate the difficult terrain of a country in economic turmoil. It's a story about what is just and what is not.

Friday • February 19 • TBA
Blom Lecture Series presents: Jim Lynch
UW Suzzallo Library, Seattle Campus, Room 101
Sponsored by the Friends of the UW Libraries. Spend the evening UW alumnus Jim Lynch, an award-winning journalist and international bestselling author. Lynch worked as a journalist in Alaska, Washington, D.C., and across the Pacific Northwest, winning a number of national reporting honors. His latest book, Border Songs (2009, Knopf), has been met with critical acclaim following upon the success of his first novel, The Highest Tide, which received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award and has been published in more than 20 countries and translated into eight languages. Lynch will read from Border Songs and preview a forthcoming novel set in Seattle. This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP requested. RSVP at 206.543.0540 or 1.800.AUW.ALUM.

Saturday • February 20 • 11am
Story Time with Anna and Kitri (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Anna or Kitri for fun and inspiring stories every Saturday morning and enjoy juice and cookies, too. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Monday • February 22 • 6pm
Nick's Book Club
How Fiction Works (PICADOR USA) by James Wood
the book store café, fireside
Join our own resident writer, Nick DiMartino, for a lively discussion of this month's selection.

Monday • February 22 • 7pm
Jennie Shortridge
When She Flew (NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY)
Reading & Book Signing
Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue
A police officer tries to help keep a father and daughter together though her colleagues are convinced that, because of the patriarch's insistence on a life outside the system, that the daughter needs to be taken from him. The officer has faced her own divorce, her own broken family, and empathizes with the father—an Iraq vet who has decided to live off the grid in the Oregon woods to avoid the trappings and pitfalls of modern life—and must fight the system to keep the family stable.

Monday • February 22 • 7pm
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Creatures (LITTLE, BROWN YOUNG READERS)
Reading & Book Signing
Mill Creek store

Monday • February 22 • 7:30pm
Michael Hanlon
Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries (PALGRAVE MACMILLIAN)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue
If you've always struggled with the mystery of the missing laundry-day sock, you are not alone: there are some questions even science can't answer. Granted, they're a little more profound: How did life begin? Why are there two sexes? Michael Hanlon, science editor of The Daily Mail how these mysteries have persisted, and why they will remain unsolved for years to come. Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Tuesday • February 23 • 11am
Story Time with Lauren & Caitlin (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Lauren & Caitlin for fun and inspiring stories every Tuesday morning. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Tuesday • February 23 • 4:30pm
Bellevue's Young Adult Book Group (Ages 9-13)
Bellevue store
Ask a staff member for details.

Tuesday • February 23 • 7pm
Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition (DEL REY)
Book Signing
U District store
Penny Arcade is basically the gold standard for the geek-tastic web comic. Video games, role-playing games, computers and technology—all are fodder for its humorous commentary on pop culture. Now, on their 11 ½ anniversary (the proper gift for which is, coincidentally, a 20-sided die), they present an anthology of some of their more popular and trenchant comics.

Wednesday • February 24 • 6:30pm
The Main Street Book Club
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (ECCO) by David Wroblewski
Mill Creek store
Join host Amanda Corr on the fourth Wednesday of each month in the Book Store Café to discuss the very best in contemporary fiction. Save 20% when you purchase this title at our Mill Creek store.

Wednesday • February 24 • 7-8pm
SAM Talks: Jim Olson, Architect
Jim Olson Houses (RANDOM HOUSE)
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheef Auditorium, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle
Olson, founding partner of Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects, discusses projects from his book Jim Olson Houses ). With projects as varied as an art collector's retreat along Lake Washington and an estate outside Hong Kong, Olson's work captures intangible qualities of nature, art and the sensibilities of the collector. Free and open to the public. Registration required if planning to attend.

Wednesday • February 24 • 7pm
David Shields
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (KNOPF)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Best-selling author, multiple award winner, and local author of note David Shields comes back from his impressive meditation on mortality and the frailties/vigorousness of the human body (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead) with a book that is sure to provoke and fascinate. Reality Hunger is an elegant, beautifully wrought essay about contemporary life, contemporary writing, and the slippery contemporary difference between the real and the fictitious. We’re serious here: this is one of the most important books of 2010.

Thursday • February 25 • 11am
Story Time with Mary (Ages 3 to 7)
Bellevue store, Kids Books
Join Mary for a lively hour of stories and art. Animated readings will entertain your children and help them form positive reading habits. Painting and drawing will stimulate their creative minds. Juice and cookies to follow. Call 425.462.4500 for details.

Thursday • February 25 • 11am
Story Time with Jessica (Ages 3 to 7)
Mill Creek store, Kids Books
Join us for lively readings of the best in new and classic children's books. You bring the kids; we'll supply the activities and refreshments. Call 425.385.3530 for details.

Thursday • Februry 25 • 12pm
Peter Hessler
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (HARPER)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Once simply a vast rural nation, China is now a vast rural nation with improving roads. Peter Hessler, Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, aquired a Chinese drivers license in 2001, and used it to explore the changing landscape in the country, driving from place to place to discover the way the automobile was changing an ancient country and an ancient culture unused to such—relatively speaking—easy travel. Sponsored by the East Asia Center and East Asia Resource Center at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

Thursday • February 25 • 7pm
Tanya Egan Gibson
How to Buy a Love of Reading (DUTTON)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Writer Bree McEnroy is hired by a wealthy family to write a book tailor made for their reading-phobic daughter Carley. To do so, though, Bree must live with Carley and her family so the two can collaborate, where she discovers that Carley's motivation for participation has more to do with getting her friend Hunter to stop drinking and spend time with her than to learn a love of reading.

Thursday • February 25 • 7pm
Spencer Shaw Lecture: Patricia McKissack
"On the Front Porch of My Mind: Stories and where the stories came from."
UW Kane Hall, Room 220, Seattle Campus

Friday • February 26 • 7:30pm
Joseph Stiglitz
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (WW NORTON)
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue
Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz is considered one of today’s most distinguished, and controversial, economists. The former chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, Stiglitz says our current global financial crisis carries a "made in America" label. The author of Freefall explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Saturday • February 27 • 11am
Story Time with Anna and Kitri (Ages 3 to 7)
U District store, Kids Books
Join Anna or Kitri for fun and inspiring stories every Saturday morning and enjoy juice and cookies, too. Call 206.634.3400 for details.

Ticket Information:

• Tickets are sometimes required for events. Consult the listings, or call us at 206.634.3400 for help. If a bookseller can't assist you, ask for one of the fine folks in Author Events: Stesha Brandon, Anna Micklin, or Danielle Kish. They know absolutely everything about everything! Really! It's weird.
• Classes, book clubs, and others seeking group tickets please contact Stesha Brandon at 206.634.3400.
• We save seats for ticket holders until 15 minutes before the event begins. At that time, any extra seats will be filled by the people who have been waiting patiently in the standby seating line.