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 John Lombard
Saving Puget Sound:
A Conservation Strategy
for the 21st Century
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King's Book in Tacoma
218 St Helen's Ave
Tacoma, WA 98402
Thursday, August 2
7 p.m.
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 Alice Shorett
Soul of the City:
The Pike Place Public Market
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Seattle Public Library --
Microsoft Auditorium
Alice
Shorett will discuss the history and future of the Pike Place Market
with Peter Steinbrueck, Shelly Yapp, Knute Berger, and Suzanne Hittman
in a panel moderated by Jackson Schmidt of the Market Foundation.
Co-sponsored by Elliott Bay Books.
1000 Fourth Ave
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursday, August 9
6:30 p.m.
Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island
157 Winslow Way E
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Thursday, August 23
7:30 p.m.
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 Grant Hildebrand & Phillip Jacobson
Elegant Explorations: The Designs of
Phillip Jacobson
Throughout his career
as an architect and educator, Phillip Jacobson has also continually
engaged in another realm of design: furniture, lighting fixtures,
jewelry, and home accessories. He has designed in this applied arena
for commercial production and for friends and family. This "other"
realm of design, evidenced by Jacobson's use of timeless structural and
formal concepts, has been an exciting exploration for the artist and is
the subject of this book. Come see Phillip's work on display and
celebrate the publication of Elegant Explorations.
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Nordic Heritage Museum
3014 NW 67th St
Seattle, WA 98117
Thursday, August 9
6:00 p.m.
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 Now available
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Wooden Fish Songs: A Novel
"Wooden fish songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind
by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed
to American in quest of the good life -- and found instead years of
indentured servitude and racial discrimination. This novel focuses on
Lue Gim Gong, a real-life Chinese pioneer, who seized the opportunity
to go to America. The story of his attempt to assimilate the new
culture, his few successes and his frequent setbacks, is told not by
himself but by the women who cared most about him: his mother in China,
a New England spinster who loved him, and a friend a coworker who was
the daughter of slaves.
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 Looking to September
Nance Van Winckel
No Starling: Poems
The newest title in our Pacific Northwest
Poetry Series, edited by Linda Bierds, Nance Van Winckel's verse is
extraordinarily precise and energetic. Unpredictable, wry, always
provocative, displaying a sure and startling command of images and
ideas, her poems make every gesture of language count.
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