Native northwesterner (Idaho/Montana) Brian Hart's debut novel Then Came the Evening is racking up some very impressive accolades (click below on the title of the book to read about those). The book's only been out a month\; we consider ourselves very fortunate to host such a talented author at this juncture of what promises to be a dramatic career trajectory. Come meet\, come greet\, get yourself signed\, have a cup of tea with us on a (presumably) cold day and get to know a really promising new writer.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T150808Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T040000Z UID:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/john-duda-wanted-men-fill-jails-spokane-fighting-free-speech-hobo-agitators-iww-jan-13th-6pm URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/john-duda-wanted-men-fill-jails-spokane-fighting-free-speech-hobo-agitators-iww-jan-13th-6pm SUMMARY:JOHN DUDA \\"Wanted! Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane\: Fighting for Free Speech With the Hobo Agitators of the IWW\\" Jan 13th 6pm DESCRIPTION:
Mass civil disobedience\, train-hopping militants\, insurrectionist poets\, radical marching bands\, and a victory for a precarious
proletariat in 1909.
Published for the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight\, Wanted\: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane!
tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of the
World s famous free speech fights. Through newspaper articles\,
dispatches from the scene of the fight\, and personal recollections\, the voices of the men and women who filled the prisons of Spokane\, Washington in the name of free speech and the One Big Union are brought back into print. A hundred years later\, the courage and creativity of these Wobbly free-speech fighters\, laughing in the face of law and order to defy an unjust system and even less fair working conditions\, could not be more relevant.
Includes articles\, letters\, updates\, and essays by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Agnes Thecla Fair\, Richard Brazier\, J. H. Walsh\, and other Fellow Workers\, direct from the pages of The Industrial Worker\, The International Socialist Review\, The Workingman's Paper\, and more!
We are real excited for this one. All the employees are juggling their schedules for to try and be here! We suggest you do the same\, because even considering the recent spate of quality books on crows and ravens\, we are dealing here with a superb\, enlightening read. Not to mention a bona fide Orca best seller.
There are more crows now than there have ever been. Their abundance is an indicator of ecological imbalance\, but it also provides a generous opportunity to connect with the more-than-human world. Crow Planet is a journey of discovery into a world where\, if we pay attention\, crows become our guides\, leading us off the pavement and into the realms of myth\, history and science\, and opening our eyes to the deeply relevant question of our own place in the urban-wild landscape.
Haupt's graceful prose illuminates a world of surprising crow behavior\, where birds gather to care for the sick\, drop nuts in the road to be cracked open by passing cars\, play in the snow\, and even participate in "\;crow funerals."\; These crow stories are richly interwoven with scientific and scholarly research\, the history and mythology of crows\, and the author's patient and quirky observation of the crows around her. Haupt shows us how crows invite us to explore our own wilder edges\, where our cities are not as impoverished as we've been told\; our sidewalks are not as straight as we thought. Above all\, Crow Planet is a revelation about the zoopolis -- where human and animal geographies meet and mingle -- and about how an openness to the wild around us can give us richer lives within it.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T150808Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T230000Z UID:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/meet-richard-henegan-gestation-unborn-hostage-january-16th-noon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/meet-richard-henegan-gestation-unborn-hostage-january-16th-noon SUMMARY:meet RICHARD HENEGAN \\"Gestation\: Unborn Hostage\\" January 16th at noon DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T150808Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100128T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100128T040000Z UID:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/maggie-kast-crack-between-worlds-january-27th-6pm URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.orcabooks.com/event/maggie-kast-crack-between-worlds-january-27th-6pm SUMMARY:MAGGIE KAST \\"The Crack Between the Worlds\: A Dancer's Memoir of Loss\, Faith and Family\\" January 27th at 6pm DESCRIPTION:
A car crashes\, and Maggie Kast\, at the peak of a modern dance career\,
loses a three-year-old daughter. Raised without religion and now mired
in grief\, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl\, a love
somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. This awareness
leads her\, over three years\, to the Catholic Church. After the
accident\, her marriage is greatly stressed by the entrance of religion
into married life\, and she and her husband each accuse the other of
being too religious or too secular at various times. Despite conflict\,
dialogue keeps the marriage intimate and vital. Following study of
liturgy at Catholic Theological Union\, she teaches and tours sacred
dance nationally and internationally\, exploring the arts as a spiritual
path. Moving forward and looking back at once\, she discovers early
hints of religious experience in childhood celebrations\, encounters
with art\, and marriage. Her husband dies. Now a single parent of a
ten-year-old and a developmentally disabled teenager\, as well as
college-aged sons\, she continues her search.
"\;In prose that is spare\, lucid\, and elegiac\, Maggie Kast's memoir\, The Crack
Between the Worlds\, tells the story of a pilgrimage and a conversion. A
dancer and choreographer\, Kast knows that the most expressive
gestures-and words-are often the simplest\, rooted in the dailiness of
our lives. Her search for a faith that can embrace both the tragic
sense of life and the ecstatic sacramentality of ordinary matter leads
her inexorably to the church whose name means 'universal.' Readers will
find in Kast's particular story something universal\, moving\, and true."\;
-Gregory Wolfe\, Editor\, Image
"\;Maggie Kast's memoir is a rich\, powerful\, affecting story of how even in tragedy grace can be found.
She has written a book that will be a consolation and resource for
many."\; -Ron Hansen\, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and Exiles
"\;The Crack
Between the Worlds is a graceful\, deeply-felt spiritual memoir. Dancer
and choreographer Maggie Kast moves through the hidden alcoves of her
heart to reflect on a life of love and tragedy\, and in that sacred
space she finds mystery\, faith\, and healing gestures."\; -Dinty W. Moore\,
author of The Accidental Buddhist