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Featured Author Event
Knute Berger
Pugetopolis
Tuesday, March 10th 7:00 pm
Pugetopolis is
both a reflective and funny look at what's authentic and what's fake
about the greater Puget Sound region written by a lifelong insider who
is "also an instinctive skeptic and a mordant humorist."
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Featured Event
An Evening for Book Clubs
Wednesday, March 18th 7:00 pm
Our twice yearly book presentation by the Parkplace Books staff and owners as we recommend the best in new paperback titles
for book club discussions.
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Announcement!
Kirkland Library temporarily stationed at Parkplace Books
Due to their expansion plans, the library will be closing for a year. The bookstore will be hosting the library in our east room for them to provide certain services in the interim. Starting February 2nd, you can visit both of us in one fell swoop!
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| Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
From her bestselling debut novel, Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos earned comparisons to John Irving, Anne Tyler and Carol Shields, and she garnered legions of fans. Her new novel, Sing Them Home, is a deeply moving portrait of three grown siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother’s mysterious disappearance when they were children. Read more...
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| Indie Next List
The Indie Next List, drawn from bookseller-recommended favorite
handsells, epitomizes the heart and soul of passionate bookselling.
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| The Believers
by Zoe Heller
"The
Believers is a story is of a dysfunctional Jewish family, including a
bizarre, demanding mother; an overweight daughter; and a drug-addicted
son. Read more...
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Current Book Club Reading Choices
Here are some great picks from what our book clubs are currently reading
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| Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
One dark summer dawn, at the very moment that an enormous monster dies in Lake Glimmerglass, twenty-eight-year-old Willie Upton returns pregnant and miserable to her hometown of Templeton, N.Y. Willie is a descendant of the creator of the town, Marmaduke Temple, and she expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for centuries. Read more...
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Teen Book Picks
Check back often for the newest in teen books.
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| Stravaganza: City of Secrets by Mary Hoffman
When Matt turns seventeen and acquires an old, leather-bound book, he's surprised by how drawn he is to it, especially since Matt is dyslexic and doesn't like to read. But the book turns out to be more powerful than he could have imagined: it is his talisman as a Stravagante, a person who can travel through time and place to a country called Talia, which is much like Italy. Read more...
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Kid's Book Picks
Look here for current kid's books that our Children's Book Specialist Mary Harris recommends.
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| My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stills Gannett
2008 marks the 60th anniversary of My Father's Dragon and to celebrate we're offering a deluxe edition--a true collectible for the generations of readers who grew up reading about Elmer's adventures with the dragon. Read more...
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