January is jam-packed with events at Orca Books in downtown Olympia. Here’s a list of what’s booked so far. More may be added later. All events are FREE and open to the public. Thank you for helping us publicize these events! Take special note of the Crow Planet reading. We are really excited about 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.
Sunday, January 10th, noon-3 pm
Book signing with award-winning novelist Brian Hart
Native northwesterner (Idaho/Montana) Brian Hart’s debut novel Then Came the Evening is racking up some very impressive accolades. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: ” [An] accomplished debut… a brilliant depiction of family… The rugged Idaho backdrop adds sometimes stark, sometimes beautiful counterpoints to the stripped-to-the-bone narrative.”
Wednesday, January 13th at 6 pm
Author John Duda presents Wanted! Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane: Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the IWW
Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets, radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat in 1909–it’s all here. 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.
Thursday, January 14th at 6 pm
Lyanda Lynn Haupt presents Crow Planet
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.
Saturday, January 16th, noon to 3 pm
Meet novelist Richard Henegan, author of Gestation: Unborn Hostage
Richard Henegan is a local physician whose new novel is a thriller roughly in the Mercy mold — what with a troubled teen unexpectedly pregnant, and the home of a seemingly sympathetic nurse. Medical suspense of a high order — we invite you to come on down and meet the good doctor.
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509 4th Ave E.
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 352-0123
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