December events
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Join Charles Wilkinson, author of The People Are Dancing Again, at Powell's on December 6, Village Books in Bellingham on December 7, and Kane Hall on December 8.
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In the News
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From the Seattle Times: Jack Hamann, author of On American Soil, led U.S. Congressman John Lewis (Georgia) on a tour of Seattle's Fort Lawton, where 43 African American soldiers were wrongly convicted of lynching an Italian POW. Hamann and Lewis, along with U.S. Rep Jim McDermott, Chief U.S. District Court Judges Robert Lasnik and Richard Jones, toured Fort Lawton to explore adding historical markers to the area.
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Greetings!
This is always an exciting time of year for us -- new books arriving all the time, events happening several times a week across the country, and a new catalog coming up in just a scant few weeks. We're looking forward to sharing those new books with you, but we hope that, in the meantime, you'll be excited by our newest titles and the authors who are out there hoping to meet you! All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu 
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David Martin
| | The Art of Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, painter, and illustrator, born in Ireland but raised in Washington State. He later divided his time between New York City and Seattle. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was part of the inner circle of leading Northwest artists including Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson. In New York he became close to a group of artists and scholars that included the Abstract Expressionist Theodoros Stamos, etcher Thomas Handforth, and the scholar Edmond Tolk.
Among the many children's books he illustrated are the Paul Bunyon stories, Treasure Island, and Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. David Martin places Bennett's work in the context of major American printmakers and illustrators and the changes in book production inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
David F. Martin is an independent art historian, curator, and writer in Seattle.
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Victoria Adams
| | Where Sky Meets Earth
Northwest landscape painter Victoria Adams is equally committed to the landscape tradition and the creation of exquisite scenes that address the contemporary desire for the sublime. Adams depicts idealized landscapes that evoke virgin terrain, untouched by human intervention and devoid of degradation. Through her reworking of landscape traditions and conventions, her paintings reveal the inextricable connections between beauty and the sublime and melancholia. Her paintings evoke the deep desire for the perfect moment and heighten awareness of the psychological impact of the idealized landscape. Adams presents the landscape as a solitary experience with the immense and infinite sublime - a magnificent solitude.
Where Earth Meets Sky is the first museum survey exhibition of Victoria Adams's work and is part of the Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Perspective Series. Adams's work is held in private and museum collections throughout the United States.
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Judy Bentley
| |  Hiking Washington's History
Hiking Washington's History reveals the stories embedded in Washington's landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of the continental United States at Cape Flattery to the remote Blue Mountains in the southeast. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the region's history followed by individual trail narratives and historical highlights. Quotes from diaries, journals, letters, and reports, as well as contemporary and historic photographs, describe sites and trails from Washington's past. Each trail description includes a map and provides directions, so hikers can follow the historic route. Judy Bentley tells readers how to get there, what to expect, and what to look for.
Hiking Washington's History is for hikers, amateur historians, newcomers unfamiliar with the state's history, and Northwest natives who know only part of that history. Savor the vicarious experience of a hike from a cozy chair on a rainy winter day, or put your boots on and hit the trail when the sun shines.
Judy Bentley, who teaches at South Seattle Community College, is an avid hiker and the author of fourteen books for young adults.
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Thursday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at REI SpokaneWednesday, November 10, at 7 p.m. at REI AlderwoodThursday, November 18, at 7 p.m. at Park Place Books, KirklandSunday, November 21, at 3 p.m. at Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island
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Margaret Willson
| |  Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound graduate in 2005, Willson and Conceicao's adventure took them to the shantytowns of Brazil's Northeast, high-society London, and urban Seattle.
In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.
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William Dietrich
| |  The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Before Forks, a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed "Logging Capital of the World" and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now.
William Dietrich, a former science writer for the Seattle Times, is the author of Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River and Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants, as well as popular fiction.
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
"In writing as lush as the threatened forests he describes, William Dietrich captures why the battle isn't merely for the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest and California but for the health of the planet itself." -Michael L. Fischer, former Executive Director, Sierra Club
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Patrica Susan Hart
| |  A Home for Every Child: The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era
Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform over one hundred years ago. In A Home for Every Child, Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when, and why modern adoption practices became a part of child welfare policy.
The Washington Children's Home Society (now the Children's Home Society of Washington) was founded in 1896 specifically to place children into adoptive and foster homes as a way to deal with child abuse, neglect, and homelessness. Records from the Society's archives tell the stories of birth parents and why they relinquished children to the Society, revealing how difficult it was for some people to live in the West at the end of the nineteenth century.
With access to case files and other archival documents from the early years of the Society, the author learned why some parents relinquished their children and others adopted them. These sources show how adoptive parents embraced their new family members and introduced them to their communities. The children themselves tell how they adjusted to their new homes among strangers.
Patricia Susan Hart is associate professor of journalism and American studies at the University of Idaho.
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Victoria Tupper True
| |  Allen Tupper True: An American Artist
This first definitive biography of the Colorado artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955) relies on letters, diaries, and contemporary news accounts as well as family history to describe his artistic evolution from illustrator to easel painter to muralist. The lavish illustrations include most of True's murals (both extant and destroyed), a selection of his major easel paintings, as well as some of his sketches and cartoons and Indian-inspired designs.
Victoria Tupper True, Allen True's granddaughter, worked as a public relations consultant in San Francisco for more than 25 years.
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