University Bookstore

Interview, Q&A, signing.

Fans of the Imriel Trilogy have been waiting—and dreading—Kushiel's Mercy, the final book in Jacqueline Carey's fantasy series. The relationship between Imriel and Sidonie is public, and the result is turmoil throughout the land. To stop an uprising, Queen Ysandre is forced to refuse to acknowledge ... (more)the lovers, and in order for a marriage to take place, Imriel must find his mother and return her for execution.

Connie Willis peppers her live appearances with humorous insights on everything from the Oscars to current geopolitical events. Willis has won six Hugo and six Nebula awards, more than any other science fiction author. Perhaps best known for her time-travel-based novels Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing ... (more)of the Dog, and Fire Watch, Willis explores comedy and tragedy through characters that run the gamut from desperately likable to sweetly infuriating.

Sheree R. Thomas is a Memphis-born writer, editor, poet, and educator living in New York City. She has edited two World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies. The first, Dark Matter: a Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has ... (more)appeared in a wide spectrum of publications, from Strange Horizons to Essence and VIBE.

Two science fiction events in one night. The territory first explored in Jay Lake's novel Mainspring deserved further exploration. Escapement goes in for another look. In it, a remarkably bright girl who lives on a hundred mile high wall in the middle of the Atlantic ocean decides to leave her home for ... (more)England, where she assumes she will find a place to learn from her intellectual equals. Brenda Cooper's Reading the Wind explores the way war affects societies and individuals as it follows a brother and sister caught in conflict.

This is the fifth book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, in which the author re-imagines the Napoleonic Wars in a fantasy setting where dragons serve as the mounted air force. The dragon Temeraire, believing his captain is dead, trains a squadron of scaly, leathery-winged, and unmanned comrades to fight ... (more)against the French.

Chuck Palahniuk is one of a kind. No one else writes like he doesand really, there aren't that many who would even try. He's been mining difficult territory in his novels, stories, and essays for years. His ninth novel concerns the porn industry, and an aging star who decides to end her career by breaking ... (more)a record on camera—that of most partners in a single session.

Who destroyed the Phoenix Space Elevator, the 22nd century's grandest, global achievement? Could it be the South American insurgent group, Autumn Rain, who are claiming responsibility? U.S. counterintelligence agents Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe set out to find the group and discover the truth.

Private Investigator Harper Blaine is a Greywalker—an individual who moves easily between the worlds of the living and the dead. With this paranormal power comes paranormal responsibilities, as Blaine's caseload has become increasingly odd and zombie-filled. Seattle's underground is filling up with ... (more)the living dead, and Blaine must hunt down the culprit in this new book. Seattle's Richelle Mead reads from her new book, Storm Born, about a mercenary shaman who discovers a prophecy that says her first-born child will threaten the future.

Three young people dream of a city at the edge of time—the Kalpa—and find themselves hurtled into it. There, they inhabit the bodies of two inhabitants who have been retro-engineered to possess the qualities of ancient humanity. They hold objects, stony artifacts that move forward and backward through ... (more)time with them, always unchanging—and it is these that a powerful entity, the chalk princess, wants to possess. Check out cityattheendoftime.com. For a signed copy of City at the End of Time, email our resident scifi/fantasy expert Duane no later than August 12 @ noon.

This third book in the Genesis of Shannara series deepens an already deeply realized fantasy setting. The mortal world and the magical collide as Logan Tom must protect the world's only hope for salvation—and settle a score with the demon who killed his family.

Priest takes a turn to the darker side with an apocalyptic new thriller called Fathom. In it, primordial monsters and old gods ooze from the depths to destroy the world, and one teenage girl must fight to stop them. And Caitlin Kittredge returns readers to Nocturne City for a second adventure in which ... (more)Luna Wilder must juggle being a homicide detective and a werewolf.

As our lives get more complicated, we find it so much more difficult to stay on top of our responsibilities. No one knows that better than David Allen, chairman and founder of a global management and consulting company. The author of Getting Things Done returns to help you with your professional and ... (more)personal organizational skills.

Just in time for the 200th anniversary of his birth, a slew of new Lincoln books will be hitting bookshelves. And we are pleased, in January, to welcome a Lincoln scholar par excellence, Ronald White, to read from his new and sure to be definitive book on the sixteenth president of the United States.

Lois McMaster Bujold, a multi-Hugo award winner and fantasy fan favorite, presents the fourth book in her popular Sharing Knife series. In the world of the soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers and ancient magic, Dag Hickory is deepening his understanding of his power. And becoming someone—or something—different.

Kara looks at the forced labor sex trade through the lenses of theoretical economics, business analysis, and human rights. A former investment banker, he is now on the board of Free the Slaves, a modern abolitionist organization. He has traveled extensively, interviewing exploited and enslaved sex trade ... (more)workers to expose their situation.

Kathleen Rooney and Kyle Minor, authors of a meditation on being an artist's model and a fine new book of short stories respectively, come to town with their Live Nude Girl–In the Devil's Territory literary circus book tour. They will be joined by local favorite, novelist Jonathan Evison. Fun will ... (more)no doubt be had.

Co-founder and president for the Institute for Humane Education Zoe Weil has some tips for living a better life—one that helps improve the conditions of others and the planet. And she says that as overwhelming the problems facing the world may seem to be, individuals can make changes in their own lives ... (more)to help out.

Ford's debut novel concerns a man named Henry Lee who, upon seeing the discovered belongings of interned Japanese families at Seattle's Panama Hotel, is taken back to his own experience in the 1940s. During his young life, he fell in love with a Japanese-American girl named Keiko Okabe who was eventually ... (more)caught up in the internment. So Lee searches the belongings for evidence of the Okabe family. Admission is free.

Signing tickets available by purchasing We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work from University Book Store, beginning January 20 2009.

In John Birmingham's alternate history techno thriller, a mysterious wave of energy has destroyed the continental United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Their command structure gone, American soldiers, Americans abroad, and a small number of people in the relatively unscathed Pacific Northwest ... (more)encounter a world without the planet's only superpower.

Please join us for a rare evening with Elizabeth Gilbert as she shares her thoughts on the writing life and some of her current projects. At the end of the lecture she will take questions from the audience. Books will be available for purchase, including a limited number of pre-signed copies, but there ... (more)will not be a book-signing at this event. Books will be available for purchase, including a limited number of pre-signed copies, but there will not be a book-signing at this event. Tickets are $30/$40/$60 and are available exclusively through all TicketsWest outlets including QFC stores and GI Joes. Student Tickets $12 Now Available!! For more ticket information visit www.ticketswest.com or call 206.632.TIXX.

Our buddy Christopher Moore puts on some of the funniest author events around—which makes sense because he also writes some of the funniest books around. And its not all yucks, he's a fine storyteller as well. Come see him as he talks about his latest, Fool, a rollicking, ribald take on Shakespeare's ... (more)King Lear, with a little bit of a few of the Bard's other plays mixed in. This is a special after-hours event. Gain admission with your favorite Moore-related phrase.

Kevin Anderson calls Ken Scholes Lamentation "an iconic SF story cloaked in fantasy, drawing raw material from classics...but forging something new, with colorful characters, compelling scenes, and unfolding miracles." Well, we're sold.In this debut novel—the first volume in afive-volume series—we ... (more)are introduced to a far-future world where magic is commonplace and war is imminent in the Named Lands.

Dan Simmons fictionalizes the events of the great Charles Dickens' late life, after his railway accident in 1865. The era's most popular novelist took a turn to the darker side after that, and this haunting new book—narrated by Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone—speculates as to why.

Do you need someone to advise you on matters of personal growth? Being popular? Living a fulfilling life? Sure you do. Well, stand-up comedian Eugene Mirman wants to help out, and has a new book full of his sage wisdom.

Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, says of Paul Brians' Common Errors in English Usage: "I'd call Paul Brians' book incredible, fabulous, or fantastic, except thanks to him, I know now that none of those words are what I really mean. Let's just say that Common Errors in English Usage is the ... (more)most cheerfully useful book I've read since the Kama Sutra."

Library Journal calls The Indifferent Stars Above, "A supple, readable, and well-researched narrative...Never melodramatic or maudlin..." Kirkus Review calls it "a skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner party..." Come hear Daniel James Brown discuss some of the surprising facts and unfounded myths ... (more)surrounding the Donner Party as he reads from his new account of a little known figure from the tragedy--Sarah Graves Fosdick.

Part of a five-week tour all across the country, Jeff VanderMeer’s in-store appearance coincides with the release of his new noir fantasy novel Finch. The novel has gotten rave reviews from the likes of NYT Bestsellers Stephen R. Donaldson, Tad Williams, and Richard K. Morgan, and even inspired a soundtrack ... (more)by rock band Murder by Death. Mystery icon Ken Bruen says of the novel, “Rarely has a novel got it all. Think Cormac McCarthy, via David Goodis, with an amazing nod to Lovecraft.” Publishers Weekly writes, “his deft mix of genre-blurring style with a layered plot make this a joy to read.” Others have compared Finch to the work of Martin Smith Cruz, William Burroughs, and John LeCarre. From the award-winning, bestselling author of the cult classic City of Saints & Madmen. Also available: Jeff’s Booklife: Strategies & Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer, the first book to blend traditional career and creativity advice with the best ways to thrive in our new internet-based world.