David Rynick
This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons (Wisdom Publications)
Monday, July 9 at 7pm
This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of ordinary life as opportunities for insight.
Phil Stutz and Barry Michaels
The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
(Spiegal & Grau)
Tuesday, July 10 at 7pm
A groundbreaking book about personal growth that presents a uniquely effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change—as seen on The Dr. Oz Show. The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin.
Brianna Caplan Sayers
Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?
(Random House)
Tuesday, July 10 at 7pm
Do their mommies tuck them in while their daddies sing a goodnight song? Do they ask for one more story and then snuggle into a cozy service station? Find out all the different ways in which diggers, dump trucks, snow plows, tractors and more spend their bedtime rituals in surprisingly familiar ways.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
in conversation with Garth Stein
The Prisoner of Heaven (HarperCollins)
Wednesday, July 11 at 7pm
The internationally acclaimed bestselling author takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge. The Prisoner of Heaven is a majestic novel in which the threads of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game converge and bring us toward the enigma hidden at the heart of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s enchanting fictional world.
Owen Egerton
The Book of Harold :
The Illegitimate Son of God (Soft Skull Press)
Friday, July 13 at 6:30pm
This profound and deeply respectful novel presents a hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. Harold Peeks’ world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him.
Kristy Athens
Get Your Pitchfork On! :
The Real Dirt on Country Living (Process)
Sunday, July 15 at 5:30pm
For hard-working office workers Kristy Athens and husband Michael, farming was a romantic dream. After purchasing farm land near the Columbia Gorge, Athens was surprised to learn that the realities of farming are challenging and unexpected. Get Your Pitchfork On! provides the hard-learned nuts-and-bolts of rural living from city folk who were initially out of their depth.
Linda Fairstein
Night Watch (Dutton)
Monday, July 16 at 7pm
New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City’s most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents.
Mary Daheim
The Wurst is Yet to Come (HarperCollins)
Tuesday, July 17 at 7pm
Bed-and-breakfast owner Judith McMonigle Flynn can’t escape murder, even when she’s out of town. Things get complicated when, once again, Judith encounters a corpse, in this latest delightful entry to the beloved series by bestselling author Mary Daheim.
Karyn F. King
San Juan Islands and Beyond:
A Photographer’s Journey
Wednesday, July 18 at 7pm
This book is a photographic tour of some of the most stunning seascapes and marine wildlife in western Washington. Follow nature photographer Karyn F. King as she guides you through the northwest’s magnificent and vibrant beauty with over a hundred images.
Jeff Abbott
The Last Minute (Grand Central)
Thursday, July 19 at 7pm
Ex-CIA agent Sam Capra has one reason to live: to rescue his baby son from the people who abducted him. Sam must unravel a deadly conspiracy if he’s to rescue the only person in the world that matters to him.
Ann Littlewood
Threatened and Endangered : A Zoo Mystery
Saturday, July 21 at 6:30pm
Zoo keeper Iris Oakley is sent to a remote farm in Washington State to rescue exotic animals after a drug bust. When a woman who escaped the bust turns up dead, Iris realizes a key piece of the mystery is missing, but finding it means confronting a determined killer.
Larkin Barnett
Practical Centering : Exercises to Energize Your Chakras for Relaxation, Vitality, and Health
Monday, July 23 at 7pm
Practical Centering enhances physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance with innovative breathing techniques and empowering exercises. The exercises in this great little book take only minutes and can be done easily at home, at work, or wherever you happen to be.
J. A. Jance
Judgment Call : A Brady Novel of Suspense (William Morrow)
Tuesday, July 24 at 5pm
New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert.
Diana Renn - local author - Diana is a Shorecrest graduate now living in Boston
Tokyo Heist (Viking Children’s)
Tuesday, July 24 at 7pm
When sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father in Seattle, she has no idea what she’s walking into. Her father’s newest clients are the victims of a high-profile art robbery. As the mystery thickens, Violet’s not sure whom she can trust. But she knows one thing: she has to solve the mystery--before it’s too late.
Meghan Johnston
Transition: The Chimera Hunters Series
Wednesday, July 25 at 7pm
Shelby O’Neil led a quiet life until she started dreaming about a handsome stranger. When her dreams become reality, she quickly learns to trust the one man who has thrown her into a new and dangerous world. Develon Cole is Chimera and his duty is to protect Shelby against danger and guide her to who she was always meant to be, his sodalis, his mate.
Anne Mendel
Etiquette for an Apocalypse
Thursday, July 26 at 7pm
In this post-apocalyptic comedy Sophie Cohen must keep her family alive amid the grueling, sometimes strangely amusing, realities of starvation and violence. She might find that life--without her Prius, iPhone and chocolate éclairs—isn’t the end-of-the-world.
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