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Seattle Public Library & Elliott Bay Book Company: Isabel Allende: ‘Maya’s Notebook’
Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 7:00 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free, but tickets are required (available beginning April 12).
Posted in Arts & Culture, Community, Literary Also tagged Elliott Bay Book Company, Rental 3 Comments
A Conversation with Michelle Rhee
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
The Seattle Public Library, CityClub, and Elliott Bay Book Company present a conversation with Michelle Rhee, a driving force behind American education reform and author of Radical: Fighting to Put Students First.
Posted in Civic, Community, Media Library Also tagged CityClub, Elliott Bay Book Company, Rental 13 Comments
SPL/EBBC: Madeleine Albright: ‘Prague Winter’
Saturday, February 23, 2013, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright discusses her new book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, which sheds light on earlier events that helped shaped her life.
SPL: Clay Jenkinson: A Debate Between Thomas Jefferson & Theodore Roosevelt
Saturday, December 1, 2012, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Cultural commentator, National Humanities Medal recipient, and Rhodes scholar Clay Jenkinson presents a debate in character between two of our county’s greatest presidents: Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
Seattle Public Library: Luis J. Rodriguez: Imagining Peace & Community in a Time of Violence and Chaos
Friday, November 9, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Award-winning poet, author, and activist Luis J. Rodriguez is a leading Chicano writer. In an encore presentation of a similarly titled 2007 Town Hall talk, Rodriguez reads his poetry, shares his struggles as a former drug addict and gang member and explains how caring adults helped him get back on track.
Seattle Public Library and Elliott Bay Book Company: Khaled Hosseini: ‘And the Mountains Echoed’
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Internationally bestselling author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) has worked for six years on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed—and this time, the writer called “a storyteller of dizzying power” by Evening Standard adds a whole new dimension to his work.