Tuesday • January 5 • 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.

Wednesday • January 6 • 7:30pm
Larry Downes
Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age (BASIC)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
The Law of Disruption is a simple but devastating principle explaining resistance to change. Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially. This means that while digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Author Larry Downes explores this accident-prone intersection, offering a guide for these confusing times through nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. 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.

Wednesday • January 6 • 7:30pm
Wednesday University: Mixed Race in the United States
Ralina Joseph
UW Kane Hall, Room 220, Seattle
In the twenty-first century United States, mixed-race people, from the chief executive to the family next door, seem to be everywhere. In the past twenty-five years, the period since the decriminalization of interracial marriage, the births of monoracial babies have increased 15%, while multiracial births have increased a dramatic 260%. But what do these numbers imply? Has racialized inequality changed with the surging numbers of multiracial Americans? This course will interrogate what it means to understand mixed-race identity in America, and what representations and histories of U.S. multiracialism can illustrate about changing notions of race, power, and privilege in the United States. For more information please visit www.lectures.org.

Thursday • January 7 • 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 • January 7 • 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 • January 7 • 7:30pm
Brendan Brazier
Thrive Fitness: The Vegan-Based Training Program for Maximum Strength, Health, and Fitness (DA CAPO)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Part of the Future of Health series. 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.

Friday • January 8 • 7:30pm
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (PENGUIN)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Gross income inequalities are understood to be divisive and corrosive; in generally wealthy societies, the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem, from ill health to long working hours. But in The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer compelling evidence that more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them—the well-off as well as the poor, and share how to shift the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier and more collaborative society. 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 • January 9 • 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 • January 9 • 1pm
Writing Workshop with Jayne Ann Krentz
Fired Up (PUTNAM)
Bellevue store
New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz will be at our Bellevue store to put on one of her popular writing workshops. Let the author of books like No Going Back, All Night Long, and the most recent Fired Up help you find your footing in the writing world.

Sunday • January 10 • Noon – 5pm
110/110: Celebrating the 110th Birthday of University Book Store
U District store
In celebration of the 110 years of University Book Store's local, independent bookselling, 110 local authors contribute original works consisting of 110 words compiled into a special volume entitled 110/110. The book includes short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, memoirs, and personal memories of University Book Store from Ivan Doig, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Mary Daheim, Stephanie Kallos, David Guterson, Jonathan Evison, Justina Chen, Deb Colletti, Jim Woodring, Stacey Levine, Wesley Stace, Jennie Shortridge, David Lasky, Ryan Boudinot, Colleen McElroy, David Wagoner, Lisa Lutz, David Montgomery, Paul Dorpat and more. The collection is free with purchase of one of the contributing authors' books while supplies last. University Book Store will host a reception for the public at the U District store on our 110th birthday, January 10, 2010. Customers are invited to stop in and enjoy a slice of birthday cake and raise a glass of sparkling cider to help us celebrate.

Monday • January 11 • 7pm
Brian Hart
Then Came Evening: A Novel (BLOOMSBURY)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
In this debut novel, a Vietnam vet awakens from a bender to find his cabin burned down and his pregnant wife missing. She is at first believed dead, but after a scuffle with police that leads to his incarceration, the vet learns that she has left with her lover. Years later, the vet's son and then his wife reenter his life after he is released from prison. Can the family find some way to live together?

Monday • January 11 • 7:30pm
Daniel H. Pink
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (RIVERHEAD)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
There's probably something to that old carrot-on-a-stick motivational tool—if you're trying to motivate a horse. But for us bipeds, says bestselling author Daniel Pink, the true secret to high performance and satisfaction lies in deeply and uniquely human needs: to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, exposes the mismatch between what science knows and the innovative motivational approaches businesses use, and how that affects every aspect of our lives. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. 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 • January 12 • 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 • January 12 • 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 • January 12 • 7pm
Laura Kastner, Ph.D.
Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens & Teens (PARENTMAP)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
The best way to know how to parent a teenager is—according to the authors of Getting to Calm—knowing just how it is the teenage brain works. Noted teen expert Laura Kastner will stop by to discuss how to bring up the thornier issues in a young person's life—like rudeness, sex, and substance abuse—in a clear, cool-headed way so a parent can make some parenting headway.

Tuesday • January 12 • 7:30pm
Seattle Arts and Lectures present: Jane and Michael Stern
Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, Seattle
The authors of Two for the Road and the recent 500 Things To Eat Before It's Too Late and The Very Best Places To Eat Them and contributors to NPR's Splendid Table, Jane and Michael Stern will be at Seattle Arts & Lectures to talk about some of their favorite meals and their favorite roads. For more information please visit www.lectures.org.

Wednesday • January 13 • 6pm
Bloody Mary's Mystery Book Group
A Great Deliverance (BANTAM BOOKS) by Elizabeth George
Bellevue store
Join Bloody Mary on the second Wednesday of each month for a discussion of the mystery genre's gems.

Wednesday • January 13 • 7pm
Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser
"It All Changed in an Instant": More Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous & Obscure (HARPERCOLLINS)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Can a life be told in six words? Well, it depends on the words. "It All Changed in an Instant" is a book that celebrates the beauty of brevity by asking writers to constrain a life in a mere six words. Could you do it? Give it a try and come out to this event.

Thursday • January 14 • 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 • January 14 • 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 • January 14 • 3:30pm
John Duda
Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane: Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the I.W.W. (AK PRESS)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
2010 is the 100th anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, and we're hosting John Duda to discuss the book he edited on the subject. It's an account taken from the newspapers, dispatches from the scenes of the fight, and personal recollections of one of the very first Wobbly free speech fights.

Thursday • January 14 • 7pm
Read Dating
U District store
It's ba—aacckk! Join us for a delightful take on 'speed dating'. This month's installation of Read Dating will be of interest to single, straight 40-50 year olds. Come and meet your reading sweetheart! Please RSVP to ubs_events@earthlink.net.

Friday • January 15 • 7pm
Fantastic Fiction Salon: Kij Johnson
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Fantasy writer Kij Johnson will read some of her award-winning fiction. A longtime writer and editor in the science fiction and fantasy community, Johnson is well known, and well respected. In 2009, she won the World Fantasy Award for the story "26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss." Sponsored by NWMedia Arts.

Saturday • January 16 • 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.

Sunday • January 17 • 2–3:15pm
Bellevue's Young Adult Book Group (Ages 9-13)
Bellevue store
Join us on the third Sunday of every month. Ask a staff member for details.

Monday • January 18 • 6pm
Robert McChesney and John Nichols
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again (NATION BOOKS)
Reading & Book Signing
UW Kane Hall, Room 210
We've lost the printed Post-Intelligencer; daily newspapers are closing in Denver, Cincinnati, and Albuquerque; and even the venerable Boston Globe is at risk. "Surviving" newspapers are shedding reporters, shuttering bureaus, and ignoring entire areas of coverage. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power and the lifeblood of an informed citizenry, is not just threatened; it is in meltdown. Robert McChesney and John Nichols believe the federal government should intervene to save newspapers, and journalism—and they have history on their side: The founders who wrote a free-press protection into the First Amendment provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of our young nation. Sponsored by the UW Department of Communication.

Tuesday • January 19 • 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 • January 19 • 7pm
Grant McCracken
Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation (BASIC BOOKS)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
There is need for a brand new corporate professional. It's the Chief Culture Officer, someone who spots trends, watches cool, and ends the need for companies to outsource for their cultural knowledge. Anthropologist Grant McCracken has been training the biggest companies and consulting firms for years, and now offers some advice on keeping up with the market by finding someone who can watch the edges of society for the next big thing.

Tuesday • January 19 • 7:30pm
Robert McChesney and John Nichols
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again (NATION BOOKS)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
See Monday, January 18 listing for details. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. 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 • January 20 • 6:30pm
Walker Ames Lecture Series presents Robert Fishman
"Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson: The Death and Life of Nature and the City"
UW Kane Hall, Room 120, Seattle campus
In 1961 – 1962, two little-known women published books that attacked the orthodoxy of their respective fields. At the time they appeared to belong to two very different debates: urbanism for Jacobs, environmentalism for Carson. Today we can see that they in fact shared an important new theoretical perspective that not only revolutionized their own fields but has now become fundamental to our understanding of sustainability. Professor Fishman is the Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning. This event is free and open to the public. To guarantee your seat please register by clicking here. Feel free to direct all registration related questions to the UW Alumni Office at: 206.543.0540 or 800.AUW.ALUM.

Wednesday • January 20 • 7pm
Willy Vlautin
Northline: A Novel (HARPER PERENNIAL)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Allison Johnson is young, pregnant, and on her way to Reno. In this tale of the American underclass, singer and novelist Willy Vlautin presents a woman in search of some happiness in an often deceitful and difficult world. Allison's only confidant, an imaginary Paul Newman, helps her navigate through, to an acceptable conclusion—which may be all any of us ever get.

Thursday • January 21 • 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 • January 21 • 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 • January 21 • 6pm
Queen Mary's Travel Book Group
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search For The Happiest Places In The World (TWELVE) by Eric Weiner
Bellevue store
Recount adventure, exploration, and conquest with Queen Mary as your guide on the third Thursday of each month.

Thursday • January 21 • 7pm
Julie Powell
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (LITTLE BROWN)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
A love affair straining her marriage, memoirist and Julia Child aficionado Julie Powell—famous for her book Julie and Julia—left home to throw herself into a new, food-related obsession. She decided to learn all she could about the butchering of meat. At a butchershop named Fleischer's, she finds refuge from the caprices of her heart in the breaking down of a side of beef and distractions from her dangerous passions in the proper care for a rack of ribs.

Friday • January 22 • 7:30pm
Jeremy Rifkin
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (TARCHER)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
"Empathy" became a political buzzword during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: As a "wise Latina woman," was she too empathetic, selectively empathetic, or just-right empathetic? Perhaps time will tell, but in the meantime, says controversial social critic Jeremy Rifkin, empathy is our best—and possibly only—model for global survival in the early 21st century. Rifkin, founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends believes we sit on the cusp of a great experiment to date—refashioning human consciousness so that humans can live and flourish in the new globalizing society—and that the development of empathy is central to a future in which we think and behave like the whole world matters. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. 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 • January 23 • 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 • January 25 • 6pm
Nick's Book Club
Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (METROPOLITAN BOOKS) by Joe Sacco
the book store café, fireside
Join our own resident writer, Nick DiMartino, for a lively discussion of this month's selection.

Monday • January 25 • 7pm
Rebecca Goldstein
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (PANTHEON)
Reading & Book Signing
University Temple Chapel, United Methodist Church Chapel, 1415 NE 43rd St.
Novelist Rebecca Goldstein presents a witty satire of the academic world and the questions of faith. Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great says this of the book: "You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith itself that consists of nothing. Rebecca Goldstein, on the other hand, is quite something." Part of the Seattle Spiritual Reading Series. Suggested $5 donation at the door.

Tuesday • January 26 • 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 • January 26 • 6:30pm
Walker Ames Lecture Series presents Charles Falco
"The Science of Optics; The History of Art"
UW Kane Hall, Room 120, Seattle campus
Recently, renowned artist David Hockney observed that certain drawings and paintings from as early as the Renaissance seemed almost "photographic" in detail. Following an extensive visual investigation of western art of the past 1000 years, he made the revolutionary claim that artists even of the prominence of van Eyck and Bellini must have used optical aids. In this talk Falco shows a wealth of optical evidence subsequently discovered during an unusual, and remarkably productive, collaboration between an artist and a scientist. Professor Charles Falco has joint appointments in Optical Sciences and Physics at the University of Arizona where he holds the UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts, co-edited two books, has seven U.S. patents, and given over 350 invited talks at conferences and research institutions in 24 countries. This event is free and open to the public. To guarantee your seat please register by clicking here. Feel free to direct all registration related questions to the UW Alumni Office at: 206-543-0540 or 800-AUW-ALUM.

Tuesday • January 26 • 7pm
Robin Hobb
Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles (EOS)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
Tacoma, Washington's Robin Hobb has a new book in her Rainwild world, but with a brand new cast of characters. The first volume of the new series, The Dragon Keeper, presents a father who decides, despite custom, to raise a child marked by the Rainwild's magic with a scaly, less-than-human aspect. He raises her despite the scorn of her community, allowing her the opportunity to grow into whatever it is she will become, with whatever fate awaits her.

Tuesday • January 26 • 7:30pm
Jaron Lanier
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (KNOPF)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier, known as the father of virtual-reality technology, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. In his latest work, Lanier says the Web's first designers made crucial choices (such as making one's presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences, including elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. 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.

Wednesday • January 27 • 6:30pm
Main Street Book Club
The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold
Mill Creek store
Join host Amanda Corr on the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss the very best in contemporary fiction. Save 20% when you purchase this title at our Mill Creek store.

The enduring Best American series of short stories will kick off our new year of reading. This brilliant collection edited by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author Alice Sebold, boasts voices both new and recognized, a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). This collection has both well-known and first time authors from major and smaller publications around the country. Included authors are: Joseph Epstein - Ron Rash - Yiyun Li - Kevin Moffett - Annie Proulx - Alice Fulton - Richard Powers - Daniel Alarcon.

Wednesday • January 27 • 7pm
Lorraine McConaghy
Warship Under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West (UW PRESS)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
The early—and somewhat sordid—history of Seattle is explored in this book by local historian Lorraine McConaghy. You meet the drunken sailors from the USS Decatur, and the scheming locals who lived on the Decatur's provisions. All paint a portrait of a port where Navy discipline turned a blind eye to the exploits of those under its gaze, and a Seattle where anything went.

Thursday • January 28 • 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 • January 28 • 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 • March 28 • 6pm
Classic Mary's Book Group
Around the World in Eighty Days (BANTAM BOOKS) by Jules Verne
Bellevue store
Make your shameful confession in a safe environment: which famous book have you never read? Join Classic Mary for an introduction to the classic literature canon—these are the novels you always meant to read, and now you can!

Saturday • January 30 • 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.