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Pickets and Dead Men: Season on RainierMeet the Author Bree Loewen

Tuesday, November 17, 7pm, North Bend Library

Description: Bree Loewen, author of Pickets and Dead Men: Season on Rainier, will share her funny and sometimes cringe-inducing story as a climbing ranger where respect is hard won and on-the-job performance can be the difference between life and death.

Nancy PearlHoliday Books–Good Books for Giving - Presented by Nancy Pearl

Saturday, November 14, 2pm
Burien Library

Books make wonderful gifts and with so many great choices it can be difficult to find the perfect fit. Look beyond the bestsellers and find some great literary jewels.

Literary Feast authors Cliff and Nancy Hollenbeck to appear at Burien Library, November 21.

Northwest authors Cliff and Nancy Hollenbeck will visit the Burien library on Saturday Nov. 21, for a book-reading and signing event. The best-sellingLiterary Feast Cook Book local authors are featured in the book, “Literary Feast, The Famous Authors Cookbook,” which is a compilation of 100 food, drink and dessert recipes from scores of well-known authors and writers.

Travel and tourism authors and internationally acclaimed photographers Cliff and Nancy Hollenbeck of Normandy Park will headline the book signing. When they’re not writing books, traveling, making movies or taking travel photographs, the couple enjoys making their “Puttanesca Ragu” recipe, which is featured in Literary Feast.

Freelance Photographers HandbookIn addition to their newest book, Freelance Photographer's Handbook, Success in Professional Digital Photography, the Hollenbecks are internationally known for their travel destination photography, which includes projects for hotels, resorts, cruise lines, airlines and publishers.

Together they have authored more than two dozen books on travel and marketing.

Their much-acclaimed book, Mexico, which they wrote with novelist James A. Michener, is a perennial bestseller. The Hollenbeck’s film company has received Gold Medals at the International Film Festivals in New York and Chicago, and Cliff has twice been named Travel Photographer of the Year.

The free author event, which is scheduled from 2-4 p.m., will allow for a meet-and-greet plus a book signing. The proceeds from the sale of the Literary Feast cookbook benefit the King County Library System Foundation’s literacy and reading programs. Literary Feast can be purchased at the event. The book is also available through www.thriftbooks.com/literaryfeast and at a variety of book stores.

Read more about the Literary Feast cookbook

 

Meet the Author Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time book coverThursday, December 3, 7pm. Redmond Library

Prize winning author and journalist Timothy Egan will talk about his book The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl. Mr. Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the New York Times, and the author of six works of nonfiction, including the Northwest classic, The Good Rain. His latest book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, was published this fall. A book signing will follow the talk.


The event is part of Redmond’s annual community reading event, One Book, One Redmond. The general public is welcome to attend. For more on Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time, or One Book, One Redmond, visit: one-book-redmond.blogspot.com

 

The Indifferent Stars AboveMeet the Author Daniel James Brown

Saturday, January 30, 2pm. Kingsgate Library

Daniel James Brown author of Under a Flaming Sky, the Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 will speak about the circumstances surrounding the tragedy of the Donner Party and read from his book, The Indifferent Stars Above, The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride.
Books will be sold after the presentation and the author will be available for signing.

Books will be available for purchase at all events.

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Last Updated: November 6, 2009