Author events at Third Place Books June 4-8

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

Third Place Books

17171 Bothell Way NE

Lake Forest Park, WA  98155

Dan Kennedy

American Spirit (New Harvest)

Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm

When Matthew, a 40-something media executive, finds his job, health, and wife slipping through his fingers, he embarks on a stumbling, agonizing, hilarious vision quest that takes him from a strip-mall parking lot to a Bali medical clinic in a uniquely American adventure. Dan Kennedy contributes to McSweeney's dot net, and is a host of The Moth storytelling podcast and live events.

Lynda Mapes

Elwha: A River Reborn (Mountaineers)

Wednesday, June 5 at 7pm

A compelling exploration of one of the largest dam removal projects in the world and the efforts to save a stunning Northwest ecosystem. Lynda Mapes is an award-winning journalist with a twenty-year career in newspaper reporting, much of it with the Seattle Times.

Bernadette Pajer

Capacity for Murder: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery

Thursday June 6 at 7pm

Local author Bernadette Pajer is back with the latest in her Professor Bradshaw Mystery series. Set in the Healing Sands Sanitarium, southwest of Seattle, Washington, at the dawn of the 20th century, a sinister tale emerges as deep undercurrents turn personal, provoking Bradshaw to make a decision about the woman he loves.

Ridley Pearson

Choke Point (Putnam)

Friday, June 7 at 6:30pm

The latest from best-selling author Ridley Pearson. When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down.

Cherie Tucker

Hope Chest

Saturday, June 8 at 6:30pm

Seattle native and grammarian, author Cherie Tucker, explores a young woman's  journey through the predictable roles of the Eisenhower years to the revolutionary ideas of the Women’s Movement. Set in Seattle on the University of Washington campus, Hope Chest charts the local response to a pivotal shift in women's rights.