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2214 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107
206-789-5006 |
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From Our Store
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The Secret Garden Bookshop
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We are a full-service, general bookstore, featuring books for everyone, with a particular specialty in children's books.
In 2007, we celebrated 30 years of independent bookselling, a huge milestone for this brick-and-mortar independent bookstore, which continues to expand its programming throughout the community including author events, school bookfairs, and cultural events throughout the city.
Located in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, the Secret Garden is within walking distance of cafes, galleries, shops, and, of course, coffee, in every direction! Our knowledgeable staff includes longtime booksellers, and avid young adult and general readers alike, ready to help you select books for yourself or for gifts. We also offer free giftwrapping, discounts for book clubs and educators, shipping services, and easy special orders.
Enjoy exploring our site, write us your comments, questions, or requests here: bookshop@secretgardenbooks.com, or plan to visit the shop soon!
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Author Events
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A Secret Garden Author Series crowd as seen from outside the Seattle Public Library, Ballard.
Title of Event: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
When: Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:00 PM
Location: Ballard Public Library, 5614 22nd Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98107
Description:
Blogger giganticus (boingboing.net and craphound.com), sci-fi writer (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town), non-fiction writer (see book list below) and tech activist, Cory Doctorow has a new book that the kids in the blogosphere have been buzzing about for months!
Meet him (and all the coolest kids in town) as it releases, after wild anticipation.
Officially recommended for ages 13 to adult, Little Brother is squarely in crossover territory.
His personal blog is here. Come meet him before he takes over the planet, literally.
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Secret Garden Booksellers give recs on the books that've moved them. Look and see!
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Our Local Author Friends
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Congratulations to the F.O.G. (friends of the Garden) who have new books, and new awards, to celebrate!
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How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir
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Nestor, Theo Pauline
"I feel like I've joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large," writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce.
Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from "middle-class grace" as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and-much to her surprise-falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her sense of self, she's forced to confront her own family's legacy of divorce. "I'm from a long line of stock market speculators, artists of unmarketable talents, and alcoholics," writes Nestor. "The higher, harder road is not our road. We move, we divorce, we drink, or we disappear."
Nestor's journey takes her deep into her family's past, to a tiny village in Mexico, where she discovers the truth about how her sister ended up living in a convent there after their parents divorced in the early sixties. What she learns ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce and its impact on her two daughters. "I knew from experience that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed. When you're with one parent, the other must always slip out of view," Nestor writes.
Funny, openhearted, and brave, "How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed" will speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of divorce court orrisked tenderness after loss. It marks the debut of an enchanting, deeply truthful voice. |
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