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Fri, Nov 5
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Barn Beach Reserve
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Robert Goldstein presents Riding with Reindeer: A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway (Presentation) |
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Sat, Nov 6
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Robert Goldstein signs his new release Riding with Reindeer: A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway (Book-signing) |
 Riding with Reindeer: A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway, by Robert Goldstein
On a folding bicycle, self-supported, Bob Goldstein pedals out of Helsinki into the wide-open arctic. Riding with Reindeer intersperses humorous accounts of his adventures, such as getting trapped in the women's shower in a remote village, with rich cultural and historical anecdotes as he passes rusted tanks and mass graves—the detritus of WWII. Riding with Reindeer gives insight into the mind of the solitary traveler and into the soul of a vast, wild land and its people — honest, resourceful, and taciturn, yet always willing to lend a hand to the stranger on the little blue bicycle.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Riding with Reindeer: A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway - $15.95
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Tue, Nov 9
3:00 - 5:00 PM
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Fishes of the Columbia Basin book-signing with Dennis Dauble (Book-signing) |
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 Dennis Dauble's Fishes of the Columbia Basin is both a tacklebox-friendly guide and a naturalist's treasure, featuring identification, behavior and ecology of our region's more than 60 fish species, and handy references, such as a list of species by family, locations of Columbia River tributaries and dams, and websites related to fish and fishing. Loaded with 147 illustrations and 16 pages of color plates.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Fishes of the Columbia Basin - $16.50
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Fri, Nov 12
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Barn Beach Reserve
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The Transformative Power of Birds and Nature: photographs by Michele Burton (Presentation) |
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Sat, Nov 13
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Nature photographer Michele Burton joins our four-author book-buzz, signing her stunning collections: The Wild Within and Woodland and Wetland. (Book Buzz) |
 Woodland and Wetland: Puget Sound Birds
Nature photographer Michele Burton's exquisite, limited edition photographic explorations of light and nature will place the intimate details and the kaleidoscopic patterns of nature into your hands. Michele, an avid avian photographer, has been exploring the outdoors through her lens for the past decade. Woodland and Wetland: Puget Sound Birds is a richly intimate collection of more than 60 photographs showcasing the amazing variety of birds inhabiting the Puget Sound.  The Wild Within is a stunning book of photographs documenting the rich diversity of wildlife and flora in the wetlands of Seattle's Arboretum, featuring more than 120 full-color images of wetland birds, animals, and scenery by local photographers, accompanied by essays from friends of the wetlands, including former Governor Dan Evans and Dale Chihuly. All proceeds from sales of The Wild Within go to Arboretum Foundation.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of The Wild Within: Wetlands of the Washington Park Arboretum - $29.95
Buy a SIGNED copy of Woodland and Wetland: Puget Sound Birds - $150.00
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Fri, Nov 12
7:00 - 8:00 PM
Leavenworth Library
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Watch out! Author Robert Dugoni presents "Bodily Harm," — third in his "David Sloane" suspense series, at TGIF at the Library. (Presentation) |
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Sat, Nov 13
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Robert Dugoni joins our book buzz, adding his suspenseful legal thriller "Bodily Harm" to a fun mix of local history, nature, and children's authors. (Book Buzz) |
 Watch out! Author Robert Dugoni presents "Bodily Harm!"
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers another searing courtroom drama in his newest thriller, Bodily Harm. "The lawyer who does not lose," Sloane is on the verge of another victory - a malpractice suit for a six-year-old's death. But something about the case has bothered Sloane from the start. Confronted by an apparently crazed young man, a toy designer, who then vanishes, Sloane reexamines recent deaths, digging deeper into troubling claims. As Sloane gets closer to the truth, he ignites a shocking chain of events that nearly destroys him. To find justice, Sloane must dodge a vicious and calculating killer, exonerate the doctor, overcome a devastating personal loss — and hardest of all, keep in check his overwhelming desire for revenge. Full of nail-bitingly tense action scenes and edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama, Bodily Harm finds author Robert Dugoni at the very top of his game.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Bodily Harm (David Sloane Series Book 3) - $25.00
Buy a SIGNED copy of Wrongful Death - Paperback (David Sloane Series Book 2) - $7.99
Buy a SIGNED copy of The Jury Master - Paperback (David Sloane Series Book 1) - $7.99
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Sat, Nov 13
1:00 - 3:00 PM
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Multi-author book buzz: meet Robert Dugoni, Michele Burton, Byron Newell and Barb deRubertis (Book Buzz) |
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Immerse Yourself in Literature at Our Multi-author Book Buzz! From chilling legal thrillers, to nature photography, to the history of Plain, Washington, to children's alliterative alphabet adventures: meet Robert Dugoni, Michelle Burton, Byron Newell, and Barbara deRubertis.
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers another searing courtroom drama in his newest thriller, Bodily Harm. Michele Burton, an avid avian photographer, explores the outdoors through her lens in The Wild Within and other books. Byron Newell's Looking Back, a Visual History of Early Plain unfolds a fascinating time in our history, progressing up to Plain's pastoral 1950's. Barbara deRubertis presents fun and funny children's books, each focused on a single sound, such as Jeremy Jackrabbit's Jumping Journey.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Bodily Harm (David Sloane Series Book 3) - $25.00
Buy a SIGNED copy of Looking Back, a Visual History of Early Plain - $25.00
Buy a SIGNED copy of The Wild Within: Wetlands of the Washington Park Arboretum - $29.95
Buy a SIGNED copy of Woodland and Wetland: Puget Sound Birds - $150.00
Buy a SIGNED copy of Jeremy Jackrabbit's Jumping Journey - $7.95
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Sat, Dec 4
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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The Snow Globe book-signing with Sheila Roberts (Book-signing) |
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 From Sheila to you — a $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE to Kris Kringle for one lucky winner just for showing up. Sheila believes in Christmas, she believes in local community, she believes in a touch of magic, and Sheila believes in you, her readers. Join Sheila as she shares her new book, The Snow Globe, a heartwarming holiday treasure of love and laughter, magic and miracles, friendship and coming home. When an antique handcrafted snow globe comes into the hands of three friends in need of a bit of cheer, a hopeful shake leads to adventure. They discover that at Christmastime, sometimes the impossible becomes possible and miracles really do come true.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of The Snow Globe - $14.99
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Sat, Dec 11
1:00 - 3:00 PM
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Christmas with the Mousekins: book-signing with Maggie Smith (Book-signing) |
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 Maggie Smith: A Mousekin Christmas
Join the Mousekin family as they prepare for Christmas! Filled with crafts and recipes, poems and stories, this is a Christmas book to share with the whole family, year after year. The days before Christmas are such fun as the Mousekins pick out and decorate a tree, make paper snowflakes with Nana, bake cookies for friends, write letters to Santa Mouse, welcome carolers, sled, skate, build a snowmouse, and share stories of Christmas past. Get hands-on right along with the Mousekins, with their recipes for cookies, instructions for paper and felt crafts, and stories and poems to share. Open these pages and step into the warmth of family, the spirit of sharing, and a season full of love.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Christmas with the Mousekins - $15.99
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Sat, Dec 18
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
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Polar Opposites: book-signing with Erik Brooks (Book-signing) |
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 Friends From Opposite Ends of the Globe
A fun depiction of friends bridging differences, and a playful introduction to geography and habitat. Alex is a big polar bear who lives in the Arctic, and Zina is a tiny penguin who lives in the Antarctic. Alex and Zina are also opposite in many other things, such as the fact that Alex is white and shaggy, while Zina is black and smooth. Amusing illustrations feature the entire globe and show Alex and Zina eating and sleeping in opposite ways. Where else would Alex and Zina meet but the Galapagos Islands, "Paradise at the Heart of the World." Alex and Zina have fun together, then hug farewell until next year. An entertaining book with wonderful illustrations of opposites, geography and friendship.
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Buy a SIGNED copy of Polar Opposites - $16.99
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ABFAS October Top 10 Best-Sellers...
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 Chic is the new green with Chico bags!
Big November savings on Chico.
It's hard to remember your bulky cloth shopping bag every time, isn't it? You find yourself in a store, and it's raining — and here comes another plastic bag into your house.
The solution is Chico. These re-usable bags are water-proof, washable, light, pretty, bright, squish up smaller than your fist, and clip easily to purse, belt or backpack — clip it on once, then forget it 'til you need it. Available in every style and color, even backpacks and slings.
You can even go ultra-green with a 100% recycled materials Chico.
A Book For All Seasons wants your rain-and-mud season to be easier. This November we're offering a 25% discount on a Chico bag of your choice with purchases of $25 or more. Chico makes a great gift! — and why not treat yourself to Chico? Make life a little easier, with Chico.
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 Mark-My-Time Digital Bookmark Now Available With Reading Light!
Now available with a light! Named "Best New Product of 2004," there's no other product quite like mark-my-time. It accurately track children's reading times, taking the work out of reading homework!
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 As Long As You Love Me So ...
... Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Think snow with a gorgeous suncatcher snowflake from Kitras Glass Art.
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 Creative Questions to Ignite the Imagination!
Never before has it been so much fun to start a conversation and learn more about those around you. Chat Pack contains 156 cards, each one featuring a creative question that will get people interacting and having a great time together.
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 Fun and Fancy Bookmarks! Come see our super selection of bookmarks: 3-D, animated, and more.
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 Another Super-Successful BookFair Supports Osborn Library
Thanks to the vision and dedication of PIE, Osborn's Partner In Education group...
thanks to gracious Osborn staff for donating space...
thanks to Osborn administration for supporting this cooperative effort with
A Book For All Seasons...
and thanks to the Osborn families who attended...
 ... this fall's Book Fair was a huge success! The helping hands of many volunteers made it all possible. Even Eddie the Reading Dog wagged and lent a paw. Osborn Library received 10% of all sales, as well as a big basket of new donated books.
Osborn kids, families, volunteers, administration, teachers, and staff - you are awesome! Take a bow!
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What's New? What's Hot Off The Press? What's Just Been Released in 2010?
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Fiction
 Ape House by Sara Gruen $26.00
"[Ape House] is fun ... [and] terrific: an incisive piece of social commentary," says the New York Times. "Illuminating ... in showing the depth of human-animal relationships" says Library Journal. Great apes who communicate through sign language, a scientist, a reporter, animal rights activists, and reality T.V. come together in this lively and explosive best-selling drama.
Author Sara Gruen had many conversations and forest outings with sign-language-speaking bonobos in her research. Ape House is dedicated to Panbanisha, one of Sara's great ape friends, and to great apes everywhere. "I hope readers come away from it thinking about how we treat our closest cousins," says author Sara Gruen. "And about how we treat each other. And I also hope they have a rollicking good ride."
Buy Ape House by Sara Gruen - $26.00
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Fiction
 Never Let Me Go
By Kazuo Ishiguro $15.00
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
"A masterpiece of craftsmanship that offers an unparalleled emotional experience," says Kirkus Reviews. "...quite wonderful ... almost literally a novel about humanity: what constitutes it, what it means, how it can be honored or denied" says the Washington Post.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed—even comforted—by their isolation....
Buy Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - $15.00
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Non-fiction
 Lit by Mary Karr $14.99
National best-seller Lit is about overcoming — from daily drunks to getting sober — and about becoming a mother by letting go of a mother. With Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of growth and becoming as only Mary Karr can tell it.
Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity.
Mary Karr's acclaimed The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life her hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness as well as her astonishing resurrection.
Buy Lit by Mary Karr - $14.99
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Non-fiction
 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer $14.99
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians enjoyed: electricity and running water.
His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him.
"This exquisite tale strips life down to its barest essentials, and once there finds reason for hopes and dreams," says a Publishers Weekly Starred Review.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a remarkable true story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. It will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.
Buy The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer - $14.99
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Young Adult
 The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus Series #1)
by Rick Riordan $18.99
Recommended for ages 9-13.
In this brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they'll need the help of some familiar demigods.
After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own:
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath,
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.
Buy The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus Series #1) by Rick Riordan - $18.99
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Young Adult
 Scumble By Ingrid Law $16.99
Recommended for ages 8-13
Author Ingrid Law follows her Newbery Honor-winning debut, Savvy, with a look at another family in which "thirteenth birthdays were like time bombs." Starring a cast both fresh and familiar, Scumble brilliantly melds Ingrid Law's signature heart and humor with the legendary Wild West.
Nine years after Mibs's Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen . . . But Ledge's savvy is a total dud - he only make little things fall apart. So his parents hope it's safe to head to Wyoming. Things start to spin out of control as Ledge's savvy is revealed to be much more powerful than anyone thought. Since Ledge's talent is "as useless as a pogo stick in quicksand," Rocket tries to mentor him on "scumbling," a finesse move to turn problem savvies into assets.
Disaster looms when Ledge's savvy has an outside witness: Sarah Jane Cabot, reporter wannabe and daughter of the local banker. Just like that, Ledge's beloved normal life is over. Now he has to keep Sarah from turning family secrets into headlines, stop her father from foreclosing on Uncle Autry's ranch, and scumble his savvy into control so that, someday, he can go home.
Publishers Weekly praises "Law's talents as a yarn-spinner, and the worth-repeating message about making peace with who you are."
Buy Scumble by Ingrid Law - $16.99
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Early Grades and Picture Books
 It's a Book by Lane Smith $12.99
Playful and lighthearted with a subversive twist, It's A Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age. This satisfying, perfectly executed picture book has something to say to readers of all stripes and all ages.
"Those of us for whom books are a faith in themselves...will love this book. Though it will surely draw a laugh from kids, it will give even more pleasure to parents who have been trying to make loudly the point that Smith's book makes softly: that the virtues of a book are independent of any bells, whistles or animation it might be made to contain...The moral of Smith's book is the right one: not that screens are bad and books are good, but that what books do depends on the totality of what they are," says the New York Times.
"This tongue-in-cheek picture book about reading in the digital age features the best last line ever written in the history of children's literature. Savor it in print rather than trying to read it on your Nook, Kindle or iPad—the punchline will be much better that way," says USA Today.
"I do love this book," says The New Yorker
Buy It's a Book by Lane Smith - $12.99
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Early Grades and Picture Books
 A Bedtime for Bear By Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton $16.99
When the impish Mouse comes to spend the night, Bear is in for a rude — and very funny — awakening in this irresistible new story starring the unlikely pair.
Bear must have absolute quiet when he goes to bed. He likes to set out his glass of water, adjust his nightcap, fluff his favorite pillow, and then drift peacefully to sleep. But the effervescent Mouse, small and gray and bright-eyed, finds it terribly hard to be as quiet as a . . . well, you know. With masterfully paced slapstick humor, droll repartee, and comic visual details, the curmudgeonly Bear and his irrepressible friend Mouse return in a third wry adventure that will have readers of all ages laughing in recognition.
"Bear and Mouse return to prove that friends may not be perfect, but they're there when it matters most. ... when the house at last falls silent, Bear discovers that having everything just so is less important than having a friend ...[a] standout," says Publishers Weekly.
"Bear and Mouse are back and charming as ever...For children who are frightened at night, trying to navigate the world of friendships, or facing new experiences, Bear and Mouse are the perfect companions," says School Library Journal.
Buy A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker, Kady MacDonald Denton - $16.99
Buy A Visitor for Bear Doll - $16.00 |
A Visitor for Bear Doll
Bear is quite sure he doesn't like visitors. He even has a sign. One day a cheery mouse shows up for breakfast. Bear tells him to leave, but the little mouse, who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places, just won't go away!
Join Bear and his friend Mouse in A Bedtime for Bear. This read-aloud favorite is written by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton.
Our sweet Bear Doll comes with Mouse and both are warm companions for tea time or any time.
Safe for all ages, perfect for ages 3 to 7
Size: 9.5"
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