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Meet Seattle author Cherie Tucker when she comes to talk about her book Hope Chest.

In 1959, when Kathleen Andrews pledged a sorority at the University of Washington, girls were expected to get married. They got bride dolls and hope chests and the message that they would grow up to be wives and mothers. Their job choices were limited for the most part to teaching, nursing, and office work—things they could “fall back on.” They were teased that they went to college to get their MRS degree. Kathleen followed all the rules her sorority and society taught her and expected to meet her future husband. But the rules did not prepare her for the transition from the predictable roles of the Eisenhower years to the revolutionary ideas of the Women's Movement that would change everything she was taught to expect—and accept.

Cherie Tucker is a Seattle native and a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in English. Through her business, GrammarWorks, she has taught grammar and writing basics to business professionals in the U.S. and Canada since 1987. She also teaches Grammar for Editors in the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education editing program. She has won national awards for copywriting, has edited numerous books, and writes a monthly grammar column for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s online magazine, Author. In addition she sings in the Seattle Women’s Chorus and serves as an advisor to her college sorority.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Meet Seattle author Cherie Tucker when she comes to talk about her book Hope Chest.

In 1959, when Kathleen Andrews pledged a sorority at the University of Washington, girls were expected to get married. They got bride dolls and hope chests and the message that they would grow up to be wives and mothers. Their job choices were limited for the most part to teaching, nursing, and office work—things they could “fall back on.” They were teased that they went to college to get their MRS degree. Kathleen followed all the rules her sorority and society taught her and expected to meet her future husband. But the rules did not prepare her for the transition from the predictable roles of the Eisenhower years to the revolutionary ideas of the Women's Movement that would change everything she was taught to expect—and accept.

Cherie Tucker is a Seattle native and a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in English. Through her business, GrammarWorks, she has taught grammar and writing basics to business professionals in the U.S. and Canada since 1987. She also teaches Grammar for Editors in the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education editing program. She has won national awards for copywriting, has edited numerous books, and writes a monthly grammar column for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s online magazine, Author. In addition she sings in the Seattle Women’s Chorus and serves as an advisor to her college sorority.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Yes, you can! And we're here to tell you how, whether you have a Kobo eReader or almost any other eReading device (think smart phones, tablets, most eReaders). Bring your device, and we'll help you get set up! Even if you are an old hat at eReading, we might be able to show you some nifty tricks to make eReading even more enjoyable. Learn about our selection of eBooks and the monthly specials we have for great prices on great reads. Bookstore owner Tim Hunter can help you with any questions you might have, and show you how eBooks can join hardback and paperback books in your reading life.

Please note that you cannot read eBooks purchased at Eagle Harbor Book Company on any Kindle device.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join us welcoming back Seattle mystery writer Bernadette Pajer for the latest in her Professor Bradshaw mystery series, Capacity for Murder.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Healing Sands Sanitarium, southwest of Seattle, is famed for its restorative cures, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby's electrotherapeutics. No one has ever died at Healing Sands. Until now.

When Professor Bradshaw is summoned to investigate, he know this was no accident, but clues to foul play are as insubstantial as smoke -- to anyone other than an electrical engineer. A sinister tale emerges as he investigates, and an everyday object provides the key, alerting Bradshaw that one among them is a dead man walking, while another possesses the Capacity for Murder!

Pajer is a graduate of the University of Washington, and a proud member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Northwest Science Writers, the Washington Academy of Sciences, and the Seattle7Writers. This is the third book in her Professory Bradshaw mysteries, after A Spark of Death and Fatal Induction.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Help support the Bainbridge Public Library when we host Science Night at EHBC! We will donate 20% of all sales between 5 - 7pm to the BPL on Wednesday, May 29th. The Island is lucky to many STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) professionals living here, and several have volunteered to speak at the store during this Book Fair. These scientists will provide a glimpse into their area of expertise and share some of their favorite science books aimed at general readership. From 4:45 to 5:15pm, Gregory J. Moncada, the STEM coordinator for the Bainbridge Island School District, will share some of his favorite books for students and parents. This will be an opportunity to hear more about the STEM summer camp! From 5:30 - 6pm, Julie Novak, a biotechnology professional and head of research at Blaze Bioscience, will share her research passions and must-read science books. Dr. Novak's work is dedicated to developing products to assist physicians in improving the life of cancer patients. From 6:15 - 6:45pm, Chad Weldy and Anna Engstrom will talk about their research and book recommendations. Dr. Weldy, a BHS graduate, is a Senior Fellow at the UW School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, and investigates what exposure to air pollution during fetal development can mean. Ms. Engstrom is a PhD student in Toxicology at the UW.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Seattle CranioSacral therapist Judith Marcus will talk about her memoir Uncoiling: A Memoir of Anxiety, Aneurysm, and Renewal. Marcus, who has worked for years as a somatic practitioner, tells her remarkable story of her own brain injury brought on by an aneurysm. Like Jill Bolte Taylor, her background and training helped in her healing, and provides her the ability to give us an inner view of her experience. Marcus takes the reader through her journey, to appreciate the incredible capacity we have as humans for healing, learning, and being in life.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sylvia hates spinach! But what happens when her teacher gives her spinach seeds to plant in the school garden? In Sylvia's Spinach, Seattle author Katherine Pryor tells a wonderful tale of a reluctant gardener who comes to love her plant and then, triumphantly, takes a taste and likes it!

We will have a great time with Katherine sampling some greens and hearing the story of a school garden! Bring your own garden stories to share, too!

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

We are very excited to welcome New Mexico writer Wendy Tremayne to talk about her book The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living. Leaving a fast-paced, high pressure New York life to build an off-the-grid home in Truth or Consequences, NM, Tremayne tells the story of how she and her partner made, built, invented, foraged, and grew all they needed to live self-sufficiently, discovering a new sense of abundance in the process.

"This rollicking, inspiring tale of Tremayne's journey from being the creative director of N.Y.C. marketing firm Green Galactic to being a Burning Man volunteer, yoga teacher, Sufi seeker, and hardscrabble DIY urban homesteader in a former trailer park in the eccentric community of Truth or Consequences, N. Mex., is alternately funny, tender, philosophical, and practical," writes Publishers Weekly.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton has written the definitive book on what is expected to be the biggest earthquake in the continental United States, one that some scientists argue it may be overdue. Bainbridge Island author Bruce Barcott will join us to lead a discussion on Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.

The culprit is the Cascadia subduction zone: a 750-mile-long creeping giant that runs along the Pacific coast from Northern California up to British Columbia. Though the Pacific Northwest has been mostly quiet for hundreds of years, it is capable of producing an earthquake sixty times as powerful as the 1906 quake that flattened San Francisco. It’s a harsh wake-up call for a region previously considered a “seismological backwater” whose earthquake research only began in earnest in the 1980s. Since then, the Pacific Northwest has been the epicenter of some of the world’s most exciting earthquake discoveries.

Doughton delves into the fascinating and often terrifying world of “The Big One.” She introduces readers to the scientists who are dedicated to understanding the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are in the region’s urban centers of Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Seattle author Amy Hatvany will return to Eagle Harbor Books to talk about her newest novel, Heart Like Mine. (An earlier planned appearence was cancelled).

Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the right man, she could learn to be an excellent part-time stepmom. At thirteen, Ava Hansen is mature beyond her years. Since her parents’ divorce, she has been taking care of her emotionally unstable mother and her little brother—she pays the bills, does the laundry, and never complains because she loves her mama more than anyone.

When Ava and Max's mother dies suddenly within days of Grace and Victor's engagement, both Grace and Ava, somewhat warily, try to understand what happened and how to move forward.

Heart Like Mine is a poignant, hopeful portrait of womanhood, love, and the challenges and joys of family life.

Location: Street: 157 Winslow Way E. City: Bainbridge Island, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)