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Upcoming Events
 May through June
Join in the NCW Regional Read of Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto
Urrea, sponsored by NCW Library and A Book For All Seasons. Residents
across North Central Washington are encouraged to read, Into the Beautiful
North; several high school classes are also joining the read. We urge you to be
part of this unique experience in preparation for the Bicultural Fest and author presentation
July 5 at Icicle Center for the Arts Snowy Owl Theater.
Award winning author, Luis Alberto Urrea (author appearance sponsored by The Sleeping Lady Foundation), will be featured at the exciting new Bicultural Festival. Join in the free family activities including educational booths, Mariachi bands, the Village Voices, dancing, food, hourly bilingual Nature walks and wildlife booths. Urrea's presentation follows a Naturalization ceremony.
Into The Beautiful North is a delightful, comical story with characters that wonderfully come to life. Luis is a master story teller. It is available at ABFAS and Wenatchee and Leavenworth Public Library. Call for more information.
Location:
Snowy Owl Theater, Icicle Creek Center For The Arts
7409 Icicle Road
Leavenworth, WA
 Friday, May 10, 7pmSheila Roberts writes another charming book set in the town of Icicle Falls, a fictitious place based on Leavenworth. Her novels, including her newest, What She Wants, are embellished with local places and characters, woven together with festivals and dramatic events. Sleeping Lady, the Gingerbread House, and A Book For All Seasons set the stage for tangled relationships and intriguing plots, with the backdrop of breathtaking scenery, and quaint shops.
Location:
Leavenworth Library
700 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA Learn More  
Saturday, May 11, 1-3pm
What "do" women want? Come find out from Sheila as she meets and greets folks at ABFAS as she signs her latest book, What She Wants.
Jonathan Templar and his poker buddies can''t figure it out. Take
Jonathan, for instance. He''s been in love with Lissa Castle since they
were kids but, geek that he is, she''s never seen him as her Mr. Perfect.
He has one last shot-their high school reunion.
When Jonathan stumbles on a romance novel at the Icicle Falls library
sale, he knows he's found the love expert he's been seeking-Vanessa
Valentine, top-selling romance author. At first his buddies laugh at him
for reading romance novels, but soon they, too, realize that these
stories are the world's best textbooks on love. Poker night becomes book
club night...and when all is read and done, they're going to be the
kind of men women want!
Her latest series set in Icicle Falls is based on Leavenworth, Washington.
Location:
A Book for All Seasons
703 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA
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 Friday, May 17, 7-9pm
We are thrilled to welcome Ms. Jance to Wenatchee for the kickoff of our annual weekend of learning at our writing conference, Write on the River. J. A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling
author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali
Reynolds series, and four interrelated thrillers about the Walker
family. Her latest book published February 2013, Deadly Stakes,
is a thrilling mystery starring Ali Reynolds, who finds herself working
against the police to clear two innocent names . . . with deadly
stakes. And don''t miss Judgment Call, a Joanna Brady mystery, which just released in paper. Location:
Wenatchee Community Center
504 South Chelan
Wenatchee
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Saturday, May 18, 1-3pm
Judy Jance returns to ABFAS on Saturday, May 18th for a booksigning. We are so happy to be hosting her here once again.
Her latest book published February 2013, Deadly Stakes, is a thrilling mystery starring Ali Reynolds, who finds herself working against the police to clear two innocent names . . . with deadly stakes. And don''t miss Judgment Call, a Joanna Brady mystery, which just released in paper.
Thursday, May 30, 7-9pm
One of this year's PNBA award winners, Jonathan Evison will be at the Wenatchee Library presenting on his book The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which just released in trade paper. In this new novel, Evison, author of the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a story that is as grounded in the stark reality of its characters'' struggles as it is filled with the kind of hopeful joy that enables them to make it from one day to the next. A novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape, it is most of all a profound look into what it takes to truly care for one another. Location:Wenatchee Public Library 310 Douglas Wenatchee, WA
 
Friday, May 31, 1-3pm
Come welcome this New York Times Bestselling author and get to meet and speak with him at ABFAS One of this year's PNBA award winners, Jonathan Evison will be signing his book T he Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which just released in trade paper. Location:A Book for All Seasons 703 Hwy 2 Leavenworth, WA
 Friday, May 31, 7pm
William Dietrich will be giving a presentation at The Leavenworth Public
Library on Friday evening, on his sixth tale of rogue and
adventurer, Ethan Gage.
In The Barbed Crown, our hero returns to Paris and London.
Against a background of imperial pomp and the gathering clouds of war,
Gage plots revenge on Napoleon Bonaparte for the kidnap of his son. Another Ethan Gage adventure, Emerald Storm, has just released in paper.
Location:
Leavenworth Library
700 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA
 
 Saturday, June 1 , 1-3pm
William Dietrich will be signing his newest book The Barbed Crown at ABFAS on Saturday, June 1, from 1-3pm. All are welcome to come by and meet and talk with him.
Location:
A Book for All Seasons
703 Hwy 2
Leavenworth, WA
 Friday, June 7, 7pm
Bernadette Pajer reads from her latest mystery in the Professor Bradshaw series, Capacity for Murder, at
TGIF Leavenworth Library. Hoquiam Washington is the scene of the crime,
tarnishing the name of the otherwise famed Healing Sands Sanitarium. Another thrilling, sweaty palm
page turner by Pajer!
Location:
Leavenworth Library
700 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA  
 Saturday, June 8, 1-3pm
Bernadette Pajer will be signing copies of her books, including her latest in her Professor Bradshaw series, Capacity for Murder, at ABFAS Saturday afternoon. Come help welcome Bernadette back to Leavenworth.
Location:
A Book for All Seasons
703 Hwy 2
Leavenworth, WA
Thursday, June 13, 7-9pm
Two National bestselling authors Erica Bauermeister, and Jennie Shortridge join forces to give us a dynamic duo author event at The Wenatchee Public Library. Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Essential Ingredients in this luminous sequel, The Lost Art of Mixing. Shortridge, author of When She Flew and Riding With the Queen, brings us a powerful new novel Love Water and Memory.
Both authors will be available for questions and to sign books.
Location:
Wenatchee Public Library
310 Douglas
Wenatchee, WA
Friday, June 14, 7pm
Leavenworth Library is in for a treat when Jenny Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister present at TGIF. Come join the conversation.
Location:
Leavenworth Library
700 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA
Saturday, June 15, 1-3pm
Location:
Leavenworth Library
700 US Highway 2
Leavenworth, WA
Mom's Day Ideas
By Ursus Wehrli
The modern world can get messy. Fortunately, Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli
is a man of obsessive order, as he demonstrates with eye-catching
surprise in The Art of Clean Up. Already a bestseller in Germany, this compulsive title has sold more than 100,000 copies in less than a year.
An illuminating and surprising perspective on life.
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By Maya Angelou
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother in her new memoir, Mom & Me & Mom.Learn More
By Kate Atkinson
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Life After Life, darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
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For Kids and Teens
By Annette LeBlanc Cate
This conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching encourages kids to get outdoors with a sketchbook and really look around. Quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types, while tongue-in-cheek cartoons feature banter between birds, characters, and the reader.
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Navigating Early
By Clare Vanderpool
New York Times Best Seller Clare Vanderpool, Newbery Medalist for Moon Over Manifest, returns with her latest teen novel, Navigating Early an odyssey-like adventure of two boys'' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters.
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 Psssst!...... I heard a rumor that Waldo is coming to Leavenworth sometime this summer and ABFAS is planning some fun happenings around Waldo. Stay tuned for more. Learn More
Remembering Mom
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