A Book For All Seasons Turns Twenty

Join A Book For All Seasons as we celebrate our TWENTIETH anniversary!

What a delight to have been your friend for twenty years. That's truly something to celebrate! We'll be pulling out all the stops on March 10 with special refreshments, prizes, surprises, and a multi-author book-buzz featuring Matt Ruff, Kiki Hamilton, Robert Anderson, Sean Salazar, and Joseph Vizzard.

Your next book is always right at hand at A Book For All Seasons. Open 365 days a year with an outstanding collection of classics, page-turners, cookbooks, picture books, history, humor and more— now including e-books, thousands of titles at fabulous prices! Shop us online, phone to have your book mailed directly to your home, or stop by for a relaxing browse, cappuccino in hand, and let something unexpected take you by surprise. It is our delight to have been here for you these twenty years. Here's to the next twenty!

The Mirage by Matt Ruff — $25.99

Matt Ruff, outrageously inventive, award-winning author of Bad Monkeys, Set This House in Order and Fool on the Hill shares his latest release: The Mirage, a mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East.

In a fate-twisting alternative reality, Christian fundamentalists have hijacked four jetliners, suicide-bombing key sites in the United Arab States, who immediately declare a War on Terror. But interrogated suspects insist this is just a mirage—they insist that America is a superpower, and the Arab states just a collection of "backward third-world countries."

While Arab Homeland Security searches for answers, the gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As our heroes venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.

Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, The Mirage probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears.

Publisher's Weekly Starred Review:
"Genre buster Ruff (Bad Monkeys) takes the reader through the looking glass into a world where a union of benevolent Muslim states guards against Christian fundamentalist terrorists trying to spread fear and unrest...a suicide bomber from Texas...claims that their world is actually a polar opposite distortion...clever, inventive...a truth that gives Ruff's work a sharp satiric bite.... As the plot thickens, the ideas keep coming, with Ruff revising the history of, among other things, the gay rights movement, David Koresh, and Timothy McVeigh...entertaining and provocative, exactly what the best popular fiction should be."

Ruff's previous novels include Fool on the Hill; Sewer, Gas and Electric; Set This House in Order, and Bad Monkeys. His novels have won the James Tiptree Award, Alex Award, John Campbell Award, two Washington State Book Awards, and two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards; and Bad Monkeys has been optioned as a TV series. Ruff has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and lives with his wife in Seattle, WA. Learn more at www.bymattruff.com.

Buy a SIGNED copy of The Mirage - $25.99

The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton

Kiki Hamilton takes readers from the gritty slums and glittering ballrooms of Victorian London to the beguiling but menacing Otherworld of the Fey in The Faerie Ring, a spellbinding tale of romance, suspense, and danger.

The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. Their only means of survival picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a chain of events that could lead to all-out war with the Fey. For the ring belongs to Queen Victoria, and it binds the rulers of England and the realm of Faerie to peace. With the ring missing, a rebel group of faeries hopes to break the treaty with dark magic and blood—Tiki's blood.

Unbeknownst to Tiki, she is being watched—and protected—by Rieker, a fellow thief who suspects she is involved in the disappearance of the ring. Rieker has secrets of his own, and Tiki is not all that she appears to be. Her very existence haunts Prince Leopold, the Queens son, who is driven to know more about the mysterious mark that encircles her wrist. Prince, pauper, and thief—all must work together to secure the treaty...

"Hamilton's debut gracefully mixes fantasy, Dickensian London, and a dash of romance... an admirable heroine in an enjoyable tale." — Publishers Weekly

"Urban faerie fantasy meets Oliver Twist (with a dash of Cinderella) in this exciting tale of a street orphan who mingles with royalty to save olde England from dark magic. Plenty of action and suspense. Let's hope there'll be more adventures for Tiki and the handsome Ricker." — O.R. Melling, author of The Chronicles of Faerie.

Kiki Hamilton believes in faeries, in magic, and that it only rains part of the time in her hometown of Seattle, WA. Learn more at www.kikihamilton.com.

Buy a SIGNED copy of The Faerie Ring - $17.99

Stories of Healing: A Family Doctor's Journal by Dr. Robert Anderson

In Stories of Healing: A Family Doctor's Journal, Dr. Robert Anderson documents an amazing series of patient encounters and case studies from over his forty years of medical practice. One of the founders of the American Holistic Medical Association and of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, his work as a family doctor has always been on the leading edge of holistic practice.

These stories of healing serve to explore the real mystery and wonder of medicine as a path to continual self-discovery, lifelong learning, the power of observation, and the mystery of the human condition. Section headings include such topics as Vital Nutrients, Infections, Our Toxic World, Allergies and Sensitivities, Lifestyle Practices, Attitudes and Emotions, Cancer, What's the Source of Healing?, and the final section, Mysterium. Stories of Healing quietly extends our awareness of the incredible depth and beauty available to us in the practice of medicine

Best-selling Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of twelve books on healing, says: "This book is a treasure which needs to be read by everyone so that they understand our potential and self-empowerment abilities when confronting illness and the health care system. Healing and survival are due not to miracles or spontaneous remissions but to self-induced healing...this book makes it clear what is possible when we assume responsibility and participate in our care."

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of three New York Times Bestsellers including The Wisdom of Menopause calls it "a fantastic book written by one of the finest holistic doctors I've ever known."

Read a review on James Russell's blog and on UTMB Health web site.

Buy a SIGNED copy of Stories of Healing: A Family Doctor's Journal - $18.95

The Babylon Prophecy by Sean Salazar

In The Babylon Prophecy, book one in the "Countdown to Doomsday" series, Sean Salazar delivers page-turning action.

Within hours of an accidental bombing in Iraq, retired CIA sniper Al Robek is summoned to investigate. While battling his own demons from post-traumatic syndrome, Al uncovers one mystery after another. He learns that his former girlfriend, Jess Contreras, was the pilot responsible for the bombing. Together, they find an ancient city buried by the Biblical flood and become the targets of a secret brotherhood bent on triggering an early Armageddon.

Enter Ed Collins, an unassuming British code-cracker, who has been tracking the brotherhood since the end of World War II. With the help of the CIA and the British SAS and MI-5, the trio embarks on a dangerous mission that takes them to the Middle East, Europe, and South America—slowly uncovering evidence of a conspiracy hatched thousands of years ago.

Ultra-secret espionage involving the highest level of government, the Vatican, and international banking brings about new discoveries, but with each comes new questions, new missing pieces to the puzzle.

Can they figure out what is going on before it's too late? Is there anyone they can really trust? Do they know who they're fighting against? Or even what they're fighting for? The survival of mankind ultimately lies in this unlikely team's hands.

Dr. Sean Salazar has served in the Navy, travelling extensively through the Middle East, northern Africa, and Asia. He currently lives in Seattle, WA, where he is at work on the second book in the “Countdown to Doomsday” series.

Buy a SIGNED copy of The Babylon Prophecy - $19.95

Eye for an Eye by Joseph Vizzard

In Joseph Vizzard's Eye for an Eye, an ex-CIA interrogator-turned-psychologist confronts a difficult choice: Healer or Warrior? The dilemma turns deadly when a patient reveals a past of sexual abuse, stolen secret files, and pursuit by forces good and evil. Drawn into the drama, Dr. Nelson himself becomes a moving target. Now he must choose whether to fight for his own survival and those of other PTSD victims.

When Dr. Nelson threw in the towel as a CIA interrogator, he believed he'd left behind the violence and intensity that he encountered in Afghanistan. Then a new patient, Sandra, comes in for treatment, opening the door for the trauma of the past to come roaring back into his life, and Dr. Nelson becomes a prime target—they want to capture him, interrogate him, and then kill him. He is forced to dust off his CIA training, confront his own PTSD, and search for answers to an ever-broadening puzzle. One of his pursuers—an international terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood—will stop at nothing.

In order to survive, Chris must tap into dark places in his soul that he believed he had tamed. If he does survive, will he be forever changed?

"a gripping story" – says Sean Salazar, author of The Babylon Prophecy

"Dr Chris Nelson is the prototype for this century's next hero. He's smart and tough, but people-oriented and psychologically sophisticated... We are soon drawn into the most exotic setting of all: the human mind!" — David J. Reynolds, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Joseph Vizzard, a practicing psychologist for over thirty-eight years, lives north of Seattle, WA.

Buy a SIGNED copy of Eye for an Eye - $19.95