Family secrets, dying well, life affirming illness and a book club at Third Place Books this week

Three authors and a book club at Third Place Books this last week of the month. The bookstore is on the upper level of Town Center, Lake Forest Park, intersection Bothell and Ballinger Way NE.

Monday, February 25 at 7pm
Dani Shapiro
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. Inheritance is a book about secrets--secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love.

Tuesday, February 26 at 7pm
Katy Butler
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life--from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath--by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door. The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own "good death" more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations--practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual--will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months.

Wednesday, February 27 at 7pm 
NONFICTION BOOK CLUB
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

Join Bookseller Stephen to discuss October, the writer China Mieville’s new history of the Russian Revolution. Get 20% off the selected title each month.

Our next meeting will be March 27, when we will discuss Sick by Porochista Khakpour with bookseller Sarah.

THE NONFICTION BOOK CLUB MEETS THE LAST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, AND IS HOSTED BY A DIFFERENT BOOKSELLER EACH MONTH. AUTHORS DO NOT ATTEND.

Friday, March 1 at 6pm
Eva Hagberg Fisher
How To Be Loved: A Memoir

By turns defiant and vulnerable, Eva Hagberg Fisher’s memoir chronicles the heartbreak and revelations of living with an illness that robbed her of her body, but conversely jolted her back to life. With extraordinary insight and humor, she reflects on the chaos of her unraveling, the courage and daring it took her to persist, and on the loving friends who held her along the way